Allies Press In Picardy as German Front Breaches Grow
Paris reports 36,000 Allied prisoners and 500 guns seized as French, British and American forces push from Montdidier toward Roye and Noyon. Chaulnes falls to Australian and Canadian troops while Germans retreat along the Somme line amid stiffening resistance and disorderly withdrawals.
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Paris
Picardy
Montdidier
Marquivillers
Roye
Grivillers
Montdidier-Roye
War Office
Avre
Olse
Oise
Noyon
Cambronne
Machmént
Montidier
Canny-sur-Matz
Lassigny
Hindenburg
Guyencourt
Thiescourt
von Hutier
Somme
L Eschell- St. Aurin
Boulogne-La Grasse
Bus
Matz
la Berliere
Cury
Moreuil-Lamotte
Chevrincourt
Arras
Albert
Kemmel
Flanders
Chaulnes
Bray
Meautte
Etinhem
Framerville
Lihons
Hallu Station
Hallu
Parvillers
L’eschelle
Armancourt
Tilleloy Park
New U boat raid off Nantucket sinks fishing schooners
Washington reports a German submarine attacked shipping off Nantucket on August 12. The U boat is said to have sunk several fishing schooners and survivors are believed landed. Officials await full details before an official statement.
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Washington
Nantuckett
Navy Department
German Prisoners Reach Forty Thousand After Roye Evacuation
Allied forces report 40 000 German prisoners and 700 cannons captured as tanks and cavalry advance in Picardy. Surrenders increase along roads behind retreating troops. Gains extend over 30 miles with depths averaging 15 miles in several segments.
British motor boats vanish on Dutch coast expedition
Six British motor boats have failed to return from an expedition along the Dutch coast.
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London
Americans Bring Down Two German Planes
Paris August 12 Americans have brought down two German airplanes in the Toul sector. The action reports indicate successful engagements against enemy air forces with losses attributed to Allied anti aircraft and fighter units.
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Paris
Bolsheviki Rule in Russia Ends as Leaders Flee
Aug 12 reports Lenine and Trotsky have fled Moscow and are now said to be in Cronstadt as Bolshevik power collapses.
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Ludon
Russia
Cronstadt
Battle Report Brays Falls to Allied Troops
London reports a desperate street battle as British and American forces seize Brays. American troops now hold the important town following fierce fighting and occupation.
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Portant
Brays
German Submarines Active Off Atlantic Coast Reported Sinking
Boston Aug 11 Two steamers have been sunk by submarines off the Atlantic coast in addition to nine fishing schooners reported sunk. The alerts come as German U boats continue operations along the coastline.
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Boston
Mass
Atlantic
French Forces Push Forward Between Oise and Avre
French troops continue advancing between the Oise and the Avre rivers in the sector between Roye and Compiegne. The advance strengthens the line as fighting persists along the front in northern France.
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Oise
Avre
Germans Evacuate Big Transportation and Supply Center
London reports that French and British forces with American aid eliminated the Roye salient and forced a German evacuation. The Germans reportedly left large stocks of arms and supplies, many destroyed or removed, while Allied air power disrupted transport and bridges, causing near panic during retreat.
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London
Roye Salient
John Hodge Appointed England's Minister of Pensions
Rt Hon John Hodge MP has been named England's new minister of pensions. He has led in labor questions and helped form a council board to prevent labor disputes. Hodge is noted as a social religious and temperance speaker and has served as secretary of the British Tin Plate Workers association plus twice president of the labor representation commission.
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John Hodge
M. P
England
Pensions
Yanks Repulse Attacks Along the Vesle Frontier Rocks Cave Used by Germans
Franco-American forces repelled three German assaults along the Vesle in twenty four hours with machine guns and hand to hand fighting. An enemy counter attack netted eighty prisoners while a rock quarry cave near Longueval sheltering two regiments was shelled and rendered untenable. Allied observers note German trench digging and light artillery placements along Longueval to the Perles valley as aviation reports show no major gun emplacements yet.
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von Hutier
von Marwitz
Rock Cave
Longueval
France
Veste
Longuéval
Perles
Detroit 6 Cent Fare Triggers City Riots
Riots erupted in Detroit as trolley cars were overturned and workers menaced conductors and motormen during rush hour after the Detroit United railway halted service when passengers refused to pay the new 6 cent fare.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit United Railway
Lenine and Trotsky Plan Escape Amid Soviet Upheaval
Aug. 12 dispatches report the German embassy in Moscow moving to Pskov due to unrest. Lenine and Trotsky reportedly intend to flee to Germany if the crisis worsens as counter revolutionary activity spreads in Kazan, Novgorod, and the Riga region with Bolshevik leaders killed or replaced by Menshevik councils.
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Copenhagen
Moscow
Pskov
Berlin
Petrograd
Helsingfors
Finland
Reval
Esthenian
Isvestia
Russia
Kazan
Olschinsky
Novgorod
Rigs Zan
Greatest Allied Drive Surges as U S Troops Push Front
Washington reports General March urges relentless effort to keep the enemy running. Allied offensive shifts from defense to offense with the Rainbow division shining in the Shardy drive. In eight days the Forty second division breaks lines, captures prisoners, and routs multiple German units along a 16 kilometer march.
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General March
France
War Department
Reims
United States
Pershing
March
London
Soume
Ancre
Lorraine
Luneville
Marne
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