Decisive Battle Intensifies Across Lille to Ostend Front
London dispatch reports the battle between Lille and the Belgian coast as a crucial struggle shaping Germany’s French operations. German forces mobilize 500,000 troops and air units to break Allied lines around Ostend and the Dunkirk-Calais coast while Russians gain in the east. Verdun forts loom as a big gun objective as Germany fights to reverse the war.
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London
Lille
Belgian
Germany
France
Huxidred
Gértudn Littes
Teutons
Ostend
Callais
Dunkirk
Ger‘idny
Verdun
Belgian Note Denies German Claims Over Brussels Archives
Paris report says the Belgian legation rebutts claims in the North German Gazette about documents found in Brussels showing Belgian British cooperation against Germany. It argues a neutral stance was natural and that the 1911 Luxemburg dispatch arose from a private initiative. London dispatch warns of swindlers preying on families of missing officers, exploiting their distress for money.
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Paris
Legation
Brussels
Germany
Havas
Bordeaux
Belgium
Baron Greindl
Luxemburg
London
Refugee relief fraud reported in wartime Holland scam
Refugees told the American Relief Committee of pretender relief workers in Holland posing as aid staff. Agents on commission circulated among trains, pressuring bookings and selling bogus rooms. A London bound gull told to lend cash, while a man allegedly kept drawn funds and sold worthless tickets to Liverpool.
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London
Relef Committee
Holland
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Germany
Relief Committee
Liverpool
Sixth Street Closed for City Improvements
The Johnson-Shea company closed Sixth street from Main to West Sixth at Yorba for work. Visitors to Corona should use West Tenth street and Yorba to reach Sixth, then turn onto West Tenth to enter the city via Yorba and Sixth.
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Johnson-Shea Company
Sixth Street
Main Street
West Sixth
Yorba Street
Corona
West Tenth Street
Sixth
City
Yorba
Harvest Dance Opens Season at Corona Country Club
The Corona Country club hosted its second annual Harvest Dance at the club house on West Olive and Vicentia streets. About thirty couples attended including guests from Riverside and Los Angeles. Music by Mrs. A W Bates piano Mrs O W Rife violin and Jas G Bennett drums. French marigolds adorned the venue and punch was served as couples danced into midnight.
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Corona Country Club
West Olive and
Victia ‘Streets
Vicentia
A. W. Bates
O. W. Rife
Jas. G. Bennett
Retains Attorney to Get Out of Post Office
Joe Colton Utah Oct 24 Lyman Marble merchant and postmaster here has retained an attorney to be released from his official position. His term expired over a year ago but the government has failed to appoint a successor or to release him or his bondsmen. Marble says parcel post growth has caused serious losses and he has placed his own goods outside his store to free space for mail matter.
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Colton
Utah
Lyman
Marble
Japanese Cruisers Escort Shinyo Maru Across Pacific
Off the Golden Gate today the Japanese cruisers Kongo and Asama escort the Shinyo Maru across the Pacific. Japan maintains eight warships guarding Pacific trade routes.
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San Francisco
Kongo
Asama
Golden Gate
Pacific Ocean
Japan
Horrors of War Evidenced in France Letteral Tragedy Pictured
In France a letter from an unnamed first lieutenant, cited by the Cologne Gazette, depicts the war’s tragedy. The Hague reports the veteran’s account highlights the human cost and brutality faced by soldiers.
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France
the Hague
Cologne
German Lieutenant Gains Distinction
The Hague Oct 18. Lieutenant Otto von der Line of the 5th guard regiment receives Pour le Merite for storming Fort Mansoni Namur on August 24 with four men. He describes advancing across an open field through mines, forcing surrender, capturing officers and men, and hoisting a German flag after taking the fort. He notes wartime suffering at home and recalls a chasseur officer killed and a comrade's quiet death.
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The
Hague
Associated Press
Otto von der Line
Gaston Forgues
Bordeaux
Embassy reports 80,000 Germans and Austrians held in France
The American Embassy in Paris explains Germany and Austria's civilians, about 80,000, are detained in eleven French towns as enemy aliens. Some are released for health or special reasons, while many live in squalid camps with limited food and censored letters. Count Pejacsevich is noted among the detainees.
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France
Paris
Germany
Austria
Count Pejacsewich
Croatia
Slavonia
Dalmatia
Vichy
Hfe
Switzerland
Gons
Gerdmans
Fydfich
Miss Marie Bowers Attends Colton County Fair
Colton witnesses Miss Marie Bowers at the county fair as she visits booths and enjoys the event on the fairgrounds. She engages with vendors and attends the day’s activities.
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Marie Bowers
Colton
France Mourns Loss of Senator Emile Reymond Aviator
Paris reports the death of Dr Emile Reymond a renowned amateur aviator and president of the National Aviation committee and a French senator He died after a Verdun combat while rescuing a fellow aviator and was awarded the Legion of Honor posthumously President Poincare sent condolences to his widow describing his death as a cruel blow and his courage as an honor to the parliament
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Paris
France
Emile Reymond
National Aviation Committee
Havas
Verdun
Legion of Honor
Briand
Reymond
Poincare
German Ambassador Reiterates Pledge to U S
Washington dated dispatch reports German Ambassador Bernstorff assuring the United States early in the war that Germany would respect the Monroe Doctrine regardless of the outcome. The ambassador said he informed American officials of Germanys stance in this matter.
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United States
Washington
Bernstorff
Germany
German Losses in Channel Coast Fight Put at Ten Thousand
A Dunkirk dispatch to the Chronicle reports total German casualties around ten thousand in the channel coast fighting. It says seven hundred Germans buried near Nieuport and thirty thousand who had entrenched between Ostend and Nieuport retired to Ostend leaving much equipment. The British fleet bombardment allegedly wrecked a convoy eight miles long.
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London
Channel
Chronicle
Dunkirk
Nieuport
Ostend
Wandering Menace or Meaningful Drifter in Town
A fragment notes people drifting through life with aims unclear and success distant. It ponders the value of such wanderers and whether they harm or help, hinting at a cautious curiosity about purpose and social usefulness.
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Aimi
German submarine returns safely to port after Hawke sinking
Official Berlin report confirms a German submarine that sank the British cruiser Hawke has returned to port. The publication also confirms the sinking of the Norwegian coast steamer Glitra by a German submarine.
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Amsterdam
Odt
Berlin
Stead Glitera
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