Wilson orders ship commandeering to speed Atlantic fleet
President Wilson ends steel dispute by ordering commandeering of ship contracts and steel output to speed U S shipbuilding. Gen Goethals to oversee construction while Denman directs ships. $500 million appropriation split between commandeering contracts and tonnage with plans to fix prices via War Department and Trade Commission.
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Baker
United States
Atlantic
Gen. Goethals
Federal Trade Commission
Denman
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Shipping Board
Iron and Steel
Lienman
Fleet Corporation
Congress
Washington
Drafts to fix standing of 4000 men in first draft
A plan for a public drawing of numbers to order the first war army drafts was outlined. Each district will have a red ink numbered card, with drawn numbers determining the sequence of examination. The process aims to call about 4,000 men per district as needed, with blanks for districts lacking registrants. The drawing may occur the week of July 23 at the War Department.
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Baker
Daniels
Denman
Bernard Baruch
Wilson
New York
Gary
Union Station
Prasaent
United States
Millsiona
War Department
Dramatic Mesopotamia Debate Ends With Chamberlain Resignation
London July 12 sees Austen Chamberlain announce his resignation as secretary for India amid a heated debate over the Mesopotamia report. Baron Hardinge offered to resign thrice, rejected by Balfour, as Parliament weighs a statutory tribunal instead of a whitewash inquiry and considers further developments upon the king's return.
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Balfour
Parliament
King
London Times
Washington Post
Public Ledger Company
London
House of Commons
Austen Chamberlain
India
Chamberlain
Associated Press
J. Austen Chamberlain
Mesopotamia Commission
Baron Hardings
Lloyd George
Foreign Affairs
House of Lords
Marquis of Crewe
Earl Curzon
Marquis of Lansdowne
Baron Hardinge
Mr. Chamberlain
Lres
Lord Hardings
Commission
John Simon
Home Secretary
British bombs hit Flanders towns in night raids
British naval planes raided military targets in and near five Flanders towns including Varssen aere St Denis Westrem Ghistlles and Ostend. Bombs caused fires and explosions at railway lines a power station and a railway siding near Garren. One train near St Denis Westrem was bombed. several tons of bombs were dropped and the fleet returned safely.
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London
Flanders
Admiralty
Varssenaere
St. Denis-Westrem
Ghistlles
Ostend
Garren
Bandits wipe out garrison at Liera Mexico
Thirty frontier garrison members were killed by about fifty bandits at dawn on June 26 near Liera Tamaulipas Mexico. The town was looted and burned and several civilians, including the mayor, were reported killed as the garrison slept during the attack.
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Laredo
Tex
Liera
State of Tamaulipas
Mexico
Cuba approves $30 million treasury bond for wartime needs
Habana July 12 The Cuban congress passed a bill to issue $30,000,000 in treasury bonds to finance Cuba’s part in the European war. The measure, urged by President Menocal, was approved unanimously by both the senate and the house. Bonds will be offered for sale in Habana and New York as Congress adjourns until November.
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Cuba
Menocal
Senate
House
Gale
New York
Congress
6,000-Ton U Boats Reported by German Review
The Swedish Afterbladet, citing a German military review, says the latest U boats have a displacement of 6,000 tons, carry 40 torpedo tubes and 12 guns, and can dive in five minutes. The report is dated July 12 from Christiania.
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London Times
Washington Post
Public Ledger Company
Christiania
England May Revise Terms Amid War Aims Discussion
London July 12 Lord Robert Cecil announced in the house of commons that Britain is willing to discuss possible revision of entente war aims with Russia. He said consults with allied powers would shape the timing and form of the talks.
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London
Lord Robert Cecil
House of Commons
Great Britain
Camps for North Asked by Senators
Senators Lodge Weeks of Massachusetts and Hale of Maine protested the War Department plan to train New England draft army units in the South. Hale maintained a Maine camp was originally planned, Weeks argued training at home suits New England weather and conditions. Critics say southern heat harms new guardsmen not in peak physical shape.
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Weeks
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Hale
Maine
War Department
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South
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Europe
Colors
Shem-Therg
Next Sunday’s Post previews fiction magazine tales
The issue promises George Randolph Chester’s A Tale of Red Roses, Percival Gibbons contribution The Coward, Max Rittenberg’s daring gallows rescue tale, and Talbot Mundy’s King of the Khyber Rifles chapter plus other famed writers. Free in Next Sunday’s Post.
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George Randolph Chester
Wallingford
Chester
Percival Gibbons
Next Bunday
Talbot Mundy
King
Khyber Rifles
India
Berlin Cabinet May Quit and Spy Ring Trapped
Digest of brief items notes Berlin cabinet considering resignation amid a nest of spies exposure with a surprise by suffragists and a looming defense stance. Also reports on embassy activities, embargos, and mobilization plans affecting civilians and soldiers.
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Bisbee
Berlin
Frank
Kaiser
Peking Gate
Lane
Defense Council
City News
News of Alexandria
Snow
Russia is past critical stage
Special correspondent Herman Bernstein reports from Petrograd via Paris on July 12 that pessimists are wrong and large scale disorders will not recur. Russian forces press offensives against counterrevolutionaries and Leninists while fighting Central Powers at the front. Lenin and his followers are said to be directed by German agents. Hessen, a top political leader, says press laws are liberal and new publications rise for propaganda. Portrayed as a significant shift toward closer Russia America understanding.
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Herman Bernstein
Washington Post
New York Herald
Petrograd
Paris
Lenin
Hessen
Russia
Lenine
Pravda
Zimschina
Russkoye Zanmaka
America
Liberty Bonds Taxed as Income Under 1916 Law
Baltimore July 12. Fidelity Trust reports Treasury opinion on liberty bonds held as corporate dividends. Income to stockholders from bonds purchased since March 1, 1913, equals earnings invested. bonds bought from pre March 1, 1913, earnings are not taxable. If mixed, taxable portion aligns with post date surplus.
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Baltimore
Fidelity Trust Company
Treasury Department
L. F. Speer
Income Tax Department
Liberty Loan
German cabinet May All Resign in Political Clash
Amsterdam reports a rumor that Germany's entire government may resign, with Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg, after Reichstag factions refused to vote war credits without policy clarity on peace and reforms. Crown Prince consults leaders as reforms approach his reign. Reichstag to meet amid looming crisis.
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Holland
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Reich-Stag
Hollweg
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Berlin
von Bethmann Hollweg
Emperor William
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Kaiser
Paris
Basel
Havas
Chancallor von Bethmann Hollweg
Crown Prince
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