Russia starts new draft draw as 1918 class turns 18
Washington reports the annual drawing to determine order of call for 1918 class youths into military service. Sec Baker participates with others in a ceremony in the senate office building. The long list of numbers is recorded on blackboards for an incontrovertible record.
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Senate
Baker
U S18
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Mareh
Crowder
Chamberlain
Senate Military Committee
House
Bolshevik Trial Sends Former Russian Emperor to Death
Dispatches from Lausanne and Kiev report that Nicholas II’s son Alexis Romonoff died in Petrograd, while Ekaterinburg authorities allegedly executed Nicholas Romonoff after a short trial. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch reportedly leads a Siberian government.
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London
Petrograd
Alexis Romanoff
Geneva
Ukraine
Oat
Lausanne
Ekaterinburg
Nicholas Romanoff
Theormer
Amsterdam
Grand Duke
Michael Alexandrovitch
Nicholas
Moscow
Berlin
Siberian
Italians Win on Mount Rosso in Major Mountain Engagement
Rome reports strong Italian attacks along the front line with successful patrols at Rosse and the destruction of fortifications. Austrian counter offensives in the north fail, with Italian troops inflicting heavy losses and taking prisoners.
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Rome
Italian Front Raids Net Prisoners and Supplies
The war office reports an enemy post in the Adige valley was surprised and wiped out. Italian boats raid the Plave left flank, taking 100 prisoners. Additional raids and the Capo Sile bridgehead expansion see enemy losses of officers and men.
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War Office
Adige
Capo Sile
Senate Ag Committee Backs Prohibition Rider on Aid Bill
Washington June 28 The Senate Agricultural Committee adopts Norris amendment to the emergency agricultural appropriation bill prohibiting manufacture and sale of whisky and wine after June 30 1919 and beer after the presidents approval. The rule will curb distillers while boosting wartime armament efforts. The vote 8 to 3. Committee aims to bring the bill up for consideration at once. A second House probe on prohibition passes 112 to 2 seeking a ruling on shortages from railroad administration and war boards.
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Senate Agricultural Committee
Norris
Nebraska
Jones
Gore
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Secretary of the Treasury
House
Railroad Administration
War Industries Board
The
War Trade Board
Belleau Wood Captive List and Gun Captures Reported
Washington reports General Pete Sheing selects an infantry regiment for Italy with training in France. At Belleau Wood American forces increase prisoners to 511 and seize eleven machine guns ten automatic rifles and other material. Henry Lenert Jr recounts capturing 58 Germans during the Belleau Wood fight.
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Belleau Wood
Yank
Washington
Pete Shing
Wishington
Italy
Baker
France
Marne
Maine
Henry P. Lenert, Jr
Chicago
Soldier Recovers German Captives From Woods
A prisoner recounts being escorted by his captors to American lines after a tense encounter in the woods. He describes sharing drinks and cigarettes, learning German to interpret surrender talks, and taking the captors’ officers and men to headquarters. He kept the prisoners for the Americans, noting the captains were well dressed and the troops sturdy despite two days without food.
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Leutenants
May Ship Losses Reported by British Admiralty
May merchant tonnage losses due to enemy action and marine risk total 355 084 tons with British losses at 224 ... 130 050 tons for allied and neutral vessels. May 194? totals compare with April and last year. UK steamship traffic of 500+ GRT entering and clearing UK ports in May totals 7 777 844 tons.
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London
British Admiralty
Shipping Ministry
United Kingdom
Frame Big Bond Measure
The house ways and means committee framed a bond bill totaling 38 trillion dollars of Liberty bonds for October issuance with potential for a 6 trillion next issue. It would authorize 4 trillion in outstanding bonds and 6 trillion for the next, plus 1.5 trillion more for allied loans, raising total aid to 7 trillion. Subscriptions would be limited to banks and trust companies that qualify as government depositaries.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Twenty Men Buried In Mine Disaster Near Virginia
In Virginia Minnesota on June 28 a lightning strike hit wires to dynamite blasts in the Sliver open pit mine of the M A Hanna company two miles west of town. The accident buried at least twenty men alive among 450 workers. several others were badly hurt. Only one body, Andrew Pronich, recovered.
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Virginia
Minn
M. A. Handa Company
Mesaba Range
Andrew Pronich
Bolshevik Government Overthrown Report Claims Moscow Seized
An unconfirmed report claims Moscow is in the hands of the uncle of the former emperor and that a Bolshevik government has been overthrown. Details and verification were not provided.
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Moscow
Two Flyers Die In Moraine Field Crash
Dayton reports Archlie Freeman an airplane pilot killed and Robert Ahlers an ignition expert seriously injured when the aircraft fell at Moraine field near Dayton. Ahlers expected to recover. Cause of the accident unknown. Also Fort Worth reports Cadet Thomas Clifford Anderson of Trinidad Colo killed in a separate airplane crash.
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Dayton
Archlie Freeman
Robert Ahlers
Moraine Field
Ahlers
Fort Worth
Tex
Thomas Clifford Anderson
Trinidad
Colo
Martial law anticipated in Austria Hungary amid food crisis
Paris reports Swiss dispatches indicating martial law may be proclaimed across Austria Hungary due to a severe food shortage. Belgium receives new WWI credit totaling 11.8 million dollars with government guarantees rising correspondingly.
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Paris
Austria-Hungary
Empire
Bolsheviks Overthrown Rumor Proclaims New Czar
Unconfirmed Copenhagen reports claim the Moscow Bolshevik government fell and Grand Duke Nicholas was proclaimed czar. Rumors say General Rumiloff with German troops captured the city, while Lenine and Trotsky fled to the Murman coast.
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Evening Journal
London
Copenhagen
Moscow
Nicholas
Rumiloff
Lenine
Trotsky
Bolsheviks
Murman Coast
German foreign minister resigns amid Kaiser's anger
Paris June 28 The German foreign minister Von Kuehlmann has offered his resignation to the Kaiser. Reports say the Kaiser was furious over a recent address in which the minister declared that military success for Germany is now impossible and that a settlement must be achieved by diplomacy.
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Evening Journal
Paris
von Kuehlmann
Germany
Hungarian Troops Rebel in Gyor and Pecs Garrisons
Paris dispatch reports Hungarian garrison units at Gyor and Pecs rising against authorities. Two thousand soldiers were condemned to die as a consequence of the revolt amid ongoing military turmoil.
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Evening Journal
Paris
Gyor
Pecs
Hungary
Paris Front Wise: Minor Operations Reported
Paris reports only minor military actions along several fronts in the past twenty four hours. No large attacks or major developments are described.
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Evening Journal
Paris
Thursday Results Across Baseball Leagues
In the National League Estan defeated New York 4 1, Philadelphia beat Brooklyn 6 1, Cincinnati won over Chicago 7 3, St Louis topped Pittsburgh 3 0. In the American League New York defeated Boston 7 5, Washington 8 3 over Philadelphia 0 2, Detroit beat Chicago 1 0.
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St. Louis
British seize German outpost west of Vieux Berquin
British troops seized a German strong point west of Vieux Berquin near Hazebrouck and took prisoners and machine guns, according to an official Haig statement. German artillery remained active on the Lys as French reports note artillery duels south of the Aisne. In the Vosges the action continued and troop movements were reported.
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Poitat
Vieux Berquin
Hazebrouck
Haig
Lys Salient
Aisne
Vosges
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