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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1918
Page
5
In the new phase of the battle near France the American and French forces drive the Germans from wooded positions where they had held for two days. The advance marks a shift in tactics as allied troops press the push against German lines.
Paris reports German forces now rely mainly on machine gun companies supported by artillery. Infantry exposure is reduced in attacks as the German retirement is covered by densely sprinkled machine gun nests. The Allies restrain manpower to avoid taking minor-value positions, slowing Focht’s encircling plan.
Miss Ethel Langdon Drake arrives in America after a decade in France where she donated 25 ambulances to the French government. She seeks 120 women drivers for front line ambulances, inviting able young women willing to work and drive, to join the effort.
Franco American troops drive deep into the Forest of Fere and reach six kilometers from Fere-en-Tardenois while repelling German counterattacks along the Mezy to Fere-en-Tardenois road. France and U.S. forces push gains along the Marne front with substantial prisoner counts and renewed activity near Reims and Oulchy-le-Chateau.
Major General F J Kernan leads forces amid desperate street fighting in France as Allies recapture ground near Reims and seize four artillery pieces and prisoners. Washington reports plans to rush another million American troops to France this summer and autumn to drive the German advance from France and Belgium before winter.
London July 27 Premier Lloyd George said the government will treat all men who are wilfully absent from work on or after Monday as having placed themselves outside the munitions industries. Protection certificates will lapse and such men will be liable under the service act.
American and French troops advance inch by inch against stubborn German resistance. Heavy artillery preps and constant engagements mark a slow but steady push as forces continue to gain ground.
American and French troops advance in the woods northeast of Chateau Thierry and have the area almost cleared of German forces after stubborn resistance. The July 17 dispatch notes steady progress as Allied units push to reduce enemy positions.
Washington reports that Germany and Russia are quarrelling over ownership of provisions sent to the front. The dispute centers on who will receive what supplies, with both sides claiming entitlement to available stock.
Washington reports from Italian sources that American troops are arriving in Italy. The announcement was made today by General March.
Twenty one individuals including butchers buyers and drivers were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to embezzle beef consigned to the army. The Western Union Telegraph Company was also indicted for transmitting messages by mail.
Secretary Baker and General March told the House military committee that American expeditionary forces aiding French and British troops in the Soissons Reims salient have maintained a low death rate. They reported eight per thousand killed in battle and the same rate from disease, calling it the lowest death rate in world military history.
Secretary Baker ruled that the draft work or fight rule does not apply to baseball players until September 1. Professional players in draft age may hold essential occupations or join the army by then, shortening the major league season and delaying a world series. The decision aims to keep wholesome recreation while urging adjustment to a war footing.
Paris reports July 27 that famed Russian novelist Maxim Gorky is dead according to a dispatch from Berne. The death confirmation comes from a confidential wire circulated to newspapers in Europe.
Thirteen members of the house naval affairs committee arrived overseas led by Chairman L A Padgett. They will inspect naval operations abroad visit naval bases and confer with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt and may visit battlefields.
Masked robbers entered Louis Sandack's jewelry store in Chicago and forced open a rear room safe. They escaped with 30000 in cash and gems after holding Sandack and a clerk at gunpoint. An awaiting car with three masked men sped away.
United Nations dispatches report Ukrainian force of 75 000 peasants advancing against German detachments toward Kiev. Peasant uprising in Ukraine and peasant violence in White Russia are cited as adding pressure. Lenin warns of acute Soviet crisis while Brest-Litovsk debt looms and Czecho-Slovak forces gain ground along the Volga.
Buffalo report states private Lawrence Dunham of Brockville Ontario was killed while piloting a Curtiss aircraft at Curtiss flying field. James Ralph Doolittle, resident at the University Club, was fatally injured as the plane plunged from about 1 000 feet during the crash.
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