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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1918
Page
1
Paris reports German tactics shift to machine gun companies with artillery support. Infantry exposure reduced as Germany covers withdrawals with dense nests of guns. Allies limit manpower and slow encirclement progress under Foch’s strategy.
Franco American forces break through the Fere forest and push toward Fere en Tardenois with heavy fighting north of the Marne. German counterattacks slow but fail to stem the Allied advance as artillery activity intensifies across the front.
Maj. Gen. F. J. Kernan is named as one of the commanding officers of American forces engaged in heavy fighting in France.
Desperate fighting in the streets and caverns yields four artillery pieces and hundreds of prisoners as French General Gouraud regains most of the line near Reims. Washington reports Foch seeks all available American troops for a renewed Allied counter-offensive this summer and autumn.
American and French units push forward inch by inch against persistent German resistance. Artillery preparation and constant skirmishes force the enemy to retreat as Allied troops continue their cautious advance.
With American Army, July 17, French-Americans push through the wooded area northeast of Chateau Thierry and near complete clearance of German forces amid stubborn defense.
Premier Lloyd George announced that any worker who is absent from duty from Monday will be deemed to have quit the munition industry. Protection certificates will be invalid and such men will be liable to the Y service act.
A federal grand jury indicted 21 individuals in New York on charges of conspiring to steal beef consigned to the U S Army. The group includes butchers purchasing agents government checkers and truck drivers accused of illegally taking government property. The Western Union Telegraph Company was also indicted for allegedly delaying messages by mail.
Washington July 27. Information from headquarters reports Russia and Germany in a clash over ownership of provisions, each asserting rights to the available supplies.
Washington reports from Italian sources that American troops are arriving in Italy. The confirmation came today from General March.
Secretary Baker and General March told the house military committee that American forces aiding the French and British in the Boissons-Reims salient show satisfactory progress. They reported a death rate of eight per thousand, with disease deaths lower than U S casualties, and noted no data on German losses.
Miss Ethel Langdon Drake, famed as the Langdon rake, after ten years in France, has helped provide 25 ambulances to the French government and is in America recruiting 120 women drivers for fronts. She seeks young women willing to work, able to drive and care for autos, to perform tasks men typically do.
Secretary Baker ruled that the work or fight provision does not apply to baseball players until September 1. Professional players in the draft will have until that date to qualify for essential occupations or enlist. Major leagues sought to finish the season and stage a World Series, but the decision shortens the season by about five weeks.
Paris July 27 Maxim Gorky famed Russian novelist is dead a Berne dispatch reports The news cites the renowned writer's death as confirmed in the Swiss capital and carried to reporters worldwide
Thirteen members of the House naval affairs committee arrived overseas led by Chairman L A Padgett. They will inspect naval operations abroad, examine bases, and hold conferences with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, with a possible visit to the battle field.
Masked robbers struck a Chicago jewelry store, locking in Louis Sandack and a clerk in a rear room. They forced open the safe and escaped with $30,000 in cash and gems, fleeing in a waiting car after an early morning confrontation with the owners.
Dispatches report 75,000 peasants advancing on German detachments toward Kiev, amid rising peasant uprisings in Ukraine and growing Soviet crisis. Lenine warns of international complications and calls for joint proletariat effort to continue the revolution.
Buffalo reports a fatal air crash involving Lawrence Dunham a Brockville Ontario poet and James Ralph Doolittle living at the University Club in the city. They were in a Curtiss aircraft at Curtiss flying field when the machine disappeared from 1 000 feet dropping to the ground leaving one likely fatally injured.
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