Push Mile Frontage Northeast of Amiens In Dashing Attack
Allied forces launched a bold assault northeast of Amiens driving the line forward amid heavy fighting. Australian troops gained ground near Morlancourt and captured prisoners as French and British operations continued along the Lys and Somme fronts. The drive comes as Vienna signals a new push on the Italian front and Austria faces internal unrest with liberal protests and cabinet resignations.
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Abaucourt
Associated Press
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Grisin
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Pnemy
Riles
Ithe
Kemmel
Made -An
Locan
Saill
America
Tommies
Pollus
United States
Towa-Chauffeuses Offer Services to Aid War
War era note describes Towa girls M. Neil and M. Young offering driving services to ease wartime transport, with auto enthusiasm from Marshalltown. Reports of German activity near Luneville and American artillery interactions as a trench is evacuated and contested.
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Towa
Chicago
M. Neil
M. Young
Marshalltown
Blackie Motors’ Company
Repulse of Anglo French Attack On Flemish Front
Berlin reports that French divisions attacked Kemmel hill and near Bailleul but were repulsed with heavy losses. More than 300 prisoners were taken. An English division west of Bailleul failed to develop its assault. Artillery activity revived in the evenings near Villers-Bretonneux and the Avre.
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Berlin
London
Flanders
War Office
Kemmel Hill
Bailleul
Terne
Villers-Bretonneux
Avre
No Peace Offer Sought, Balfour Tells Commons
London May 6 Foreign Secretary Balfour told the house that no peace offers had been made recently by the enemy. He said no neutral representative has proposed peace talks. The Daily Mail notes Germany’s emissary has made no progress and may return to report failure. A Hague dispatch names Jonkheer Colyn as the Dutch intermediary with seven proposed terms. Colyn's mission aimed to explain Germany’s demands on Holland over German materials transit.
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Balfour
House of Commons
Germany
Daily Mail
Hague
Jonkheer Colyn
The
Belgium
Alsace-Lorraine
Austria
Italy
Trentino
Balkan
Africa
Asia Minor
Kia Chau
China
England
Holland
War Heroes Granted 39 Day Furloughs to Iowa
Des Moines May 6 Iowa's three soldiers from France Sergeant Hawkins Corporal Skinner and Private Montgomery have been granted 39 day furloughs to visit their Iowa homes. Hawkins home Red Oak Skinner Outwwa Montgomery from Martins El Verso will be in Des Moines next Friday for a public celebration in Montgomery's home town.
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Iowa
France
Sergeant Hawkins
Corporal Skinner
Montgomery
Chicago
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Red
Oak
Skinner
Dispatch
Viscount French Named Ireland Viceroy Amid Draft Split
London May 6 Field Marshal Viscount French is named viceroy of Ireland in a surprising appointment as Britain faces conscription tension. John Dillon opposes conscription and warns against unity breakdown while Prof. Edward De Valera says Sinn Fein would back a united front.
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Viscount French
Ireland
Baron Wimborne
Edward Shortt
Gaes
Mahon
John Dillon
Edward de Valera
Sinn Fein
Ballaghadereen
England
Great Britain
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Sinn
Bnngland
de Valera
Ditton
East Cavan
Paper Delivery Notice to Call If Late
If the error of the carrier boy or other cause delays paper delivery past 6 o'clock, customers should phone SBRO and a copy will be sent. Calls must reach the office before 6 30 p m.
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SBRO
Wilson orders aircraft graft probe sparks scrutiny
The Wilson administration orders a department of justice inquiry into graft charges in aircraft production raised by sculptor Gutzon Borglum. Congress and the Senate pressed for a criminal probe as President Wilson names John D. Ryan to head production while Borglum’s report remains partly released.
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House Military Committee
March
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Lie Ordnance Department
Washington
Department of Justice
Gutzon Borglum
Presif
Wilson Borglum
Fuente
Senate
Wilson
Snowden Marshall
Borglum
Senate Military Committee
John D. Ryan
Coffin
Howard Coffin
Aircraft Board
Foe gas in letters sent home by prisoners prompts illness
Paris reports from Associated Press say German forces injected asphyxiating gas into letters from prisoners in camps. A woman in La Sicotiere fell ill for days after opening a letter from a French prisoner. Another woman received a poison gas letter from her husband in Bavaria. Other cases cited.
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Paris
Associated Press
la Sicotiere
Germany
Bavaria
Juvi et Demands That Envoy Of U S Retired
Bolsheviks press for recall of American consul Vladivostok and demand investigation into alleged negotiations with Pekin. Ambassador Francis reports documents do not prove American official involvement in a Siberian counter revolt plot. He notes the charges are flimsy and harmful amid strained Russo foreign relations. Also: flying instructor Lieut Fred A Keep dies from a field accident at Taliaferro in Texas.
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Associated, Press
Moscow
Hol Sheviki
Vladivostok
Francis
Noulens
Foruign
Tchitcherin
Count von Mirbach
Entente
Siberian
John K. Caldwell
Péking
Soviet Republic
Consul Caldwell
Admiral Knight
Peking
Fort Worth
Tex
Fred A. Keep
Milton
Mass
Taliaferro Field
Texas
German tanks fail at Villers Bretonneux and cut trench effort
Reports from France describe German 45 ton tanks as unwieldy and poorly steel equipped with a 2.2 inch forward gun. Crews lacked training, and at Villers Bretonneux two machines broke down and were abandoned despite field testing by von Hindenburg.
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Associated Press
France
Villers-Bretonneaux
Vilters-Bre- Ltonneux
Somme
von Hindenburg
Charleroi
Villers-Bretonneux
Daimers
Berlin
Hospital Bombed Near Front by German Aviators During War
The hospital established near the front by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute has been persistently bombed by German aviators and is almost entirely destroyed despite flying a large Red Cross flag and a white cross on the lawn. Wounded were removed early, and in April Dr. Carrel will relocate the hospital to Paris.
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Red Cross
Paris
Alexis Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
Carrel
Allies and Rain Block Flanders Drive by Kaiser
Long-wired dispatch describes Allied and weather hindrances as British and French forces press in Flanders. Reports confirm German countermeasures and prisoner totals amid renewed front activity near Kemmel Locan and Saill, with US entry looming. civilians’ letters reveal weariness and hope for peace.
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Flanders
Kaiser
War Size Diamond Joe Se Cigars Good Them Janet Bum Case
A fragmented OCR item mentions a wartime era phrase about Diamond Joe and cigars, with unclear surrounding context and garbled text. Names and places are unreadable, offering only scattered fragments of a potential public notice or sports-legal snippet.
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Joe
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