Last American ships reach port after U boat battles
Secretary Daniels announced safe arrival in a French port of the final ships from the first American overseas expedition. The convoy fought off German submarines twice on the voyage across the Atlantic with heavy gunfire, no losses, and at least one U boat sunk. The event followed weeks of spy disclosures and heightened Allied naval cooperation.
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Woman Would Fly Over German Lines in Airship
Special to The Washington Post Norfolk Virginia March 3 Mrs Lelia Hobson Woodward wife of Lieut Vaughan Woodward V I N made her first flight in an airship over Hampton Roads and plans to seek her husband’s consent to go to France and fly over German lines pilot Batts Chief instructor at Curtiss aviation school Newport News piloted the craft reaching 2590 feet she called herself the proudest woman in Norfolk and described the tail slide and fall as thrilling the Woodsward family is noted in Norfolk society
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Last Units of Horses and Supplies Arrive in France
American expeditionary force vessels carrying horses and supplies reached a French seaport amid whistles and sirens. The arrival completes the force’s logistics, enabling early permanent training camps behind the front. Rear Admiral Gleaves praised navigators for exact rendezvous timing, while Army and Navy cooperation strengthened the crossing.
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Americans March Through Paris in War Anniversary Parade
Paris July 3 The program for American troops march in Paris tomorrow includes a reveille at Gen Pershing's window in Rue de Varenne, a ceremony at the Invalides with the French president, pennants presented by descendants of Revolutionary War and 1870 veterans, a march to Picpus Cemetery for Lafayette's ashes, and a grand banquet at the Palais Dorsey with premier, Pershing, Joffre and other officials in attendance.
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Sixth Embassy Romance in London Engagement Announced
Richard B. Pennoyer secretary to the American Ambassador Walter H. Page will wed Lady Ingestre daughter in law of the Earl of Shrewsbury premier earl in England and Ireland. The match marks the sixth embassy engagement since Page arrived. Lady Ingestre daughter of Lord Paget sister to the Marquis of Anglesey was born 1881 and married 1904 to Capt Viscount Ingestre. She has three daughters and one son. Washington Post Automobile Route Books price 23c by mail 85e.
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American Troops Head to Front Training Camps This Week
Paris reports American forces at a French port will depart for behind the lines training camps by week’s end. The first contingent may move out after the Fourth of July celebration, as announced this morning.
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Scott Witnesses Russian Success At Front
Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Scott chief of staff of the US army with the American commission to Russia arrived at the southwestern front July 1 to witness the Russian offensive. Col. Robert B. Michie Lieut. Col. T Bentley Mott and Lieut. Col. William St Judson accompanied him as Elihu Root sent an enthusiastic telegram describing the battle. From a hill near Zichoff Scott watched the artillery prep and the charge as the Russian Sixth corps took three lines of Austrian trenches.
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Bomb on ship at Habana shocks unloading crew
In Habana on July 3 dock laborers found a small cartridge shaped dynamite piece with fuse while unloading coal from the Danish steamship Newa, arrived from Newport News. The device resembled a coal mine cartridge. Earlier, a dynamite blast on another ship’s coal unloads killed two.
Russians Drive Toward Lemberg and Brzezany Action
Russian forces push along the Galician front attacking Brzezany and advancing toward Lemberg. Berlin confirms heavy fighting, massed units named death march behind the lines, prisoners mounting near 29,000, and Austro German retreat across the Little Stripa River. Also reports of operations along the Kovel Lutsk railroad and near Riga and the Pripet marshes, with air actions and Zeppelins noted.
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Four Swedish Ships Sunk by U Boats Off Norwegian Coast
German submarines attacked the Swedish merchant fleet near the Norwegian coast, with four vessels sunk yesterday outside the blockade zone. Crews abandoned ship into lifeboats as the exchange dispatch from Copenhagen reported.
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Norway's June Losses Reported by London Legation
London reports Norwegian shipping suffered heavy losses in Tyne area during June. Forty-three Norwegian vessels totaling 59,986 tons were sunk by submarines or mines, costing 26 lives.
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Ships Defeat U Boats in World War II Update
In today’s issue wartime notes report Allied naval forces destroying U-boat threats and securing maritime routes. Also notes progress in France with units reported safe and Russian advances at Brzezany as battles continue worldwide.
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Dutch Troops Fire on Food Rioters at Amsterdam Markets
Serious potato riots in Amsterdam last night saw mobs attack two markets. Police closed streets and bridges, mounted police fired over crowds, troops dispersed the mob after gunfire. Reports say one killed and many wounded, including two policemen, as rioters carried potatoes from market and railway cars.
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Rioting in San Juan belt as 2000 clash in New York
In New York, two thousand negroes and whites including policemen and soldiers fought a riot in the San Juan black belt. Knives and guns were used, a policeman was struck, and a colored infantryman faced arrest that sparked the clash. Reserves and whites from Below Fifty Ninth Street intervened to quell the disturbance.
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Woman student killed in plane crash in Marlin
Marlin Texas July 3 Mrs Hattie Nixon 26 of Waco a student at the Marline Airplane School died during a practice flight when her plane failed to gain altitude and struck telephone wires causing the craft to fall She was crushed beneath the engine in the city airfield incident amid other details of the aviation class accident.
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Riots in East St Louis Leave 23 Dead 75 Hurt
East St Louis faces a night of terror as race rioting leaves 23 dead and 75 injured. National guards patrol the streets while merchants accuse police and troops of inefficiency. The disturbance follows a clash over strike activity at Armour Morris and Swift plants, with many homes burned and refugees pouring across the river.
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