Poilu Counter Puts Foe Back Across Matz Front
French forces halted German advances on the Matz river line and restored positions on the plateau near the Oise front. In the Chateau Thierry area American troops repelled a German assault while French counterattacks pushed the enemy from Bouresches to Belleau Wood, inflicting heavy losses. Continuous fighting lingered between the Aisne and Vilers-Cotterets forest with Germans pressing near Ambleny and Soissons.
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Paris
War Office
Matz
Aisne
Villers-Cotterets Forest
Laversine
Curry
Bouresches
Bellein Wood
Marnee
Coeuvres
St. Pierre-Aigle
Oise
Noyon
Compiegne
Jourcelies
Antheuil
Comiegne
Arscamp
Soissons
Comsane Forest
Ambleny
St. Tre Aizla
Neees
Chateau’ Ferry
Marne
Music Makes Lpud in London Cares Hard to Appraise
London June 13 Major Belcher director of vegetables supplies said at retailers meeting that fixed prices for new potatoes cannot be observed. He explained patrons pay for surroundings and service, not the potato itself, making uniform pricing for cooked potatoes impossible due to grading by table flowers, waiters, and orchestra size.
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London
Major Belcher
Directo
Ritz
Carlton
Sacrificial Spirit Foreseen for US in War Effort
London reports that the American army may make a greater sacrifice than brigading with French and British forces if allies demand it. A Daily Mail correspondent notes regrets over not sending more trained Americans and cites the president's willingness to join allied plans, praising the Magnificent spirit of the United States in the war effort.
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London
Daily Mail
France
United States
After War Germany Faces Entry Ban to America
An official French dispatch cites the Koelnische Volks Zeitung predicting Germany will no longer enter the United States after the war. Hamburg America and North German Lloyd lines are in a blacklist, shipyards and offices sold, and German assets seized to aid American war production.
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Washington, D. C
America
Germany
Lloyd Lines
German plan to shift forces from Russia to western front
London reports Novaia Zhizn quotes a dispatch allegedly from Falkenhayn stating western front battles are critical and decisive. He says transfer of most German troops in Russia will occur within seven days to assure victory and end of war. Washington confirms expansion of Indian Head naval proving grounds by about 2,200 acres under Navy control.
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London
Germany
Russia
Maxim Gorky
Tews Daper
Petrograd Novaia Zhizn
Novaia Zhizn
Falkenhayn
Navy
Washington, D. C
Naval Proving Grounds
Indian Head
Potomac River
Virginia
Wilson
Secretary of the Navy
Starvation in German Orphan Home Reported
Paris reports Germany risking famine as Echo de Paris cites Berlin Arbeiter Zeitung details of six children starving to death in a Zenefort Thuringia orphanage. Inspectors found skeletal children after the building was ransacked by starving inmates and medical staff.
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Paris
Havas
Germany
Altho
Echo de Paris
Berlin Arbeiter Zeitung
Zenefort
Thuringia
Franz E. Hein
Bayerischer Zeitung
Munich
Where Wives Earn Husbands May Get Put in Class One
Washington, D. C. June 13. Under new regulations drafted by the provost marshal married men whose wives can support themselves and those whose wives cannot will be placed in class one. Many now in class one will move to a deferred class or be pronounced fit only for limited military service in class one. The work or fight order, reclassification, and new rules will dovetail to start shifting labor from nonessential to essential industries immediately.
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Washington, D. C
France Thanks U S Leaders On War’s Aniver sary
President Poincare telegraphed President Wilson praising America for its yearlong effort in France and lauding the American troops for gallantry and conduct. He also sent a note to General Pershing expressing France’s pride and hope for continued American success.
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Paris
France
Poincare
Wilson
America
Gallantey
Bencery
Dent Poinenrs
Pershing
Holland Amsterdam passengers face strict wartime search
At Atlantic port the Nieuw Amsterdam carrying 612 passengers undergoes a three hour health inspection before anchorage as 50 women’s corps join union to search female travelers belongings. Government agents press for thorough checks amid unclear aims and wartime security measures.
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Atlantic
Nieuw
Amsterdam
America
Women's Motor Corps
German Claims About French Army Declared False
The New York Tribune charges General von Stein's statements as untrue, noting no large part of the French army was defeated in Picardy or Flanders. It details French and British losses, cites French divisions destroyed at the Aisne, and questions German claims of mass performances and prisoner captures along the Oise.
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Pfeane
the Tribune Associaion
New York Tribune
New York
von Stein
Picardy
Montdidier
Amiens
Flanders
Kemmel
Defense of Courceelles Heroic French Stand Frontline Action
The French defense of Courceilles on the left wing held for 48 hours as German advances were repulsed. German forces attempted every tactic including concealment with grass and creeping moves across fertile lands. A new batch of German prisoners and many machine guns were reported, reflecting high Allied resolve.
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France
Courceelles
Lafe
Herois
Viciity
Prisoners of War Describe Beloved American Firepower Near Belleau Wood
American artillery dominated the clash near Belleau Wood northwest of Chateau Thierry, capturing German troops including six officers. Prisoners praised the U S forces while noting German plans to end the war next fall and reporting scarce officers in the German army. More than 50 years of POW confinement occurred in a single rear building, with quiet along the Marne sector prevailing.
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France
Belleau Wood
Chateau Thierry
United States
Germany
Marne
Black Mother Plan to Help Save Children in Cleveland
Misread wartime social plan described as “Black Mother” effort to organize child protection. Text outlines a two-tier system with a lower “Citizens” council elected by districts and an upper “Occupational Council” of professionals and business leaders shaping policy and services for child welfare during conflict.
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Cleveland
Whit
Repr Chuaives
Woman and man found drowned after car overturn near Dewar
A foot visible from a submerged auto led a passerby to a crash on the Hawkeye highway near the Dewar turnoff. Miss Irene Bickert, Buchanan county teacher, and George McCluskey, Jesup merchant formerly of Waterloo, perished. both bodies were muddy and waterlogged. The car lay about 30 feet from a culvert. clues suggest drowning occurred last evening during a collision head on with a vehicle travelling toward Waterloo. Coroner S. D. Smith of Black Hawk county took the remains. McCluskey, once a Dotson Kerwin salesman, lived at 1525 Second Street West Jesup. he had recently bought a clothing store there. He was about 50. Miss Bickert’s father resides in Yaltimeyre, Minnesota.
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Dewar
Irene Bickert
Buchanan County
George McCluskey
Jesup Merchant
Waterloo
Hawkeye Highway
Migs Bickert
Mr. McCluskey
Jesup
McLuskey
PLM
Seeane
Miss Piel
Yaltimeyre
Mid
Oon
Hillinois Central
Chicago street names moved for change in Aleex Adamowski ward
Aleex Adamowski plans to ask Chicago council to rename six streets in his ward. Berlin becomes Clara, Frankfare to Charleston, Lubeck to Carolina, Coblenis to Carver, Rhine to Coyne, King to Colvin. The note mentions a prior street name change from Hamburg to Custer and cites Alderman Wallace’s recommendation.
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Chicago
Aleex Adamowski
Berlin
Clara
Frankfare
Charleston
Lubeck
Carolina
Coblenis
Carver
Rhine
Coyne
King
Colvin
Mad Atreat
Hamburg Street
Custer Street
Ald
Wallace
Custer
Plot to starve Soviet government exposed by counter revolutionists
A semiofficial statement says General Savinkoff and General Dovyguern backed a plan to sever central Russia from the Ural region and starve the Soviets into capitulation. The League for the Defense of the Fatherland and Liberty united monarchists, Mamalists, and left wing reformers under a national platform to overturn the Soviet regime.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Pipk
Russia
Savinkoff
Dav. Ruern
Ural
League For the Defense of
Germany
Dovyguern
Bolsheviks to Send Envoy to United States
London reports that Bolshevik minister to Sweden WM Entovsky-Odovsky plans to travel to Washington as Bolshevik ambassador to the United States. The minister is currently in Berlin, and his arrival would raise the issue of U.S. recognition of the Bolshevik government. Boris Rakhmetov remains the lone representative recognized by the State Department, though repudiated by Lenin’s regime.
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London
Copenhagen
Daily Mail
WM. Entovsky-Odovsky
Sweden
Washington
United States
Berlin
D.C
Tne
Uned
Boris Rbakhmetav
Kerensky
State Department
Russia
Altho
Lenine
Moscow
Price Interpreting Board Fails to Assemble
A partially formed Price Interpreting Board could not arrange a schedule at yesterday’s meeting due to an incomplete membership. A committee of Fred Hartong H Winkerton and C Hemsworth was appointed to report a food price schedule at next Wednesday’s meeting. Both wholesale and retail prices will be provided.
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Fred Hartong
H. Winkerton
C. Hemswort
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Winter
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North German Lloyd Lines
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Indian Grove
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Egin
Ukraine
Tchitcherin
Gannang
Tehieherin
Joffe
Valuiki- Zpukovk Station
UL. C
Carl L. Alberg
Bureau of Chemistry
Senate Agriculture Committee
Washington, D.C
MacArthur
Oregon
the Aisne
Soissonsimeling
Farmard
The
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Hun Uldierg
Fatherland
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Central
Bakhmeteif
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