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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1918
Page
5
American and French forces press into the St Mihiel pocket with Pershing directing the offensive. Reports say 6,000 prisoners captured and more than a dozen villages taken as American cavalry operates behind German lines near Vig Neuil les.
G A Tomlinson appointed Director General McAdoo assigns him as director of inland waterways. Tomlinson previously served with the inland waterways commission as federal manager for the New York and New Jersey canals. The appointment abolishes the commission and places him in full charge.
With the American Army, Sept. 13, fleeing German forces are destroying ammo dumps at Hattonville and Domboux. Fires light many points beyond German positions as American skirmish lines reach within ten miles of Metz.
French troops fighting with the American army advance in the Woevre sector as Montesec falls and Vigneulles is captured. The joint assault toward St Mihiel spans 12 miles on the west and eight miles on the south, with 9 500 prisoners and sixty heavy guns taken amid continued artillery support and air activity.
Paris reports that the citadel of St Mihiel has been captured by French and American forces. The move targets the St Mihiel salient near Verdun and could lead to an offensive along a 20 mile front in Lorraine near the German border. A long barrage preceded the thrust as heavy Allied artillery and air power struck German positions.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker visited an advance post to view American troops as they began their first offensive against the German forces. The report notes growing predictions of action this fall with Lorraine and Met as probable objectives and highlights the strategic aim to reduce the Pont-a-Mousson salient before any major drive into German territory.
Paris reports the enemy pulling back from St Mihiel toward Wainville as British forces press forward after repelling counterattacks, advancing toward Cambrai and St Quentin with continued operations in the sector north of St Mihiel.
Washington outlines a new war tax plan to raise one third of 24 billion dollars needed for the U S war effort, aiming for broad coverage of taxable sources and shared citizen sacrifice. In Spokane Edward Haynes, shell shocked machine gunner in the Royal British Marines, is recommended for the Distinguished Service Order for his Cambrai defense service and wartime ordeal.
Washington reports Provost Marshal General Crowder stressing fair classification of about 24 million registrants aged 18 to 45. He clarifies that the five nonproductive occupations list is not enlarged and explains the relation to the War Industries Board priority sectors and draft deferment rules.
A Copenhagen dispatch via Central News Agency reports eleven British and eleven French citizens have been imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress at Petrograd. The prisoners include Rh. H. B. Lockhart, London ambassador, once condemned to death but spared by neutral diplomacy. Severe fighting and fires rage in the city as Bolsheviks face a revived peasant uprising.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, found guilty by a federal jury of several counts under the Espionage Act. The verdict exposes charges of inciting disobedience in the military and obstructing recruiting, with a possible maximum penalty of 20 years and a $10,000 fine. The judge scheduled a motion for a new trial next Saturday.
Baltimore observers report friends and admirers have completed pleas for presenting Cardinal Gibbons with a 50,000 dollar liberty bond to mark the golden jubilee of his consecration as a bishop.
Amsterdam reports 33 German children and two railroad men killed in a collision between an excursion train and a goods train between Schneide Muehl and Posen. Eighteen others are injured.
El Paso report: Julio Acosta, a Villa general, and his brother Jose Dolores Acosta were executed by the home guard at Las Cenvas Chihuahua Mexico, per an official statement from Chihuahua City.
At a meeting of the general municipal council and the chamber of commerce in Bordeaux a proposal to establish in honor of the United States a Franco American university of applied sciences commerce and industry was unanimously adopted.
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