British Third Army Opens Surprise Drive North of Ancre
British forces under General Byng launched a dawn offensive along a ten mile front from the Ancre to Moyenneville. Tanks and infantry broke the German line with a brief bombardment, seizing Achiet-le-Petit and advancing to Achiet-le-Grand and Moyenville as prisoners and guns fell into British hands.
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London
Courceles
Achiet-le- Petit
Moyenville
Beauvourt-Sur-Ancre
Ancre
Bexincourt-Sur-Ancre
Third Army
Byng
Achiet-le-Petit
Achiet-le-Grand
France
Haig
Adinfer and
Puisieux-au-Mont
Arras
Albert
Beaucourt
Dranoutre
Koudekot
Locus Hospice
Lyssa- Ment
Second Guards
British Open New Offensive Between Somme And Ancre Rivers
London Aug 22 British forces under Field Marshal Haig launched a major offensive between the Somme and Ancre rivers and advanced northeast of Merville to Neuf Berquin. German Seventeenth Army under General Von Be low fights a desperate defense around Baupaume as Achiet-le-Grande changes hands multiple times.
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London
Ancre
Moyenneville
Haig
Field Marshal Haig
Seventeenth Army
General von Be
British Allies Capture 100000 German Prisoners Since July 18
London reports that British and allied forces took 3000 prisoners in the Wednesday drive, bringing total German captives to 100000 since the July 18 turning point.
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HUMS
League Baseball Games a French Continue to Advance
French forces push on the Oise Aisne front driving German lines back. Thousands of prisoners are reported captured as the Allies maintain momentum while Germans fail to halt the advancing victors.
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Oise-Aisne
General Humbert presses on Noyon front in renewed push
Paris reports Lassigny captured and Sempigny fallen as Foch and Mangin forces advance along the Oise-Aisne front. French troops reach outskirts of Chiry-Ourscamps and Noyon looms as German resistance collapses. Final lines note multiple baseball scores across Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia.
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Paris
Lassigny
War Office
Foch
Pimprez
Oise
Chiry- Ourscamps
Sempigny
Mangin
Noyon
Oise-Aisne
Soissons
Aisne
Vesle
Plemont
Orval Wood
Chiry-Ourscamps
Carlepont Wood
Pontoise
Coucy-e-Chateau
Camelin-et-le-Fresne
Bierancourt
St. Aubin
Wilson Back At Capital After European Tour
President Wilson returned to Washington from Manchester Massachusetts where he spent a brief vacation. He held a long cabinet meeting in the afternoon and met with the Americanization committee before consulting with Secretary Baker at the State War and Navy building.
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Washington
Wilson
Manchester
Mass
Col
IK. M. House
State, War and Navy
Baker
Prussians Near Fismette Surrender with No Shots Fired
Aug 21 report from Vosle Front states sixty Prussian machine gunners were captured near Fismette by American detachments after prisoners revealed machine-gun positions. Americans say the Prussians deserted their posts and offered to surrender with no resistance. A German prisoner suggested retreat could boost German fighting spirit.
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Vosle
Fismette
Lismes
Germany
Montanan Torpedoed and Sunk in Foreign Waters
The American steamer Montanan of 6,659 tons gross was torpedoed and sunk on August 16 in foreign waters. Eighty-one survivors were landed, with five men reported missing from the civilian crew and naval armed guard. Navy officials anticipate capturing or destroying the raider Triumph amid renewed Grand Banks patrols.
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Washington
Naval Armed Guard
Navy Department
Quartermaster’s Department of the Army
David W. Johnson
Chester C. Eldridge
Triumph
Grand Banks
Kevery
Coast Guard
Department
Benson
Newark woman pleads guilty to wearing army officer uniform
Beatrice Duke of Newark New Jersey pleaded guilty in Hartford Connecticut federal court to unlawfully wearing a United States Army officer uniform and was sentenced to 20 days in jail.
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Hartford
French Advance Under Mangin Push From Soissons
On the extreme right wing east of the Oise the French attacked vigorously and captured Laval, reaching the edge of Pommiers near Soissons. Several thousand prisoners were taken, with one army corps capturing 1,600. The advance places troops on the plateau north of the Aisne to aid Mangin's right flank operations.
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France
The
Oise
Laval
Pommiers
Soissons
Aisne
Mangin
Colyn Named Dutch Premier by Queen Wilhelmina
Former minister-war Colyn is to become the Dutch premier after Nolens and Lohman refused to form a cabinet. Queen Wilhelmina summoned him to Hetloo, the summer residence, following the failed attempts to assemble a ministry.
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Wilhelmina
London
Jonkheer Colyn
Amsterdam Telegraaf
Exchange Telegraph Company
Nolens
de Sovernin Lohman
Colyn
Hetloo
Big Gun Duels Rage Aisne Vesle Front
On the Vesle front artillery duels and patrol clashes intensify with frequent sniping. Lieut. Robert Z. Cates of Spartansburg S C is credited with destroying a Fokker. An American patrol in the Woevre sector fought a brisk engagement with a stronger German force but inflicted no American casualties. On Tour front the enemy raid failed after a heavy barrage and counterfire. London reports July British shipping losses totaling 176 479 tons with allied and neutral losses of 186 582 tons.
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Aisne-Vesle
Vesle
Robert Z. Cates
Spartansburg
S. C
France
Woevre
Caruso Weds Dorothy Park Benjamin in New York
Opera star Enrico Caruso married Dorothy Park Benjamin, daughter of Park Benjamin, at Marble Collegiate Church in New York. The ceremony was conducted by Reverend Oliver Paul Barnhill.
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Dorothy P. Benjamin
Marble Collegiate Church
New York
Enrico Caruso
Metropolitan Opera Company
Dorothy Park Benjamin
Park Benjamin
West Seventy-third Street
Oliver Paul Barnhill
British air losses and raids reported in war office communique
British fliers shoot down twenty one German airplanes and four balloons in flames. Seven British planes are missing. British bombing planes drop fifteen and a half tons of bombs on German targets including Bruges docks and a Phalempim aerodrome.
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London
War Office
Bruges
Ap Verodrome
Phalempim
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