Silence and Assault On Western Front Reported
Canadian forces claim success around Avion and Lievin with heavy artillery strikes, while British reports describe entering enemy trenches near Nieuwport and repulsing raids near St Georges. Berlin reports intensified shelling along the Ypres coast and Chemin des Dames as Allied and German artillery clash. A July 10 note cites a shipbuilding venture by Old Dominion Shipbuilding and Aircraft Manufacturing Company with $10 million capital.
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Berlin
London
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Chemin des-Dames
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Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Old Dominion Shipbuilding and “Aircraft Manufacturing Company
Ehips
Ure
Robert S Huderns
Charles G Barrow
C T Durban
James FB Cuthbert
Died notices for multiple individuals in July 1917
Death notices from Washington area papers list Fredta W Brookc aged 41 Dell (ramer Frieoda) Payne George W Payne Sophia Read Maria Wovenae and others. Services scheduled at Gawler Chapel 1730 Pennsylvania Ave NW and Francis Fasschs Sons Chapel with private interments at Rock Creek Richmond VA and Arlington areas.
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Maria Wovenae Funeral
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Tnterment
Richmond Va
French Aviator Leads Raid on Essen Gun Works
Special cables from foreign capitals describe Gallois, a lone French aviator born in 1879, flying 450 miles round trip in seven hours from Metz to Essen. He dropped ten bombs on munitions plants and gun emplacements while hostile fire raked the squadron, returning despite near blindness from lost goggles and an accident on landing.
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Sergt
Gallois
Valley of Rhine
Public Ledger Company
Germany
Treves
Coblentz
Ludwigshafen
Galles
Metz
Essenland
Wireless Operator's Nerve Saves Survivors of Orlean s Torpedoing
Captain Allen Tucker recounts the torpedoing of the American steamship Orleans off the French coast. Wireless operator Larson maintained radio contact amid sinking, aiding 46 of 50 aboard to safety in the minutes after impact. The ship sank within ten minutes on July Fourth, with Tucker and Larson rescued after an hour in a lifeboat.
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Sperial
Washington
Paris
Orleans
Allen Tucker
Brest
Tucker
ToIfarson
1Tadia
Utes
Larson
Offrance
Germany
Presa Publishing Co
Trawler Bags 2 Seaplanes Off Lowestoft
The Commodore at Lowestoft reports the British armed trawler Iceland destroyed two enemy seaplanes and brought four prisoners into port. One plane launched a torpedo and was attacked and destroyed. the second, which came to aid, was also destroyed.
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London
Lowestoft
Iceland
Paris Police Employ Tear Gas in Deserter Capture
Paris reports police used tear gas like battlefront gas to seize a deserter named Thouin in his Rue Andre del Satre apartment. Protected by a steel shield, an officer bored a door hole and inserted a tube. Thouin shot himself and his wife, who was nearly suffocated, then Thouin died shortly after.
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Paris
Thouin
Andre del Satrte
Spain Premier says situation not alarming in Spain
Madrid report quotes Premier saying the situation in Spain is not alarming after talks with King Alfonso The premier dismisses rumors of siege in Catalonia and asserts government measures were advisable The Javuste Party meeting is authorized for July 25 in Barcelona to address reform questions
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Sy Agence Radio
Madrid
Spain
Alfonso
Catalonia
Javuste Party
American Harvard Crew Suffers Burns on Armed Yacht
An American armed yacht docked at a French seaport on July 11 with several crew members, all Harvard graduates, reporting slight burns and smoke inhalation from fighting a blaze in the bunkers. Some were revived with pul motors after becoming overcome while battling the fire.
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Agence Radio
International News Service
Harvard
Chang Hsun Seizes Imperial City Amid Peking Crisis
Reports from Peking and Tientsin describe Chang Hsun and imperialist forces retreating into the imperial city and Temple of Heaven as Republican troops encircle the capital. Monarchists face banishment while Feng Kuo Chang is named temporary president and Tuan Chi Jui vows no compromise.
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Tientsin
Chang Haun
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Fengtai
Temple of Heaven
Tsao Kun
Chihli
Chuan Chi-kwein
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Chihtl
Kang Haun
Imperial Palace
Langfang
Chang Hsun
Liang Chi Chao
Tientein
Feng Kuo Chang
Suchonfu
Fengtal
Yungting
China
Reinsch
Imperial
Chang Heun
Ank’ng
Fang Kuo Chang
Princea
District man gas victim in overseas force list
Ottawa July 10 The casualty list of the Canadian overseas force issued tonight includes Americans among the wounded and dead. Died of wounds E Morrison Cambridge Mass Wounded I F O'Reilly Schenectady NY J Thompson Detroit Mich T F McHargue Corbin Ky Ettle Tulia Tex Suffering from gas L Thomas Washington DC
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Ottawa
Ontario
E ¢ Morrison
Cambridge
O'Reilly
Schenectady
J Thompson
Detroit
Mich
T F McHargue
Corbin
France to Run Coal Yards
Paris reports that coal yards will be instituted to ensure fair distribution and prevent cornering after negotiations between the British government and the prefect of Seine. The move aims to avert a coal famine next winter.
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Paris
Department of the Seine
French hold Chemin des Dames in fierce counterattack
French troops drenched and mud covered fought off a major German assault at the Pantheon farm sector of the Chemin des Dames south of Finn. Germans launched ten to twelve battalions with barbed wire and flame throwers but were repelled. fierce hand to hand fighting left many German dead and few prisoners taken.
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France
Associated Press
Chemin-des-Dames
Finn
Pantheon Farm
Chemin des-Dames
Fort de Marmaison
French General Honors American Soldier at Montclair Funeral
Montclair New Jersey burial honors Soldier Osborne who died of wounds June 22 in American ambulance service. Gen Baratier praised the United States and France as allies for liberty and justice, saluting Osborne and the army. cross placed on coffin as flags drape the grave.
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Montclair NJ
Baratier
Fashoda Fame
Osborne
Army of the
United States
Faris
Paul Jeonnde
Aged French Senator Killed by German Cruelties
Radio from Paris reports the death of Charlies Sebline an aged senator from Aisne killed by German captors last winter News says German forces dynamited his manor cut trees bombed farm buildings and forced him and his wife into an open cattle car traveling five hours through a snowstorm The couple walked two miles to a town where Sebline died minutes later His wife was denied a final prayer at his bedside.
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Paris
Charlies Sebline
Aisne Department
Sebline
M Sebline
Peer Refuses to Pay Wife Debts in Public Row
London July 10 A fortnight ago Lord Palmeny eldest son and heir repudiated responsibility for debts contracted after that date by his wife Lady Dalmeny. She replies with an advertisement detailing personal debts totaling 3303 dollars plus 10306 dollars on a household account. Since 1909 Dalmeny received only small allowances and never paid on her account beyond 5000 a year. The couple, noted for hunting and racing, have two children.
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Washington Post
London
Lord Palmeny
Earl Rosenberg
Times
Dalmeny
Dalmenvy
Lord Henry Grosvenor
Duke of Westminster
Dublin mass meeting protests partition of Ireland
A mass meeting at Phoenix Park organized by committees led by the bishop of Londonderry protested Ireland partition and condemned the nominated Irish convention. The Dublin lord mayor refused Mansion House use. Speakers included Ulster priests labor leaders and Cork party reps from O Brien. Sinn Fein symbols were common among holiday crowds.
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Dublin
Phoenix Park
Londonderry
Ireland
William O Brien
Cork
Sinn Fein
French to Aid Greek Army
The Greek government decided to ask France to reorganize its army. It was learned today that the assembly to revise the constitution was called to meet in October.
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Assembly
Agence Radio
Internatio
Athens
France
Aerial combat summary for June from Berlin and allies
The June aerial fight report shows German losses of 68 airplanes and 3 captive balloons with 220 enemy planes and 33 captive balloons downed by Allied weapons. Antiaircraft guns claimed 60 enemy airmen killed, while combat losses were 68 planes and 3 balloons. London newspapers dispute German loss claims, noting 279 German machines destroyed or driven down.
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Berlin
London
Army
War Office
Krupps Plant Crippled in Dutch Air Raid Damage
Amsterdam reports from Les Nouvelles Maastricht that Krupp works suffered destruction of quarter of the Basen plant after a French air raid. Material damage is in the millions of francs with 100 workers killed and hundreds more wounded or captured including 45 French prisoners.
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Amsterdam
Les Nouvelles
Maastricht
Holland
Krupp
France honors W Poland with Legion of Honor cross
Announcement from London states President Poincare has awarded the Chevalier cross of the Legion of Honor to W Poland, former director in Holland of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium. The award recognizes his courage in denouncing German deportations in northern France to both German authorities and the American government.
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London
Poincare
France
Legion of Honor
Poland
Holland
American Commission For Relief
Belgium
Italian Gun Fire Repels Attacks Near Vodice and Piccolo Lage
An official report states a heavy bombardment and violent storm followed by enemy attacks on Vodice, Cordevole, and Piccolo Lage. Our fire destroyed assaulting parties and prevented advances, with multiple small enemy incursions also thwarted along these lines.
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Rome
Piccolo Lage
British Flyer Fired Packing 99 Rounds In Sammi Camp
London reports one British airman killed in an air fight near London. The piece records 55 rounds expended from the enemy machine, lists casualties including Capt Percival Molson of Canada and Lt Frank Pretyman of the Scots Guards, and notes missing brothers and other officers. It also covers American troops packing up at an American camp in France, farewell feelings, and French morale about America joining the war with expectations of a quick end.
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London Times
Washington Post
Public Ledger Company
London
Percival Molson
Canadian Infantry
McGill University
States
National Trust Company
Montreal
Frank Pretyman
Scots Guards
Geological Survey of
Wisconsin
Maurice Pretyman
Gallipoli
United States
Canada
Basil Blackwood
Duffern
Ava
M Desmond Ocallaghan
Times
France
Thias
America
HUGE PLANES IN LONDON RAID
London reports Gotha biplanes used in raids on June 13 and July 7. The craft span 77 feet 8 inches with 40 feet 8 inch length, armed with two Mercedes motors totaling 520 horsepower. They reportedly fly not below 12,000 feet though appearing lower, carry more than one pilot, and remain within range of London anti aircraft guns.
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London Times
Washington Post
Public Ledger Company
London
Mexico to Resume Interest Payments on Securities
Paris July 10. Gen Carranza cabled European holders that México will resume interest payments as soon as world economic conditions improve and creditors are disposed to grant facilities to the Mexican government.
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Hadio
Paris
Carranza
Cavalry Ends Dutch Riot In The Hague
A July demonstration by workmen led by a socialist crowd in front of the Binnenhof parliament buildings was dispersed by mounted police and cavalry. The Binnenhof entrances were closed and no further disorders occurred.
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Binnenhof
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