London Air Raid Toll as German Planes Strike East End
London suffers 534 casualties with 97 killed and 437 wounded in a German air raid. About fifteen hostile planes crossed the Essex coast and attacked the East End, destroying buildings, setting fires, and killing ten children in a school while injuring many others.
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Essex
Nore
Sims
Tisste
Associated Press
Poliecemen
Four Aero Raids Against British Cities Report Casualties
Casualty table lists dates from May 25 to June 13 with 176 killed and 640 wounded across four air raids on British cities. May 28 and June 5 show lower figures, while June 13 records 97 killed and 437 wounded. Total figures compile at 176 killed and 640 wounded.
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England
Thousands held for juries amid lax Civil War draft reports
In a nationwide sweep, Department of Justice and local police arrested thousands for failure to register under the draft. Many released on recognizance after claiming ignorance or inattention. few full reports reached officials. Up to about 10,000 were said to be held to answer grand juries, with ongoing arrests hourly. Registration totals showed 7,473,692 with 4,064,678 exemptions and 813,707 aliens, while ten states were missing data. Knoxville obit notes Dr Samuel B R Boyd, longtime city physician, died after a long illness.
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United States
Department of Justice
Gen Crowder
38 Ships Lost By Great Britain in Last Week
Fifty three tonnage ships and fishing craft were sunk in a week of naval losses. The weekly admiralty report lists 22 British merchant vessels over 1,600 tons sunk by mine or submarine, along with ten under that tonnage and six fishing vessels. Italy also reports five steamers and five sailing vessels sunk in the same period, marking a sharp rise in submarine activity across the Mediterranean and Atlantic theaters.
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The
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Sabling
Rome
Sayre Named Harvard Law Teaching Fellow
Francis Bowes Sayre, son-in-law of President Wilson and Williams College instructor, is appointed Ezra Ripley Thayer teaching fellow in Harvard Law School. He will relocate to Cambridge in the fall.
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Boston
Francis Bowes Sayre
Wilson
Williams College
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Harvard Law School
Cambridge
Allow Ex Czar to Vote in Russian Assembly Elections
Petrograd reports that Nicholas Ro manoff the former czar will be allowed to vote in the elections for the constituent assembly. The council in charge of legislative preliminaries ruled today that members of the ex czar a s household may also vote.
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W Nicholas Romanoff
Last Chance to Buy a Liberty Bond Today
Washington banks extend subscription hours to 5:30 pm to allow all residents to purchase liberty bonds. Clerks work late to process orders and ensure mailings reach the Richmond reserve bank by noon tomorrow. More than 25,000 citizens have already bought bonds and are urged to subscribe and wear a bond badge.
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Interned Former Editor In Cleveland For War Years
Cleveland June 13 Waldemar von Nestitz former editor of Waechter und Anzeiger was arrested and ordered interned for the war by President Wilson. Authorities say he acted as a personal representative of Kauffmann Dresden stockholder of the paper and that he wrote seditious editorials. He declared allegiance to the Kaiser and praised the Lusitania sinking.
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Wilson
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Lusitania
English Vessels Sank Since Middle of April
The admiralty reports weekly British shipping losses since April 22. Large vessels over 1600 tons fell from 40 in the April week to 24 in the week ended May 6. In the three following weeks larger ships totaled 18 each week while smaller craft losses were single figures. Last week marked the lowest toll in the period since February.
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Pale
American Ship Sinks U-Boat Amid Duel At Sea
A large American steamship defending against two German U-boats zigzagged to survive off Ireland on May 19. She evaded torpedoes, used full steam, and rammed the starboard submarine, sending it to the bottom as the port sub vanished.
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Manchuria Collides With Monitor Amphitrite In Fog
New York Jan 18 The steamship Manchuria sustains heavy damage after a collision with the US monitor Amphitrite near Quarantine in dense fog. The Manchuria with two large holes and a list returns to dock under its own power, while Amphitrite is freed by a tug and boat.
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International Mercantile
Martine
Short Creek Cave's Converson and Wolfville links
A short story update notes Short Creek Cave's Converson set in the American Southwest, with characters tied to Wolfville tales. It highlights Frank Foer t's new detective Crossed Traits about a crook targeting a more famous thief, described as a complete installment.
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Short Creek Cave
Frank Foer&t
Eleven-Story Sugar Refinery Destroyed in Brooklyn Fire
A massive blaze at the American Sugar Refining Company eleven story plant on the Brooklyn waterfront started by a condenser explosion. Two men are dead and many injured with up to fifty feared trapped as flames shot hundreds of feet high and burned through the night. extensive damage and large sugar stores are reported.
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Brophy
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Williamsburg
No registry card fatal shooting in Memphis
An unidentified Black man in Memphis Tennessee was shot and killed after failing to show a registration card during an attempted arrest. He tried to grab Patrolman Gustavus from the scene this afternoon, prompting the deadly response.
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Tenn
Gustavus
Bombs Kill 97 in London War News
Index to Today's Issue summarizes dramatic fronts from World War I era. British capital suffers a mass bombing while reports from Petrograd and Paris detail U-boat tolls and Allied morale. U.S. naval actions against German submarines appear alongside Liberty Bond praise and wartime finance notes.
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