Exhaustion Brings a Terrible Peace from Front Lines
A Times correspondent reports from behind British lines dated Sept. 19 describing the end of a great battle won by endurance. Troops and French forces dig in and press on foot by foot amid devastating shellfire and floods on the river, with heavy artillery at Soissons and renewed bombardment anticipated.
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Times
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Soissons
Aisne
France
Addes
Germans Increase Forces in Brussels
ANTWERP Sept 20 All information indicates German forces have grown at Brussels. A Ghent to Brussels messenger says Germans prevent news spread. A proclamation last Tuesday bans bicycles and motor cars. Carrier pigeon holders face war-law judgments. Since Sunday over 400 bicycles seized. orders to fire on any cyclist near the capital.
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Antwerp
Brussels
Ghent
Captured Steamer Crew Lands in India
London reports the Clan Matheson crew landed at Rangoon after their ship was sunk by the German cruiser Emden off False Point. The prisoners were transferred to the Marco Mannia and then to the Doore, arriving in Rangoon. The 4775 ton Glasgow-owned steamer sailed from Liverpool July 22 for Calcutta and passed Suez Aug. 5.
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London
Evening News
Rangoon
British India
Rangoon River
Clan Matheson
Liverpool
Calcutta
Suez
Glasgow
Rheims City Medal of Gothic Wonder and Joan of Arc
Rheims, in Marne, France, famed for its cathedral Notre Dame begun in 1211 and crowned French kings. Joan of Arc led the army to drive out the English and crown Charles VII on July 17, 1429, before later capture and execution in 1431.
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France
Joan of Arc
Charles VII
Cesar
Department of the Marne
Chalons
Paris
Notre Dame
Orleans
Seine
French Composer Magnard Shot by German Cavalry at Baron Villa
Paris dispatch reports Alberic Magnard a noted composer and son of Le Figaro editor Francis Magnard died after firing on two German cavalrymen in his Baron villa near the Aigle forest. A squadron then shot Magnard dead. his villa was burned and looted, valued at about $500,000, while his son-in-law escaped by posing as the gardener.
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Boston Post
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Aigle Forest
Alberic Magnard
Francis Magnard
le Figaro
Baron
Magnard
Magnard Gardner
Francis Maynard
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