War Draft Bill Clears Senate With Work or Fight Clause
The U S Senate passed a manpower bill drafting men aged eighteen to forty five with a modified work or fight clause. Amendments to raise the minimum draft age failed, while Gore of Oklahoma pressed several anti draft efforts. The measure heads to conference with House and aims for presidential signing before week’s end.
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Senate
Gore
Oklahoma
House
Sense
McKellar
Tennessee
Cummins
Iowa
War Labor Board
War Department
Poindexter
Ogre
Wilson
Kirby-Gore
Senator Kirby
Arkansas
Senator Gore
Fall of
New Mexico
Germans Flee Somme Front as Allies Gain Villages
Paris reports German retirement in the Picardy Somme area has degenerated into retreat. Allied forces press pursuit north and south of the Somme river, with over 39 villages retaken, while French First and Third armies struggle to maintain contact with rear guards.
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Somme River
Japs Defeat Bolsheviki On Ussuri Front
British and Japanese dispatches report Japanese forces concentrating on the Ussuri front. At Enge neuka sailors with armored cars attacked Bolshevik troops under heavy fire and routed them. Trans Baikal forces retreat as Japanese troops reach Manchuria, leaving about 8,000 Bolshevik troops in the region.
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Ussuri
Vladivostok
Engeneuka
Semenoff
trans-Baikal
Manchuri
Tien Tsin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Rear Admiral W S Smith Assigned to Naval Board
Rear Admiral William Strother Smith has been promoted to the rank and is on duty at the navy department serving on the naval consulting board.
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William Strother Smith
Navy Department
Naval Consulting Board
Sub chaser sunk as merchant ship sinks crew missing
American submarine chaser No. 209 out of Philadelphia was mistaken for a submarine by the Felix Taussig off Fire Island New York and sunk. Seventeen crew missing including the commander and executive officer. Eight survivors landed at New York and Lewes Delaware with several wounded.
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Philadelphia
Sire Island
N. Y
New York
Lewes
Del
Thomas Harran
Claude Wild
Clarence KE. Evans
RR. A. Corcoran
Elmer Gleason
Elmer 8. Kirby
Claude Kalney
Charles N. Thomas
George B. Weigand
Felix Taussig
United States
Fire Island
British Gain Trones Wood After Somme Push
British forces near the Somme report successful advance as troops complete the capture of Trones Woods and establish a firm position in the area. The action follows ongoing progress north of the river with sustained advances by British units.
French Forces Capture Chaulnes in Picardy Advance
Paris reports Chaulnes an important railroad center and enemy distribution point fell to French troops. An advance of more than seven miles in the southern Picardy sector accompanied the capture.
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Chaulnes
Paris
British Colonel Seeks 50 000 Irish Volunteers for Western Front
Colonel Arthur Lynch appeals to the Irish to form a brigade for the western front and fight beside the Stars and Stripes. He claims the U S forces shelter three times more Irishmen than in Ireland and proposes a special uniform based on the old Irish costume.
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Arthur Lynch
Stars and Stripes
Ireland
Lynch
Clash on border as Mexicans battle US troops in Nogales
Report from Nogales describes two hour combat between American soldiers and Mexicans with Lieut Harmon among the wounded. Gunfire across the border and Mexican propaganda blamed. Brig. Gen. Cabell planned a border investigation as casualties remained uncertain.
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Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
Cal. Harmon
United States
United States Army
France
de Rosey Cabell
Arizona Border District
Douglas
Cabell
Gaston Reddock
British Forces Seize Fouchaicour South of Somme
London reports General Haig’s Picardy offensive has captured the fortified town of Fouchaicour south of the Somme. British forces also press advances at other points as the campaign continues.
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Haig
Picardy
Con
Anaue
Fouchaicour
Somme
Ford trails in St Clair county primary returns
Detroit reports show Ford behind in early St Clair county results for the U S Senate nomination with Newberry leading in several rural precincts. Osborn competes for second place as totals suggest a light overall poll and rural bias in early figures.
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Mich
St. Clair County
Show
Newberry
Ford
Simpson
Osborn
Helme
Cllck
Charles 8
Highways Regulations Out for War Time Work
The United States highways council releases regulations effective September 10 governing highway and street work during the war. Federal approval is required for nearly all highway construction. No road material will be furnished by any manufacturer until the project is approved by the council.
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Washington
United States Highways Council
United States Highway Council
Ambassador Walter Hines Page Resigns From Britain Post
Walter Hines Page of Garden City New York ambassador to Great Britain since 1913 has resigned its due to ill health. President Wilson has accepted the resignation. Page and Mrs Page will return to America after a period of rest and a war weary schedule in London.
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Washington
Walter Hines Page
Garden City
N. Y
United States
Great Britain
Wilson
London
Ambassador Page
Page
America
Propaganda Drops Reported on Agram
Austrian advices received here today say Italian airplanes recently dropped propaganda manifestos on Agram the capital of Slavonia and Croatia.
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Agram
Berne
Slavonia
Croatia
Sub Sinks Canadian Boats Off Point Platts
Navy reports sinking four fishing schooners Maurice KB Adams C M Watters J J Flaherty E B Watters by bombs off Point Platts Miquelon. Crews of three vessels with landings headed to St Pierre. Gloucester reports J J Plaherty sunk by German submarine. captain Gregory and 24 crew landed safely at St Pierre Miquelon.
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Navy Department
Point Platts
Miquelon
Maurice KB
Adams
C. M. Watters
J. J. Flaherty
E. B. Watters
St. Pierre
Gloucester
Mass
J. J. Plaherty
Charles T. Gregory
St. Pierre Miquelon
League Baseball Tuesday Results and Standings
National League results show Pittsburgh 6 Philadelphia 2 and Philadelphia 7 Cincinnati 8 with no game at Heston Cincinnati due to wet grounds. American League scores list Boston 1 Detroit 2, Philadelphia 4 Cleveland 6, New York 4 7, St. Louis 2 6, Chicago Washington not played this week.
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Philadelphia
Heston-Cincinnati
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Detroit
Cleveland
New York
St. Louis
Chicago
Peret
Oba Bherri New
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Etteeer
Ft. Louis
Pueterte
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Likevdcés
Washington
Louis
Yanks Attack HMS Infantry in Skirmish Near Fismes
American forces on the Vesle Front clash with German units near Bazoches and Fismette, three miles west of Fismes. US troops press daylight assault, hold Bazoches upper ground, and defend Fismette against bombardment and air attacks amid stubborn German resistance.
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Vesle
Resgion
Bazoches
Fismes
Fis Mnette
Balizoches
Baszoches
Filmette
Fismette
HUNSPY PLOT REVEALED
San Francisco reports indictments of Allardt Muench alias Kurt Brunner and Edward Michael Zacho by a federal grand jury. Officials say they aim to prove a spy plot stretching through Russia Sweden and the United States with Muench’s papers aiding the German war effort. The pair arrived in 1917 from China and were linked to a German army officer capture by Cossacks.
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San Francisco
Allardt Muench
Kurt Brunner
Bernstorff
Edward Michael Zacho
Department of Justice
Russia
Sweden
United States
China
Muench
Zacha
HUN SHELL HITS RED CROSS
Details from Washington dated August 27 reveal a shelling of an American Red Cross bathhouse for Belgian soldiers near the Belgian front killing 23 employees and injuring about sixty. Three large buildings, including a laundry and fumigating plant, housed some 200 workers. A direct hit on the laundry roof sent debris through all structures as victims were flung into the street. A nurse or surgeon later received a severed arm found in a vacant lot detached from its owner.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Roosevelt Awarded Military Cross in Mesopotamia
London reports that temporary and honorary Captain Kemmit Roosevelt, son of Colonel Roosevelt, received the Military Cross for services in Mesopotamia. He was attached to the British army on special duty before joining American forces in France.
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Kemmit Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Mesopotamia
France
Ceptain Roosevelt
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