Germans Attack Trench Network. French Reoccupy Key Positions
Paris reports a strongly organized German trench system over a wide front was captured by French forces in a brilliant night assault, yielding 360 prisoners. French troops repelled German pushes north of Mont Haut and near the Teton with the Meuse sector also seeing heavy artillery action and patrols, delivering a decisive defense and capturing gaps in German lines.
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Paris
Mont Haut
The
Teton
Champagne
War Office
Falient
Cerny
Aisne
Craonne
Meuse
Verdun
Dead Man Hill
Toda
Moronsilliers
Watterson Denies Inquiescence In Newspaper Management Fight
In a chancery court Saturday an injunction restrained Bruce Haldeman and associates from ousting Bruce Haldeman as business manager of the Louisville Courier and Louisville Times, while Henry Watterson contested the agreement among the Haldeman family. The court found doubt that Watterson had acquiesced, noting he had forgotten the matter amid business pressures. Defendants said they will seek appellate dissolution of the injunction.
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Louisville
Wes Tuly
Bruce Haldeman
Louisville Courtier- Inurnak
Louisville Times
W B
Haldeman
Isabel Haldeman
Bennett H Young
Henry Watterson
Haldeman Familestias
H Haldeman
Court of Appeals
Count Brockdorff-Rantzau Named German Foreign Secretary
Special cables from Copenhagen report Count Brockdorff-Rantzau chosen to succeed Zimmermann as imperial foreign secretary. A cousin of von Bernstorff, he is deeply connected at court and played a key role in German American communications during the war. He is portrayed as firm, energetic, and able to keep the diplomatic house in order.
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Count Brockdorff-Rantzau
Berlin
America
von Bernstorff
United States
Kaiser
Copenhagen
Alfred Zimmerman
Countess Brockdorff-Rantzau
Count von Hernstorff
Washington
James W Gerard
Maurice Egan
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Zimmermann
Germany
Count von Bernstorff
Plunkett Sees Compromise Path Amid Irish Sinn Fein Row
Sir Horace Plunkett signals belief that a Dublin convention will still be mounted despite radical opposition on both sides. He expects a difficult but possible compromise to emerge, with a substantial majority backing it. Laurence Ginnell resigns Meath seat to join Sinn Feiners, long an uncompromising critic of government policy.
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de Valera
Laurence Ginnell
Meath
Sinn Feinera
U-Boat Carries Six Inch Guns Near Azores Attack
Advices from Ponta Delgada report a German submarine fired shells of 15 centimeter caliber at the Azores port, suggesting an unusually large vessel of about 1000 tons carrying two or three guns. The July 4 attack left a girl dead and several injured. An American transport helped answer the fire and the sub withdrew. In Cumberland, work on automatic signals for the Connellsville B and O division progresses, the Honaman bridge steel work is under way, and masonry at Rockwood No 34 is rebuilt.
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Ponta Delgada
Lisbon
Washington Post
Cumberland
Connellsville
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Honaman
Rockwood
Only 750000 German Reserves Declares a Noted French General
Paris reports a French general asserts German reserves are limited to about 750,000 to 765,000 available troops. He cites military law impacts, losses, mobilization, and the anticipated reform of 1919 class, estimating only 115,000 per month could be drawn from front or interior through November.
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Paris
New York
Germany
Gen de la Croix
French Council of War
Alsace-Lorraine
Poland
Slav advance felt on Dniester front
Copenhagen dispatch reports semiofficial circles downplay Russian gains south of the Dniester while noting the front north of the river remains unthreatened. The lead says Russian movement toward Drohobycz aims at Luzern fields and that the revolution did not increase offensive power as much as expected, with heavier artillery than before.
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Copenhagen
Dniester
Halicz
Tageblatt
Idie
Lemberg
Kovel
Drohobycz
Cuba curbs spies as war effort tightens control
Cienfuegos July 15 Cuban authorities report progress after President Menocal and advisers suspend constitutional guarantees to curb aliens spies and labor agitators. The government vows no leniency to halt pernicious activities and to keep Cuba united in the war against Germany.
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Cienfuegos
Cuba
Menocal
Germany
Socialist Ben son denounces draft riot wing in party
Allan J Ben son a former Socialist candidate for the Presidency denounces a party wing pushing indorsement of draft riots. He says he opposes American participation in the war and conscription but will work lawfully to press government policy. He vows to aid the nation as the war winds down.
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New York
Allan J. Benson
Socialist Party
America
Teutons Behind Guns of Chang in Tientsin
Republican headquarters reports Gen Chang Haun aided by interned Germans who escorted him to the legation quarter where he sought refuge. Foreign advices say Chang Hsumn’s fire showed signs of expert foreign assistance.
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Tientsin
Chang Haun
Legation
Chang Hsumn
Gallant Russian Officers Inspire Soldiers On Front
London dispatch reports from July 5 by a London Times correspondent at the southwestern Russian army HQ detail German defeats and brave acts by Russian officers and troops near Tarnopol and Konutch woods. Delegates to army committees led attacks, graves were honored, and Allied praise noted. An Austrian defense is described as strong yet surrendering wholesale. Kerensky promotes Erdelli. British officers congratulate Russians. In Cumberland, Pearl Caton, 17, of near Berlin, Pa, shot herself. eye removed, father suspects accident.
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Lusitania
McKenna
London Times
Washington Post
Conyright
Public Ledger Company
London
Petrograd
Tarnopol
Brzany Kontuchi
Brzany Woods
Koniuchi
Subalterna
France
Arras
Kerensky
Czrecholoslovak
Finland
Erdelli
Cumberland
Pearl Caton
Berlin
Alleghany Hospital
Russians report 1000 Austrian prisoners in Galicia drive
Petrograd telegraphs large gains along the Lodziany Kalusz sector with more than 1,000 Austrian prisoners and several guns captured. Russians also claim 600 additional prisoners and heavy fighting across the Lomnica and Dniester fronts as German and Austrian forces resist stubbornly. U boats reportedly sink Turkish schooners near the Bosphorus. other fronts show renewed artillery activity and opposition in eastern Galicia and near Smorgon.
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Kalusz
Galicia
Stry
Lemberg
Berlin
Bosphorus
Petrograd
War Office
Eileewhere
Lomnica
Dobrovdianyhovica
Perehinska
Prince Leopold
Bvina
Smorgon
Jeastern
Lmited
Dniester
Archduke Joseph
von Mackensen
Few Chinese Troops Hit
London reports a Reuters dispatch from Peking noting high ammunition use and many troops engaged but low combat casualties. Ten killed and 20 wounded among combatants. 30 killed or wounded among noncombatants. Chang Hsun's forces were disarmed and dispersed after three months pay. The situation described as quiet with strict police precautions and no looting. Chang Hsung's residence reportedly destroyed by republican artillery. Foreigners wounded in legation quarters numbered twenty six.
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London
Reuter
Peking
Chang Hsun
Chang Hsung
Legation
Explosions Ripple Lens Mine as Canadian Artillery Holds Line
In Lens, seven blasts ripped through mine No 13 damaging overhead machinery amid renewed shelling. Canadian forces report heavy artillery duel with the enemy expanding his batteries while infantry occupy mining village suburbs near Lena. Counter battery work by Canadian gunners grows as they press the fight.
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France
Lens
Lena
Americans on casualty list in Ottawa dispatch
The casualty list from Ottawa dated July 15 reports American wounded F C Freeman of Minneapolis, Acting Capt Cowan of Providence, J S Potts of Fair Bluff, H W Hillhouse of York, P Pink of Detroit, and shell shocked Bolton of Detroit. Cardials beat Clarendon 6 1 in first of three games. International League Providence 8 Montreal 2. Blue Ridge Frederick 5 10 Cumberland 4. Texas League standings include Fort Worth 4 Shreveport, San Antonio 0, Dallas 3 6, Houston 2 1.
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Ont
F C Freeman
Minneapolis
Minn
Cowan
Providence
J S Potts
Fair Bluff
Nn C
H W Hillhouse
York
P Pink
Detroit
J Bolton
Pimlico Club to Make Bid Amid Stable Prep
The McKinney Corrigan runners led by Diversion and Acabado show early training gains as Achilles and Meteorite attract attention. North Star IlI, War Star, and others eye spring prep while Whitneys and Hamburg line continue to shape 3 year olds for Derby and Travers trials. Happy-go-Lucky faces expectations at Aqueduct and Saratoga trials.
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Julialeon
Jock Scott
Wistful
War Star
McKinney- Corrigan
Diversion
Acabado
Achilles
John Sanford
Meteorite
Star Shoat
Hamburg Belle
Star Shoot
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Maskette
Macomber
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Charleston
Rickety
Whitney
King Herod
Ohn Calt
Havre de Grace
Pimlico
Maryland Jockey Club
Grant Hugh Browne
Canadas
R D McDaniel
Saratoga
Travers
Henner
Nebraska
Ballad
Ballot
Aqueduct
Lewis & Thompson
Happy-go-Lucky
Harry Payne Whitney
Brookdale
Hamburg
Hanover
Burgomaster
Chile
Inflaxible
Henry T Oxnards Stud
Borrow
Slumber Dreamer
Buskin
Tennis Event August 2 Records Tell Story at Cumberland Club
Cumberland Maryland July 15 The annual tennis tournament on Bedford Springs courts runs August 4 through the week with men and women singles doubles and mixed doubles events. In line with US National Lawn Tennis Association aims the tournament is patriotic with no prizes and net proceeds to the American Red Cross or hospital unit.
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Cumberland
Bedford Springs
United States National Lawn Tennis Association
American Red Cross
United States
Shortstop for Chattanooga to join club after season
Chattanooga Tenn July 15 report states Law Coristenberrs of the South Atlantic League team has been sold to the Chattanooga club and will report after the league post season. Also notes Athletics defeated A and P Tea Company 6 to 1 in Columbia Oak Sunday.
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Cincinnati Nationals
Raymond Lafayette
Spokane
Herman Pillett
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Cincinnati
Chattanooga Tenn
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A & P Tea Company
Columbia Oak
A &P T Co
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Fowler
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Erthy Ae
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Veemeyer
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Pfeifer P
Nevitt
Rune—Roche
Limerick
Montague
Blanton Moreland
Moreland
M Carthy
Fowler Montague
Limeric Roche
Moreland Hill
Hell
Vann Komnberg
Balk Nevitt
Prediter
Pfeiffer
Mesers Tmughton
Beatler
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