Bolshevik Forces Press Against Czech Slavs in Volga Region
London reports Bolshevik troops have gone on the offensive against the Czecho-Slovak army in the Volga area. The dispatch says Czech and White guards fled after Soviet gains at Syzran Bugulma and Yaroslav Rybinsk, with armed trains shelling White-held towns and retreates toward Samara.
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London
Volga
Moscow
Siberia
People's Commissariat of War
Syzran
Simbirsk
Bugulma
Ufa
Samara
Stavropol
Ciscaucasia
Yaroslav
Rybinsk
Columbia Floats to Pekin After Century-Boat Disaster
The steamship Columbia, wrecked in the Illinois river last Saturday with 600 aboard, reemerged near Pekin on Thursday afternoon. Coroner Clary Sheriff Wilson and rescuers were aboard as two more bodies were recovered, with people scrambling to small boats.
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Peoria
Ill
Columbia
Ilinois
Pekin
Clary
Wilson
Citywide Draft Roundup Seizes 5000 Suspects in Chicago
More than 5,000 men of draft age were seized Thursday in Chicago by federal agents and police in the largest round-up in the city's history. The first raid targeted the Cubs baseball park. others affected hotels, barber shops, saloons, and movie houses as investigators searched every possible gathering place.
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Chicago
Department of Justice
Cubs
Ex Lake Ship Sinks Sub After TwoHour Fight
The German submarine attacking the Lake Forest 1500 miles off Cape Henry was sunk by the Lake Forest's guns after a two hour running fight. Capt Herbert R O Johnson of the naval reserve is commended for sinking the U boat. The Lake Forest was formerly the War Fox and was later taken by the Shipping Board.
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New York
Lake Forest
Cape Henry
Europe
Herbert R. O. Johnson
United States Naval Reserve
Navy Department
Naval Reserve
United States Shipping Board
Great Lakes
Exchange 500000 Captives in Swiss War Repatriation
Berne reports that since the war began more than 500000 invalid and sick prisoners of war of various nationalities have been exchanged and repatriated through Switzerland, according to official statistics.
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Berne
Switzerland
Sick of It AIL Dr. Richard Heads to Switzerland
Fragmentary report notes Dr Richard Kuehlmann leaving Amsterdam on July 15 bound for Switzerland. The brief item mentions illness as context but lacks further details or destinations.
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Kuehlmann
Amsterdam
Richard A
Switzerland
Wilson Eyes Russia Intervention Policy With Japan
Washington reports that President Wilson invited Viscount Ishii the Japanese ambassador to the White House to discuss military assistance to Russia. Analysts say the move seeks Tokyo views on feasible military action into Siberia including troop numbers and Chinese cooperation. The fate of 50 000 Czecho Slovak troops in Vladivostok Irkutsk and Samara is said to be critical without relief.
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Washington
Wilson
Russia
Viscount Ishii
White House
Ishii
United States
Tokyo
Japan
Siberia
Vladivostok
Irkutsk
Samara
Roosevelt’s son downed German plane over Marne battle
Lieut Quentin Roosevelt son of ex President Roosevelt shot down a German aircraft eight miles inside enemy lines near Chateau Thierry. Flying with three other pilots at 5000 yards they misidentified friend planes and engaged the Germans. After about 50 shots tracers hit the fuselage and the plane spun into a dive two thousand yards below.
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Marne
Quentin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Chateau Thierry
Trains Crash Near Nashville Kills 100
A head on collision of Louisville Chattanooga and St Louis trains west of Nashville claims about 100 lives and injures 80. Most victims are reported to be black. Lieut Don Long is among the seriously hurt, and the dead include Private John P Hussey and Wilson B Harris along with Alexander of the United States Marine Corps.
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Nashville
Tenn
Louisville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Here
Don Long
Aviation Service of
John P. Hussey
Uhlan, Inl
Wilson B. Harris
Naval Reserves
Alexander
United States Marine Corps
Cubans Save Yank Officers Off Santiago Harbor
Two American army officers were rescued by a Cuban gunboat launch after their motor boat was driven three miles offshore by heavy seas near Santiago.
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Havana
Santiago
Rail Strike in Russia Spreads Across Districts
Paris dispatch reports Russian railway workers extending a strike across several districts. The action involves order disruptions and indicates growing labor unrest affecting transportation logistics in the region.
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Russia
Paris
Wartime nationwide prohibition heads to passage
Washington reports the senate approved attaching a nation wide wartime prohibition rider to the agricultural extension bill by 36 to 33, clearing the path for immediate enactment. House support is expected, as it already moved to suspend liquor traffic.
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Washington
United States
Wilson
Congress
Senate
House
Sugar situation improves says food administration
Washington on July 11 reports the sugar supply no longer at risk and better than any time since America began feeding the allied nations. The public must follow new rules limiting household sugar to three pounds per month and continue conservation measures.
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Washington
Food Administration
America
Nurses slain in German air raid on La Panne station
A dispatch from Amsterdam reports fifty four nurses and women ambulance workers were killed when around fifty bombs hit an ambulance station at La Panne Belgium on the North Sea coast near the front.
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London
la Panne
Belgium
Amsterdam
North Sea
German Foreign Chief Out
Copenhagen sees report that Emperor William approves the resignation of Dr. Richard von Kühlmann as German foreign secretary. Alleged successor is Admiral von Hintze, current minister at Christiania and former minister to Mexico.
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Denmark
William
Richard von Kuehlmann
Wolff News Bureau
Berlin
Admiral von Hintze
Christiania
Mexico
Hog Island Shipyards Build Up to 28,500 Workers
Progress at Hog Island shipyards in Philadelphia as 35 keels are laid. The workforce has grown to 28,500.
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Hog Island
Philadelphia
Hog Island Shipyards
Turk Capital Bombed by Allied Air Forces
Fragmentary dispatch reports air force units bombing the Turkish capital during wartime operations in London dated July with mentions of British cooperation and ongoing bombardment efforts.
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Turk
London
Air Force
DAVY
Wilson vetoes 240 wheat price bill in 1918 context
President Wilson vetoed the annual agricultural appropriation bill containing a $2.40 per bushel wheat price provision. He argued fixed minimums harm producers and consumers and would raise flour costs, boost living expenses, and distort markets while production already surged. He noted likely congressional efforts to override the veto. Woodrow Wilson.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Department of Agriculture
United States
Germany
Woodrow Wilson
Air Instructor Killed In Plane Crash At Scott Field
Belleville Illinois July 13 Lieut Lee C Giddings of Duluth Minnesota an air instructor was killed and Cadet Edward C Darlington of Washington DC severely injured when an airplane dropped 800 feet at Scott field.
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Belleville
Til
Lee C. Giddings
Duluth, Minn
Edward C. Darlington
Washington, D. C
Scott Field
Edison Jr Joins Tank Forces in Morristown
Morristown New Jersey July 13 William L Edison son of the late Thomas A Edison joins tank forces announced today. The press notes his enlistment reflects ongoing military mobilization and the family’s public service tradition.
Navy seeks photos for memorial galleries of fallen sailors
The Navy urges relatives to lend photographs of enlisted men killed in action to create memorial galleries at training stations. Originals will be returned with copies. photos will be forwarded to the man’s training station for display.
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Brom Committee On Public Information
Washington
Navy Department
Daniels
Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Washington, D. C
Army
Liberty
National Army
National Guard
Army seeks women as reconstruction aids
The offices of the surgeon general announce recruitment of women for two reconstruction aid divisions. The first group includes those skilled in massage and physiotherapy and the second covers those trained in simple handi crafts. Foreign service pay is $60 monthly, home service pay $50, plus quarters allowance.
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United States Army
Surgeon General
Foreign Service
Home Service
Pratt Institute Scholarships For Army Officers Wives
The division on woman’s war work announces Pratt Institute in Brooklyn offers three scholarships for 1918 19 to wives and daughters of army officers covering tuition and lab fees in household science and arts and institutional work. Department of agriculture specialists urge increased poultry and egg production advising better breeders early hatch preservation of eggs culling flocks and growing poultry feed to support family meals. Southern farm boy club members free in 1917 food and news.
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Committee On Public Information
Trustees
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn
N. Y
Department of Agriculture
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