Allies Driving German Forces Toward Rheims In France
Allied offensives push the German center toward Rheims while the right wing struggles under mounting pressure from British and French advances. German retreat remains orderly as German troops fall back from Sezanne and Vitry, delaying any rout despite heavy losses.
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France
Sezanne
Vitry
London
Compiegne
Soissons
Rheims
Belgium
Alsace
Vosges
Duke of
Sinking of the Mainz at Helgoland Bight Reverberates Across Europe
European fronts shift as German Mainz sinks near Helgoland Bight. French and British reports describe a stretched German army retreating from Paris and Meaux while Allied counteroffensives push toward Aisne and Oise. Storied clashes unfold at Verdun, Nancy, and along the Meuse fortifications.
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MAINZ
Helgoland
Sir David Beatty
Helgoland Bight
David Beatty
Norman Wilkinson
Boston Post
Illustrated London News
Germans Lose 8000 Men Near Esternay in Battle
Paris reports Lieutenant Colonel Rousset of La Liberte says German forces suffered about eight thousand casualties four days earlier near Esternay. Prussian guards were stopped and driven behind marshes while French troops crossed the Marne and pursued the retreating enemy toward Ourcq. The move is expected to force General Von Kluck to abandon his northeast Paris pressure.
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Rheims
France
Vitry-le-Francois
von Buelow
Prince of Wuertemberg
Sedan
Metz
Paris
The
Marne
Belgium
Provins
la Ferte Gaucher
Esternay
Rousset
la Liberte
Saint Gond
Sezanne
Montmart
Ourcq
von Kluck
Germans Defeat Russian Left in East Prussia
In a Copenhagen dispatch Reuters reports General Von Benckendorff and Von Hindenburg defeated the Russian army's left flank in East Prussia. The move opens the way for a potential attack on the enemy's rear.
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London
Copenhagen
Reuter
von Beneckendorff
von Hindenburg
East Prussia
Russians Beaten by Germans at Lyck
Berlin dispatch reports the Twenty second Russian army corps of Finland failed to force entry into East Prussia by Lyck and were defeated. Lyck lies on Lake Lyck about 55 miles south of Gumbinnen.
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East Prussia
Berlin
Danzig
Alsace
Belgium
Germany
Mazur Lakes
Koenigsberg
Lyck
Russian
Poland
Galicia
Austria
Petrograd
Warsaw
Silesia
Breslau
Oder
Bosnia and Herzegovina
France
London
Spet
Reuter
Finland
Lake Lyck
Gumbinen
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Meaux
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Meuse
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Prussia
Litme
Far West
United States
Fred Harvey
Grand Canyon
Arizona
California
North Pacific Coast
Santa Fe California
C. L. Seagraves
Railway Exchange
Chicago
Inadaruion Journal
San Francisco
San Diego
W. Maye
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