Allied Offensives Push Turks and Bulgars Across Fronts
The Entente forces press the war across Palestine to the Sea of Galilee and the Balkan front. Allenby’s armies rout Ottoman forces, capture 25,000 soldiers and 260 guns, while allied air raids target Constantinople. In Serbia and Macedonia, Serbians, French, Italians, and Britons drive Bulgarians and Germans back, sever rail lines, and threaten envelopment. French and British gains near St Quentin and Cambrai aim at breaking the Hindenburg Line as Haig advances north of St Quentin. In eastern Siberia Japanese troops seize Blagoveschensk and Alexievsk with 2,000 Austro-German surrender.
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Sea of Galilee
Jordan
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Constantinople
Serbia
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Epehy
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Blagoviestschensk
Amur
Alexievsk
Bulgaria Ready for Peace Talks Says Government
Bulgaria replies to the Austrian peace note stating readiness to send delegates to a conference. It affirms no intent for conquests or regional hegemony and expresses sympathy with President Wilson's Balkan settlement principles respecting nationalities.
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Amsterdam
Bulgaria
Wilson
Yankee raid repulsed near Champ Fontaine farm
General Pershing reports in a Sept. 22 communique that a enemy raid from Dampiteux to the Champ Fontaine farm area on Sept. 20 was repulsed with American casualties limited to one wounded officer. Two enemy officers and about 100 men, armed with six heavy and two light machine guns, were driven off after artillery fire and an infantry engagement. three enemy prisoners and one heavy machine gun were captured.
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Washington
Champ-Fontaine Farm
Pershing
American Expeditionary Forces
Dampiteux
Smashing Through to Berlin portrays World War I history
Tremont Temple screened Smashing Through to Berlin, a two hour motion picture tracing the war from the Archduke assassination to American troops in France. It blends actual footage and dramatic similes to convey vivid events, underscoring unity and the Liberty Loan effort.
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Berlin
Francis Ferdinand
Austria
France
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Verdun
Lusitania
Atlantic
Allied advances sharpen as Allenby drives in Palestine
Despatches report growing victory for Allied forces in Palestine under General Allenby. The British army is said to have decimated Turkish resistance and as operations on the western front slow, the foe faces coordinated pressure from French, British and American troops. Bulgaria nears elimination as Foch aims to strip Kaiser’s remaining allies.
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Palestine
Allenby
France
German mood in Berlin and food scarcity noted in report
A neutral diplomat who recently traveled through Germany said Berlin’s food situation is dire with foreigners surviving on supplied provisions. He observed the German people crushed by recent events and losing free criticism while drifting to collective behavior as if anticipating another disaster.
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Paris
Germany
Berlin
Teutons in retreat in Macedonia
British troops reach the Kara Oghlular and Hamzali line between the Vardar and Doiran and push toward Mrzentsi on the Vardar’s west bank as reported by the British War Office.
Entente Forces Push Enemy From Doiran to West of Vardar
Allied troops press the enemy across a vast front from Doiran to the Vardar's west. The retreat follows heavy air and ground attacks by British Greek French and Serbian units. The foe torched Hudova station and dumps at Cestovo Tike and Tatarli as troops poured north along battered roads. Royal Air Force bombed and machine gunned positions while advancing forces reached Kara Oghlular Hamzali near Bogdania and near Mrzentsi in contact with Greek units at Gurinchet.
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Doiran
Hudova
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Tike
Tatarli
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Bogdania
Mrzentsi
Gurinchet
Another Move In His Peace Offensive
London reports the Erzberger article on the League of Nations is seen as another move in the enemy peace offensive. The Westminster Gazette questions Erzberger’s trust, noting his dove image and past Reichstag resolutions on annexations and indemnities abandoned after Brest-Litovsk.
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London
Mathias Erzberger
League of Nations
Berlin
Herr Erzberger
Westminster Gazette
Brest-Litovsk
Allenby’s Victory Called Master Stroke in Palestine
London dispatch hails General Allenby’s Palestine triumph as a model of plan and execution. Cavalry use praised. immediate effect expected to free the Holy Land. Turkish disaster foreseen to affect Constantinople Sofa Mesopotamia and Persia. Telegraph warns Ottoman empire may be imperiled while Morning Post calls for diplomacy to detach Turkey from the central powers.
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Constantinople
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Mesopotamia
Persia
Caucasus
Daily Telegraph
Ottoman Empire
Morning Post
Turkey
The Man Who Went at the Copley Theatre
The Henry Jewett Players present The Man Who Went at the Copley Theatre Boston with RE Clive as Dick Kent a spy who dupes Jack Thornton and the Spyette in a tale of intrigue romance and mistaken identities No shots are fired and the ending leaves Evelyn Thornton poised for further trust with Dick as the next Jewett offering is Officer 666
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Copley Theatre
Henry Jewett Players
Secret Service
England
Dick Kent
RE. E. Clive
Jack Thornton
Vienna
Jack
Evelyn Thornton
Jewett Players
Japanese Victorious in Siberia Occupy Blagovестченск and Alexievsk
Tokyo claims Japanese cavalry occupied Blagovестченск and Alexievsk in Amur Province after converging from Khabarovsk and Tsitsihar on Sept 18. About two thousand Austro German troops surrendered at Kokka after arms were laid down. A separate enemy force retreated to the upper Zoya River.
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London
Associated Press
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Siberian
Amur
Alexievsk
Kokka
Blagoviestchensk
Khabarovsk
Tsitsihar
Zoya
Reign of terror reports from Soviet cities reach State Department
Washington reports recount wholesale killings of former officers and others deemed dangerous to the Soviet regime. Details include night executions in cellars with muffled guns and death warrants signed by Bloshevik authorities. Secretary Lansing cited possible action despite no formal reply from neutrals.
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State Department
Russia
Peters
Bloshevik
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Lansing
Moscow
Petrograd
Committee On Public Information
Constantinople Bombed by British Aviators
The British Royal Air Force bombed Constantinople on Friday and Saturday of last week, according to an admiralty communication released tonight. The city faced an aerial attack with official confirmation from London.
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London
Constantinople
Royal Air Force
Admiralty
Boston political tumult as Gaston rivals rise in primary
Boston's Democratic and Republican candidates clash in a tight primary. Gaston leads in the city with Larry Lomasney and Peters all supporting him while Barry gains in the western suburbs. In Congress, Gallivan edges Curley in the 12th, with close fights in the 9th and 11th districts and Republican battles for lieutenant governor and attorney general shaping the statewide race.
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Gaston
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Peters
Martin Lomasney
Barry
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Lomasney
Scigliano
John J. Mahoney
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John I. Fitzgerald
U S Orders Women to Take Men s Jobs
The order requires all to work or fight with community boards in Massachusetts determining essential versus non essential work. Women will fill roles men leave, as boards assign positions in industries like gun and gas mask production. A labor director will coordinate efforts and two women on each board represent labor and capital.
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Crowder
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New England
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Watertown
Boston Pressed Metal Company
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