British Troops Cross Canal du Nord In Major Advance
Allied forces across the Canal du Nord push from Moislains to Denicourt and Boursies as British and French troops advance toward Cambrai, Laon, and the Lys sector. Haig reports 3,000 more prisoners and several towns secured amid a collapsing German front.
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London
Canal du Nord
Haig
Moislains
Manacourt
Etricourt
Roynicourt
Nlavrincourt Wood
Denicourts
Boursies
Moeuvres
Queant
L Owly
Cambrai
Lys
Flanders
Croix-du-Bac
Arrentieres
Canal
Litle- Cambrai
St. Quentin
La-Fors
Laon
France
Third Army
Paris
Romaucourt
Rumaucourt
Sains-lez-Marquien
Indiyen-Artois
Demicourt
Doignies
Permies
Bertincourt
Somme
Haut Allainee
Peronne
Lys Salient
Nieppe
Sailly
Croix du Bac
Drocourt- Queant
Field Marshal Haig
Arras-Cambrai
Ecourt St. Quentin
Vaus
General Horvath photo amid WWI fronts and British gains
A wartime caption notes General Horvath, an anti Bolshevik figure, faded from dictatorial aims as Allied forces block his path. British advances extend in Flanders toward Neuve Chapelle and Lavoirterie with Sailly sur Sallys and Nieppe under control. Paris reports French gains north of the Oise and Vesle fronts, with Vesle crossing and cavalry near Guiscard.
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Moissaus
Flanders
Neuve Chapelle
Laveptie
Sailly-sur-Sallys
Nieppe
Paris
Oise
Vesle
Noyon
War Office
Labor Congress Reaffirms Allied War Aims in Derby
In Derby on September 5, a labor congress adopted a resolution reaffirming the Allies' war aims and calling on labor and socialist parties of the central powers to declare their own war objectives.
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Derby
England
Labor Congress
Labor
Socialist
Changes Draft Rules Aid Industrial Occupations and Advisers
Washington September 5. New wartime draft rules broaden deferred classification to those in occupations necessary to the military establishment or national interest including agriculture and essential commercial work. District boards gain three advisers in industrial commercial and agricultural fields to guide exemptions. Police and firemen gain altered timing and class placement. three new divisions appear in class five. registrants must file formal exemption claims with supporting facts.
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Washington
Crowder
Red Cross
Americans Advance From Vesle Toward Aisne Front
Sept 5 dispatch states American forces in this sector have moved more than half the distance from the Vesle river to the Aisne. French troops join in pressing rear guards and machine gun nests as German main forces reach the Aisne line.
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Vesle River
Aisne
London
Terry-Sorny
Daily Mail
France
Vesle
Tenth Army
British forces push to reduce Lys salient near Ypres
Marked progress reported in the Lys salient reducing the threat to Ypres. Overnight and today British troops gained ground in Flanders with observers predicting further advances and German retirements, potentially removing the Lys salient entirely.
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Flanders
Lys
Ypres
British capture Ploegsteest and Hill 63 near Ypres
London reports British gains south of Ypres with the capture of Ploegsteest and Hill No. 63 southwest of Messines. The neighborhood wood battles are described as severe as troops establish control.
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London
Ypres
Ploegsteest
Messines
End of U S Volunteer Army Recruiting
Washington reports the volunteer system is closed by General March chief of staff. Only men over forty and under fifty six may enlist for staff corps and departments, while those eighteen to forty five join via selective draft. Recruiting duty personnel are to report to the nearest depot for examination and records.
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Washington
General March
United States
March
Sick men may register via representative for draft
Provost Marshal General Crowder announced rules for men in the new draft age who are ill on September 12. A proxy may appear for the registrant, if the board believes the case is genuine, and will be deputized to complete the card and registrar’s report. The word sick will be written on the card and the registrant must mail or deliver it to the local board.
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Washington
General Crowder
University of Illinois President James resigns for war service
Edmund J. James aged sixty four, president of the University of Illinois, tendered his resignation at a special board meeting at the Hotel La Salle in Chicago. He asked immediate release to join an agency for active service during the war.
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Chicago
Edmund J. James
University of Illinois
Board of
Hotel la Salle
Clemency Granted to Ten Negro Soldiers for 1917 Riot
President Wilson commuted death sentences of ten negro soldiers in the Houston riot case to life imprisonment. The war department announced the action, noting it concludes the 20 defendants sentenced to death, with thirteen executed and six further cases affirmed for murder of civilians. The president cited loyalty and a message of restraint.
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Washington
Houston
Tex
Wilson
War Department
159 Landed Victims From German Submarine
One hundred fifty nine sailors from a Norwegian steamer and five Newfoundland and French fishing schooners, prisoners of a German submarine, arrived at a Canadian Atlantic port aboard a trawler after nearly a week at sea. They said they were not allowed back for food, clothing, or money after be ing ordered away from their vessels.
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Lunenborg
Newfoundland
Grand Banks
Pat Harrison Seen As Likely US Senator From Mississippi
A rough but decisive primary shows Pat Harrison with a perfect record to triumph over Vardanen for the United States Senate seat in Mississippi. The war stance divided voters, with Harrison’s victory signaling Mississippians’ support for war measures. Tarrixey is noted as a key House figure in foreign affairs.
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Credit
Pat Harrison
Davies ii Varden
United States
Teeny Mississippi
Harrison
Vardavian
Vardanen
Vardatian
Arrison
Tarrixey
House For
Sign Affairs Comitivoe
U S Flyers Bomb Town and Vesle Front Actions
American forces advance on the Vesle front with patrols near Bazoches and Fismes. Longuyon is bombed twice by U S airmen as 30 planes drop explosives behind German lines while artillery and patrol activity intensify on the Vesle and Woerre sectors.
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Longayon
Chemin Des Dames
Aisne- Vesle
Vesle
Bazoches
Fismnes
U. S
Lorraine
Longuyon
Bomb BlastTargets Federal Building Kills Woman Soldier Sailor
Chicago is shaken by a blast at the federal building and post office, killing a woman, a soldier, and a sailor and injuring about thirty as investigators link the outrage to the I W W group. Fifty suspects are detained including William D Haywood who denies guilt.
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Chicago
W. W
L W. W
Federal
Phillip J. Barry
Department of Justice
American Protective League
I W. W
Haywood
William D. Haywood
Lyda Runffell
James Connelly
Strerrett-Thompson Company
Virginia
Washington
Helen Michike
Irene
Jackie
Joseph Ladd
Salina
Kan
Information Bureau of the United States
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Horvath
Siberia
Mes
Army
Navy
Yankees
Fismes
Vesse
Vosges
Woerre
Woevre
Pete” Dailey
Law
Landis
Dailey
LW. W
W.W
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