Allies Reach Key Junction Near Chateau Thierry Line
Allied forces push toward the Chateau Thierry Boissons line with the aim of cutting German rail access. French and American troops drive the Germans back along the Marne and around Solonons as prisoners and guns flood in from captured positions. The German retreat appears rapid as the Allies press from Soissons toward Mont Chevillon and beyond.
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Associated Press
Boibsons
Chateau Thierry
Aisne-Marnd
Chateau Thierry Boissons
Chateau Thiery
Marne
Solasons
Soissons
Vossoy
Oeulily
Solosons-Chateau Thierry-Rheims
Soissonus
Alles
Acros
Marce
Rheims
Chateau
Prmeny
Istata
March
Senate Military Affairs Committee
N. E
Penn
National Guard
Gouraud
Sconewall
Boissons
Paris
Marehmer
Men
Lake Garda
Viersy
Goissons
Foch
Chateau-Thierry
Myngin
Germans Withdraw From Rossignol Wood to British Hands
London July 10 The Germans under heavy pressure have been forced to withdraw from Rossignol Wood between Beutherne and Bucquoy and the strategically important section is now in British hands according to an official war office statement.
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Boerlin
London
Alame Marne
Chateauhierry
German War Office
Nouth
Marne River
Associated Press
Rossignol Wood
Beutherne
Bucquoy
War Office
Fifteen Die and Thirty Injured in Car Collision Near Chelsea
Gascon Michigan July 20 Fifteen persons were killed and 230 injured when a Detroit bound passenger car and a west bound freight car collided one mile west of Chelsea at eight o'clock tonight. Several dead were Detroit soldiers returning from Camp Curtis.
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Associated Press
Gascon
Mich
Chelsea
Detroit
Camp Custer
Madoo Will Decide On New Wage Proposals
Seattle July 20 Director General W G McAdoo will announce his decision on the board of railroad wages report regarding the wages of the mechanical craft July 25. The report notes French front activity and Allied advances around the Marne with German withdrawals and prisoner captures reported. The article highlights American divisions fighting beside French forces and prisoners taken by American troops.
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London
Marne
Retaler
Tates
Reuter
Madoo
Associated Press
Seattle
W. G. McAdoo
Government Administration
Board of Railroad Wages
Aisnt
Walt
Thureday
Aken
Coloniel
Olfm
Roosevelt Family Turmoil As Sons Reported Wounded or Dead
Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr is slightly wounded and hospitalized in Paris per a family message. Quentin Roosevelt is reported dead after a German air engagement. Captain Archie Roosevelt is recovering from severe wounds and Captain Kermit Roosevelt is en route to France after British decoration for gallantry. President Wilson expressed grief upon Quentin’s death.
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Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Paris
Colonel Roosevelt
Ted
Quentin Roosevelt
Archie Roosevelt
Kermit
Mesopotamia
S. S. Army
France
Washington
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
American League Parks To Close If No New Developments Arise
American League parks threaten immediate closure unless a new development arises. Bancroft Johnson says no appeal will be made on the War Department’s work or fight ruling as applied to players. Club owners plan a Cleveland meeting to decide season’s fate and address financial hardships from the potential shutdown.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Bancroft Johnson
Secretary of War
Baker
Cleveland
Johnson
500 000 Czech Slovaks Ready Desert Austria for U S
In St Louis Lieut Anthony Holy claims over 600000 Austrian army troops are ready to desert to aid the United States. He arrived to organize a Czecho Slovak recruiting office for the French government. He says many Bohemians were drafted early in the war.
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Austria
U.S
Associated Prose
ST. Louis
United States
Anthony Holy
Fire destroys church and barracks in Merlina tragedy
In Merlina Italy July 20 a fierce wind fueled a blaze that gutted the parish church at Ganal and nearly burned the adjacent barracks. Firemen with old equipment suppressed the flames while gendarmes and soldiers kept order as the church funeral for a young girl was interrupted and the coffin found cremated.
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Merlina
Italy
Ganal
Weather for Wyoming Forecast
Local showers Sunday. Monday probably fair with moderate temperatures. Clearer conditions expected later in the week as winds ease.
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Wyoming
Germans Allow German Service Men in Moscow
Berlin reports Moscow permits German soldiers to operate in civilian dress to protect the German embassy while declining a German battalion deployment. The Moscow government consents to numerous German troops serving in civilian attire.
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Moscow
Amsterdam
Berlin
Heinisch Weatphalische Zeitung
Essen Seye
Martin Endorsed Over Keating for Pueblo District Race
Pueblo democratic assembly endorses former Congressman John A. Martin for the Third district nomination to succeed Edward Keating. Endorsement vote was 245 to 85, with opposition tied to Keating’s early war legislation stance.
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Associated Presa
Pueblo
Colo
John A. Martin
Puello County
Democratic Assembly
Edward Keating
Martin
Keating
Teutonic Servility Theft at Dutch Town Schools
In Amsterdam on July 20 a bizarre incident saw three armed men two in military uniforms and one in a policeman's outfit posing as officials authorized to collect children’s vests. They paid small sums for leather straps and carried away loot. the ploy lasted days before being exposed as a swindle. The episode raises questions about how such authority could go unchallenged.
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Amsterdam
Hesen
Ile War
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Pennant
Bersy le Sec
Villamon- Poire
la Fiesleve Huleu Chouy
Neuilly St. Front and
Sonne- Jans
Monte de Paris
Belleau
Sotaln
Aubrive
Pourcy
Qureg
Solanons
Mont. Chezillon
Aline
Monthiers
Founelons
Mont Chevillon
Boise de Sud
Geronemel Farm
la Pleasier
Huleu, Parcy
Tinga, Ville, Montmoire
Berles Carmelles
Montaigne de Paris
Permant
Portenos
Alliea
Maruh
Ghurgh
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