Germans Pour Reserves Into Fray On 21 Mile Front Near Noyon
French counter blows along the 21 mile battle front south of Noyon and Montdidier push German forces back with tanks. The German defense suffers heavy losses as French troops seize positions near Le Fretoy Courcelies Morteneg and St Maur, while prisoners exceed 10 000.
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Ernest P. Orr
Paris
Noyon
Montdidier
Oise
Ribecourt
Foch
Rubescourt
St Maur
le Fretnoy
Courcelies
Morteneg
Mery
French War Office
Tuckey
Beiloy
Gemlis Wood
St. Maur
Quthewil
Loge Farm
Matz
Machemont
Betsuncourt
Compiegne
Compiegne-Paris
Sanguinary fighting on Siberian border reported
A Vladivostok report via a Tokyo dispatch to the Express states fighting is ongoing on the Siberian frontier between released Czecho-Slovak prisoners and Bolshevik forces led by an international revolutionary army largely made up of Austrian POWs.
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Siberian
London
Vladivostock
Sanguinary
Bolsheviks International Revolutionary Army
Tokio
Express
Dutch trawler Helena torpedoed off Dogger Bank
London reports the Dutch vessel Helena torpedoed in the North Sea near Dogger Bank with three fatalities. Six crew members were taken prisoner and landed.
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London
North Sea
Doggerbank
Amsterdam
Railway Budget Is Fixed for McAdoo Controlled Railways
Washington June 12. The total approved budget for railways under Director General McAdoo is 946 293 828. Major allocations include locomotives and freight cars 206 994 914, passenger cars 28 340 446, other equipment 12 963 109, and improvements 35 043 290. Extension work and new lines total 18 237 424 with trestles 38 035 762, main and yard tracks 146 132 554, shop buildings 61 979 476, and shop water tanks 7 024 937. Road names listed include Santa Fe, Baltimore and Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio, St. Paul, Great Northern, Gulf Mobile and Northern, Lehigh and New England, Louisville and Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, New York Chicago and St. Louis, Pennsylvania systems, Southern Pacific Texas, Toledo and Ohio, and Union Pacific.
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Washington
McAdoo
Santa Fe
Baltimore and Ohio
Chespeake and Ohio
St. Paul
Great Northern
Gulf Mobile and Northern
Lehigh
New England
Louisville and
Nashville
Chattanooga
St. Louis
New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania Lines
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific
Texas
Toledo and Ohio
Union Pacific
Treasury Dept Reports Profitiering Evidence in Hand
Secretary McAdoo said the treasury department possesses evidence of profiteering in the United States. He told the Senate the material is being prepared but the volume prevents immediate presentation due to the extensive work required.
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Treasury Department
Washington
McAdoo
Senate
United States
Wilson Opposes Borah Amendment on Open Senate Treaty Sessions
Washington reports President Wilson opposes the Borah amendment that would require open Senate consideration of all treaties. He stated his position in a March 12 letter to Secretary Lansing, made public by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska this afternoon.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Lansing
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Japanese Attitude Toward Russia to Be Revealed
London June 12 The Japanese government will issue a declaration on its attitude toward Russia following a recent conference, according to an exchange telegraph dispatch from Tien Tien today.
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Russia
London
Japan
Tien Tien
Central Powers to Issue War Aims Statement Soon
Amsterdam June 12 The Central powers will shortly issue a war aims statement but will not make a fresh peace offer, a news agency dispatch to Washington reports. Also June 12 Marines to send only Sharpshooters overseas per naval affairs committee briefing. Seventy two percent of Marines hold sharpshooting honors.
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Amsterdam
Washington
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Marine Corps
Water shortage shuts White House fountains in Washington
Washington June 12 The ongoing water shortage in the nation’s capital prompted President Wilson to order the White House fountains turned off. The action underscores the severity of the drought affecting government facilities and daily routines in the capital.
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Washington
National
Wilson
White House
Fishermen protest U boat order and Irish losses
London reports men protested the German order to get off the sea as U boats bombarded and sank 17 Irish fishing boats off Keel on May 31. Washington notes fair and cooler conditions for tonight and Thursday.
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London
Keel
Mail
Italian Torpedo Boats Sink Austrian Battleships in Dalmatian Raid
Rome reports a daring Italian naval raid where two Austro-Hungarian Viribus Unitis class battleships were torpedoed off the Dalmatian coast. Ten Austrian cruisers pursued the Italian torpedo boats, and one Austrian destroyer was damaged in the chase.
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Rome
Dalmatian
Submarine Claims Face Official Denials But Persist
Naval circles report three German U boats destroyed since Sunday despite official denials. Separate notices say U boat activity along the Atlantic coast prompts new protective measures as the Navy tightens harbor defenses and tracks wreckage. No confirmed American casualties aboard the Ansonia after its torpedoing in European waters.
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Norfolk
Beh
Washington
Peecee
Atlantic
Shipping Board
Great Britain
France
Navy Department
Virginia
Navy
War Department
Ansonia
Marines Seize Belleau Wood in Major Marne Action
American marines wrest control of Belleau Wood near Chateau Thierry on the Marne front driving German crack troops from the forest. They captured 300 prisoners including officers, two 3 inch guns, minnenwerfers, machine guns, and hauled the guns to rear. Germans offered surrender after shelling. Bouresches attacked but repelled.
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Henry G. Wales
I. N.S
Marne
Belleau Wood
Chateau Thierry
Washington
Annapolis
Ishelia
Bouresches
Picardy Front
Montdidier
Marne Front
Flanders Front
Art of Treating Wounds Progresses in War Hospitals
Washington June 12 Surgeon General Gorgas announced that surgery and scientific treatment have advanced so far that more than 80 percent of wounded soldiers who originally stayed at military hospitals for months are now cured and returned in three or four weeks.
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Washington
Gorgas
German activity on American front near Toul quieted
June 11 reports reduced German activity on the American front north of Toul in France. Air operations were minimal with little aerial activity observed.
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France
Toul
Britain and Japan share aims in World War effort
London June 12 Foreign Secretary A J Balfour told a luncheon in Parliament honoring the Japanese mission that Britain and Japan have no difference of opinion or diverging aims in the present struggle. He praised the Japanese for contributing to peace and world advancement as he proposed a toast.
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Earle C. Reeves
London
Great Britain
Japan
A J. Balfour
Harcourt Room
Parliament Building
England
Mr. Balfour
Third arrest in czar crown jewels smuggling case
Washington June 12 customs agents arrested Filman Evans former secretary of the American legation in Copenhagen in Dallas on a technical Smuggling charge. He is said to possess numerous valuable jewels, the third principal seized after Montifieri Khana and Valdimir Jogelsen.
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Washington
Czar
Nicholso
Treasury Department
Filman Evans
Two New York School Boards Eliminate German Teaching
Yonkers board of education votes unanimously to drop German from Yonkers public schools after public debate and gatherings. In Rome the German program is also cut for next year with French replacing it as the only language option. few pupils chose German.
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New York
Yonkers, N
Board of Education Today
Yonkers
Rome
New Allied Push Halts German Assaults Along Aisne Front
In today’s fighting near the Aisne and Oise regions French and American forces repel German attacks from Soissons to Villers Cotterets. American marines storm Belleau Wood near Chateau Thierry capturing prisoners and arms as German efforts shift to local gains.
French Repel German Attacks on Montdidier Oise Front
Paris war report says Tuesday and last night German assaults on the left wing of the Montdidier Oise front were broken up. The French gained ground near Genlise wood and north of Arcne, with heavy losses inflicted on the enemy. In separate action a British raid at Aveluy Wood failed, and prisoners were taken at Boyelles as artillery activity continued near Lens.
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Arcade
St. Maur
Loge Farm
Antheuil
London
Boyelles
Ernest P. Obr
L. N
Paris
Montdidier-Oise
French War Office
Mery
Senlis Wood
Montdidier
Oise
Genlise Wood
Arcnde
Aletheuil
Matiz
Matz
Aisne
Villers-Cotterets
Dommieres and
Cutry
Ambleny
Aveluy Wood
Albert
British War Office
Lens
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Catry
Camas
Balfour
Parliament
Treasury
Copenhagen Legation
Frank Charlton
Aisne-Marny
Fourteen Mile
Soissons
Arond Dommieres
Genlis Wood
Con. Foch
Compie
Miy
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