Artillery Duels Rage as Naval Base Plans Grow
Prominent defense measures loom as Congress moves to fund a huge Hampton Roads naval base and training camps. Secretary Daniels urges immediate surveys to begin once the bill passes, with anticipated housing for 3,000 to 10,000 recruits and expansion at Chicago San Diego Pensacola and Newport facilities. Reports from France describe ongoing artillery activity, bombardments, and aerial raids across the front amid mixed German and Allied movements.
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Serre Day
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Daniels
Navy
Aining Sta
Venezuela denies German base talk on Margarita Island
Venezuelan Minister Dominich dismissed reports of a German submarine base on Margarita Island as false. He stressed Venezuela remains neutral but friendly to the United States and would defend its territory against any foreign base schemes. He linked the rumor to a 1902 German blockade and warned any similar attempt would be met with defense of all Venezuelan territory.
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Margarita
Dominich
Venezuela
United States
Germany
Americans Free to Leave Germany
Berlin reports state that Germany will facilitate American departure and deny holds on U S citizens. Undersecretary Baron von Buasche-Haddenhausen says Americans are free to leave and will receive the same official accommodations as other nationals, with standard wartime restrictions. Arthur E. Dunning notes Americans seeking exit are not given special privileges, but receive courtesy and some regulatory waivers.
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Berlin
Baron von Buasche-Haddenhausen
Germany
America
London
Arthur E. Dunning
American Association of Commerce and Trade Out
Associated Pro
Armericane
Dunning
Real Test for Morris New York June 3 bout
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Carl Ma
Iz Campalen
Kronstadt Revolt and Belgian Labour Slavery Rhetoric
An official statement denounces German plans to enslave Belgians under the Rathenau scheme, calling life for repatriated workers a hell as Congress prepares war and tax bills. Kronstadt declares independence, appoints leaders, and proclaims a model democracy while barring alcohol.
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Stiangle Industries
Germany
de Cartier
Berlin
Belgium
Rathenau
Fierce Fighting on the French Front Report
British and Canadian forces report progress and prisoner captures across Lens Avion Cherisy and Wytschaete sectors. German attacks on Califor nie and Vauclere plateaus were repulsed with heavy losses. air battles saw multiple German aircraft down and British retaliatory bombing cited near Alane and Bezanvaux.
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Laventie
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Wytschaete
Paris
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Vauclere
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Weat
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Col Ste. Marie
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Arras
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Fijian
Alane
Duke of Albrecht
Meuse
Haudremont
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St. Mihiel
Brappe
Ourlying
Alane Front
Werind
Restored Vitality Promises Iron Health Restore Attitude
A vintage health ads note claims restored vigor depends on Acid Tran Mineral iron. It warns against alcohol and excessive medicines and urges Ferro-Corperiydton as a tonic to revive nerves, memory, ambition, and stamina amid fatigue and melancholy.
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Apella
van Wark
Cardinal Gibbons Returns to St Reidgas Parish Mass
Cardinal Gibbons was welcomed back to St Reidgas Catholic Church where he began his ministry. He presided at the mass and confirmed a class of 955 children and two adults, one of the largest in the church history. Afterward he met many old parishioners.
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Baltimore
Tone
Cardinal Gibbons
St. Reidgas Catholic Church
Whitman vetoes Brown labor bill in wartime
Gov. Whitman announced he vetoed the Brown bill. It would authorize the State industrial commission to suspend or modify labor-law provisions during the war. The governor cited protections for women, minors, and very young children, stressing wartime cooperation.
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Albany
N. Y
Brown
State Industrial Commission
Whitman
Industrial Commission
Minora
Italians Sold Cotton to Teutons Report Says
Boston June 3 Germany has been supplied with American cotton through Italian traders according to an investigative committee of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. The report urges government control of cotton shipments and notes large exports to Genoa and Italy during wartime, implying diverted supplies to the Central Powers.
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Boston
Germany
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Netherlands
Italy
Genoa
Sims Recalls Prophecy Of 1910 At Jutland Memorial
London June 3 Vice Admiral William S Sims United States Navy received a fervent greeting at a religious thanksgiving service in Kingsway Opera House to honor the Battle of Jutland. He praised British heroes and expressed American sympathy with the fight for freedom, recalling his 1910 Guildhall speech about American support for England. He said the prophecy is being realized and hoped the US Navy would meet any future test with equal valor.
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London
William 8. Sims
United States Navy
Kingsway
Jutland
Sims
America
Wilson
United States
London Guildhall
England
Admiral Sims
Austria May Swap War Prisoners Suggested by Red Cross
Geneva dispatch reports Austria favors wholesale prisoner exchange with Italy, following a Red Cross proposal for Germany and France. The plan will be reviewed by Red Cross officials soon, with Paris reporting the idea circulated to international mediation efforts.
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Paris
Petit Parisien Printa & Dispatch
Geneva
Austria
Italy
International Red Cross
Germany
France
Red Cross
Baby Lhya Keet Kidnapping Near Springfield Home
Baby Lhya Keet, valued at 3 million dollars, remained hidden near the Keet residence outside Springfield as detectives and a mysterious messenger pursued ransom clues. Mrs. S F Palmer reported seeing three men with an automobile near the Keet home around the time of the abduction.
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Lhya Keet
Keet
J. Holland Keet
S. F. Palmer
Kant
English Pacifists Hail Russian Plan to End War Without Annexations
Leeds reports eleven hundred delegates, including women, gathered to back a peace formula without annexations or indemnities. Leaders like Robert Smillie and James Remsay MacDonald spoke as resolutions urged press freedom and a British workers and soldiers group modeled on the Russian example. Disorder broke out outside the Coliseum as police moved rioters from the crowd and pacifist delegates faced jeers over wartime casualties.
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Independent Labor Party
Robert Smillie
Petrograd
Smile
Thea
England
James Remsay MacDonald
Leicester
Philip Snowden
Blackburn
William C. Anderson
Attercliffe
Sheffield
Fraternizing With Foe Ended Says Kerensky
Kiev reports M. Kerensky minister of war declaring troops stopped fraternizing with Germans and that the Russian army grows stronger daily. He toured Russia and the front saying the army’s apparent dying phase was the state’s effort, now powered by a new discipline and intelligent leadership. Troops outside the city cheered him.
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Kiev
Russia
London
M. Kerensky
Toan
Russian Cabinet Men Are Going to Kronstadt
Petrograd reports on June 4 that M Tehernoff minister of ameriture and M Tserete minister of posts and Kronstadt led a delegation to Kronstadt to settle disputes with workers and soldiers. M Kererswe returned to Petrograd after meetings with the war ministry.
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Kronstadt
Mrs M B Carse Dead in New York
Mrs M B Carse dies in New York at 1834 birth in Wales and long Chicago reform work. She allied with Frances Lady Henry Somerset in forming the National and International Woman's Christian Temperance Union and led the Chicago central WoC TT. She served as president of the Woamana temperance group and the Temperance Publishing Association. Body to be taken to Chicago for burial in Tem.
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Jan Bradley Cares
Dawid Fo
Hudson
Toda
Frances
Henry Somerset
Engard
Woman's Christian Tamperance Unn
Chicago Central
Woc TT
Woamaperance Pukijehing Ascorist
Carse
Wand
Chicago
British Recruiting Mission Seeks Britons in U S
Lieutenant General Bridges announces British subjects in the United States may enlist in imperial or Canadian forces. Recruiting depots will provide medical exams and transport to Britain or Canada, with headquarters in New York and branches planned nationwide. Brigadier General White leads the mission, urging loyalty and duty amid wartime need.
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T. M. G. Bridges
Ot States
Bridges
United States
Orchinery
War Department
W. A. White
Connaught Rangers
Broadway
Whi
Lie
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War burden weighs on U S says senator warns objectors
Baltimore June 8 Senator Joseph E Ransdell of Louisiana warned war objectors to leave the country saying the burden falls now on the United States He voiced fear Russia may ally with Germany or exit the war and urged everyone to do their part or face a dark future.
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Joseph E. Ransdell
Louisiana
Russia
Germany
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