Two American Troop Contingents Reach French Soil
The second contingent of American troops landed at a French seaport amid cheering crowds. Major General Sibert and the units moved to a nearby camp and await deployment with Major General Pershing expected to arrive tomorrow. The operation is under strict censorship to protect ongoing troop movements.
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Associated Press
William L. Sibert
Pershing
France
Belgium
Wilson
Germany
Cardinal Gibbons clears Red Cross on Catholic nursing sisters
Baltimore June 27 Cardinal Gibbons explains to Eliot Wadsworth acting Red Cross chairman that Catholic nursing sisterhoods may wear their official dress while serving with the Red Cross. The rules allow lists of sisterhoods and volunteers for relief work in war or calamity and no bar on their service due to dress.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
American Red Cross
Catholic Church
Cardinal Gibbons
Red Cross
Eliot Wadsworth
Washington, D
Florida
Railroad Securities Group Formed to Stabilize Credit
Baltimore June 27 The National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities announced its officers and executive committee. Key figures include S Davies Warfield president of Continental Trust and chairman, Forrest F Dryden, J J Mitchell, I H Kemper, J Hough Cottman, and many other bank and insurance leaders guiding a 500 member body overseeing 3 billion dollars in railroad securities. Continued on page Hight.
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Baltimore
National Association of Owners of
Presdent
S. Davies Warfield
Continental Trust Company
Forrest F. Dryden
Prohibition Expanded by War Time Food Control Bill
Senate Agriculture panel reviews a Food Control bill giving President Wilson power to ban all alcoholic beverage production during the war and to commandeer spirits while allowing limited malt, fermented, and vinous beverages. The measure would also place iron, steel and fuel under government control.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Wilson
Senate
House
Sinking of the Galena and Nordic Ship Losses Reported
The Galena, a 1 048 ton American sailing ship, was sunk by a bomb off Ushant Island on June 25 with no casualties. Fifteen survivors were landed at Brest after the attack. Captain P V Marshall led an 18 man crew including eight Americans. Also reported: the Norwegian steamship Kong Haakon and the Maggie were sunk by submarines with limited crew saved.
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Associated Press
London
Ushant Island
France
Brest
P. V. Marshall
United States Commissioner of Shipping
Copenhagen
Kong Haakon
Maggie
Atlantic
Bulgaria's Postwar Ties Split by War Loyalties
Article analyzes Bulgaria's stance after the war, showing a dual influence shaping concessions to the Bulgars. It contrasts sentimental and practical pressures, arguing Bulgaria was loyal to Germany during the war but seeks a favorable peace with America afterward.
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Bulgaria
America
Germany
Conference on Methodist Union Opens in Traverse City
Clergymen and lay delegates from several million members of the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Church South begin a conference in Traverse City Michigan to consider re union of the 17 branches. Many prominent bishops attend.
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Associated Press
Traverse City
Mich
Methodist Episcola Church
Methodist Chuch of the
South
American Foresters Reach England
Ten units of American woodmen sent from New England states and organizations have arrived in England to work on converting British forests into lumber.
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Associated Press
London
New England
United Kingdom
Southern to Suspend Passenger Trains in North Carolina
Raleigh June 27. The State Corporation Commission authorized the Southern Railway to discontinue passenger service on 12 trains in North Carolina and reshuffle its schedule to lessen inconvenience to travelers. The Commission also considered a similar curtailment petition from the Atlantic Coast Line.
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Associated Press
Raleigh
N.C
State Corporation Commision of
North Carolina
Southern Railway
Atlantic Coast Line
Entente Aims in Greece and Western Front Actions
Russian opinion solidifies against separate peace as pan‑Russian congresses back unified war effort. Entente seeks to press Greece toward a May 31 1915 parliament favorable to Allied aims. In France a Cavern of the Dragon fortress is taken with 340 prisoners, while Champagne pressures yield brief gains and German bombing hits Nancy with no casualties.
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Aisne
Champagne
Petain
Petrograd
Congress of Soldiers
Greece
Constantine
Paris
Hurtebise Monument
Mount Camillet
Maisons de Champagne
Nancy
Fayetteville Secures Cantonment Site
The War Department announced that Fayetteville North Carolina has been chosen as the National Guard cantonment site. Washington reports the selection was made on June 27.
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Associated Press
Washington
Fayetteville
N. C
National Guard
War Department
Loans to the Allies Top One Billion Dollars
Washington reports that American loans to the allies exceed 1.088 billion dollars. The treasury credited Great Britain with 550 million and France with 210 million, with 15 million to Britain and 310 million to France recorded today as part of the total funding.
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Associated Press
Washington
Great Britain
France
Japan's cordial ties with United States praised
Viscount Ichiro Motono, Japan's foreign minister, told the Diet that U S entry with firm resolve to defeat Germany would aid entente goals. He said Japan and the United States are closely cooperating against common enemies and that cordial relations are strengthening toward greater unity.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Viscoun Ichiro Motono
Diet
United States
Germany
Japan
Trench Tales From Soldiers On The Front Line
A soldier named Tommy describes a shift from static trench fighting to more mobile warfare. He notes better artillery support, constant German pressure, and the new sensation of advancing behind a curtain of fire rather than under heavy barrages. He recalls earlier shortages and the hope that a breakthrough at the Hindenburg Line is near.
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Tommy
Hindenburg Line
Cruiser Olympia Still Grounded
The Olympia ran onto a shoal in Block Island sound. The crew abandoned ship and reached a naval station in Newport News. Navy reports said the ship rested easily but damage was likely. no decision on afloat attempts had yet been announced.
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Associated Press
Newport News
United States
Olympia
Block Island Sound
Naval Station
Navy Department
German agitator caught in Russian peace plot exposure
A Russian agitator Nicolai Lenin urged a general peace in Petrograd on June 22. M Veirensky exposed the speech as nearly identical to a German document, reading an intercepted radio signed by King Leopold of Bavaria. The disclosure came in a dispatch from Ambassador Francis.
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Associated Press
Washington
Germany
Council of Soldiers and Workmen
Petrograd
Francis
Nicolai Lenin
M. Veirensky
Lenin
M. Veitensky
Leopold of
Bavaria
Germany and Holland reach wartime agreement on torpedoed ships
A London dispatch reports Dutch newspapers approving a pacts between the Netherlands and Germany. Holland will pay Germany the insured value of seven merchantmen torpedoed off the English coast last February and Germany will replace the ships by ceding German vessels from the Dutch East Indies.
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Associated Press
London
Amsterdam
Holland
Germany
Dutch East Indies
North Carolina Press Association Opens Annual Convention
Morehead City hosts the NC Press Association as C L Abernethy of New Bern features a patriotic opening. Morning session includes president's address and papers addressing print paper supply postal rates and censorship.
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Dispatch
Morehead City
N. C
C. L. Abernethy
New Bern
North Carolina Press Association
Bulgaria Clings to Germany Yet Fears Break With US
Dispatch from Copenhagen reports Bulgaria, while opposing a break with the United States, fears Premier Radoslavoff may have traded concessions in Berlin for maintaining American relations. Sentiments mix loyalty to the Teutonic alliance with concern over American influence and potential postwar advantages for Bulgaria in Macedonia Dobrudja and access to Salonika and the Aegean. Conditions at home are described as passable with inflation and a decent harvest, and Bulgaria denies sending troops beyond its borders despite partial forces on the Sereth front.
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Associated Presa
Copenhagen
Bulgaria
United States
Radoslavoff
Berlin
Roberts College
New
Associated Press
Saloniki
Macedonia
Dobrudja
Vienna
Stockholm
Danube
Sereth
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Association OF Security Holders OF the Railroads
Probigition
GERM
Conference ON Methodist Union
England
State Corporation Commission
Russia
Haig
Lens
Germany & Holland
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