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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1918
Page
5
American troops on the Marne counter attacked near Conde and Vaux, driving back German forces, taking prisoners and seizing a brigade staff. British reporting notes heavy artillery exchanges, bridge crossings, and continued resistance from American and French units along a seven kilometer front.
Three hundred enlisted men at Quantico Marine training camp receive second lieutenant commissions. The event marks a significant expansion of the officer ranks and reflects ongoing personnel development within the Marine Corps during the period.
American forces recaptured all positions on the south bank of the Marne between Fossey and Crezancy. German assaults elsewhere were repulsed. Between Chateau Thierry and Argonne Forest four divisions attacked the Allies and were annihilated or crippled.
London reporting July 16 says German attacks on French lines were repulsed at all points this morning. The offensive remains held up as Americans recapture Fossey and Crevancy villages. The enemy morale appears broken.
Paris dispatches describe a ten mile front and six mile depth held by United States troops as the German offensive stalls. Telegraph reports praise American courage while noting the pace of battle has slowed and only minor localities remain contested.
Washington reports confirm press accounts of fighting on the Maine front. Gen Pershing says Americans captured prisoners after counter attacks and established advance positions. American barrage fire repelled German forces. full war department reports awaited.
Paris reports the Allied line remains unbroken despite German efforts on a fifty mile front from Chateau Thierry to Main de Massiges. American, French and Italian forces counter attacked along the Marne and around Reims, with heavy German losses and gains limited to small retreats. Prunay and nearby villages are reported captured by German forces as fighting continues.
British forces pressed near Villers-Bretonneux and Ridgewood winning a 2000 yard front advance. The war office reports 828 enemy soldiers captured at Ridgewood and notes continued British progress despite German claims of some ground being held near Ypres and Bethune.
Edinburgh July 16 Hugh Cameron a Scotch painter of figure subjects and portraits died here He was born in 18% at age 22 leaving behind brief obituary notes on his career and origins in Scotland.
London reports American and British troops occupy Murman coast and Kem port as Czecho-Slovaks seize Kazan after fierce Bolshevik resistance. German divisions threaten Murman railway while Tehiteherin calls for British redeployment and Washington denies troop landings.
David L. Fulty, president of the Baseball Players' fraternity, is named physical director and athletic instructor to the United States aviation corps with rank of first lieutenant. He is ordered to report at Mineola, Long Island.
Five Asiatic cholera cases arrive in Stockholm aboard a steamer from Petrograd. One victim is dying. The vessel reports hundreds dying daily from the plague in Petrograd and the outbreak spreading widely.
San Francisco July 16. The supreme court denied a petition for a writ of probable cause to keep Thomas J. Mooney from the penitentiary until Governor Stephens acts. Mooney is under sentence to hang for murder tied to a bomb explosion.
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