Allies Hold Montdidier-Oise Line See Heavy Aisne-Marne Fighting
Paris dispatch reports Germans halted along the Montdidier-Oise front and Aisne-Marne zone with only minor operations. Allied artillery duels, infantry combat, and air activity intensify as French and American forces hold the line near Chateau Thierry and Loge Farm. Prisoners captured. Germans repelled from Courcelles and surrounding sectors. Americans praised for bold countermeasures.
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Paris
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Rheims
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Aisne-Marne
Mery
Oise
Aisne
Coucuvres-St. Pierre-Aigle
Verte Foulille Farm
Courcy
Foch
Americans Repel German Attack Near Belleau Wood
German assault aimed to smash advancing American lines in the Belleau Wood Bouresches sector. Prussian storm troopers supported by heavy machine guns and mortars were halted by French and American artillery and relentless defense. German losses mounted as troops fled and abandoned weapons while American forces dug in and held the line amid ongoing harassing fire.
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Ameri
Belleau Wood
Bouresches
Chateau ferry-Villers- Cotterets
Gene von Buelow
Tresches
Bouresches Villa
Minnenwerfer
Cotton Census Washington June 1 1918 May Consumption and Stocks
Cotton consumption in May 1918 totaled 577 288 running bales, down from 615 412 in 1917. Stocks held in consuming establishments May 31 were 1 715 497 bales in 1918 versus 1 399 154 in 1917. Public storage and compresses held 2 414 931 in 1918 and 1 951 042 in 1917. Imports were 29 735 equivalent 500 bales in 1918 and 12 387 in 1917. Exports including linters 292 041 running bales in 1918 and 375 822 in 1917. Spindles active May 33 720 555 in 1918 and 33 457 356 in 1917. Linters exported May 12 012 bales in 1918 and 73 063 in 1917.
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Washington
Londoners Discuss Adoption of American Towns for Doughboys
London reports a plan where Beauchampen’s organization aims to have towns adopt American towns to comfort US soldiers in Europe. Worcester in Massachusetts has already adopted Worcester, Newport Rhode Island has adopted Newport, London considers adopting New York, and other towns may follow.
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London
Beauchampen
Worcester
Mass
Newport
R. I
New York
German Chancellor Copenhagen to visit Vienna for conference
June Hertling, the German chancellor, will travel to Vienna late this month for a political conference. An Austrian foreign minister, in an interview with Az Est, stated the chancellor is currently en route to German high command to confer with von Hindenburg.
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Copenhagen
Hertling
Vienna
Az Est
von Hindenburg
Noted Scientist Murdered in Paris Lab
Paris June 14 Professor Samuel Pozzi noted scientist and vice president of the Academy of Medicine and collaborator with Dr Alexis Carrel was murdered in his laboratory last night. The murderer then died by suicide. Police know neither the assassin’s identity nor motive.
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Paris
Samuel Pozzi
Academy of Medicine
Alexis Carrel
New Comet Sighted Over London June First
Astronomers report a bright new comet seen over London on June first. The object appears with a long tail and is now being observed from Cape observations. Further details and precise coordinates are awaited from research stations.
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London
Cape
Names of 119 on casualty list
War department reports 119 American expeditionary forces casualties split as 29 killed in action 5 died of wounds 6 from disease 3 from accident 70 severely wounded 1 wounded degree undetermined and 5 missing. Officers included Captain Frank W. Hulett Lewiston Maine Lieutenant Ernest F Sexton Darien Conn and George Stein New York killed in action.
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War Department
Frank W. Hulett
Lewiston
Ernest Francis Sexton
Darien
Conn
George Stein
New York
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