Front Extends 200 Miles Adriatic to Saloniki In Balkans
Allied forces push across Albania in a 200 mile front from the Adriatic to Saloniki. British monitors and Italian destroyers support Italian troops advancing into Albania as French and Greek units shape the advance. Berat reportedly captured. Macedonian operations continue with prisoners and matériel seized. General Go-jinlin.
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Rome
Austria
Albania
Balkans
Adriatic Sea
Saloniki
Aegean Sea
Koritsa
Chicago Draft Raids Find 79 Held for Noncompliance
A citywide canvass of police stations and detention rooms in Chicago shows 79 draft-age men held for noncompliance. About 10,000 men were questioned with most released after screening. 270 turned to draft boards for service and 400 detained in the federal building. The operation expanded with 4,000 secret service personnel, soldiers and sailors aiding the effort.
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Chicago
Federal Building
Edgard B. Tolman
Secret Service
Hindenburg Reported Dead After Epileptic Stroke
Amsterdam dispatch cites Les Nouvelles claiming President von Hindenburg died from an epileptic stroke after a heated interview with the Kaiser about military progress toward Paris. The report attributes the stroke to the stress of the confrontation and presents it as the latest information from a highly reliable source.
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Hindenburg
Kaiser
Paris
National League results mention St Louis and Chicago routs
National League games show St Louis 8 Philadelphia 2 and Chicago 8 Boston 0 with no other games due to rain. American League scores include New York 6 Cleveland 1 and Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 5 Washington 5 Detroit 4 and Boston 4 Chicago 3.
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Cincinnati
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Brooklyn Aay
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American League
Boston Devers
New Spark
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Iicago Tenes
Detroit Eee Ee
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Philadelphia
New York
Cleveland
Washington
Detroit
Agreement delays prohibition vote and wire control
Washington reports a tentative agreement among Senate leaders to postpone prohibition legislation until August 20 and to vote today on the administration wire control resolution. A three day recess is arranged through August 19, with President Wilson promising no censorship of news dispatches under federal wire control. Senators Reed and Watson plan amendments to exempt newspaper wires from government control.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Burleson
Reed
Watson
French Forces Push Between Montricier and Oise
French troops advance between Montricier and the Oise river as operations continue. British forces conduct local raids near Vieux Berquin capturing many prisoners.
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Vieux Berquin
Italians Press in Albania as Austrians Retreat Fast
Rome dispatch reports the Italian army in Albania advancing rapidly while Austrian rear guards offer only sporadic resistance. Italian forces are securing large quantities of war materiel abandoned by the Austrians during their flight.
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Albania
Ran
Rome
Rumor of Hindenburg Ill Quieted by Ludendorff
A German traveler via The Hague reports rumors spread across Germany that Field Marshal von Hindenburg is ill and unable to work at the army headquarters. First Quartermaster General Ludendorff has assumed all military duties, with German papers not allowed to mention the rumor.
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Germany
The
Hague
Exchange Telegraph Company
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
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Ludendorff
Dernburg Warns Peace Needs Diplomacy Not War
In a debate in the Prussian upper house, Dr Bernhard Dernburg, former colonial minister, argued that lasting peace requires diplomacy and moral conquests by Prussia. He faced rebuttals from Junker Oldenburg and remarks about the American ambassador Gerard.
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Amsterdam
Bernhard Dernburg
Prussia
Addest
Junker
Oldenburg Diaiicher
House of Hohenzollern
Dernihure
Homor
Gerard
Claire
Exchange 500000 Captives Repatriated Through Switzerland
Berne reports that over 500000 sick and wounded prisoners of war from various nations have been exchanged and repatriated through Switzerland since the war began. About 80000 officers and soldiers were recently interned at Swiss health resorts. Since 1914 the Swiss postal service has moved over 500 million letters and about 10 million money orders totaling more than 27500000 dollars.
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Berne
Switzerland
Reitman to be released from Warrensville workhouse
Dr. Ben Reitman of Chicago, jailed for circulating birth control literature, will be released after seven hundred dollars of a one thousand dollar fine is paid and two months cut for good behavior. Superintendent Burns notes the release and Reitman plans to return to Chicago immediately.
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Ohio
Ben Reitman
Chicago
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Reitman
Former German Foreign Minister to Take Long Swiss Vacation
Dr. Richard Kuehlmann, ex German foreign minister, plans a long vacation in Switzerland after saying he is sick of it all. The Berlin dispatch notes the move as imminent with hopes for fresh air.
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Amsterdam
Richard Kuehlmann
Berlin
Casualties in U S Army Reported by War Department
Washington July 13 The War Department announced fifty two American expeditionary forces casualties with nine killed in action seven died of wounds seven from disease two from airplane accident four from other accidents fifteen severely wounded one slightly wounded two wounded undetermined degree and five missing in action
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War Department
Mutiny Among Ottoman Troops Reported From Aidin
An uncensored private letter dated June 18 claims a regiment in the Turkish vilayet of Aidin mutinied and killed its German officers when ordered to Mesopotamia. Many soldiers aiding the suppression joined the mutineers, and Talaat Pasha reportedly granted amnesty and spared Mesopotamia deployment.
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Simyrna
Aidin
Smyrna
Mesopotamia
Talaat Pasha
Corfu
Serbia
Kragujevarz
US Millions to the Kaiser
Officials said secret service men fight German propaganda by disclosing holdings of German government bonds in the United States. Alfred L Becker said the Busch family's holdings were disclosed yesterday. A list of nearly 2000 individuals is on record, with securities issued in denominations as small as 50 dollars.
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United States
Secret Service
Busch Family
St Louis
Alfred L. Becker
New York
American Aviators Missing in German Capture Report
Washington reports confirmation from a German account that five American aviators were captured. General Pershing's July 11 communique said five planes were missing after a bombing expedition. It also noted enemy raids in the Vosges failed before reaching American lines and that the day elsewhere remained quiet.
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Pershing
War Department
Vosges
Rail Strike Spreads Across Russia in July Turmoil
Zurich dispatch cites Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten reporting Russian railway workers on strike in several districts. The report warns the strike could broaden to a general stoppage.
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Paris
Zurich
Keipzig Neueste Nachrichten
Admiral Adrian Rieunier Dies at 80
Paris reports former French Navy Chief Admiral Adrian Rieunier died at Albi at age eighty. He had served as minister of marine and held high command in the French fleet.
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Paris
Adrian Rieunier
Albi
French Win Big Victory in Picardy Front Action
French troops struck a heavy blow on the Picardy front between Caste and Mailly Raineval capturing positions to over a mile depth. The village of Caste and Anchia Farm fell to French forces with about 500 prisoners taken. British raids and American patrol actions occurred as weather remained rainy across fronts from Ypres to the Somme.
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Anchia
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Morris
Meteren
War Office
Kemmel
Hamel
Somme
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Arras
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Ypres
Reims
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Aisne
Marne
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Corey
American telephone girls adopt orphan in France
Paris July 13 American telephone girls who arrived in France have taken in a five year old war orphan. They form a fund to educate him contributing 50 francs yearly. All the girls speak French and the boy is described as the most godmothered child in France.
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Paris
France
Belgium Rulers Return by Air to France
The king and queen of Belgium, after visiting England, have returned to France by air, the same route used to reach England across the channel.
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Belgium
England
France
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