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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1918
Page
1
Paris reports massive French and American bombardment targeting Soissons Rheims area with 400000 German troops in the line. Artillery concentrates on Fere en Tardenois and Miesy sur Aisne as 200 prisoners are taken and traffic on the Aisne bridge is disrupted.
Rome dispatch cites Zurich advices that Hindenburg is forcing Ludendorff to accept blame for the last German offensive. He reportedly disapproved the plan and demanded Ludendorff sign the official defeat statement.
Paris July 27 French and American troops push from the southern edge of the Soissons Rheims salient between Verneuil and Chatillon sur Marne. The pocket is reduced to about eight kilometers in width as aviators bomb the main highway south of Fiennes blocking traffic for eleven hours.
Washington reports American fighting forces trained in France have landed in Italy. The Fourth Army Corps under General Reed consists of the 63rd Ohio, 89th, 87th, 29th, 90th, and 92nd divisions. The Fifth Corps includes the 6th, 36th, 76th, 79th, 85th, and 91st divisions. American forces in France total 1,253,000. 53,000 shipped over in the past week.
Washington reports a risk that all Class One draftees are exhausted before Congress acts to extend draft ages. States warn they may draft their last first class men, prompting possible invasion of deferred classifications. A call for men aged twenty one may come before January 1, 1919. Labor Day could see all Class One men called. War Department works on extending draft age limits.
BE. R. Lash, local recruiting officer for the Marines, reported four new men sent to Cincinnati. Friday brought Morris E. Webster of Coolville and Walter B. Quigley of Nelsonville. Saturday started Charles F. Hathaway of Batavia and William W. McNutt on their way.
A Moscow dispatch to the Cologne Gazette reports that the fifth national congress of Turkestan declared Turkestan a republic allied with Russia. The executive body consists of 11 Mohammedans.
Secretary Baker ruled that work or fight regulations do not apply to baseball players until September 1. Draft age professional players may seek essential occupations or join the army. Managers had asked for Oct 15, but the date is set five weeks before season end.
The notice records the licensure of Carl Smathers, 18, miner of Buchtel, and Grace Bryson, 17, cigar roller of Buchtel, to marry.
Captains and lieutenants of the draftee W. S. S. sale in Athens county report a few men who refused to sell stamps or showed unwillingness to do their part. The committee desires all such cases reported and their cases will be taken up with the local draft board.
Community notice invites all to a dance at Red Men's Hall this Saturday night with every attendee welcome. Event dated 7.26.2.
Washington reports General Pershing listing 168 casualties with 60 killed in action and 14 wounded in various degrees. Names include Nelsonville native W H Swingle and other Ohio soldiers. A separate Marine casualty note adds one killed in action seven severely wounded and four missing.
Washington reports that American troops aiding France and Britain in the Soissons Rheims salient show satisfactory progress. Secretary Baker and General March said casualty figures for the present battle are not yet available, but the death rate in battle has been eight per thousand, with the same proportion of deaths from disease among expeditionary forces.
German submarine torpedoed the French steamer Lydie off Zumaya and rammed a lifeboat to erase evidence of the sinking. Forty of the forty six crew are missing, according to surviving crew members. Santander lies on the Bay of Biscay near Bayonne.
Pete Grosvenor and Tom Pickard jailed for several days were fined $5 and costs totaling $9.20 on intoxication charges in a case heard by Mayor Woodworth.
United States District Attorney Bolin arrived from Columbus and announced no dry zones will be established around any Cincinnati military training school at this time.
The council of national defense sent to the Ohio state council of defense a request to appoint a state musical director. The aim is to organize Liberty choruses nationwide to foster civilian morale through community singing and create local Liberty choruses across Ohio.
Warren S Stone was re-elected chief of the Brotherhood of Engineers at the triennial conference held in Cleveland.
Report from July 25 describes American advances near Chateau-Thierry as they push through villages and woods. German resistance tightens but Americans hold Epieds amid shelling and mines. Parachute flares light the night while Allied air and anti aircraft fire hinder German sorties. Prisoners indicate German units weakened, machine gunners costly.
Police and Coroner Herekowicz probe the death of Edward Vayha eight and Edna May seven in Columbus Ohio. Family suspects a playtime item while rumors of German poisoned peanut butter prompt a state attorney inquiry.
London reports munition workers begin returning to work as the strike loses momentum. Government threatening reconscription would draft idle workers into the army unless all back on the job by Monday.
Stamford Connecticut July 27 Rabbi Stephen A Wise of the Free Synagogue New York is working as laborer No 186 in the shipyard He is one of the best known clergymen in New York City and his appearance in Stamford is noted as a surprising public service act.
In France July 26 American forces advancing beyond Brecy seven miles north of Chateau-Thierry found a German emplacement used to bombard Paris. The find highlights continued Allied efforts against fortified positions behind the lines with potential impact on air and ground operations.
A major fire at the Mallinckrodt chemical works in St Louis caused 125000 dollars of damage and likely left two girls and a fireman fatally injured. The blaze destroyed 230000 quarter pound cans of ether sent to France for the American army, with explosions following the fire. Company investigators traced the cause to a spark from an electric soldering iron.
Mrs M J Kirschner of Toledo was killed and four injured when an automobile collided with a Wheeling and Lake Erie passenger train at Monroeville near Norwalk on July 26. Rescue squads responded and investigators began determining fault and safety factors.
Columbus officials continued an investigation into an alleged plot to destroy and poison grain in Ohio. Reported evidence included a test tube with acid and an incendiary charge, said to be set to trigger a large-area spill. Fire marshals warned farmers to monitor crops statewide.
Washington announces forthcoming reduced railroad rates for the Ohio State Fair to be issued by the federal railroad administration. Indications point to a rate as low as expected in wartime but the exact amount has not been disclosed. The decision to issue a rate for the fair may surprise given federal policy against special session discounts.
A. G. Babcock aged 97 resumes work in his longtime trade of shipbuilding in Tacoma Washington renewing his career after years away from the yard.
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