Cabinet backs note to Germany on ships and law
President Wilson's cabinet approved a brief emphatic note demanding prompt German adherence to humane maritime law affecting neutrals. The U S will break relations if Germany ignores visit and search rights and continues torpedoing without warning, while the Lusitania claim of no guns is restated. An envoy's dispatch will not delay action, but German reply may retard it.
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Germany
Lusitania
Wilson
Gerard
United States
Jungper
Son Bernstorff
Merecevhar
Denmark
Woodward
Frank
Capitol
Przemysi
Mogoiska
Lemberg
Countess Tamovsky Pardoned After Venice Murder Trial
Milan June 4 Countess Marie Tamovsky freed after eight year sentence for complicity in the murder of Count Kamarowsky in Venice in 1907. Trial linked Dr Naumoff and Attorney Prilukoff. lavish aristocratic attendance marked proceedings. The plot allegedly used by the countess to lure the jealous Naumoff from Vienna to Venice.
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Marie Tamovsky
Count Kamarowsky
Venice
Milan
Marie Taramovsky
Kamarowsky
Aumoff
Prilukoff
Annels
Itah
M Naumoff
Sornay
Vienna
Moscow
Naumoff
Yenice
Germany asks indemnity for damage in Milan
Paris June 4 A demand for indemnity for damage done to German property in Milan during anti German disorders was addressed by Germany to the Italian government through the Swiss legation at Rome, according to a Geneva dispatch to the Matin.
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Paris
Milan
Germany
Rome
Geneva
Americans in Berlin warned to prepare to quit Germany
London dispatch reports Berlin warned the American colony that diplomatic relations between Germany and the United States may be broken within 48 hours. Americans were urged to be ready to leave Germany on short notice.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Carranza Seeks Hope in Appeal of Steel Suit Aims to Turn Wilson Note
Carranza views Wilson’s Mexico note as a possible cue to endorse the constitutionalist cause. Officials say Carranza will frame a friendly, appreciative reply while urging American recognition to speed peace and the reconquest of Mexico City. Silliman to transmit the reply. Americans may vacate Mexico City for Vera Cruz. A federal suit seeking dissolution of United States Steel Corporation will be appealed to the Supreme Court, with Gregory leading cabinet support. London Parliament brief sessions end with royal assent for ministerial reelection bill.
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Vera Cruz
Carranza
Mexico
Wilson
Villa
Mexico City
Capital
Silliman
Supreme Court
Federal District Court
Trenton
United States Steel Corporation
Gregory
District Court
White House
International Harvester Company
London
Lords
British seize U S cargo on Ogeschee in Atlantic seizure
New York reports England stopped the 5009 ton steamer Ogeschee en route from Germany to New York and confiscated a cargo of dye stuffs consigned to former Congressman Hermann A Metz of Brooklyn. Washington offered no official statement as Metz lamented the lack of information.
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Metz
New York
England
Ogeschee
Germany
Hermann A. Metz
Brooklyn
Washington
Mr. Metz
Cabinet Inctorses Note to Germany Countess Freed From Cell
In today’s issue the front page lists items including a note to Germany, a countess freed from a cell after appeal, a report on steel cases, ten ships torpedoed, and Allied retreats. A potential interview with Carranza is noted as a sign of hope amid new war developments.
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Germany
Flanders
Berlin
Carranza
Villa Rady
Lascurain
Mexico
West
Lusitania
Britain
Harvey
Duchess
News of
Alezanii
Bsociety
Sporting Eiventa
Financial
Hudson
Ten Ships Sunk by German U Boats In Brief Encounter
Ten ships are reported sunk by German U boats with crews landing safely. Steamers and trawlers are warned of surprise attacks as Danish captain protests neutrality but is told it makes no difference. The Inkum, bound from New York to Liverpool, is sent down without warning as small boats are launched.
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New York
Liverpool
Allies Driven Back in Flanders Facing General Defeat
World War I dispatches report Allied forces repulsed in Flanders with a German advance. French troops feel the impact of renewed offensive. Eastern front actions include Teutons pressing along Galicia as Russians counterstrike. In the North Sea four neutral ships from Scandinavia were torpedoed within 24 hours, including the Swedish Lappland which carried four women passengers and sank with heavy loss, crews and survivors reaching Peterhead. Continuous war news note continued coverage on the fourth page.
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London
North Sea
Lappland
Balvador
Cyrus
Cubano
Lowestroft
Hiorid
Victoria
Inkum
Chrysoporasus
Wilson Line
Iona
Peterhead
Scotland
England
Neal
Bear
Stock ‘Holm
Adaft
Salvador
Derwick
Przemysl
Galicia
Flanders
Artois
France
Givenchy
Hooge
Gallclan
Medyka
Fears anti Frank riot looms at Georgia jail protest
Amid warnings of a potential riot over Leon Frank's death sentence commutation, Atlanta officials urge troop readiness near the state capitol and the jail. A Rochester meeting urged commuting Frank's sentence while a broader call defends trial by jury and Georgia governance.
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State Capitol
Rochester
N. Y
Washington Post
Atlanta
Leon Frank
Mary Phagan
Woodward
Guy Slaton
Jar
Gov Slaton
Frank
Georgia
Edgerton
Leo M. Frank
James G. Cutler
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Berlin Offers Payment For Damaging Steamer Gulflight
Germany expresses regret over the alleged accidental attack on the American steamship Gulflight by a German submarine in the English Channel. Berlin says it will provide full recompense and asks the United States to share details about the related Cushing incident while asserting convoy proximity and lack of markings caused the damage.
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Cushing
Teuton Aero
U. S
Germany
State Department
Gerard
Berlin
Gulflight
United States
Foreign Office
English Channel
Fort Arthur
Tex
Rouen
France
Crows Sound
United States of America
James W Gerard
Gulfight
Scilly Islands
America
Ordhind
Burglar Wexler Widens Graft Case to Threatening Gunmen
Isadore Wexler, a confessed burglar and witness in graft cases against former Police Capt James O'Dea Storen and ex detectives Michael Weissbaum and Frederick Roth, declares gunmen are in the courtroom. He offers to identify them as threats prompt the bailiff to clear spectators. He says Storen took $600 from silk-robbery proceeds and aided with an alibi. the trial halts as officers are summoned.
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Cicago
Isadore Wexler
James O'Dea Storen
Sergts Michael Weissbaum
Frederick Roth
Maxwell Street
Wexler
Dever
Storen
Capt Storen
Wexter
Weissbaum
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Bovermmen
Mt Ban
Pos Ft
Mey
Tusitania
Falaba
Spira
Kovan
Cabiret
Tober
Pitth
Italy
Exchange Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
U. S. Supreme Court
Carranza Ine
Jesus Lrueta
Carranzistas
Taft
Vester
Agee of
Pera
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore
Iafonday
Belgium
Teutons
Russiana
Souchez Refinery
Souchez
Sir John Frenchs
Arras
Arras-Ypres
Eastern Front
Charlestown
Summit
Winchester
Imore
Union Station
Chicago
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