British Gain Ground and Air Losses Near Souchez Front
British reports a slight advance south of the Souchez River with capture of a nearby power station. A successful raid south of Ypres yielded 75 prisoners. Twelve German planes were downed. six others driven out of control. Paris notes artillery actions and Belgian fronts with retaken positions near Froidmont farm. Ottawa dispatch claims German formations are being broken up to reinforce the western front.
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London
Souchez River
Ypres
Paris
War Office
Hurtbise
Vauclare
Ramscapella
Dixsehonte
Steenstraet
Parias
Dixmude
Froidmont Farm
Aisne
Champigne
Ottawa
Ontario
France
von Hindenburg
Obituary notices from June 5 1917 include Lamont Ward and Duvall families
Several death notices list services for Ardepser Lamont Ward and Duvall within Washington area. Ardepser funeral at St Joseph's and private interment at St Mary's. Lamont widow Joliet Kinney private funeral. Duvall Sr Edward F. dies at 8 25 pm with future funeral. Ward Annie M at 755 Mawten Place NW with Rock Creek burial. Weaver Arell W and Woodward Mary Catherine noted with private or church rites. Flowers omitted where noted. dates span June 4–7 1917.
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Ardezser
John
Christian
Cathrine Ardepser
Henry Arteeser
Elizabeth Dismer
Frank Geer
Macy
Mount Milver
Woodward
Wyoming Avenue
Mary Catherine
Walter Woodward
Aindly
German War Weariness Reports Grow Among Frontline Troops
A Swiss dispatch notes that after prolonged front duty German troops show war weariness and lower morale. Many prisoners express relief at capture while discipline limits unrest. Germany shifts toward machinery as manpower falls, with some soldiers sending food home. Artillery remains heavy as French and Belgian forces press in the Wytschaete area.
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Germany
Italians Hold Foes in Check on Isonzo Front
Rome reports mass Austrian assaults south of Gorizia repulsed with Italian counterattacks restoring positions. Italy claims 38 prisoners, 62 more later, and 1,190,000 Italian casualties figure reportedly on the front with 160,000 enemy killed or wounded and 16,000 prisoners. Mount Kuk and Jamiano were captured by the enemy.
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Rome
Gorizia
Dosso Faltl
Italiana
Castagnavizza
Jamiana
War Office
Vodice
Corso
Masa
Desso Faiti
Jamiano
Verste
Trieste
Mount Kuk
Italy
Mrs Pankhurst to Visit Russia in War Debate
London June 5 The government offers facilities to a deputation from the Woman's Social and Political Union led by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst to travel to Russia to explain their views on the war. Mrs Pankhurst earlier asked Premier Lloyd George for passports for her party and warned that if James Ramsay Macdonald and his group are allowed to go to Russia to preach their unpatriotic doctrine there would be no excuse for hindering patriotic women from going.
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London
Woman's Social and Political Union
Emmeline Pankhurst
Russia
Pankhurst
Lloyd George
James Ramsay Macdonald
U S War Squadron Arrives Off Brazil
Rio de Janeiro June 4 The chamber of deputies voted to authorize a message of congratulations to the U S Congress on the arrival of an American squadron Deputy Henrique Coelho delivered a welcome address and proposed a 21 member commission to visit the squadron but was dropped with the decision to send the message instead The dispatch notes steps to relieve British and French cruisers in the western hemisphere with American warships and the Navy department offered no further information.
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Souza Silva
Chamber
Rio
Hemranhera
Navy Department
Dixie Veterans Parade Through Washington After Reunion
Dixie veterans crowded Washington celebrating a reunified nation. Gray-haired units filled Pennsylvania Avenue, union and Confederate groups gathered at Union Station area, and the Pension Office court hosted 6000 attendees with speeches and music.
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Washington
Capitol
Dixie
Union Station
Pension Bureau
Veterans and Sons of Veterans
Bureau
Advances Against Erds Reported on Multiple Fronts
British Admiralty wireless dispatches Petrograd report Russian troops advancing south of Raneh near Persia Turkey frontier. On Caucasian front Kurds attacked near Mount Akbaba north of Erzingan but were beaten off. South of Baneh Bozansir occupied by Kurds who retreated toward Djevanur. On Russo-Galician front heavy artillery fire and limited attacks. on Potaghnya front firing continued. Romanian front shows rifle fire exchanges.
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Krein
Tue
Potaghnya
Senate Finance Committee Battles Tax Bill Pressure
Hundreds of telegrams and letters flood the Senate finance committee as lobbyists press for last minute changes. The panel contemplates a lightened liquor tax despite heavy tobacco levies and imposes a new one percent federal auto license tax while debating zone plan for publications and quick tax shifts on cigars cigarettes and amusement firms.
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Senate Finance Committee
Welie
Sena
Er ' Oder
t+gress
Americans Oppose War, Says Frankfurter Zeitung
The Frankfurter Zeitung reports a New York Time cable claiming the U S War Secretary calls conscription revolutionary yet admits reluctance to enlist. It argues Wilson started a needless, immoral war and that Baker’s published statements cannot be verified. Baker was en route to North Carolina.
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Amsterdam
Frankfurter Zeitung
New York
Wilson
Baker
North Carolina
Italians Of Military Age To Stay In U S For Now
Gen Guglielmott, Italian war mission attaché, will remain in the United States after the mission departs to supervise a plan addressing Italians of military age. Italy will not deploy regiments of Italo Americans nor conscript unnaturalized residents. instead recruitment will target those eligible to serve via naturalization. The aim is to avoid aggravating American labor needs by redirecting Italians to agricultural and other needed roles while ensuring national service benefits. The tour, delayed by the Prince of Udine’s illness, was set to resume soon with the prince reported improved.
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Guglielmott
Italy
United States
Prince
Udine
Planes Collide in Midair Near San Diego Bay
Two military planes collide in midair above San Diego on June 4 at about 506 feet. Sergeant N Frey and Flying Instructor N Robbins were aboard, with no injuries. Frey’s craft sank into shallow San Diego Bay and was picked up by a patrol boat. Robbins escaped from a side slip unharmed as both planes were moving slowly.
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San Diego
Cal
Sergt. N. Frey
N. & Robbins
Frey
San Diego Bay
Signal ‘Corps Aviation School
Robbins
Sea plane falls 400 feet. no injuries reported
Bayside Long Island June 6 a seaplane loaned to the New York naval militia by Vincent Astor plunged four hundred feet into the sound during a training flight. Lieut Pierce and a pupil were aboard at the time and escaped unharmed.
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Bayside
Long Island
Naval Militia of
New York
Vincent Astor
Pierce
Gen Leonard Wood Train Near Wrecked Near Lookout Mountain
Train carrying Gen Leonard Wood from Chattanooga to Birmingham appeared to be endangered by a timber obstruction found four miles south of Chattanooga near St Elmo. Rail officials investigate as a possible deliberate act though preliminary findings suggest a northbound freight dropped the sawed log by accident.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Great Southern
Gen. Leonard Wood
Chattanooga
Tenn
Leonard Wood
St Elmo
Lookout Mountain
Eight Story Fall Fatal at Riverside Apartments
New York reports Mrs Louis 8 Stone wife of an assemblyman died after falling or jumping from an eighth story window at Riverside apartments on Riverside Drive. Her body was found impaled on an iron fence. Her husband is in Plattsburg camp. Detroit notes Secretary of the Navy Newberry has been appointed lieutenant commander in the nave.
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New York
Louis 8. Stone
Riverside Apartments
Riverside Drive
Plattsbore Camp
Detroit
Mich
Truuman
Newberry
Roosevelt
Pardons Pacifist in Cracow Case by Emperor Charles
Amsterdam reports Karl Langer a Cracow convict who distributed typewritten German copies of the antiwar song I Didnt Raise My Boy to Ho a Soldier to women on the streets. His death sentence was commuted to five years penal servitude and he has now been pardoned by Emperor Charles after serving part of the term.
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Amsterdam
Karl Langer
Cracow
Charles
Munich
Vienna
Langer
Skull Fracture After Auto Crash In D C
Julius Goetz a 60 year old visitor from an unknown address was critically injured with a skull fracture and possible internal injuries after a car driven by William H. McCarthy of Fort Foote Maryland struck him at Third Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest last night. McCarthy is in custody at the First precinct awaiting word on Goetz's condition.
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Julius Goetz
William H. McCarthy
Fort Foote
First Precinct
Goetz
Third Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
McCarthy
36 Missing From French Ship Yarra
Paris reports the French freighter Yarra of 4 163 tons gross was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on May 28. Of 690 aboard, 36 are missing including 8 Arabian firemen. London says Danish ship Odense was halted by a German submarine but fire continued. Galveston reports Norwegian ship Croshoi sunk May 15 by a German sub after signaling with the Norwegian flag.
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Paris
Mediterranean
London
Odense
Exchange Telegraph
Copenhagen
Denmark
Galveston Tex
Haughland
Croshoi
Croshelm
Croshorn
Bus plunge in Corning river claims Reading Center woman
An auto bus carrying Mrs. Charles Buck of Reading Center, her husband, and two men plunged from a culvert into the Cahoctos River at Curtis, near Corning, today. Mrs Buck drowned before aid could reach them. her husband and the other men were seriously injured.
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Corning, N
Jume
Charles Buck
Reading Center
Cahoctos River
Curtis
Here
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