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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1918
Page
1
Reports from Palestine say two Turkish armies in the north suffered a crushing defeat under General Allenby with 40,000 prisoners captured and heavy materiel seized. Serbian forces gained more than forty miles, adding twenty five miles in a new advance. French troops captured Vendeuil on the LeFere Saint Quentin road and pushed to the Oise after encircling St Quentin.
Food Administrator Hoover urges nationwide conservation to cut breadstuffs and meats by half a pound per person weekly. He warns failure to save food could prolong the war and cost American lives, while boosting European shipments by 5.78 million tons next year.
Dr Caroline Sandford Finley of New York City and two other women physicians were decorated by the French government for excellent surgical work under bombardment in France and were given lieutenant commissions in the French army. The trio led an overseas unit financed by the National Suffrage Association. Finley, a Cornell graduate, was linked with the New York Infirmary for Women and Children.
The article argues rationing is not yet required and urges Americans to cut overall food consumption. It stresses reducing staple use and avoiding substitutions, asking families to buy and serve less, waste less, and practice the clean plate while aiding allied needs with surplus crops.
London dispatch reports British forces attacked German lines between St Quentin and Cambrai with significant gains. Key trenches and fortifications opposite Le Catelet and positions on the ridge north of Vendhuile were captured as German civilians were sent toward Mons.
Overnight British operations report four penetration points on the front from Gavrelle to Epehy with gains north of Epehy and near Villers-Guistgin. British counterattacks repelled German thrusts northwest of La Bassee while fighting continued. Paris notes heavy activity around St Quintin and Vesle front raids repelled.
German forces opened a heavy barrage south of Haumont this morning as they prepared to attack the American lines. U S artillery responded with a fierce counter barrage forcing the attackers to seek shelter in their dugouts.
Gas service interruption this afternoon limits reporting for The Daily Journal. Officials say issue is local and hopes rise for quick resolution.
William Y. Y. Morgan lieutenant governor of Kansas and Hutchinson News publisher left Hutchinson for France to work with the Young Men’s Christian Association troops. He will be assigned to the fleet and remain in France for the war’s duration.
Paris Sept 23 Newton D Baker secretary of war visited the aviation field and inspected the subsistence and supply service. He praised rapid construction and the central storage expansion noting ships trains docks and storage facilities have grown impressively. He said the supply system has met its burden as troop movements increased. The secretary stated weve beaten it from the beginning.
The war office reports feeble aviation activity on the night of the 20th due to bad weather. Flying units used a brief clear spell to drop nearly sixteen long projectiles on enemy aviation grounds with fires noted at Stenay Merville and at Main Bezencourt and Juniville stations.
Gen. Sir Nevil Macready, previously adjutant general at the war department in London, is transferred to the role of commissioner of the metropolitan police as a safety measure after a recent police strike. He gained fame as a Gordon Highlander in 1882 in Egypt and held a Boer War colonelcy. He is the son of actor William Charles Macready.
In Alsace Lorraine area reports detail American efforts against German positions near St Die Trombercourt and near Muhthensen Belfort railway. American drivers and soldiers repelled aircraft attacks while capturing six Germans at Trombercourt. A German observer plane was shot down near St Die. one crew survived.
Captain Hammon of the Royal Flying Corps and C Kinder of Greenfield Indiana were killed when the airplane they rode with Lieut. Rey Pickets from Speedway aviation field plunged 400 feet during a return from a Liberty long trip to Greenfield. Pickets was seriously injured.
London reports Nazareth captured by General Sir Edmund Allenby’s forces with eighteen thousand prisoners and 120 guns. British cavalry trapped the Turks in the Jordan valley while aviators bombed and machine gunned the surrounded troops. Nazareth’s role as Christ’s boyhood home is noted amid broader Palestine advances and Turkish military decline.
In Rome on September 24 the Sixth Czecho Slovak division defending point 703 at Dissalte repelled a northern Italian front attack. The press notes say enemy columns were crushed by valorous machine gunners who ventured beyond their lines to fight.
Two train crew members were killed and another injured when a passenger train from the Alliance division of the New York Central railroad derailed and rolled down a steep embankment near Amsterdam. The deceased were fireman WH Long of Bergholz Ohio and brakeman H L Be Not t of Bergholz. Engineer TL Wincereld location unknown. Officials report indicate wreckage occurred on Sept 20.
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