Voluntary Enlistment Pauses Amid Draft Age Debate
Washington reports complete suspension of voluntary enlistments in the army and navy from August 8 to avoid industry disruption while draft age legislation is assessed. Civilians are barred from officer training camps for now, with orders from Baker and Daniels to wait for congressional action. President Wilson’s late-day visit preceded the publication of the orders.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Baker
Daniels
War Department
Congress
Wilson
French British offensive drives in Picardy frontline thrust
Washington reports a Franco British blow on a wide Picardy front following the Marne victory. Marshal P h o h leads renewed push as American officers note sustained aggression and the French strategist advocates continuous attack.
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Washington
Picardy
Marshal Pooh
Marne
Calls 130,207 More Men for Draft Registrants
Washington reports provost marshal general issued August 8 orders calling 180,207 registrants to general military service by end of August. One hundred thousand white registrants from 48 states to be trained between August 26 and 28. 21 states plus the District of Columbia to furnish 80,207 black registrants entering August 22. Total August call about 200,000, as planned in the present mobilization.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Doubles Tax Plan Loaded Into Revenue Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee drafted an $88,000,000 revenue bill that creates a 10 percent tax on telephone and telegraph services, adds a tax on brokerage firms, hikes the motor vehicle horsepower tax, and doubles the tobacco tax from present law. The measure aims to replace prior credits and credits previously granted.
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Washington
Tobyeco
Senator King Proposes Roosevelt Gompers Mission to Russia
Senator William H. King of Utah urges sending a didusterial commission of posalliy ho men headed by Theodore Roosevelt and Samuel Gompers to Russia as an early step to aid the chaotic situation. King plans to depart for Tsusel to gain firsthand information on conditions.
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Salt Lake City
Russia
Posalliy Ho
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Gompers
William H. King
Utul
King
Offensive set back delays German war aims before Americans
The Vienna socialist paper Arbeiter Zeitung reports that the German effort to end the war by a decisive military move before American arrival was thwarted by the recent Allied offensive. The claim appears in a Geneva or Zurich filing, noting the shift in momentum.
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Zurich
Arbeiter Gelt»ung
Vienna
Bumper Crops Indicated in Agriculture Monthly Report
Washington bumper crops of almost every farm staple are indicated in the Department of Agriculture monthly crop report though prospective June production has fallen.
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Washington
Deepartment of Agriculture
America to raise 5,000,000 troops for spring drive
Washington reports Field Marshal Foch plans a major spring assault with American and Allied forces. Senate committee heard General March on the draft expansion to 5 million men, aiming to deploy about 3 million in France before spring, with 2 million at home ready to move.
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Washington
Foe
Aisne-Vesle
Foch
Senate Military Committee
General March
War Department
Paris
United States
Aisne-Marne
Germany
Rheims
France
Rhine
Russell T. Edwardes Leads War Garden Education Section
Russell T. Edwardes serves as director of the educational section for the National War Garden Commission, guiding instructional outreach and public knowledge efforts during wartime gardening programs.
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Russell T. Edwardes
National War Garden Commission
Britons Escape From Prison Camp in Holxeminden
Twentynine British officers fled from a prisoners' camp at Holxeminden and remain at large. The Osmabrueck Tageblatt reports the escape and notes a large reward for their capture.
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Man
Amsterdam
Holxeminden
Beattie and Beelong Official Arrested Amid Espionage Case
Beattie Washe Bull Herman, state secretary of the Boelallat party, under sentence for espionage, was arrested in Haver Montana after forfeiting a bond of 820400. The case centers on violations of the Espionage Act.
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Beattie
Washe-Bull Herman
Boelallat Party
Haver
Mont
Warlda torpedoed by U boat with 130 dead
The British hospital ship Warlda was torpedoed early Monday by a German U boat. About 650 survivors were brought in. 105 to 130 people died, including several women nurses, while 80 nurses and aid workers and 200 crew members were aboard. Many patients perished in the wardroom as the ship sank.
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Warlda
Voluntary Aid Department
Hold Fast Premiers Message Read Across Britain
Premier David Lloyd George issued a wartime message to the empire urging perseverance and victory. Read aloud at 2 o'clock in theatres concert halls and public spaces as sealed copies were distributed to managers for simultaneous dissemination. He warned stopping short of victory would jeopardize mankind's future.
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London
British Empire
David Lloyd George
Americans bear brunt in Paris street fighting
American troops fought fierce hand to hand in Pismes as they captured a German base. Prussian guards offered no quarter and were bayonetted or clubbed near their machine guns, the combat described as the war’s bitterest.
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Paris
Pismes
Pramalan
Bolshevik Reinforcements Reported Near Vladivostok
Advices from Vladivostok state Bolshevik forces north of Vladivostok have received reinforcements including an international detachment of over one thousand men.
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Shanghai
Vladivostok
Veteran of Philippines Dies in Kansas City Incident
Joban M. Craig a Kansas City resident and veteran of the Philippines campaign died after a Monday casualty incident. He previously led casualty lat rude public duties and later enlisted in the regular army.
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Philippines
Kansas City
Joban M. Craig
Seven Million Men Available for Army Extension of Draft Ages
War department officials project an army of 7,000,000 fighting men from the draft age extension 18 to 45. The plan envisions 2,000,000 from ages 18 to 20 trained domestically, 3,000,000 from ages 21 to 31 already in service, and 2,000,000 from ages 31 to 45 in reserve. Officials say the total could rise to 8, 9, 10, even 12 million if needed. one estimate puts 16,000,000 registered.
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Washington
War Department
France
United States
Wilson
Draft Age Range Expanded in Washington Bill
Secretary Baker and the army general staff propose a new manpower bill fixing the draft age at 18 to 45 years. The measure aims to add about 16,000,000 potential registrants and widen the pool for military service.
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Washington
Baker
Army General Staff
Demonstration Against Peoria Leader At Thompson Rally
Chicago mayoral candidate William Hale Thompson faced a Saturday demonstration by several residents before a Thompson meeting at a local theatre in Peoria.
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Peoria
Tle
Willam Hale Thompson
Chicago
Thompson
Germans Driven Back by Allied Offensive on Somme Front
Allied forces broke through German lines along a 15 mile stretch of the Somme river, driving the enemy seven miles, taking thousands of prisoners and hundreds of guns. French and British troops pursued past Dodowood Hamelwood and Marcelcave as tanks supported infantry advances.
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France
Somme
Moreau
Villers-aux-Erables
Fherry
Luce
Dodowood
Hamelwood
Tield Marshal Haig
Piescher
Moroul
Bank Resources Healthy in Washington May to June
Resources of national banks rose from 410 million to 17.82 billion between May 10 and June 20 due mainly to banks selling large quantities of Liberty bonds from earlier holdings.
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Washington
Miners in Mullam District Plan Thursday Work Return
Striking miners in Mullam district prepare to return to the mines on Thursday after workers and employers hold a conference to discuss terms. Representatives from both sides will attend to seek a settlement.
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Minera
Wallace
Ida
Mullam
Thuralay
Eanky Co
Louisiana Hurricane Killa Eighteen toll confirmed
The hurricane struck southwest Louisiana Tuesday afternoon killing 18 people and injuring about 100. Property losses are estimated at $1,000,000 in Lake Charles and surrounding areas.
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Louisiana
Killa
Lake Charles
Louisana
Germans Near Retreat as Allies Press Near Paris
In France, Americans and French push the Germans back with fierce counterattacks and heavy losses. Reports say German retreat is underway toward the Alsne as Allied forces tighten their cordon around Figines and Amiens while engineers bridge a river under heavy bombardment.
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France
Berlin
Paris
Vesle
Bazoches
Fismes
Figines
Germany
Amiens
Bray- Corble Road
Somme
Alberta
Champagne
Ludendorf
Flanders
Verdun
Arras
von Ardenne
Zurich
Two Regiments for Siberia Lead American Relief Force
Washington dispatch reports the first details of U S aid to Siberia to protect the rear of Czecho Slovak forces. Maj. Gen. William S. Graves to command a nucleus from the Philippines units in two regiments, the 20th and 66th, with Camp Fremont, Colorado, as a staging point.
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Washington
Siberia
Murch
William. &, Chaves
Philippines
Coverall Graves
Camp Premont
United States
Wounded American Soldiers Return to Walter Reed in Washington
The fight contingent of American soldiers wounded in the recent fighting on the Soissons Rheims line were transported to Walter Reed hospital in Washington and Fort McHenry hospital on August 7, eighty six men in total.
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Winmore
Soissons-Rheims Ballent
France
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Fort McHenry Sue ‘Hospital
Wreck in Colorado Diverts Train Near Blanne
A Denver and Rio Grande train derailed near Blanne Colorado injuring several, four seriously. Emergency crews responded as authorities investigated the cause of the incident.
Union urged to aid war timber task in Seattle Telegrams
Telegrams urging the northwest Union to not obstruct government timber production have reached Samuel Gowpers, president of the American Federation of Lauber.
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Seattle
Northwest Union Union
Samuel Gowpers
American Federation of Lauber
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Kilpatrick
Alene
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