Victorious Rush as British Press Front Advances Across France
British and French forces press the German line from Arras to the Somme driving back to the Hindenburg Line. Towns fall including Le Sars Le Barque Mumentz Wood and Mu mentz as British shells and captures mount, 17,000 prisoners taken, and air battles favor Allies with multiple enemy aircraft downed.
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Noyon
Rhelis
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Somme
Bray
Mumentz
Mumentz Wood
Martinpuich
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le Burque
Bapsume
le Barque
Fiwo
Bapaume
Bapaume-Albert Road
Hindenburg
Cunard Not Liable for Lusitania Loss Says Court
In New York on August 26 the Cunard Steamship Company was found not liable for deaths and property losses from the Lusitania sinking. Judge Julius M Mayer ruled the German submarine’s illegal act caused the disaster and fault rests with Germany. He dismissed nearly $4 million claims by Lusitania heirs while noting rights to future reparations.
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New York
Cunard Steamship Company
Lfe
Admiralty Branch
United States District Court
Julius M. Mayer
Mayer
Cunardine
United States of America
Minnesota cyclone victims reach total of thirty one
Tyler residents injured in Wednesday night tornado die, raising deaths to 31. Eight of the most seriously hurt are not expected to recover. Home guards Red Cross workers and local citizens aided recovery efforts as water supply returned and electric lighting remained out. Reestablished wire communications hoped today. Extra nurses and supplies arrived from Minneapolis St Paul and other cities.
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Tyler
Minn
Red Cross
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Sugar price set to rise slightly for consumers
The food administration announced that the sugar equalization board will buy all sugar at the old price and resell to holders at the new price to reduce price inequalities between old and new crop releases. The rise to consumers is expected not to exceed half a cent.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
Sugar Equalization Board
Seven Seamen Die as Steam Pipe Bursts on Transport
An Atlantic port report says seven seamen were killed and others injured when a steam pipe burst aboard an American transport docked in the harbor. Fourteen coal passers were in the auxiliary coal room. rescuers found seven fatally scalded. Naval officials provided no details and no police report was filed. The vessel, once a leading German liner, had been taken by the government and was undergoing repairs.
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Naval Reserve
France
Swedish freighter warned against American trade
An Atlantic port reported a Swedish freight steamship was stopped by a German submarine 70 miles off the coast. After holding the vessel for an hour to inspect papers, the U-boat commander allowed it to proceed with a warning that continued American trade could lead to sinking.
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Atlantic
Stop Cantonment Construction
Washington reports the War Department halted plans to convert national guard mobilization camps into permanent cantonments with wooden buildings. Orders stop work where begun and cancel the Camp Shelby project valued at 5,107,000 dollars.
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Washington
National Guard
War Department
Camp Shelby
Miss
Prohibition and Draft Bills Dominate Congress Agenda
Washington August 6 The House has passed the prohibition measure and draft bill extending the military draft ages to 18 45 is up for action. The war tax plan and a non suffrage vote are also on the horizon with sharp debates expected on youth under 21 and work or fight provisions. Prospects include swift Senate passage and conference negotiations.
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Washington
House
Congress
Senate Miliary Committee
Senate
Wilson
Ways and Means Committee
Lody
Lenine and Trotzky Reported Aboard German Warship
Washington dispatch says Lenin and Trotzky are aboard a German warship at Kronstadt awaiting passage to Germany. Petrograd endures a reign of terror with more than 30,000 arrests in the past month.
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Washington
Lenine
Trotzky
Kronstadt
Germany
Petrograd
Swedish move to rescue 200 refugees from Petrograd
Ashington Aug 23 Sweden has been asked by the Moscow consular office to send a ship to Petrograd to evacuate 200 refugees or secure passage through Finland for them. The refugees are believed to be American and allied citizens. The German government refused safe conduct, while Bolshevik authorities would permit departure for consuls, as Britain and France arrange to leave Moscow. Negotiations hinge on allied protection for Soviets in northern Russia.
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Sweden
Moscow
Petrograd
Finland
Russia
England
China
Bolsheviks Declare War on United States in Dispatches
A Petrograd dispatch reports Bolshevik authorities declaring war on the United States. Vice Consul Imbrie says he lowered the U S flag over the Petrograd consulate and closed the post, transferring duties to the Norwegian consul as Americans around 20 in Petrograd were urged to depart. Secretary Baker announced U S forces, the Thirty first regiment, have arrived at Vladivostok from Manila.
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Washington
Russia
State Department
Robert W.imbrie
Petrograd
United States
Imbrie
Poole
Moscow
Vlndivostok
Manila
Baker
Enemies at Fort Douglas Shot by Guard
Seven enemy aliens at Fort Douglas prison camp were shot by a guard after they refused to disperse and attacked him with stones. One prisoner was seriously wounded. others sustained minor injuries. A tunnel under a building was later found.
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Fort Douglas
Salt Lake City
Utah
Think Subs Communicate With Spies
Information from officers of ships attacked by German submarines along the American coast strengthens belief that the enemy raiders have had contact with people on shore and may have landed crew members to obtain reliable information.
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Washington
Drink family gains three months reprieve amid bone dry shift
Washington reports a three months delay in the liquor crackdown. April 1 replaces January 1 as the stop date for liquor sales while beer and wine production rules stay in place. Congressional leaders aim to pass the manpower bill before the bone dry amendment.
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Washington
Congress
No Wool To Be Used In Civilian Clothing this Year
San Francisco August 23 The army navy and Red Cross require 900000000 pounds of wool. The United States wool administrator Lewis Penwell says production will be about 280000000 pounds and no wool will go to civilian clothing due to war demand. He notes only wool for paper makers felt fume bags for smelters and gaskets for storm engines may be released as war uses. Hand knitting yarn will not be made and orders will stop production of fancy Indian blankets and Navajo rugs.
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Army
Navy
Red Cross
Lewis Penwell
United States
Oregon
Penwell
Mr. Penwell
OBJECTORS PUT IN SERVICE AT CAMP LEWIS
Six men who claimed conscientious objector status were ordered to active duty by Camp Lewis authorities in Tacoma on August 24. The order warns that refusal to accept duties could bring court martial.
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Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Conscientious Objectors
War News Briefs From Around the World
Military aeronautics chief says the Great Army air program is largely ahead of schedule with 3,000 pilots trained and squadrons ready. War trade board funds and power plant projects eyed by Congress. Owensboro distillery plant destroyed with massive whisky and tax losses. Russian officers released from Aleutian barracks amid Moscow pressure. Baruch orders 25 percent cut in weekly publication sprawl for country papers. Greece receives Senate support for indemnity over 1909 riots. Camp Lewis ends indefinite industrial furloughs for shipyard skilled workers. Safe robbery in San Francisco yields cash and Liberty bonds. McAdoo cites troop transport strain on crowded trains. Moscow reports mass executions of officers. Germans deploy gas masks on pigeons and use parachutes on damaged planes.
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America
Kenly
Senate Aircraft Report Calls for One Man Control of Aviation
A senate military subcommittee report on aircraft investigations urges one man in charge of aviation through a new department headed by a cabinet member. It faults auto manufacturers for failures and praises recent progress toward guaranteed quantity production of planes.
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America
Senate Military Subcommittee
Department of Aviation
Department of Justice
Charles E. Hughes
Thomas
Colorado
Reed
Missouri
Smith
Georgia
New
Indiana
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Senate
Captured Trawler Raids Fishing Fleets Off Nova Scotia
A Canadian Atlantic Port report says the steam trawler Triumph newly armed with two guns and wireless, crewed by 16 Germans from the U boat, is raiding fishing banks off the Nova Scotia coast. Sunk vessels include the Ann P. Saunders of Luneburg, the EB Piatt Andrew of Gloucester, and the Francis J. O Hara of Boston.
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Canadian Atlantic
Triumph
Nova Scotia
Ann P. Saunders
Luneburg
EB. Piatt Andrew
Gloucester
Mass
Francis J. O'Hara
Boston
Debating Waterpower Bill Faces House Clash Over Recapture Clause
Washington Aug 23 Debates opened in the house on the administration waterpower bill creating a leasing system for navigable streams. Representative Ferris of Oklahoma led opposition to the recap ture clause to allow federal or municipal seizure of plants at license end.
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House
Administration
Ferris
Oklahoma
Public Lands Committee
Joint Committee On Waterpower
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