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  • World War. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Germany; German army; German brutality; France; cathedrals; destruction ;
  • That the Germans seem extra fond of destroying the beautiful cathedrals to be found in France, is told in a letter received by E. W. Edgington of the Security State bank, from Corporal O. K. Knowlton, now in France.
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  • World War. Financial affairs. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; financial affairs; Chancellor of the exchequer Andrew Bonar Law ;
  • In the house of commons on Tuesday Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor of the exchequer. Is expected to move a war appropriation of £500,000,000, making the total appropriations since the beginning of the war £7,342,000,000.
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  • World War. Peace proposals, peace treaties & trade treaties. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; peace proposals; peace treaties; trade treaties; peace negotiations; Russia; Turkey; Turkish-Russian relations; Soviet Union ;
  • A peace treaty has been signed between Turkey and the transcaucasus government says a telegram from Constantinople.
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  • World War. Relief. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; war relief; humanitarian relief; Syria; Armenia; Syrian people; Armenian people; Spokane, Washington States; United States; American aid; foreign aid; fundraising; starvation; famine; food shortages ;
  • In a four-days' campaign, to start June 18, Spokane city and county are asked to raise $35,500 for relief of Syrian and Armenian war sufferers.
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  • State history. Politics. General-State. Candidates. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; politics; government; political candidates; N. W. Durham
  • No candidates for political office will be sent out as speakers on war subjects by the county council of defense, according to an announcement made yesterday by N. W. Durham, president. Mr. Durham stated that the reasons for this decision are that...
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  • World War. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Governor James Withycombe of Oregon; Portland, Oregon; public lands ;
  • The general land office announced today that plans for opening 150,000 acres of public lands in the vicinity of Portland, Ore., will not be abandoned, despite recommendations of Governor Withycombe of Oregon and other. In a communication recently...
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  • World War. Submarine warfare. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; submarine warfare; naval warfare; German u-boats; submarine ships; submarines; Germany; Norway; Norwegian ships; Vindeggen; Henrik Lund; Cape Charles, Virginia; attacks; submarine campaigns; sinkings; sunk; neutral...
  • Two Norwegian steamships, the Vindeggen and the Henrik Lund, were sunk by a German submarine when about 200 miles east of Cape Charles, Va., last Saturday and Monday respectively. This brings the total of vessels sunk by U-boats since they began...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Transportation (of Troops). 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; Army transportation; transportation of troops; photographs Sergeant M. Randall of Spokane, Washington state; Private Walter Wilson of Spokane, Washington state; enlisted men ;
  • Two Spokane boys Sergeant M. Randall and Private Walter Wilson, of Battery F, 146th field artillery regiment of national guard, are among the city's lads whose present address is "somewhere in France." Batter F is commanded by Captain Dale Drain,...
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  • World War. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Ukraine; Germany; German army; Russia; Russian government; Ukrainian-German relations; international conflict ;
  • The Germans in the Ukraine began a new movement eastward on June 10, according to a Russian government wireless dispatch. Foreign minister Tchitcherin has instructed Ambassador Joffe at Berlin to complain about the movement, which is on a width of...
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  • World War 1. Awards & honors. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; chemical warfare; gas warfare; Carl L. Alsberg chief o fBureau of Chemistry; gas masks ;
  • The allies now excel the Germans in gas warfare, Carl L. Alsberg, chief of the bureau of chemistry, told the senate agriculture committee today. They not only have more gas at their disposal and are applying it more effectively than the Germans, he...
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  • World War 1. Land warfare. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; land warfare; battlefields; Petrograd Novaia Zhizn; Maxim Gorky of Russia; General Erich von Falkenhayn of Germany ;
  • Germany is about to withdraw the bulk of her troops now in Russia for service on the western front, according to a statement in Maxim Gorky's newspaper, the Petrograd Novaia Zhizn, quoted by the Daily News correspondent at Stockholm.
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  • World War. Photographs. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; photographs; food shortages; hoarding; public pantries ;
  • A complete reversal of thrift methods of our grandfather's time in matters of household buying, one designed to check food hoarding in family larders, will undergo public test in Washington soon.
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  • World War. Prisoners. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Prisoners; POWs; Prisoners of war; Chateau Thierry, France; German army; German soldiers; United States army; American soldiers ;
  • The excellence of the American artillery fire was largely responsible for the capture by American marines of approximately 400 prisoners in the fighting which resulted in the clearing of out of Belleau wood, northwest of Chateau Thierry.
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  • World War. Statistics. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; statistics; world population; entente powers; central powers; allies ;
  • The population of the world is given, in round figures, as 1,600,000,000.
    Today the people of the world are divided into three portions, two of them at war and one neutral. Of the 1,690,000,000, only 120,000,000 -- less than one-tenth -- are at...
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  • World War. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France; Germany; German army; casualties; deaths; losses; French army ;
  • A reassuring impression has been produced by a statement given in the senate by Premier Clemenceau on the situation at the front. He said that decisive results had been obtained at certain points with minimum forces and minimum losses, while the...
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  • State history. World War. Army. General. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; general; Harrient Chalmers of Spokane, Washington state; visits; visitors; front lines; trenches; trench warfare; women; photographs; portraits ;
  • Mrs. Harrient Chalmers is one of the few women who have visited the first line trenches on the battle front. She is now touring this country telling the folk at home what she saw and how they can help to win the war. The tour is being made on her...
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; German people; German public; children; orphanages; starvation; famine; deaths; Professor Frank E. Hein of Germany; Bayerischer Zeitung of Munich, Germany; Arbeiter-Zeitung of Berlin, Germany; wheat; food shortages ;
  • Germany, although attacking on the western front, is starving, says the Echo de Paris. An article appearing in the Berlin Arbeiter Zeitung relates the details of six children starving to death in an orphanage at Zenefort, Thuringia. The orphanage...
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  • World War. Railroads. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; freight trains; production; Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo ;
  • Modifications of the recent freight rate increase order, announced today by Director General McAdoo, provide that the plan by which intrastate rates would have been canceled when in conflict with interstate rates shall be rescinded; that the...
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  • World War. Memorials. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; memorials; President Woodrow Wilson; President Raymond Poincare of France; American soldiers ;
  • On the anniversary of the arrival in France of the first American troops, President Poincare has telegraphed to President Wilson an expression of the admiration of France for the magnificent effort put forth by America, and felicitations over the...
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  • World War. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Germany; German newspapers; media; errors; Lewis guns; weapons; Baron von Richthofen of Germany; deaths; translations; typos ;
  • The German semi-official press bureau made an amusing blunder in an account of Baron von Richthofen's death which was published in all the German newspapers. In translating an account of his end from the English newspaper accounts, it stated that...
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