French Break Verdun Defenses In Broad Victory
Paris reports a major Verdun victory with French troops seizing both sides of the Meuse over eleven miles, advancing up to a mile and a quarter in depth and taking over 4,000 German prisoners. Berlin concedes loss of Tatou ridge with continued fighting elsewhere along the front.
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Paris
Verdun
War Office
Meuse
Bar-Le-Duc
Temps
Avncourt Wood
Bezonyaux
Dead Man's Hill
Talouridge
Colummmes
Belgium
Bixschoote
Champagne
Berlin
Tatou Ridge
Teutons
Entente
Ex czar Nicholas Romianoff arrives at Tobolsk
Petrograd reports the deposed emperor and his entourage have been moved to Tobolsk in western Siberia for safety. The official note says the transfer was made for state reasons and includes his children and some companions willing to accompany him.
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Petrograd
Nicholas Romianoff
Tobolsk
Siberian
Tobolak
British repulse attacks near Boehy and Lene raid
London reports a German counter attack southeast of Boehy was repulsed after sharp fighting. A successful night raid occurred south of Lene. The Ypres front shows the British line advancing slightly southeast of St Yahosk, per war office notice. Amsterdam dispatch notes Berlin seizes all property belonging to Blam government.
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London
Boehy
War Office
Lene
Ypres
Beeen
St. Jen‘ahosk
Slam
Amsterdam
Reuters
Berlin
Blam
State moves to seize Illinois coal mines
Governor Lowden orders Attorney General Brundage to prepare legal papers for state seizure of Illinois coal mines. If approved without assembly action, National Guard units not in federal service may patrol the mines. The report cites potential broad federal control over coal, plans for government takeover of the industry.
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Springfield
Lowden
Brundage
Ilinois
General Assembly
National Guard
Chicago
Carter
Ralph Crews
Rush C. Butler
Samuel Adams
Operators’ Association
Federal Trade Commission
Attorney General of
Missouri
Washington
Wilson
Felocal Teide Commission
United States
Canadians Establish New Posts Near Lens Front
Canadian forces in France mount a decisive advance northwest of Lens by seizing a special trench amid trenches and railway cuttings. The new posts command the last ground from which defenders could overlook westward progress and now occupy a hollow arc around the front near Lene ennemicircular in form.
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France
Lens
Martial Law Extended Across Greece Includes Athens
Martial law was extended to cover all of Greece including Athens as authorities widen security measures amid ongoing unrest. The move comes after recent clashes and tensions across major urban centers, with checkpoints and curfews reported in several provinces.
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Greece
Athena
Avenne
Meat shortage strains U S food director in wartime
Wartime meat demand falls on the United States as Europe loses livestock. American and world supplies shrink while exports to allies surge. The Food Administration warns of a long, global decline in meat, with cattle and hog herds down and shipping limits worsening scarcity.
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Washington
United States
The
Food Administration
Europe
America
Draft Men Sent to Prison for Draft Law Conspiracy
Dr Samuel J R Bernfeld and Louis Cherry former exemption board members of New York were sentenced to two years in the Atlanta federal penitentiary for conspiracy to violate the selective draft law. They pleaded guilty and were immediately remanded. Katman Gruber alleged go between for the board members and those seeking exemptions pleaded not guilty and sought a jury trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Samuel J. R. Bernfeld
Louis Cherry
Exemption Board No
Atlanta
Exemption Board
Katman Gruber
Russian Repulse Attacks on Vilna Front and Moldavia
Russian forces repelled German assaults near Stakhovey on the Vilna front and Austro German attacks south of Crozewitz in southwestern Moldavia. The daylong Slavic battle ended with Teutons repulsed.
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Petrograd
Stakhovey
Vilna
Crozewitz
Moldavia
War tax on auto owners approved by Senate
Washington August 18 the automobile section of the war tax bill was adopted by the senate. It imposes a graduated federal tax on automobile and motorcycle owners replacing the house 5 percent levy on manufacturers sales. The revenue estimate ranges from forty to eighty million dollars with the house bill targeting about ninety million.
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Senate
Washington
Italians Take 7 500 Prisoners in New Drive
Italian forces on the Isonzo front crossed the river taking 7 500 prisoners. A bombardment preceded an advance to the left bank with pontoons across the Isongo and pressure along the Plava to the sea. The campaign is seen as aiding allied unity against premature peace proposals.
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Rome
Italy
Isonzo
War Department
Julien Alps
Anhovo
Goritz
Isongo
Plava
Nbrael
Manders
Pype Benedict
Coal to Head of Lakes under Federal Priority Shipments Act
President Wilson designated Robert S. Lovett as administrative officer to oversee coal shipments. Lovett ordered 46 railroads serving Lake Erie to give priority to transporting bituminous coal from Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio. The move aims to ensure sufficient coal shipments by steam to serve the Great Lakes head of the basin territory next winter.
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Washington
Wilson
Robert S. Lovett
Congress
Great Lakes
John W. Kern Dies in Asheville at 68
John W. Kern former Indiana senator and 1908 Democratic vice presidential nominee died in Asheville North Carolina aged sixty eight from uraemic poisoning. He had come to recuperate and was with Mrs Kern and Mrs George B Lawson at his death. Born December 20 1849 in Alto Howard County Indiana he served as majority floor leader and chairman of the Democratic conference committee until retiring from the senate in March.
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Asheville
N. C
John W. Kern
Indiana
Kern
George B. Lawson
Roanoke
Senate
Democratic Conference Committee
Alto
Howard County
East St. Louis Riots Suspect Pleads Guilty
S L Schuls of East St. Louis pleaded guilty in circuit court to conspiracy and assault with intent to kill among the 105 indicted in the East St. Louis race riots. He received an indeterminate term of one to five years on the Chester penitentiary charge and five years on the other.
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Belleville, Ht
S. L. Schuls
East St. Louis
Chester
Lafayette squadron aids French air raid over Rhine region
The Lafayette squadron of American aviators joined a French raid dropping 28,000 pounds of bombs on German military sites and rail hubs. Corporal Harold Willis is missing after the raid while Dudley Hil escaped after a near miss. The operation involved 111 French planes with several German losses and French aircraft casualties.
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Paria
Lafayette
Harold Willis
Boston
Lafayette Squadron
Raoul Lufbery
Wallingford
Lufbery
Dudley Hil
Peekskill
N. Y
Adjutant Masson
Corporal Willis
French War Office
Rhine
Colmar
Frescath
Upper Alsace
Habsheim
Chamblay
Freiburgin-Brisgau
Grand Duchy of Baden
Americans Witness Surprise Battlefield Simulacrum
At the U S Field Headquarters on August 20 American troops practicing grenades and rockets were startled when the horizon lit red and distant artillery roared. The simulated battle along the line fought by French and Germans in years past unfolded with full intensity. Soldiers then climbed hilltops to view the dramatic display.
Many Have Volunteered for Service in War Effort
Washington reports since America entered the war about 1,300,000 men volunteered for service in the army and navy. The Committee on Public Information released the figures on Saturday. Total land and naval forces paid $43,142 in support, with 710,024 joining land forces and 288,117 joining the navy.
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Washington
America
United States Army
Navy
Committee On Public Information
Red Cross Worker Resigns
St. Louis August 21 announcement by the Red Cross disaster committee that Miss Mary Pulliam no longer leads relief work among Black residents in East St. Louis HI. She has resigned. Negro Slain by Sentry Philadelphia August 20 a guarding soldier shot dead an escaped Black youth.
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Red Cross
St. Louis
The
Mary Pulliam
Red Crosse
East St. Louis
Dancer in Deemed to Die Paris Amy 20 Rejected
A revision court rejected the appeal related to a dancer named Amy in Paris, aged 20, on the deemed to die matter.
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Paris
Amy
Thu
War News Roundup Sparks Strikes and Bombs Across Fronts
The munitions act applies to a threatened 40000 engineer strike on English railways. Explosions on the Powder line at Kings Mills plant kill four. Venice arsenal bombed by air drops. fires erupt. Britain losses and American naval actions reported alongside draft arrests and rescues of missionaries from Tabul near Peking. Serbia reports Monastir fire destruction from Bulgarian bombardment.
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Great Britain
King Mills Powder Company
Kings Mills
Maritime
Venice
Austrian War Office
Vienna
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Washington
Admiralty
London
James Cowan
Industrial Workers of the World
Organzation
L W. We
Spokane
Wash
jJate
Tabul
Stout
Peking
United States Marine Corps
Senate
Victor Murdock
Kansas
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson
British Mercantile Marine
House of Commons
Albert Stanley
Board of Trade
James N. Taylor
Logan County
Monastir
Plans to move 687000 troops to cantonments announced
Chicago August 21 details of the railroads war board plan to move the 687000 men of the national army from 4531 local concentration points to 16 cantonments have been issued by Chairman Fairfax Harrison. The first movement begins September 11 with 200000 men to be entrained by September 9. A second wave of 80 percent starts September 19 and a third on October 3.
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Chicago
Railroads’ War Board
Fairfax Harrison
National
Markets Report Wheat and Livestock Prices Amid Volatile Trade
The Market section lists flour prices for Spring wheat in wood and jute bags with varied grades and export figures. soft and patent varieties noted along with rye. Hay prices show No 1 and No 2 values, Timothy supply appears labeled. Cattle and hog listings indicate ranges for good to choice beef, weights, and butcher demand amid uncertain week.
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MLB
Atreight
Seveloman Sennen
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Nicholas
Haig
St. Jenshook
Lena
Col
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Pershing
Finois
West Point
Cuba
Philippines
Illinois
U. S
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M. la Bounty
Naval Academ
Detroit
Mich
King Emmanuel
First Cai
L MM. Schultz
E. St. Louie
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FLYER
Germany
Teuton
Kalesi
Army
Philadelphia
Rufus Harris
Cantonmenta
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