Allied Guns Shelling Loon Front Near St Quentin and La Fere
Allied forces shell Loon and advance along canal routes toward St Quentin and La Fere. French Mangin's troops reach near old German trenches north of the Aisne as American units push toward Villers en Prayes and Lon. British aim to push from Peronne toward St Quentin while Haig narrows the Lys salient.
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St. Quentin
la Fere
Canal du Nord
Coucy
Aisnlette
Mangin
Aisne
Chemin Des Es
Amer
Villers-en-Prayeres
Lon
Noyon Salient
Fo Orth
Vesle
Batnt
Peronne
Barges For U S Wounded In France
The chief surgeon of the American expeditionary forces outlines a hospital barge system to move wounded with minimal movement. Barges 120 feet long with one foot draft will moor near the front, aided by France’s canal system. Water transport is expected to save lives as 80 percent return to the front within 40 days and higher recovery rates after ambulances and hospital stages.
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Paris
Stars and Stripes
France
French Cavalry Enter Chauny Pursuit Toward Tergnier
French cavalry moved through Chauny after the enemy fled. The force advanced toward Tergnier and reached the Viry Nouveuil region, about 4 miles from Chauny and 12 miles from Tergnier, as reported by the Associated Press.
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Chauny
France
Associated Press
Tergnier
Viry-Nouveuil
Steamship Grounds Near Atlantic Port. Passengers Safely Transferred
An unidentified passenger steamship went ashore on a sand bar near an Atlantic port this afternoon. Coast guards dispatched to assist. passengers were transferred to another vessel en route to the port. The distressed ship rested gently as responders moved in.
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Atlantic
Coast Guards
Germans Ready to Halt Hindenburg Line Defense
The Germans intend to stand on the Hindenburg line and defend Belgium with the hardest fight possible. Allied strategy hinges on Foch turning the line north with British forces or south with French and American troops as Mangin drives at Laon and the Chemin des Dames ridge.
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Hindenburg Line
Belgium
Foch
Ham
Cambrai
Douai
Mangin
Laon
Rheims
Ludendorff
Hindenburg
Lorraine
Germany
Berlin
Valley of the Rhine
Rhine
Vesle
Chemin Des Dames Ridge
Chemin Des Dames
The 101st Drove Through the Huns in France
A World War I letter from a member of the 101st Infantry describes the July 19 1918 assault in No Man's Land near a House of Mystery. It recounts trench proximity, artillery, sniper fire around a Red Cross station, prisoner interrogations, and brutal weather as the unit pressed through German positions.
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101St Infantry
Boston
Goldberg
10St
Framingham Camp
France
No Man’s Land
No Man's Land
Patros
Roche
Bowie
Foley
Riley
Paris
Kelley
House of Mystery
Red Cross
Hed Beer
Kamerad
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Lys Salient
Haig
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Hlayaaaaan
U. S
Canals
Nujol Laboratories Standard Oil CO
New Jersey
Broadway
New York
The
Border
America
Beaconsfield
Harts
Washington ST
Old South Church
Gayety Theatre
Waitt & Bond
Blackstone
Sumatra
Havana
Esonn
OTEM
101St
Boxford
Fion
oHars
United Shirt & Collar CO
Troy, M
Civil Service
A. B. Y. M. C. Union
Boylston Street
Beach
Meuse
Alsace
Senate
United States of Europe
News of Commerce and Finance
U. S. Fuel Administration
Britain
Joyce Kilmer
All News-dealers
Funk & Wagnalls Company
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