DUMA REFUSES TO QUIT ARMY AID PLEDGE AT ROOT RETURN
The Duma resists ending aid to the army and endorses Kronstadt as the vanguard of Russian revolutionary democracy. Soldiers and workers back a nonpacifist path, while American envoy Root and Traveign Minister Tarenchtenko proceed with talks in Petrograd. The foreign minister improves after kidney treatment, and plans for Roumania with Gen Boott and the commission unfold.
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Root
Petrograd
Brusatot
Helsingfors
Kronstadt
Roumania
Kkronstadt
Petrograd Solt
Helsingfora
Rumen
Kr Nostadt
Buhn Root
Traveign
Tarenchtenko
Kralt
Gan Brussneff
America
Stassi
Hrusalieff
Sen Heatt
Cera
Kte
Southwest Front
Gen Boott
Wr Root
M Yeresshtenko
Obituary notices from a June 1917 newspaper page
Death notices list many residents with varied spellings and partial names. Entries include Dillard, Hopring, Mosheuvei, Poole, Reiley, Richards, Ruess, Sunderland, Woodward, and Wiltyn A Ec Fly. Dates show late June 1917 with funeral details, residences, and relatives.
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Teorler
Hirsdar
Wwes
Anna Mo Helover
Ira Wopkina
G Street
I Mosheuvei
BO Rom
Etter
tInese Vella
Frank EO
Margaret Momheuvel Pouneral
New York Avenue
Err Poole
East Laisa
MUNTE
George
Poole
Spe
Reiley
Joseph P
Emma Reilly Baneral
Twelfth Street
At & Bo
Holymer Church
Congressional Cemetery
Richards
Jamestown
Cape
Benjamin Richards
Navy
Surge Theotore
Nineteenth Street
Thurday Jima
Connecticut Avenue
Providence
Emma Virginia Morris
Frekine Mo Bunderland
James T
Virginia Morris Woodward
Thareday
Georgetown University Hospital
Ralph F Woodward
Aindle Chapel
Fifth
H Streets
German Gold Reserves Drop Warns of Strained War Finance
The Imperial Bank of Germany reports a weekly gold reserve fall to 76 million marks, the first decrease after months of shrinking gains in note circulation. Officials attribute the drop to heavy abroad purchases and ongoing efforts to curb cash use via checks, bank transfers, and fiscal measures. Dutch banks received German specie as part of debt payments, with talks between German and Dutch financiers aiming to reestablish exchange rates and a hoped return of gold shipments.
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Copenhagen
Imperial Bank of Germany
London
The
Times
Amsterdam
Holland
Handelsblad
Germany
Prince Christopher to wed American heiress in London
Special dispatches from Athens report Prince Christopher, brother of former King Constantine of Greece, traveling to London to marry a wealthy American woman. The Dallas Chronicle mentions the bride’s wealth but with no identity details. the prince, in his twenties and a former sublieutenant in the Greek infantry, had previously been linked to two wealthy Americans.
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Constantine
London
Athens
Christopher
Greece
Dalls Chronicle
Missus
Austrian ruler arrival in Munich stirs political social visit
Copenhagen dispatch says Emperor Charles and Empress Zita of Austria are due to reach Munich on Saturday. They will be joined by Count Czetin and Austrian military and cabinet leaders. The Munich correspondent notes the visit will blend political and social aims and signals high-level diplomacy during the trip.
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Copenhagen
Charles
Zita
Austria- Aungern
Munich
Be Tnerlageblatt
Count Czetin
U S SCHOOLS IN TURKEY BARRED
Djemal Pasha Turkish commander in Syria declares in a German Policy interview that American English French and Russian schools in Syria and Palestine are closed and must not reopen after the war He also opposes Jewish colonization as injurious The interview dated June 8 reached via secret routes with German censorship concern.
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The
Hague
Netherlands
Djemal Pasha
Syria
Palestine
Russian Attacks Heavier on Eastern Front
Berlin reports intensified fighting between the Stripa and Dniester rivers with stronger Russian activity. Berlin via London says Russian artillery has been vigorously replied to by Allied guns as the war office notes increased attack on the eastern front.
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Berlin
London
War Office
Stripa
Dniester
Japan guides China clash and policy stance voiced
Premier Ozaki defends non interference while guiding China amid regional tensions. Tsiauchi reaffirms Japan’s non intervention stance and hints at future support. Military leaders discuss expanding army divisions and arming battleships with larger guns.
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Yukio Ozaki
Envat Tut Anal Party
Chia
Chinesa
Taipan
Rep'eng
Tsiauchi
Japan
China
Kato
Marines
Retired officer leaps to death at St Denis Hotel
Lieut Hobart Levi Tremain sixty two years after leaving the U S Navy in 1891 died by his own hand, leaping from a room window at the St Denis Hotel. His body was found by porter Michael Farrell. Tremain, of Monticello, had been visiting New York nine weeks and spoke of ill health and age burdens to a clerken. Relatives were notified and planned burial in Monticello. Tremain, retired for incapacity due to a service incident, was the son of Lyman Tremain, a noted lawyer and politician.
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Becamite
Washington Post
New York
Hobart Levi Tremain
United States Navy
St Denis Hotel
Michael Farrell
Monticello
Tieut Tremain
Navy
Lieut Tremain
Lyman Tremain
Turks Drive Russians Back on Front Between Persia and Mesopotamia
Turka troops pushed Russians to the northern bank of the Abis Hirman River south of Bane after two assaults. In the Kovel region west of Houkary gas waves were dissipated by wind. South of Brzezany enemy grenaded and captured some prisoners. Intense bombardment targeted trenches near Kuropataiki and Chiblain.
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Petrograd
Turka
Persia
Mesopotamia
Abis Hirman
Bane
Adda
Kovel
Hkoukary
Brzezany
Kuropataiki
Chiblain
Mexicans Seize Cananea Stores and Mines
Naeco Arig reports that all woods in the mercantile store of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, along with closed mines and mills, have been confiscated by Mexican authorities at Cananea. Order is being maintained as operations are halted, due to an exhausted explosives supply making mine operation impossible.
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Naeco Arig
Ble Mercantile
Cananea Consolidated Copper Companys
Ite
Milla
Emphtere
Cananea
Sonora Copper Company
Canemem
Argentina May Join Brazil Over Neutrality Shift
Buenos Aires June 28 Argentina appeared likely to revoke neutrality between Germany and the United States within hours. The sinking of the Argentine steamship Toro by a German submarine has pushed the government toward nervy action. Public sentiment tilts toward Brazil and alignment with the United States.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Germany
United States
Toro
Brasil
200 Russian Sailors Volunteer to Die in New Drive
Petrograd reports two hundred sailors from the Baltic fleet answered a call to join the army in an attack on the enemy. A naval officer had said that if two hundred men were willing to die for their country the whole army would fight. Deputations visited Riga and Helsingfors, and a torpedo boat crew man led by Midshipman Simonovsky dispatched the volunteers. The sailors departed for the front yesterday.
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Petrograd
Riga
Russhaya Voim
Helsingfors
Widshipman Steurmer
Simonovsky
British and German actions near Oppy Avion and Verdun
British forces reported progress south and west of Oppy in the Arras sector capturing forward German positions on a 2000 yard front and entering Avion near Lens. Casualties and prisoners numbered in the hundreds with several machine guns seized while raids north of Cheris and near Croisilles continued. German reports claim gains near Verdun including 650 prisoners and 160 captured at Avion sector, with renewed pressure on French positions along the Nalancourt Eanes road and near Cerny.
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London
France
Oppy
Arras
Souchez
Avion
Lens
Soucher River
Cheris
Loos
War Office
Souches River
Croisilles
Armentieres
Berlin
Nalancourt-Eanes
Méuse
Verdun
Avecourt Wood
Ea Front
Cerny
Alans
Lena
Gavrelle
British Attack Amid Storms Near Lens and Avion
British forces launched a bold assault under torrential rain and lightning, securing early objectives around Avion and near Lens. Aerial activity filled the sky with triplanes and observation balloons, while artillery roared and observers clashed with stormy conditions over the battlefront.
Allenby assumes command in Egypt for expeditionary force
London reports Gen Sir H H Allenby has arrived in Egypt to take command of the expeditionary force. The official update notes stable overall conditions with ongoing patrols and prisoner captures. Recent air raids targeted Tul Heran, Ramies, and military sites near Jerusalem, with substantial bomb damage and stock disruption.
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London
H . H. Allenby
Egypt
Tsn
Fcrew
Tul Heran
Ramies
Jerusalem
New Berlin Peace Feeler Expected Amid War News
Dispatches report a possible peace offer from Berlin to France and Neweirey amid discussions in Potsdam and Reichstag. Maximilian Harden in Die Zukunft discusses a Stockholm dream proposing concessions on Poland and Alsace Lorraine to advance peace, noting German press distortion of Wilson's war message.
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Pottertam
Garmar
Bethmann
Ribol
France
Times Today
Maximilian Harden
Die Zuift
Stockholm
Germany
Poland
Alsate-Torraine
American flyer promoted to lieutenant in Lafayette Escadrille
Adjutant Raoul Lufberry of the Lafayette Escadrille, a New Yorker, was commissioned a lieutenant in Paris on June 29 in recognition of his record as a fighting airman. With Lieut William Thaw of Pittsburgh, he is among the seconds in command of the unit. Kerry bears the war cross and the British Military Cross, has been cited half a dozen times, and has an official record of ten enemy planes down.
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Paris
Raoul Lufberry
Lafayette Escadrille
New Yorker
William Thaw
Pittsburgh
Lafayette
Kerry
Bomb Plot Details From Copenhagen Telegram
A Copenhagen dispatch reports German efforts to blow up Norwegian ships. Foreign Minister Ihten describes bombs sent to Norway via a messenger to the German legation in Christiania. Norway seeks a German protest and awaits reply after the messenger is handed to Germany with restrictions on future use.
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London
Ihten
Duchange
Copenhagen
Mohlen
Norway
Foreign Office
Regation
Christiania
Regardon
Berli
Min‘ater Cald
Germaeang
Germany
Norwas
Dutch Potato Shortage Policy Cited in Rotterdam Row
The British Legation in The Hague said there is no obligation to export potatoes to Britain while none go to Germany. The note explains existing contracts require German exports to be preceded by shipments to Britain and blames Dutch fear of aiding Germany for the shortage. The incident follows the seizure of about a ton of potatoes and the destruction of a dozen barges in Rotterdam harbor last Saturday.
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Amsterdam
Jung
Rotterdam
England
Aritish Lega
Hague
Germany
Great Britain
Holland
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George P. Zarhorsts Sons, Inc
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