Germans Lose Belleau Wood in Fierce Seven Hour Battle
American forces stormed Belleau Wood and captured 264 German prisoners, mainly from the 347th division, after seven hours of fighting that toppled a 1,200-strong force. Fifty machine guns fell into American hands as lines shifted and the ridge beyond the wood came under Allied control.
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France
Belleau Wood
Numober
America
New York
Philadelphia
Long Island Sound
Rainbow veteran returns to Camp Grant as bombing instructor
Camp Grant Rockford Illinois June 27 Lieutenant William C Sellers of the Rainbow division arrives as an instructor in grenade and rifle bombing He is the first American officer from the firing line to join Camp Grants staff Having accompanied the One Hundred Sixty Sixth Infantry in France he notes his unit fought south of the Toul sector and with Henry Rettly's One Hundred Ninety ninth Field Artillery He recalls brave acts by his regiment and praises his mates before recounting minor wounds. Dutch grain ship Jona arrives in Amsterdam from New York on June 27.
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Camp Grant
Rockford
William C. Sellers
Rainbow Division
Sellers
Conp Grant
France
One Hundred Sixty-Sixth Infantcy
Ohio National Guard
Chicago
Sellere Catd
Cal. Henry Rettly
One Hundred Party-ninth Field Artillery
Toul
Italians Drive For Back A Mile
Rome reports Italian forces in the Mount Grappa area have advanced a mile southwest of Monti Asulone in a northern counteroffensive. The bridgehead at Cape Silt was extended as Austro German counterattacks were repulsed. Italian artillery and air power recovered and-looted arms and materiel, with dozens of prisoners taken.
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Rome
Ministry of War
Cape
Hughitt Jr Resigns from Chicago & Northwestern Rail Line
Marvin Hughitt Jr leaves the Chicago and Northwestern railroad service and plans to pursue coal properties in which he is interested.
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Hughitt, Jr
Road
Chicago
Marvin Hughitt, Jr
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Tunger of Coal
Kerensky Arrives in London en Route to America
Former Russian interim premier Alexander Kerensky, arriving incognito in London, met British labor delegates at the conference. He urged alliance aid for Russia and stated Russians will join the fight for freedom alongside Allies, with plans to travel to the United States within a week or ten days.
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London
Alexander Kerensky
Russia
America
Kerensky
England
Lhor
Moscow
United States
Mr. Kerensky
Lita
Moyland
Ameren
Pritteh
Yank Captain S captures six three German soldiers
Mrs Mary Lennert of Chicago celebrates grandson Henry Lennert for reportedly capturing 78 German soldiers and five officers at gunpoint then marching them to camp He is 21 and lived in Grand Rapids before enlisting TV cross comparison notes British Victoria Cross holder Tedger Jones who allegedly single handedly took 102 Germans is mentioned without confirming details
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Henry E. Lennert
Grand Rapids, Mich
France
Chicago
Mary Lennert
Indiarea Avenue
Henry FE
Lennert
Grand Rapids
Mich
Lennett
Jones
Cheshires
George
No Man's Land
Senators reject draft age change amid war program debate
Secretary Baker and General March oppose changing draft ages from 21 to 31 while the senate military committee votes against broadening limits. Senator Chamberlain outlines calls totaling 1.0 million in late summer and fall, with Hitchcock and Baker presenting figures on army size and the pending enlarged program.
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Congress
Senate
Chamberlain
Mareh
Smoot
Utah
General Crowder
Washington
Baker
General March
War Department
Senate Military Consmittee
Military Committee
United States
Urge Drills for All Youth at Rotary Convention
Delegates at the ninth annual International Association of Rotary Clubs convention discussed universal obligatory training for all young men before the voting age. A special assembly on military training voted to support the principle of universal obligatory training.
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Kansas City
International Association of Rotary Clubs
American Wheat Cakes Win a Home
London June 27 King George and Queen Mary visited the Eagle hut of the American Y M C A to sample buckwheat cakes. The royal couple joined soldiers and sailors in an informal tasting and praised the American dish though declining seconds.
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London
George
Mary
Eagle Hut
Becae
British Troops Take Strong Point West of Vieux Berquin
Paris dispatch reports British forces seizing a strong point west of Vieux Berquin on the Western Front. The action yielded many guns and machine guns as the front remained comparatively quiet elsewhere.
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Evening Journal
Paris
Viens Berquin
Draft numbers begin with 246 in Baker plan
Special to the Evening Journal reports from Washington on June 27 that the first draft number drawn by Secretary Baker in the new military draft plan is 246. The item notes this as the opening number in the proposed sequence.
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Evening Journal
Washington, D. C
Baker
Reports 141 U. S. Casualties
Washington reports 141 casualties in the American expeditionary forces with 47 killed in action 7 died of wounds 3 from disease 1 from an airplane accident 4 from other accidents 29 severely wounded 2 wounded and 7 missing. The Marine Corps attached records 50 casualties with 46 killed in action 2 died of wounds and 2 severely wounded.
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Washington
War Department
Marine Corps
Sub warnings issued for sea lanes east of 40W
The Navy Dept announced warnings to shipping in the sea lanes east of longitude 40 between Cape Race and Bermuda due to reported enemy activity. A German raider sighting was reported to an American port by an incoming steamer, with no further details provided.
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Navy Department
Washington
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Bermuda
New York
British Labor Truce Ended At Conference Vote
At London conference the British labor party adopted a resolution to drop the wartime political truce. Delegates representing 1,704,000 votes supported the move while 915,000 opposed it.
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London
British Labor Party
Whic
Great Britain
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