Allies Hold Gains As HMNS Strike Back On Front
From Paris to Berlin reports say Allied troops including French British and American units maintain the line on the Soissons Reims front despite costly German counterattacks. American forces solidify positions at Nesles as heavy artillery duels continue along the long battle line. Berlin says Germans took over 4000 prisoners Tuesday and claim 24 000 since July 15 with 19 Allied aircraft shot down.
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Soissons- Reims
Foch
War Office
Reims
Switzerland
Soissons-Reims
Berlin
Reims-Soissons
Merris
Ypres
Major General C H Muir Leads 28th Division Against German Attacks
Major General C H Muir commands the Twenty eighth Pennsylvania National Guardsmen in Sergy and south of Cierges as German forces launch a major assault on the American front. The Americans repel the onslaught with heavy losses for the Germans. Prisoners report units cut almost in half and a subsequent push toward Seringes is repelled, while gains south of Cierges help press toward the hills between Seringes and Sergy with a captured German machine gun position.
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C. H. Muir
America
France
Pennsylvania National Guardsmen
Sergy
Cierges
Seringes
German high command urges confidence after Marne setback
Official dispatches from France describe Germany framing the second Marne battle as a defeat while vowing a decisive blow later. The note appeals to the interior front to maintain faith in Hindenburg amid shifting operations and strategic regroupings, signaling shaken confidence. Deputy Haussmann notes improved popularity for Von Kuehlmann after his fall.
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Washington
France
Germany
Marne
Hindenburg
Soissons
Reims
Champagne
Frankfurter Zeitung
Conrad Haussmann
von Kuehlmann
American Flyer Cadet Wallace Killed in Air Accident
Flight Cadet George Ripple Wallace of Washington Pennsylvania was killed in an airplane accident on July 26 while serving with the British air force, reported from London on July 31.
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London
George Rpple Wallace
Washington
Publisher Clarence Brown Dies in Toledo
Clarence Brown, attorney, capitalist, and state prominent politician who published the Toledo Times, died in Toledo, Ohio, on July 31.
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Toledo Times
Toledo, O
Clarence Brown
The
French and Americans Begin a New Turning Movement on Huns
Washington announces 300000 more draft men to be called in August amid Allied offensives. The action expands manpower as French and American forces push a new turning movement against the Huns.
Turning Movement Threatens German Forces East of Fere En Tardenois
Paris dispatch reports American and French troops initiating a major turning movement to compel German retirement over a broad sector east of Fere En Tardenois. A sharp thrust from Nesses aims to break into the German rear at the center Soissons Rheims salient.
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Fere EN Tardenois
Paris
Soissons-Rheims Salient
Federal government to supply unskilled labor through draft
Washington announces the Department of Labor and the employment service will assume full control of recruiting unskilled labor for war industries. Quotas by state will assign workers to war factories with an initial call immediately followed by a second by month end. Nearly a million men to move from non essential to essential work to support shipyards munition plants and overall war effort.
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The
Employment Service
Wilson
Washington
McAdoo
France
Tur
Railroad Administration
War Labor Board
General Electric Company
Lynn
Mass
Labor Board
Schenectady
Pittsfield
Franco American Forces Advance on Marne Front
American and Franco- American troops pushed beyond Sergy toward Chamery on the Marne front in a bid to straighten the line. German resistance was stubborn but the advance was appreciable.
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Marne
France
Sergy
Chamery
Coal Miners Agree to Surrender Holidays for Fuel
The Fuel Administration announced that Dr Garfield has secured assurances that coal miners nationwide will forgo holidays to boost fuel production in a patriotic effort during wartime.
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Washington, D. C
The
Fuel Administration Today
Garfield
Czecho Slav Forces Gain More Ground in Russia
Amsterdam reports that Czecho Slav forces opposing the Bolsheviks in Russia have advanced and captured Etaker inburg near the Siberian border, gaining additional territory in the conflict.
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Amsterdam
Russia
Etakerinburg
Siberian
Rebellion Threatens Bolsheviks Across War Torn Russia
Reports from Amsterdam and Copenhagen describe executions of Russian grand dukes by Bolsheviks and the assassination of Field Marshal von Eichorn and Captain Dressler in Kiev. Berlin and Moscow blame counter revolutionary plotting as Ukraine tensions rise amid war. The piece notes anti German sentiment spreading in Central Russia and links to the murder of German ambassador Count von Mirbach in Moscow.
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Amsterdam
Nicholas
Bayrische Landes Zitung
Moscow
London
Reuter
von Eichorn
Ukrainia
Dressler
Kiev
Cnb
von Wiehorn
Fichorn
Ukraine
Totterdamsche Courant
Count von Birbach
Russia
Karl Theifferich
Berlin
Copenhagen
Marshal von Eichorn
Captain Dressler
Ryanzan
Copeningen
Hermann von Michorn
Count von Mirbach
von Etchorn
Elehhorn
Cadet Flyer William Vann Weir Killed in Crash
Flying Cadet William Vann Weir of Gadsden Alabama died when his plane crashed at Carruthers Field Fort Worth at noon. The accident closed the field as authorities investigated the fatal incident.
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William Vann Weir
Fort Worth
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Gadsden
Ala
Carruthers Field
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Nesses
Birkbeck
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