Americans and Mexicans Clash at Nogales
Armistice declared after fighting along Main street in Nogales. A Mexican custom guard killed an American guard, sparking heavy gunfire from machine guns and infantry. Three Americans were dead, 28 wounded, and estimates place 100 Mexicans slain as Brigadier General Derosy Cadgell and General P Elias Calles head to investigate.
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Associated Press
Nogales
Main Street
Herman
Joseph D. Hungerford
Negro Cavalry
Felix Penaloza
Sonora
United States
Derosy Cadgell
P. Elias Calles
French Occupation Deepens As German Retreat Accelerates
On a 55 mile front north of the Scarpe to south of Roye allied forces press eastward while the Picardy and Artois battle rages violently. British and French gains threaten Ludendorff's plan to fall back to the Hindenburg line as Roye falls and Somme retreat accelerates with heavy losses to the Germans.
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Associated Press
London
Scarpe
Roye
Picardy
Artois
Paris
Ludendorff
Hindenburg
Debeney
Somme
Oise
Arras-Douai
Greenland Hill
Canal
Mexican border placed under General Holbrook control
Washington reports General March announced that the Mexican border is now under the control of General Holbrook, commander of the southern department, with the development disclosed this morning.
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Associated Press
Washington
Holbrook
Southern Department
March
Nogales Peace Holds After Cabell Abasolo Talks
Following the conference between General Cabell and Captain Abasolo commander of the Mexicans at Nogales it was announced that the danger of a resumption of hostilities were over.
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Associated, Press
Nogales
Cabell
Abasolo
Trials of German generals involve public news reports
Amsterdam August 27 German war experts are at odds explaining the west front. Ludendorff’s twice daily communiques claim victorious repulses, yet each cited scene of fighting appears further east in successive locations.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
West Front
Ludendorff
German Soldier Holds Idea of New Government After War
With the British in France, Aug. 27, German prisoners express desire for change in Germany. A Baden soldier says he and fellow troops have had enough of war and hope Baden becomes an independent republic after the conflict.
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Associated Press
France
Germany
Baden
Senator Ollie M. James Dies After Illness in Kentucky
Washington reported the death of Sen Ollie M James of Kentucky at 6 50 AM after a long illness at a hospital He served five terms in the House from Kentucky 1st district and was elected to the Senate in 1912 He was born July 27 1871 in Critenden County Kentucky and married Ruth Thomas in 1908 with no children He had supported war policy and died following kidney inflammation and complications after treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Associated Press
Washington
Ollie M. James
Kentucky
Democratic Party
Congress
United States
General Assembly
Critgenden County
James
L. H. James
Chicago
William Jennings Bryan
United States Senate
Ruth Thomas
R. Y. Thomas
Marion
Patterson
N. J
William Hughes
Johns Hopkins
Marshal Burwell Dead After Appendicitis Operation
Amarillo Texas reports W. M. Burwell, recently nominated for U S marshal of the northern district, died at midnight following an appendicitis operation.
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Marshal Burwell
Associated Press
Amarillo
Tex
W. M. Burwell
Northern District
Army Officers at College Promoted to Higher Ranks
Captain F W Zeller commanding officer of the army training detachment at A and M college is now a major. Lieutenant Fred Slantz and Lieutenant P J Nee have been commissioned as captains in the United States army. Both are assigned to duty at the college camp and praised for their capability and service. He lives in Chicago. family resides with him at College during detail. The promotions follow exams and earlier commissions dating to 1917.
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F. W. Zeller
Army Training Detachment
A. and M. College
Infantry
U.S. Army
Adjutant General’s Department
Washington
Zeller
National Army
Camp Harrison
Indiana
83Rd
Chillicothe
Ohio
Nee
Camp Vail
New Jersey
College Camp
Allies Reach 112000 Prisoners Since July First
Washington reports that allies have taken over 112000 prisoners since July 1 and seized 1300 German field guns or larger. General Mareh said the British advance overran the Hindenburg line by one mile on a three mile front since Saturday.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mareh
Hindenburg Line
Germans Murder Survivors After Lydi ana Sinking
Details from London date August 28 reveal the French steamer Lydi ana sunk off the north coast of Spain on July 16. Germans deliberately murdered most of the 38 people lost as lifeboats with survivors were rammed.
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Associated Press
London
Spain
SCHOONER SUNK CAPTURED BY GERMAN SUBmarine
A three masted schooner Bianca was captured and sunk by a German submarine Saturday night near Newfoundland. The crew landed today at an Atlantic port.
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Associated Press
Newfoundland
Bianca
Americans on Vesle Aug 28 Report
Withs the Americans on the Vesle Aug 28 The situation along the Vesle is altering though curiously The American pressure has not increased and their guns are seldom trained on the lines in front but rather on the bridges over the Aisne near the Vesle sector.
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Associated Press
Vesle
Aisne
Soldiers Shot for Refusing Orders in German Battalion
Amsterdam reports persistent rumors that officers and men from a German battalion refused to obey orders to the front. It claims every tenth man was shot while the rest advanced to the front, according to Associated Press dispatches from August 27.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Presidents of Western Colleges Meet Without Bizzell
President W B Bizzell of A and M College cannot attend the western college presidents conference at Fort Sheridan Illinois next Friday and Saturday. Prof J W Ridgway will represent the college at the event to discuss curricula administrative problems and the army training detachments.
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W. B. Bizzell
M. College
Western College
Fort Sheridan
Ill
War Departments On
Bizzell
J. W. Ridgway
R.it. C
British Forces Advance on Estaires Road in Flanders
Associated Press reports the British line in Flanders has extended four miles along the Neuf Berquin Estaires road. British troops recaptured large ammunition dumps left from spring retreat and seized German stores.
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Flanders
Estaires Road
Associated Press
London
Neuf Berquin-Estaires Road
Texan Casualties in World War I Listed by Status
The report from the commanding general of the American Expeditionary Forces lists casualties by state and type. Texans include several killed in action, wounded severely, and missing, with officers and enlisted ranks totals and a grand statewide subtotal. The overall casualty tally across all states totals 2953, plus a separate AEF report noting 21 additional casualties.
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Associated Press
Washington
Joseph Baldwin
Tyler
Guy McCarty
Grandview
Edward H. Emmons
San Augustine
Wm. A. Herron
Wills Point
James M. Miller
Houston
Milo J. W. Warner
el Paso
Robert E. Beauchamp
Bullard
Joseph B. Turner
Hampshire
Henry S. Wiggins
Ennis
William H. Braswell
Denton
Albert L. Childers
Rateliff
Sherif R. Dingler
Wes C. Clifton
Mahl
Harold C. Martin
Lee Adams
Oakhurst
J. Anders
Stamford
Jesse H. Alexander
Groveton
Henry Hill
Pilot Point
William Pickett
Golden
Marine Corps
American Expeditionary Forces
Prairie View institute for negro teachers cancelled
Efforts to hold a union institute for negro teachers at Prairie View Normal failed due to housing taken by negro soldiers in training. The Brazos county institute will be held locally as before, around the first week in October.
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Prairie View Normal
Brazos County
German Retirement in the Oise Aisne Fronts Reported
Activity behind the German lines near the Aisne and Avre fronts has surged after French successes around Roye. German forces appear to be preparing for an eventual withdrawal from the Oise Aisne region as Allied advances continue.
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France
Aisne
Avre
Roye
British Troops Penetrate Austrian Lines Along Asiago Front
British forces on the Italian front pushed deep into Austrian positions near Asiago and Canove, inflicting heavy casualties and taking 200 prisoners. The raid targeted Canove area positions as well.
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Associated Press
London
Asiago Front
Canove
Allied Forces Advancing Against Bolsheviks in Siberia
Pekin reports General Semenoff, anti Bolshevik leader, crossed the Siberian frontier and retook Matziev ski station near Manchuria. Japanese troops clash with Bolsheviks near Dauri. Allies reportedly operate the railway line.
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Associated Press
Pekin
Semenoff
Siberian
Matzievski Station
Manchuria
Dauri
Bolsheviki retreat north of Vladivostok advances
On the Ussuri front north of Vladivostok the bolsheviki have retired six miles before the general allied advance.
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London
Ussuri
Vladivostok
Entente forces clash with Bolsheviki in allied engagement
Archangel August 28. Entente allied forces engaged the Bolshevik red guards and dispersed the Bolshevik river flotilla. The allies have been generally successful in all engagements with the enemy.
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Associated Press
Archangel
Bolsheviki Red Guards
Three More Treaties Signed With Russia
Copenhagen reports that German and Russian plenipotentiaries signed three supplementary treaties to the Brest-Litovsk agreement, according to an official Berlin telegram.
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Russia
Associated Press
Copenhagen
Brest- Litovsk
Berlin
Seven Dutch fishing boats sunk by German sub sinks
Ymuiden Aug 26. Seven fishing boats have been sunk by a German submarine. Three were Dutch registered. The crews have been landed here.
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Associated Presa
Ymuiden
Helland
French occupy Chaulnes and advance toward the Somme
Paris reports Chaulnes occupied by French troops and progress toward the Somme with 30 villages, including Omiecourt and Balatre, captured. British reach Troneswood and Fouencourt falls to the British. German retreat broadening as Somme lines shift with 2000 prisoners taken by Canadian forces.
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Chaulives
Somme
Associated Press
Paris
Chaulnes
Omiecourt
Balatre
Boiglise
Verpillers
Trones Wood
Merchant Steamer Sinks Patrol Boat Off Fire Island
A U S patrol boat was fired on and sunk by a merchant vessel fifteen miles off Fire Island at 2 o clock. Thirteen crewmen are reported lost and eight injured. The American submarine chaser No. 209 from Philadelphia was sunk. the Felix Taussig, a U S merchant steamer, carried the gun crew of naval reserve.
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Associated Press
New York
U. S
Fire Island
Philadelphia
Felix Taussig
Naval Reserve
Stop Drafting Aliens Ordered Halt by Provost Marshal General
State draft boards drafting subjects of neutral nations without consent have been ordered to stop by Provost Marshal General Crowder. The order specifically restrains drafting Mexicans into the service after protests in Washington by the State Department over neutrality issues.
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Associated Prese
Dallas
Crowder
Washington
State Department
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Chauines
Gen. Holbrook
Ollie James
Western Colleges
Arras
Harcourt, Reny
Bairy Notre Dame
Arras- Cambrai Road
War Office
Britigh
Italy
Bolsheviki
the Somme
Foucaucourt
Troneswood
Mangin
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