16 Sep 1918
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1918
Page
1
The article reports on Austria seeking peace terms while Pershing’s troops press Metz and Allied aims target Galway Castle and U boat fortifications. It frames a negotiating Moses guiding a world toward a mirage of victorious peace under papal mediation.
The British steamer Galway Castle was torpedoed and sunk this morning after leaving port for South Africa. Of 960 on board 189 are missing, including 120 passengers and 34 crew, with 300 women and children aboard among the passengers. Henry Burton and Major Rabantine were among those aboard or missing as the ship foundered in a storm.
Washington indicates a peace offensive with Austria Hungary proposing mutual troop withdrawal from Murman North Russia and Germany offering Belgium neutral status then reestablished independence and trade links Belgium invited to discuss peace in a neutral venue while Holy See and neutrals kept informed.
Showers and cooler trends affect Ohio Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia. Monday showers in the south and east with cooler air. Tuesday fair and cooler. Temperatures listed for multiple stations including Cincinnati record 74? and 64 low with historical comparisons for September 15 1918.
Washington reports Germany and Austria are circulating a peace offer aimed at a face to face conference. President Wilson’s Baltimore speech remains the allied standard, urging force and a rule of law to end the war. Officials expect no round table talks unless a broad, nonbinding discussion at a neutral site is agreed.
Congress faces a week of war finance actions with the House taking up the war revenue bill and the Senate starting on the Liberty Bond measure. The House plans an $7,000,000,000 army emergency appropriation and votes before Saturday, while signaled recesses and adjournment options loom for October amid broader war measures and agricultural and water power bills.
London report says Premier Lloyd George, struck by influenza after a Manchester address, had a good night. His condition today is satisfactory with throat inflammation cleared, though a slight fever remains.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker returned from the American front after two days with troops at St Mihiel. He appeared mud covered, carrying a gas mask and helmet, and praised the troops spirit while observing German prisoners. He left Paris later for a multi day absence.
Camp Sherman reports almost all conscientious objectors granted farm furloughs. They will perform essential agriculture and raise funds for the Red Cross, with payments varying by assignment and some workers earning $60 monthly. Many are furloughed through November 1 to January 1, 1919.
A Helsingfors dispatch printed in Berlin reports the German Minister told Finland that German troops will not enter East Karelia to protect Finland and Sweden from warlike complications. If Great Britain and the Entente powers evacuate Karelia and the Murman coast, Germany will withdraw within an unspecified period.
Mrs Myron T Herrick wife of the U S ambassador to France in 1914 died at Bar Harbor Maine after a lingering illness linked to overwork in Paris during the German invasion era Her age was 60 Her husband will bring the body to Cleveland Ohio for burial Mrs Parmely Herrick born in Dayton became a prominent Ohio civic leader active in music war relief and Red Cross efforts in the state and Camp Sherman community work
Washington reports the second installment of secret documents showing German Imperial Bank finances to Bolsheviks and German plans to control Russia economically during and after the war. The notes detail large rouble and double credits, schemes to seize war materiel at Vladivostok, and a German warning on propagandists among German troops.
Report from Sept. 15 details Pershing’s forces advancing several miles along a 33 mile Metz front while fortress guns engage. Germans withdraw to protect rail lines as Americans reinforce positions near Norrey Haumont Doncourt Abaucourt. British report Mais seny village capture and German divisions reduced in the St Mihiel salient.
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