Germans Make Tremendous Efforts To Stem Allies
World War I dispatches report German counterattacks failing to halt British artillery and Allied advance at Arras. Italy seizes ground near Trieste as Cadorma plans moves toward the Coreo plateau. Macedonian front shows British gains while Russia’s future remains uncertain. German assaults on French lines yield heavy losses. British progress halts Germans at Bellecourt edge of hamlet. German prisoners and evacuations noted amid shifting ground.
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Hindenburg
von Hindenburg
Lem
Bim
Arras
Ter- UN
Italy
Triest
Teonzo
Monplain
Gorizia
Cadorma
Coreo
Macedonia
Euch
Bulgaria
Sarrail
Russia
Patus
War Office
Moulin de Laffaux
Braye En Lavanals
Fight to Raise Income Tax in War Revenue Bill
Washington May 37 The Beht 10 ratio up taxes on incomes more than 10,000 25 percent by amendments to the war revenue bill was null in the house today. Members of the ways and means committee labored to block further changes yet pushed for higher rates in the committee of the whole yesterday boosting from 5 to 10 percent on incomes between 40,000 and 60,000. The higher rate would yield about 100,000,000 if adopted, with attempts to remove the freight wagon and heat flaxes and possibly the new second class postal rate.
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Washington
Waya
Wight and Heat
Commons votes down socialist revolution in London
The House of Commons, after erasure, rejected without division a Soviet style revolution proposed by Philip Snowden. It welcomed Russia’s government repudiation of imperial conquest and urged Britain to declare on behalf of the British democracy.
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Commons
London
Home of
Philip Snowden
Generals Meet in Petrograd For War Ministry Coalition
Generals Alesief Dramirot Gurko and Musskev arrived in Petrograd for a conference on military aviation. They urged forming a coalition ministry to restore discipline and fighting spirit. Rumors say General Alexie may resign as commander in chief.
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Petrograd
Tia
London
Alesief
Dramirot
Gurko
Musskev
Kerenzky
Alexie
Chiet
Socialists Seek Joint International Conference Plans
Reports from Washington and London detail Socialist leaders in Denmark and England courting cross border talks. Borbjork in Copenhagen discussed uniting German and Scandinavian socialist streams toward a Stockholm peace conference. Meanwhile British Socialists reject participation, while U S officials address naval wear and equipment deficiencies for destroyer crews and vows to supply heavier winter gear.
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Washington
Borbjork
Copenhagen
Petrograd
Pall- Uken
Germany
State Department
Scheidemann
Stockholm
Connect
Liebknecht
London honors American navy officers at luncheon
London officials greeted the U S Navy with a distinguished gathering at the Navy league luncheon. Sir Edward Carson and Sir Edward Carnon praised the arrival of destroyers and the swift American aid, stressing enduring Anglo American ties and joint effort in the war task ahead.
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U. 5. Navy
London
Tonota
Wisip
Navy League
Vaneheon
Edward Carnon
Admiralty
United States Navy
Braldo
Stara
Steipes
Edward Carson
Bratford
Edward
Armetican Navy
Baruch Names Copper Subcommittee Chair
Washington May 17 Demsrd Baruch, head of the advisory committee for the council of national defense, appointed Johnn Nzan a York president of the ADA condo Copper company as chairman of the copper subcommittee to work with the subcommittee on raw materials.
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Washington
Demsrd
M. Baruch
Council of National Defense
Johnn Nzana York
ADA Condo Copper Company
Peasants Face Hard Outlook In War Devastation Reports
Third Pennsylvania Infantry on police duty at Fort Ferry, Virginia, suffered poisonings as four more men were hospitalized in Pittsburgh. Investigations pursue Lt. Corcoran’s death and the fate of twelve other men. In France, peasants face farming ruin and scattered remnants of war, with craters, unexploded shells, and widespread destruction shaping the path to recovery as relief housing and materials are planned.
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Pittsdungh
Third Pennsylvania Infantry
Pittsburgh
Polson
William F. Corcoran
Fort Ferry
Carl Miller
Noyon
France
Associated Press
Alteen
Mberated
Olre
Germany
Princeton Graduate Leads First U S Flag Carriers in France
Rees Townsend Scully, Princeton graduate from Pittsburgh, serves as second in command of the munitions branch of the American Field Service. He sails with a fifty-man contingent to transport ravennons to the front and join the ambulance corps left for France on April 7.
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France
Tembolante Corps
Reichstag Adjourned in Amsterdam to July
Report from Amsterdam via London dated May 17 at 10 05 a m says the Reichstag adjourned until July and the Social Democratic deputies voted against the military. Mary and other candidates, factions within the party, await appeals while both sides wait for further action.
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Reichatag
Amsterdam
London
Relcheing Han
Social Democratic
Mil. Mary
Rion
Irish To Call A Convention In Irish To Call A Convention
Reported in London on March 17 British dispatch notes Italian gains on the Isonzo front while Austrian forces claim heavy repulses and 2000 prisoners. In Dublin May 37 John Redmond rejects Lloyd George home rule plan but supports convening a cross party Irish convention to shape self government without delay.
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John Redmond
Triad Nationalisia
House of Commons
Lloyd George
Ireland
Mr. Redmond
Iiah
Tully
Redmond
Lloyd
George
Danish Captain Reports Mystery Story at Sea
A Danish steamship arriving in New York from Guba with agar reports a mystery tale near Cape Hatteras. An officer spotted an object protruding from the sea as a British steamer moved north, and the Danish captain suspected a possible submarine or danger ahead while altering course and increasing speed.
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New York
Mary
Agar
Guba
Cape Hatteras
Diamond Rhoals Hxhtahl
Tsnizh Veagel
Boron
Distinguished men attend Choate funeral at St Bartholomew's
A large gathering of public and private leaders from the entente allies and the United States attended the funeral of Joseph H. Choate at St Bartholomew's Church in New York. King George's representative Sir Cecil Spring-Rice led the crown's presence, with French and American dignitaries including M. Anovolan and Nicholas Murray Butler among pallbearers. The service followed by burial in the Choate family vault at Stockbridge.
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Amerdew
St. Bartholomew's Church
Joseph
Choa Tho
Charles F. Sent
Philippines
George
Cecil Kpring-Rice
M. Anovelaque
Oisotater of Public Instruction of
France
French War Commission
Jalen J. Jussprand
Tenresanted
Milchl
Sprine-Nire
William W. Fallips
J.T. Morgant
Nicholas Murray Buteler
Columbia Univeralty
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Stockbridge
Matn
Veralty
Henry White
Choate
Mr. Choate
Inneral
American ship Hilonian torpedoed off Genoa
A cablegram to Universal Transportation Co says the American steamship Hilonian was torpedoed and sunk off Genoa, with four crew members lost. The 2,521-ton vessel, commanded by Captain P. H. Williams, left New York April 27 with cargo of provisions valued at 3,500 dollars. 33 crew, one American, were aboard. Captain Williams and engineer Fred Schmidt survived. four crew perished. The ship’s value was placed at 1,000 dollars.
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New York
Etearmeb P Hilonian
Genoa
Italy
Ownners
Woiversal Transportation Company
Hilonian
Genos
Williama
le Fred Schmidt
Germans Forced to Use Reserves Amid Front Refit
London May 17 The British and French have compelled Germany to use virtually all freed reserves since the degrouping of the war The German front had forty nine reserve divisions on the western front and the latest offensives have reduced that number to only four divisions While reorganization has occurred generals say captains now command about 20 000 men each
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London
Germn War Office
Western Front
Arras
F. B. Maurice
War Office
S'reds
Germmans
Maurice
Breernt Captaina
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