Allied Counterattack Halts German Push on Champagne Front
American and French troops counter-attacked along a four mile front south of Dormans driving Germans back two thousand yards while bridges across the Marne came under artillery fire. French positions remained intact along the Champagne front as fighting continued with heavy artillery and multiple advances and retreats all day. Berlin reports 18000 prisoners taken. French losses described as small.
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London
Dormans
Chateau Thierry
France
Mezy
St. Aignan
la Chapelle
la Mesnil Hutier
Marne
Fossoy
Vaux
Reims
Paris
Champagne
War Office
Foe
Berlin
General Headquarters
Lydecker Carded as Preparedness Leader and Lawyer
Col. Charles E. Lydecker, president of the National Security League, is a New York lawyer and Democrat with long military service. He helped organize the league and has been active in preparedness and wartime military matters amid reports of heavy German losses and stiff Allied resistance along the Marne.
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Charles E. Lydecker
The
National Security League
New York
League
Americans Capture 12 Villages on Marne Front
General Pershing's forces advance along the Marne and seize 12 villages amid sharp fighting. An American commander reports contact with Bowie's line, Bowie's retreat after a hard clash, and pursuit by U S troops.
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Pershing
Marne
Bowie
Allied Forces Break Through At Multiple Fronts
Paris July 18 The French and American troops opened an offensive along a 35 mile front advancing several miles in multiple sectors from the Aisne to the Marne. Allied gains include taking many prisoners. British forces on the Picardy front seized prisoners and guns. French recaptured Montvoisin south of the Marne and Italians north of the Marne reclaimed Clairivet.
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Aisne
Marne
Picardy
Montvoisin
Clairivet
Great Allied Counter Offensive Advances on Marne Front
Paris reports July 18 that Allied counter offensive is progressing favorably as German assault recedes. The American sector on the Marne has been entirely cleared of the enemy.
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Paris
Marne
Federal labor reports spring wheat harvest progress
The Labor Department credits the Federal Employment Service with supplying labor to the central wheat belt and forecasts a spring wheat harvest with similar success to prior years.
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Federal Employment Service
Central Wheat Belt
The
Labor Department
British Ships Do Share In Troop Transport to Europe
London reports that among 687,927 American troops sent to Europe in April June, 850,956 were carried by British ships. Sir Leo Money, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Shipping, said arrangements are being made to carry larger numbers in the future.
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London
Europe
House of Commons
Leo Money
Ministry of Shipping
Thirty-Five American Marines Rescued After Ship Foundering
In London, July, 35 American sailors from the former Great Lakes steamer George L. Eaton arrived after their vessel sank in a storm. They escaped in lifeboats, were rescued by a warship, and brought to port. the Eaton carried general cargo bound for France.
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London
Great Lakes
George L. Daton
George L. Eaton
France
Americans Strike Back over Marne in record aviation day
On the Marne front July 18 American airmen claim six enemy planes and an observation balloon destroyed within 24 hours. Lieut J B Stevens targeted a German battery at 200 meters while horses and crew fled. Lieuts Simmons Porter Robertson Abernathy credited with downed planes. Robertson survived 17 bullet holes. Abernathy chased a German crash behind lines as Bowie fighters engaged.
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Marne
J. B. Stevens
Francis Simmons
New York
Charles Porter
New Rochelle
Arthur Jones
Alameda
Cal
George Robertson
Mount Leonard
Thomas Abernathy
West Pembroke
Miller
Robertson
Abernathy
Wilson to Take Over Telegraph and Telephone Lines
President Wilson is expected to issue an executive order placing trunk line telephone and telegraph systems under government operation via Postmaster General Burleson. Plans include consolidating telegraph and telephone networks to allow simultaneous messaging and conversations and the acceptance of telegrams at post offices with stamps to pay for messages.
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Washington
Wilson
Burleson
Record of Aug call for 46 thousand men across states and camps
General Crowder announced a mobilization of forty six thousand volunteers from all states and the District of Columbia. Movement to camps will occur between August 5 and 9 with an entrainment plan for eight hundred thousand men during August.
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District of Columbia
Crowder
Illinois
Jefferson Barracks
Indiana
Fort Thomas
Iowa
Kansas
Fort Riley
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Camp Fremont
Montana
Ohio
Columbus Barracks
Oklama
Texas
Cody
Wyn
Jefferson
All Kansas Wheat Saved Harvest Declared Phenomenal
Washington reports that every bushel of the Kansas wheat crop has been harvested. The Wichita board of commerce calls the accomplishment phenomenal and notes the labor department's confirmation.
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Wichita Board of Commerce
Washington
Kansas
Department of Labor
NO RETREAT FOR YANKEES
In Paris on Monday afternoon an American general, commanding forces south of the Marne, declared the flag would not retreat. He vowed a counter attack after agreeing with the French that a rest period would help. The counter assault quickly recovered lost ground and added half a mile of advance against the Germans.
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Paris
Marne
Conde-la-Bres
Typhoon Strikes Southwest Japan Disrupting Transport
A violent typhoon hit southwestern Japan and nearby islands on the night of July 11, causing extensive damage to railway lines and telegraphic communications. Flooding occurred in Kobe and Osaka as rail and line services were interrupted.
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Osaka
Japan
Lucha Islands
Kobe
Shipyard firm forms 5 million capital in Quebec
Start Big Shipyard a new shipbuilding concern capitalized at 5,000,000 has been formed. It will operate one of the largest shipyards in America on the shores of the St Lawrence river opposite Quebec.
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Start Big Shipyard
Quebec
America
St. Lawrence River
Rail Crash in France Leaves Fifteen Dead
Paris reports a passenger train derailment near Vierzon twenty miles northwest of Bourges killing fifteen people and injuring about fifty, with twenty in serious condition.
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France
Paris
Vierzon
Bourges
Lenine to Break With U S Over Murman Landing
Amsterdam reports Premier Lenine intends to sever diplomatic ties with Great Britain and any power tied to forces landing on the Murman coast. The claim, said to come from Moscow and carried by Berlin papers, unsettles international relations.
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Amsterdam
Len Ine
Great Britain
Murman Coast
Moscow
Berlin
France ends meatless days after July 20 decree
Paris reports the government decrees abolition of meatless days after July 20 while the card system remains in effect.
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Paris
France
Baltimore School Board Drops German From Curriculum
Baltimore Md July 18 the school board voted to eliminate the study of German from the curriculum citing changes in instruction priorities and student interest. The action affects language offerings across district middle and high schools.
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Baltimore
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Lieutenant Roosevelt Killed In Battle Near Chateau Thierry
Oceanfront dispatches report Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt shot down and killed on the Chateau Thierry sector of the Marne front. He led a patrol of 18 American planes against seven German aircraft before his machine fell in flames. his death follows prior Allied losses among the Roosevelt family including Theodore Jr and others who saw combat in Cantigny and other fronts.
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Chateau Thierry
The
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Quentin
Chateau-Thierry
London
Quentin Roosevelt
Marne Front
Paris
Philip Roosevelt
Tle
Jim
Ile
Theodore, Jr
Max Jor
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Cantigny
Kermit
Archie
Riot at East Hampton plant as women clash with workers
Riot at the West Boyleston Manufacturing Co plant in East Hampton Massachusetts saw men return to work under police bayonet charge. One woman was injured and thirty three women were arrested after a month of strikes by 300 weavers seeking reinstatement of two discharged colleagues.
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East Hampton
Mass
Nive
West Boyleston Manufacturing Company
Company K
German Bombers Hit Prisoners Camp in France
Ninety four Germans were killed and seventy four wounded when five German flyers bombed a prisoners camp near Troyes eighty miles behind the French front. The raid lasted one hour and two French guards were wounded.
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France
Paris
Troyes
German air base fire destroys 22 planes in Belgium raid
Amsterdam reports that a German air drome near Nivelles Belgium was destroyed by fire. Twenty two machines burned. Ten Belgians and two German officers were arrested on a charge of setting the fire.
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Nivelles
Belgium
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