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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1918
Page
5
Food Administrator Hoover urges nationwide food savings to boost U S and Allied war effort in 1919 by halving weekly breadstuffs and meat use per person. The plan aims to ship 5 730 000 tons more to France, prevent 1920延 prolongation, and spare American lives. Milk for children is protected.
Dr Caroline Sandford Finley of New York City and two fellow women physicians received French honors and a lieutenant’s commission for surgical work under bombardment in France. The trio led an overseas unit funded by the National Suffrage Association. Finley is a Cornell graduate linked to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. Food expenditures are rising but rationing is not yet deemed necessary as officials urge thrift and the gospel of the clean plate.
Reports from Palestine state two Turkish armies in the north suffered a crushing defeat under General Allenby. About 40,000 prisoners were captured along with cannons, ammunition, food, and supplies. Serbians gain over forty miles with a twenty five mile advance against Bulgarians.
Paris reports French forces completing the encirclement of St. Quentin from the south and seizing the town of Vendeuil on the Le Fere route. They also captured part of the Hindenburg line and advanced to the Oise River.
London reports indicate a British attack on Cambrai last night as Allied forces press operations in the frontline region. Details remain scarce with focus on civilian movement forthcoming statements from military officials.
General Nevil Macready former adjutant general at the War Department London is transferred to commissioner of the Metropolitan Police as a safety measure after a police strike. Macready rose to fame as a Gordon Highlander in the Egyptian campaign of 1882 and earned a colonelcy in the Boer War. He is son of actor William Charles Macready.
Man lines between St Quentin and Cambrai and progress made. Trench and fortifications opposite Le Catelet captured. Enemy positions on the ridge northwest of Vendhuile taken. Germans evacuating Cambrai and sending civilians to Mons.
In the Haumont sector German assault preparations were met by a fierce American artillery barrage that forced the attackers to take cover. American wagon drivers and soldiers repelled air attacks, downing a German plane near St Die and taking six enemy troops in a St Mihiel raid without incident.
London Sept 23 The war office announced Nazareth fell to Gen Sir Edmund Allenby’s army with about 18 000 prisoners and 120 guns captured. British cavalry and air units cut off Turks as they fled toward the Jordan valley. Nazareth’s historic Holy sites and Crusader past are noted as context for the strategic victory.
British forces smashed German lines at four points near Gavrelle and Epehy north of the Scarpe repelling a Mouevres attack and gaining ground. French detachments raided in Lorraine and Champagne while Vesle front raids were repulsed. Heavy artillery activity continued north of the Aisne and in St Quintin.
Hutchinson Kansas September 23 William Y Morgan lieutenant governor and Hutchinson News publisher leaves for France to work with the Young Men's Christian Association units with troops and plans to remain there for the duration of the service.
A local disruption ends up delaying the Daily Journal print with limited news and hopes for a quick remedy.
Paris dispatch reports Newton D. Baker secretary of war toured aviation fields and ports. He praised rapid expansion of army subsistence and supply facilities from docks to central storage and noted improved troop shipments. He commented on German organization and asserted Americans have beaten it from the start.
The war office reports weak aviation activity on the night of the 20th due to bad weather. Despite this, French aviators used a brief clear spell to drop nearly sixteen long-range projectiles on enemy airfields and more at Stenay Merville Etain Bezencourt and Juniville with fires and explosions observed.
Captain Hammon of the British flying corps and C Kinder of Greenfield were killed. Lieut Roy Pieckets of the Speedway aviation field was seriously injured when their airplane dived 400 feet while returning from a Liberty loan trip to Greenfield and attempted to land at the Speedway field.
Rome reports that the Sixth Czecho Slovak division repelled an encircling attack south of Nago on the salient of point 708 at Sissake in the northern Italian theater. The enemy columns were checked by gunners who exposed themselves to direct fire.
Fireman HJ BE Long and Brakeman H L Hott of Bergholz Ohio were killed when an engine of the Alliance division of the New York Central railroad derailed and rolled down a steep embankment near Amsterdam. Engineer HW Wincereld was injured and his residence unknown.
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