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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
9
News from London and Petrograd report the Atlantic liner Minnehaha, with 16 000 tons of munitions on each voyage, sunk by a submarine near Ireland. Fifty officers and crew are missing or drowned. the ship carried 140 crew and a race horse valued at 30000 dollars.
Haig reports raids behind German lines with losses of 34 aircraft in 48 hours. Allied bombers dropped six tons of bombs on Lille area targets including two aerodromes and a large ammunition dump near Roulers. Eight Allied planes missing after vigorous air combats. French war office notes moderate artillery activity with German planes brought down or damaged on Sept 11.
A Meredith Davis poem contrasts the flag over No Man s Land with the Poilu and a Hun soldier, praising the Stars and Stripes as savior of France and world freedom. The piece ends with a note that flag day is Sept 14 and the Star Spangled Banner was written after the Fort McHenry battle.
First hand accounts from survivors of the Leyland liner Devonian describe the sinking three weeks ago with four lives lost. An American crew member, a British gunner, the ship's carpenter and his assistant were among the dead.
American artillery units in France join the expeditionary force and advance in intensive training under French supervision. They use the latest French models including 75 millimeter and six inch howitzers as a youthful battery practices near elevated pavilions.
In Denver federal court Judge R. E. Lewis fined the Union Pacific Railroad company 100 dollars for two counts of violating the 28 hour livestock transportation law. Cattle were shipped from Canon Wyoming to Denver and the railroad representatives pled guilty.
Secretary of State revealed a 1916 letter from von Eckhardt to the Kaiser showing Swedish chargé Folke Cronholm in Mexico aided German efforts and receiving a potential secret award. The document, long in American hands, illuminates Sweden’s role as US and allies await explanations from Stockholm.
The paper begins distributing the New Universities Dictionaries with three coupons from different days. Readers pay 98 cents and mail-in readers receive postage arrangements. The volume has over 1200 pages plus 25 supplementary titles including a mail use guide.
The Havre dispatch cites Belgian civilians evacuated behind the German line. Koulers is completely emptied, Gstend cleared, Courtrai has sent about two thousand people, and Berlaer inhabitants are forced to Turcoing to labor on defenses. Slevdinge residents are compelled to work on military roads.
Paris claims Germans deliberately caused fires that ruined the cathedral of St. Quentin and then looted the city before burning it. Officers and the Twenty-fifth German division allegedly led teams that carried off furniture silverware pictures and valuables to Germany, even opening safes and shipping loot away.
Rome broadcast reports a Tirpitz faction forming in Mecklenburg led by "frightfulness" advocates uniting with stern peace talk leaders. The Vatican notes Pope Benedict XVI expresses concern but remains hopeful that German authorities can push peace forward through Clemente.
Report from Buenos Ayres describes Count von Luxburg fleeing crowds upon arrival from the interior. Argentine police and secret service provided escort to hide him inside the city, with the German minister insisting the public not blame Argentines. The count claimed ignorance of events and left the station with a guarded entourage.
Finance Commissioner John A Martin seeks authority to purchase Talbot's Grove from the Leroy Grit estate for a new city park in Park addition. Residents favor the purchase to convert the wild grove into a public park, despite competing bids and funding concerns.
Tehinaki, former deletant minister of trade, is appointed military governor of Petrograd. Admiral No Vordorveki, former Baltic fleet commander-in-chief, becomes minister of marine.
Reports from the front describe the Russian death battalion composed of women soldiers achieving a victory in the Zegevold region near Kien. They repelled a large German force and forced a retreat, though many militants were killed or wounded.
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