French Gains In Arras Advance On Meuse Heights
French war office reports French forces gain ground near Arras and along the Meuse heights after repulsing German counterattacks. Along the western front Belgia and British units engage in artillery duels and repelled German assaults near Ypres and Arras, with hundreds of prisoners taken and several guns captured.
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Beausejour
Meuse
Vosges
Busch's Son-in-Law Commanding Turkish Troops At Dardanelles
Special to The Washington Post. Eduard Scharrer, son-in-law of the late Adelphus Busch, is cited as in command of Turkish troops at a Dardanelles fort. An offcar in the German army, he reportedly received the Iron Cross from the Kaiser and a recent decoration. Scharrer married Miss Wilhelmina Finhfter and eloped to Belleville, then lived in Pasadena, California, until shortly before the war. the family now resides in Germany.
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Washington Post
Eduard Scharrer
Adelphus Busch
Dardanelles
Jettara
Busch
Scharrer
Wilhelmina Finhfter
Belleville
Pasadena
Cal
Militia Artillery Grouped in New England Under One Command
Washington Post reports a major reorganization of National Guard artillery units in Connecticut and New England. The Fifth division is formed with all guard organizations and artillery batteries placed on war footing under the new Tenth militia field artillery designation.
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National Guard
New England
Washington Post
Hertford Conn
Connecticut
New England States
War Department
Washington
United States Army
New
Fneland States
Tenth Militia Field Artillery
Weather and tide summary for DC area and Atlantic coast
The sun and tide table notes high tides and a dawn start at Sawseta with 1042 10 48 tides and a 43 7 high reading, followed by a weather forecast from the Weather Bureau for the District of Columbia Maryland and Virginia. It describes warmer, light variable winds shifting southerly, with a weakening disturbance off Virginia and limited threat to New England and the Mid Atlantic coast. It also tracks a low from the West moving eastward, with chances of showers in the Ohio valley and lower Great Lakes region, and mixed conditions from Monday through Wednesday along the Atlantic coast. Temperature readings are given for midnight and afternoon across the Atlantic coast states, plus percent sunshine and humidity figures, comparing to last year.
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Pept of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Canadian
Maritime Provinces
Virginia Capes
New England
Middle Atlantic
Tennessee
Uppertake
Tacks Mountain
Ohio Alley
Lower Lake Region
Moontay
Atlante
Atlantic Coset
King Constantine Relapse Raises Greek War Mood
King Constantine of Greece is described as extremely critical after a relapse following thoracic surgery. Anxious crowds surround the royal palace as Athens bulletins report a temperature near 104 and a pulse between 120 and 130. The relapse follows partial rib removal to ward off pleurisy, with implications for Greece’s wartime stance.
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London
Constantine
Greece
Athens
Secrets Behind German Carpathian Drive Surprise Move
Special cable from Berlin details Austro German preparations for the Carpathian offensive. The scale involved thousands of guns, trains and depots built in secrecy, extensive front lines, and rapid mobilization to overwhelm Russian defenses. Strong emphasis on secrecy as key to success and surprising the Russians.
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Washington Post
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Carpathians
Teutonia
Galicia
Ypres
Meuse
Moselle
Cham
Pagne
Aine
Germany
Hungary
Vistula and
Carpathian Fronta
Guna
Dunajets
Biala
Tarnow
Gorlice
U Boats Sink 5 Vessels Off Peterhead
Five trawlers were sunk by German submarines off Peterhead yesterday. The Dogberry, Bardolph, Persimmon, Gatehound, and Curley were the victims. all crew members were rescued.
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London
Peterhead
Dogberry
Bardolph
Huld
Persimmon
Grimsby
Gatehound
Curley
Sunderland
Prince Camillo Rospigliosi Dead in Rome
Prince Camillo Rospigliosi, born 1860 and long a member of Rome's aristocracy, died today after a lengthy illness. He commanded the Noble Guard at the Vatican and the papal flag flew at half mast in his honor. He leaves six sons, five in the army, with three sons having married American women.
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Rome
Paris
Camillo Rospiglosi
Rospigios
Vatican
Papal
Pigeons Lost In 400 Mile Boston Race
More than half of the 265 racing pigeons that started from Buffalo NY on Saturday to Boston vanished in a storm and likely will not be heard from. The Greater Boston Concourse Association reports the ordeal while noting the winner posted a furious pace of 900 yards per minute.
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Buffalo
Greater Boston Concourse Association
Evetaags
Nuns Arrive From Mexico On Spanish Liner
Eighteen Spanish nuns refugees from Mexico were among 70 passengers arriving today aboard the Spanish liner Manuel Calvo in New York. Five wore secular dress to escape from Merida Yucatan where they ran a school. They belong to an educational society with a New York branch and will stay here.
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New York
Mexico
Manuel Calvo
Merida
Yucatan
Mongolia Treaty Nears Final Pass at Kiakhta
Russia China and Mongolia have concluded a three nation treaty at Kiakhta to define Mongolia's status. China retains nominal suzerainty while internal affairs are left to Mongolia. A formal signing is planned for tomorrow. Calvary Baptist Church program last night featured Mendelssohn Psalm 13 with soloists and a duet led by Rev Dr Greene.
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Russia
China
Mongolia
Kiakhta
Siberia
Japan
Inner Mongolia
Calvary Baptist Church
Louis A Potter Ir
Mendelssohn
William T Reed
Assails Steel Appeal Holds Bryan 18 to Blame
Special to The Washington Post reports George W. Perkins of United States Steel denouncing Wilson administration actions as insincere and in line with Bryan 1908 while Judge Reed and Andrew Carnegie comment on the case. Perkins and Carnegie call the government’s plan to appeal to the Supreme Court an endorsement of Taft and Wickersham policy.
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Washington Post
New York
Wilson
Bil Buasness
George W. Perkins
United States Steel Corporation
Gregory
United States Supreme Court
Wilson-Bryan
Perkins
Andrew Carnegie
Steel Corporation
Bar Harbor
Judge Reed
United States District Court
Reed
Carnegie
Taft
Wickersham
Jaws
Supreme Court
Polar Land Not Disproven By MacMillan Report
Explorers and polar enthusiasts weigh Crocker’s Land again after Dr Donald B MacMillan’s June Washington Post report. Most deem Crocker Land absent from its claimed location yet admit the Arctic continent possibility remains. Historians note MacMillan’s findings add little to prior fall news from his expedition.
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Washington Post
New York
Donald B MacMillan
Crocker’ Land
Robert E Peary
Crocker
de MacMillan
Herbert L Bridgeman
Peary Arctic Club
Knut Rasmussen
Admiral
Wilson to Germany bars reference to Hague dispute note
The President's May 13 note is defended as thoroughly investigated and presented through proper channels. Germany faces direct assurances the U S will enforce neutrality laws and decide Britain’s trade restrictions, while good offices proposals for a marine war modus vivendi are revived but London rejects them. The United States insists no negotiations resume until Germany meets all issues, signaling a potential near break in relations with Berlin.
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Germany
American Porte
Great Britain
Herr von Jagow
Berlin
London
Austria
U. S
Washington
How the Goliath Was Sunk by a U Boat in the Dardanelles
London dispatch recounts the sinking of the British battleship Goliath in the Dardanelles by the Turkish torpedo boat Mouvenet-I Milleh. The Mouvenet-I Milleh fired multiple torpedoes, sinking the ship in minutes with no survivors on deck. The Turkish craft fled as British ships fired, returning safely to base with 60 crew, including 14 Germans.
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Comdr. Firle
London
Reuter
Amsterdam
Goliath
Mouvenet-I Milleh
Morto Bay
Firle
Germany
Plea for United Zion Sufferings on East Front
Boston lawyer Louis Brandeis told 1,237 delegates at the Atlantic City convention of the Independent Order B rith Abraham that Jews must unite to demand justice for coreligionists in Europe. He cited Zionist colonies in Palestine as a model and urged creation of an independent Jewish state. a reform Congress to press for Jewish freedom was proposed, along with a tax cut and term limits for grand officers.
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Washington Post
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B'rith Abraham
United Judaism
New England
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Palestine
Europe
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New York
Alfred Levy
Congress
Palestina
A. Movement 8
Poison Gas Slays Civilians Across Polish Front
London reports from Petrograd describe a massive gas attack from German lines along the Rawka front in Poland. Dense smoke struck villages and widespread death followed, with livestock and people including women and children killed or driven by panic. The official bulletin cites a gas mix beyond chlorine, possibly bromide and iodine.
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Morning Post
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Chervona
Niva
Hochazew
Rawka
Poland
New Haven Head Optimistic on Rail Legislation
Howard Hillctt president of the New York Hartford Railroad says Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island bills allow the company to present a plan to stockholders for financing floating debt and future needs. He calls the year's legislation a key step toward constructive work to build up the New Haven road and New England transportation.
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Benton
Howard Hillctt
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New Haven
New England
Seven killed in Milwaukee Fast Mail wreck at Amherst Junction
Special to The Washington Post reports that rain crippled visibility as passenger train No 1 known as the Fast Mail struck a bridge at Amherst Junction Minnesota. Seven people died including engineer William E Taber and two others from Chicago and Minneapolis. About twenty were injured as cars left the track and plunged into water. Northwestern Train No 17 ditch near Eau Claire left an engineer dead after hospital transfer. A related flood in Stockholm across Red Wing toppled a 10 foot wall of water through riverfront stores.
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Thea
Amherst Junction
Lake City
Minn
William E Taber
Minneapolis
Roy Brobert
Minneapolia
William Lacey
Chicago
Charles Brook
Red Wing
Northwestern
Roberta
Eau Claire
Stockholm
Ten Warships Reported at Turtle Bay by Unnamed Scientists
Los Angeles detectives of maritime rumor report seven Japanese and English vessels at Turtle Bay headquarters as of last Monday. Arthur C. Blackman of Magdalena Bay Company and Swiss scientists Dra Frederick Ertsrich and P Hartman confirm sighting aboard a Log Beach schooner, noting the Asama afloat in fair condition and six other ships including a Canadian Rainbow.
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Rainbow
Naval battle heard near Gothland in Baltic clash
Copenhagen dispatch reports a Baltic naval engagement near Gothland on Saturday. A six hour cannonade was heard from the southeast with twenty to twenty five shots per minute for long periods, according to Stockholm reports relayed by the Daily Telegraph correspondent in London.
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Daily Telegraphs
Stockholm
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Rock wrecks movie ship off Florida coast
Norfolk, June 6 A rock rather than a torpedo wrecked the steam yacht Loande while en route to Nassau for a film submarine drama. The vessel ran aground in a storm off Florida last week and is a total loss. Commanded by Capt Hunt the crew of six are aboard. The Loande, formerly the yacht Promise, was built at Greenpoint in 1877 and measures 42 gross tons.
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Slaton Opposes Clemency for Leo Frank in Case
Gov. Slaton granted Solicitor Dorsey a hearing against commuting Leo M. Frank’s death sentence if the case reaches the governor. The state prison commission is to report this week, with Dorsey submitting a written opposition and declining to discuss petition objects to clemency.
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Slaton
Dorsey
Leo M. Frank
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Joy riders kill Scranton police chief in high speed chase
Joy riders driving a large car through Dickson City attempted to flee and struck Chief John Reese as he tried to halt them. He was dragged under the vehicle and later died from internal injuries. Miss Myrtle Johnson, the sole injured occupant aside from others unharmed, was thrown from the car and stranded through the windshield.
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Washington Post
Dickson City
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Myrtle Johnson
Porto Rico Probe Urged With Gompers Backing
A committee representing the Free Federation of Workingmen of Porto Rico delivered a petition to the White House urging a commission to investigate labor in the island. Samuel Gompers endorsed the move, citing police oppression, denied rights to assemble and speak, underpaid plantation workers, and 200 000 children left without schools amid austerity. The group asked Congress for a new constitution and U S citizenship for Porto Ricans.
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Porto Rico
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Santiago Islesias
Rivera Martinez
Congress
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Stanley Ray Promises Painless Deep Imaging Breakthrough
Dr Claude H Lavinder of the U S Public Health Service at Ellis Island has been ordered by Byron R Newton to investigate Charles H Stanley s new electrical device claimed to emit a penetrating safe rays beyond X rays. The inventor says surgeons could operate using the device called Stanley ray without prior photos to locate bullets or shrapnel instantly on wounded soldiers at army bases.
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Washington Post
New York
Claude H Lavinder
United States Public Health Service
Ellis Island
Byron R Newton
the Treasury
Charles H Stanley
Cabinet pools salaries for ministers in Britain
The Daily Express reports the reorganized British cabinet will pool salaries and divide the total evenly. Prime Minister Asquith is excluded from the pool and receives 25000 as first lord of the treasury. Sir Edward Carson’s attorney general fees are not included and Carson earns 35000.
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Daily Express
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Stanley Bookmaster
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