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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1917
Page
1
London officials report a second German air raid across the capital caused 37 deaths and 141 injuries. The attack aimed at civilian areas including a major hospital. despite heavy bombing, most workers and residents sought shelter as antiaircraft fire and air battles raged above.
Russian forces report gains in the Pinsk sector driving toward Godov and capturing Sianka Hill 388 Lakhovtzy and Svenyatcit as a naval flotilla clears mine barriers on the Pina River. Allied observers note fierce battles, with Berlin claiming repulsed assaults and Soviet advances on multiple fronts.
Cable advices from San Francisco say the young emperor Hsuan Tune faces a death sentence by military leaders of the republic. Royalist troops retreat under republican pursuit as Sun Fo, son of Sun Yat Sen, arrives to aid democracy. Diplomatic corps warn that railway links must stay open, while reports place Chang Hsun’s forces cutting the Peking Tientsin railway and moving toward Paotingfu to curb Republican advances. Street unrest grows in Peking with fear of panic, looting, and legation-quarter transfers.
A Deutsche Tagezeitung telegram from Frankfurt quotes Reichstag Deputy Heine saying Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg would seek peace without annexations or indemnities. Berlin dispatches note expected Reichstag speech and votes on a credit. talks on Britain’s food crisis and U boat impact highlight a growing tonnage shortfall amid U-boat warfare.
Reports from London and Copenhagen state a British torpedo boat destroyer was sunk by an enemy submarine in the North Sea with eight fatalities. Norwegian steamers Havbria and Bjerko were sunk. fourteen of Bjerko’s crew are missing. An American citizen drowned aboard Orleans after its torpedoing. other casualties named. Cestrian sunk in Boston-Liverpool run. Armenian liner Caestrian earlier sunk off Africa. Portuguese patrol boats engage a German submarine off Madeira Islands. submarine fled after return fire.
Rome reports Germany demanded recall of Cardinal Mercier of Belgium and the Vatican refused, widening tensions between the Catholic church and Berlin. Mercier’s pro-Belgian stance and advocacy for the invaded monarchy have long drawn German disapproval, with his letters suppressed by military authorities in Belgium.
French airmen executed a large reprisal raid across Germany dropping 30,450 kilograms of explosives on Essen and Ludwigshafen while striking Treves Meuse region targets. The Krupp works at Essen and the Badische Aniline factory were hit, with fires reported. German losses included aircraft downed and several airfields bombed.
St Louis July 8. Col Donnelly commanding the Missouri National Guard sent troops from Alton to Hartford to guard whites against a feared attack. Hartford and Wood River residents barricaded homes as 60 to 100 armed colored refugees from East St Louis arrived, with violence feared.
Paris reports losses among French merchant ships from submarines in the week ended July 1. Four ships over 1,600 tons were sunk and four under 1,600 tons appear in the list. Three merchantmen were unsuccessfully attacked and no fishing boats were sunk. The prior week had two ships over 1,500 tons and three under 1,500 tons.
New York July 7 health authorities condemned thirty thousand pounds of potatoes as rotten after a Florida shipper sought to keep them off the market awaiting higher prices. The shipment, arriving from the South, was deemed unfit for sale and suppressed by officials.
Despite hostile remarks from the German government, Crown Prince Copenhagen employs American jockey Fred Taral to ride two newly purchased race horses. Taral, a former top American jockey, has been a trusted figure for years with one of Germanys leading trainers guiding the horses.
A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the submarine Ariane in the Mediterranean on June 13. All officers and crew perished, with reports of some men saved following the loss.
Washington acts to rid the capital of alien enemies as State Department warns German subjects in Swiss consular service to resign. The shift signals a harsher policy toward Germany and a plan to curb espionage tied to Austria Bulgaria and Turkey.
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