Root mission finds no Russian organic malady aids war effort
The Elihu Root commission reports no incurable defect in Russian democracy and predicts patriotism will sustain the nation through crisis. It cites food, money, and transport as the main needs, warns of German propaganda, and notes Russia must improve transport to avert famine. Root says Russia can reform locally, with law and local self-government shown. Japan’s request for a Tokyo trip is declined. Root and colleagues head home to report.
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Industria
Commission
Popular Delocates
Workmen's Ad
Pessante
Compiles Proletariat Organization
Russia
Poet
Associated Press
Wei
Root
Tokyo
State Department
Japan
High Commission
Baron [Shli
United States
Feronne
Fayolle
Somme
Peronne
Bapaume
Roye
Chaulnes
France
Probing Mare Island Blast
Naval board of inquiry, appointed by Captain Robert Russell, investigates the Mare Island navy yard explosion that killed six and injured three. Findings will be sent to Secretary Daniels. Injured expected to recover. Board weighs external cause over natural origin.
Find U Boat With Crew Dead Off Irish Coast
A modern German U boat was found adrift off the Irish coast with all hands dead. A British patrol boat towed the submerged submarine to port after the crew reportedly suffocated from a sudden deadly gas formation. The hatches were down when boarded.
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Galveston
Tex
NM Os All
British Recruiting Week In New York Details
The mayoral committee on national defense with State and War departments designates July 6 to 22 as British recruiting week in New York. Brig Gen W A White and the British recruiting mission coordinate the program. A highlight is 200 McLean and Gordon Highlanders from Canada with a 20 member pipers band and a 36 member brass band.
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New York
Mayor's Committee On National Defense
State and War Departments
Washington
Imavror’s Committee
W. A. White
McLean and Gordon Highlanders
Canada
Hiighlanders
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy Promises Stomach Health
Stomach and intestinal ailments are warned of serious conditions like gall stones cancer and jaundice. The advertisement claims Mayr's Wonderful Remedy quickly overcomes stomach liver and intestinal troubles and has restored millions, urging readers to purchase at local druggists and stores.
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Wmayr
Rey
Tri
People's Deng Store
AL Bais
Germany on the rocks of political discontent on war horizon
Discontent rises within the German empire as the war pressures and food shortages mount. Reports from Berlin cite Kaiser and cabinet struggles, with Bethmann Hollweg and Erzberger sparking calls for reform. State Department notes uncertainty about when or if peace or regime change will occur.
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Germany
State Department
Old Guard
Bethmann Hollwee
Lightning strikes plane at Camp Borden
Lightning believed to have struck Lieut. Claire A. Page of the Royal Flying Corps, who was killed during an electrical storm at Camp Borden Ontario. Cadet Donellin was seriously injured when his aircraft overturned on landing, while a third member landed safely.
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Camp Borden
Ontario
Claire A. Page
Royal Flying Corps
Cadet Donellin
Home Rule For Russian Races
Petrograd reports the pan Russian congress of workers and soldiers delegates calls for national autonomy decided by constituent assembly. Provisional laws should grant all nationalities freedom to shape their political future and language rights while preserving Russian as official. Delegates Goldenburg Kosaroff and Smirnoff head to Stockholm then to Britain France and Italy to liaise with socialist parties. Grand committee on food supplies orders a nationwide inventory of all edible goods by July 5 with seizure for noncompliance.
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Petrograd
Councils of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates
Russia
Constituent Assembly
Con‘gress’ of
Goldenburg
Kosaroff
Smirnoff
Congress
Veltograd
Stockholm
Great Britain
France
Italy
Congress of Soldiers
Socialist
Grand Committee On
Eivery
Kate Sanborn Dead at 79 in Holliston Mass
Holliston Massachusetts July 10 Miss Katharine Abbott Sanborn known as Kate Sanborn author and former Smith College professor of English literature died here on Monday at age 79. She earned her first money by writing while young and lectured recently on literary topics.
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Holliston
Mass
Katherine’ Abbott Sanborn
Kate Sanborn
Berlin Liberals Seem to Demand Chancellor’s Resignation
Berlin liberals push for the chancellor’s resignation amid calls for early peace without annexations and indemnities. Berlin officials report internal cabinet strains as socialists demand food and coal relief and interior reforms while German leaders weigh policy amid Russian revolutions and Polish questions.
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Vossische Zeitung
Lokal-Anzeiger
Tageblatt
Berlin
Crown Council
Vienna
Letter to Kaiser Demands Rights of Humanity and Peace
New York July 10. A sensational German Swiss reaction follows publication of a letter to Emperor Wilhelm signed Klabund Alfred Hendrik. The letter urges the Kaiser to listen to the voice of the people and to embrace peace, stressing internal reform over military victory and the rights of humanity. It argues for direct talks with the people, cites Wilson and Kerensky as peace advocates, and calls for Germany to shed royal reserve and recognize universal rights.
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New York
Germany
Switzerland
Wilhelm
Neue Suiricher Zeitung
Klabund
Alfred Hendike
Wilson
Kerensky
Orville Wright Says Airplanes Will End War
Dayton, Ohio July 10 Orville Wright declared this is the last war and that aeroplanes will win it He argued air attacks on London are absurd if the design is to destroy the city and that the planes will become the most popular vehicle after the war He noted many young men will learn to fly and return to aviation and that secrecy will determine army success
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Dayton
Ohio
Orville Wright
Wright
London
England
Crown Council Secret Sows Seeds of Reform in Germany
London reports the crown council convened by Emperor William in Berlin with ministers and military officials, lasting three hours. Dispatches hint at a forthcoming Prussian franchise bill for universal direct suffrage and secret ballot, while Berlin observers note public unease over lack of news on the meeting.
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London
Crown Council
William
Berlin
Amsterdam
Prussia
McCormick and Palmer Nominated for D C Exemption Boards
Harrisburg July 10 Gov Brumbaugh sent to Washington a list of names for District exemption boards. Vance Co McCormick chairman of the Democratic national committee and former Congressman A Mitchell Palmer appear on the slate. Palmer had charged Brumbaugh with political favoritism in appointing rent boards. District boards will review appeals from focal boards decisions.
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Harrisburg
Washington
Gov. Brumbaugh
Vance Co. McCormick
Democratic National Committee
A. Mitchell Palmer
Brumbaugh
Focal
Shipbuilding Plant Burned In East Booth Bay Maine
A Rice Bros shipbuilding plant at East Booth Bay Maine was destroyed by fire, along with a half completed lightship a number of trawlers and several yachts and launches. Estimated loss 150000. Lightship under government contract 37000 cost 52 percent complete. No evidence of incendiarism found and authorities suspect a hot rivet may have started the blaze.
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East Booth Bay
Rice Bros
Baltimore chosen as Federal subdepot location
Baltimore was selected by the Federal Government as the site for a quartermaster's department subdepot. Capt. Daniel W. O'Neill opened headquarters to arrange the setup, seeking a warehouse of at least 50,000 square feet on or beside a railroad. About 1,000 workers will be employed in the depot duties.
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Sones
Empire
Foreda
Batocki
Herr von Batocki
Baltimore
Quartermaster’s Department
Daniel W. O'Neill
Regular Army
Two Soldiers Drowned at Rio Grande Near El Paso
Private Clyde P. Gardner of Lynn Massachusetts and Private Martin T. Dietz of Staten Island New York were drowned as a group of soldiers battled for life in the Rio Grande. A military guard at a footbridge struggled to keep logs from destroying the structure after the current swept downstream the obstruction.
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el Paso
Clyde PD. Gardner
Lynn
Mass
Martin T. Dietz
Staten Island
Rio Grande River
Russians Take Halicz and Stanislau Front Breakthroughs
The report details Russian advances west of Stanislau with a penetration depth of 10 versts and captures of over 1,000 Austro-German troops, seven field guns, mortars, machine guns, and military stores. Troops reached Bukovina and took Viktorov, Majdan, Hudska, and Pacykov as enemy forces retreat to the Lomnica River. Berlin and London relay contrasting fronts with increased fighting near Riga and Dvinsk while Stanislau front shifts behind the Lomnica.
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Bukovina
Viktorov
Majdan
Hudska
Pacykov
Lomnica
Stanislaw
Berlin
London
German War Office
Stanislau
Riga
Dvinsk
Smorgon
Prince Leopold
von Boehm- Ermolli
Stripa
Dniester
Victories Rouse Russia as Women Form Shock Battalions
Reports from Petrograd July 10 describe a surge of volunteer battalions across Russia with the General Russian Union for the Formation of a Voluntary Army gathering 60 active branches. Women request enlistment en masse, with plans to drill outside Petrograd. Kerensky battalion and Odessa officers’ school volunteers press front service. An ovation marked Black Sea fleet delegates as their company departs for the front. A drowning occurred in Fredericksburg as Marvin Colp, 14, disappeared while swimming in the Rappahannock River attempting to save a camp colleague.
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Petrograd
War Office
Russia
Siberia
Caucasus
General Russian Union
Kerensky Battalion
Odessa
Orenburg
Black Sea
Washington Post
Fredericksburg
Jiy
Marvin Clup
Henry Colp
Rappanhannock
Northcliffe Urges British Aid to US War Effort
New York July 10 Lord Northcliffe president of the Overseas Club urged cooperation with the United States to win the war. He cited 160000 members and 12000 in Europe and asked all members to support American war plans and Hoover food programs. He noted the club has raised over two million dollars for patriotic purposes, much of it to organize an aircraft flotilla.
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New York
United States
Overseas Club
America
Lord Northcliffe
British Commission
Lord Northcliffe Wald
Europe
Hoover
Navy yards to build ten ships on the ways soon
Secretary Daniela announced government shipyards will host ten warships on the ways at Planta simultaneously. Three battleships and four destroyers are under construction plus smaller craft, with overtime shifts and bonuses to speed completion. Submarines and mosquito fleet chasers not included.
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Planta
Daniela
Navy Yards
Godmothers to Soldiers Aid War Effort
The American Pan Women’s League, meeting at Mrs. Isaac Pearson’s home, Lanter Place, accepted a War Department registration proposal to act as godmothers for soldiers going to France. Addresses on the duty of women were given by Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Chicago and Dr. Anna Shaw. The league will devote all activity to national needs under the slogan Our Country First.
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American Pan Women's League
Isaac Pearson
Lanter Place
League
War Department
France
Antoinette Funk
Chicago
Anna Shaw
Ite
Aims at Alien Slackers Deported by 60 Days Plan
Chairman Burnett of the House immigration committee introduced a bill to deport aliens after 60 days who have not declared intention to become citizens. It empowers the President to draft enemy or neutral aliens aged 18 to 44 for labor on farms and factories. Senator Swanson backed a bill to raise navy ration commutation price from 31 to 40 cents.
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Burnett
House Immigration Committee
United States
Swanson
Naval Committee
Navy
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Naval Board
U Boat
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Qld
Furzberger
Reichstag General Committee
Reichstag
Hindenberg
Ludendorff
Zimmermann
Helfferich
Qou Vadis Zetmania
Lieut. Page
Lokal Anzeiger
Berliner Wogeblatt
Dr. Erzberger
David
Socialist Party
Erszberger
Count von Wentarp
Fehreny Kash
Era‘berger
Erzperger
von Bethmann-Holmes
Koelnische Vorzeitung
Karl Heilfferich
Zurich
Mathias’ Erzberger
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Mennchener Neusste Nachrichten
W.cormick
Palmer
Aeemy Depot
Quartermaster's Department
Rio Grange
J M Giddinrg
H St. N. W
Shoreham Hotel
Gingham & Voile
The
Alhambra Theater
Seventh St
Hecht & Co
Halicz
Northcliffe
U. S
Daniels
American Pen Women's League
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