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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1916
Page
10
Senate debate centers on a ship funding bill and immigration measures with a literacy test while Republican leaders push to slow work and pressure for naval supply access. The president faces Southern resistance and a looming filibuster as party lines lock on shipping legislation and related bills.
The account describes British and German fleet actions with Beatty Jellicoe and Jellicoe’s line formation amid fading light and mist. Admirals Piney Jerran Sturdee and Dutani are cited praising vessel performances and leadership. The narrative highlights engagement of battlecruisers, battleships, and cruisers, with the Chester destroying German light cruisers for twenty minutes despite heavy casualties.
In Brownsville Texas on July 6 American officials discussed a plan for safe passage of miles refugees including women and children hiding in the mountains. Secretary Lansing and Admiral Beatty reported on naval actions with German forces, detailing late night battle conditions, torpedo and gunfire exchanges, and ships such as Marlborough Iron Duke and Castor sustaining damage while pursuing the High Sea Fleet near Horn Reef.
Reports from multiple fronts describe heavy clashes as 1,500 strikers in New York and Baltimore confront police with clubs and pistols while riots erupt near a French front. Battles stiffen along the Somme and Verdun sectors with mine blasts, rail disruptions, and village evacuations noted by officials.
The War Department announced the conclusion of two important experiments in transportation infantry by automation. Gen Funston oversaw a seven mile test with 1000 fully armed infantrymen in 3 ton trucks, carrying a gun company and sanitary troop. A San Francisco automobile reserve corps test used 21 passenger cars to haul troops and a 7 inch howitzer on a ton truck, with trucks covering 24 miles in 3 hours 7 minutes and passenger cars in 1 hour 47 minutes. The tests show practicability of rapid advance and crossing rough terrain for border raids and to move infantry to engage hostile forces. The Chief of Staff has directed further studies of rapid cover by automobies, with more experiments to be conducted in summer.
The Admiralty forwards congratulations to Admiral Jellicoe and the Grand Fleet for the Jutland engagement. Lords commend officers and seamen for studying problems and turning knowledge into action, noting the enemy was compelled to withdraw to his ports. The letter expresses full approval and high country expectations were fulfilled.
Piris reports from July 6 that the Somme battle shows shattered German defense and a shelling wall lowers Allied casualties. The leading company suffered minimal losses and artillery, crucial to success, proves the Franco British force can be turned into an advantage as munitions increase.
A report from Laredo Texas says nearly 100 Carranza troops were killed and many wounded in a rear end collision between two northbound troop trains at Catoroe station between San Luis Potosi and Yaltitlo on June 29. The wreckage caught fire, trapping soldiers beneath debris as passengers arriving tonight from the south relay the details.
In New York on July 6 striking garment workers marched through city streets and held a Madison Square meeting. Leaders said 30000 were killed? more than 30000. Musicians Union provided twenty two bands. about 2500 marchers were women. Union relief funds and citizen committee pledged 15000 weekly each to support the strikers as the ten week strike continued.
Republican leaders dispute Democrats that wartime readiness drives the huge appropriations. They say analysis will separate national defense, Mexican policy costs, and other needs, asserting Republicans support preparedness but oppose concealing waste in a general defense total.
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday asked Congress for authority to pay George Rublee of New Hampshire his salary as a member of the commission from his appointment on Wallich 16 1910 to May 18 1916 when the Senate rejected his nomination for the office. Mr Rublee has drawn no salary.
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