Lodge Lists Dictated Peace Terms to Crush Germany
Senator Lodge in the senate warned against German peace propaganda and urged a dictated peace to defeat Germany. He detailed terms including restoration of Belgium, Alsace Lorraine, and territories for Italy and Russia, plus independent Poland and free Turkey, with Constantinople as a free port. He warned Bolshevik influence and argued for independent Slav states and a strong, enduring world peace.
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Washington
Germany
Pasion
Senate
Senator Lodge
Masachusetts
Foreign Relations Committee
Lodge
Belgium
Alsace-Lorraine
France
Italia
Tridenta
Italy
Greece
Serbia
Rumania
Poland
Russia
Brest-Litovek
Constantinople
Palestine
England
United States
Hohenzollerna
Pomerene
Ohio
March
Crowder
Pomerene Eaid
Gallérie
Pomerans
Austria
Jugo Slava
Notley
Tornado Relief Under Guard as Tyler Recovers
Tyler Minnesota August 23 officials report 29 dead 30 seriously hurt and many left with minor injuries after tornado. state troops seal off town with only approved entrants allowed. Adjutant General W I Rhinow oversees relief as 200 Brookings South Dakota training class mechanics may be dispatched. Rescue notes describe a sick woman blown through a wall and found on a doctor’s operating table. A young woman’s body was found in a tree near Tyler. Local school building spared and debris clearing plus relief stock salvage occupy crews. Hoover returns from overseas trip as food administrator.
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Tyler
Minn
Vie‘tims
I. Rhinow
South Dakota
Brookings
Hoover
British Ship Diomed Sunk. Most Crew Rescued At Sea
An Atlantic Port reports the British steamer Diomed was torpedoed and sunk off the Atlantic coast. More than 100 crew members were rescued and brought ashore, many Chinese and several injured, by another British steamer. A Swedish vessel arrived and said it was halted by a submarine yesterday but allowed to proceed after a parley with the U-boat commander.
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Atlantic
Diomed
Mellen Divorce Suit Filed in Pittsfield Mass
Mrs Katherine L Livingstone Mellen of Stockbridge files for divorce from Charles Mellen former NYNH Hartford president alleging cruel treatment and character assaults. Separations hearing set for Sept 10 amid prior separation actions and accusations of letters with a New York hotel man. The couple wed in 1893 in Brooklyn with alleged incidents in 1916 and 1917 including striking and bruising claims. Republicans in the Senate are called to meet to elect a floor leader to replace the late Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is considered the likely choice.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Katherine L. Livingstone Mellen
Stockbridge
Charles
Mellen
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
New York
Mellens
Brooklyn
Gallinger
Washington
Senate
Senator Gallinger
New Hampshire
Lodge
Massachusetts
Spirit of Allied nations steadier, says Borden on return
Former Canadian premier Robert J. Borden, touring England after a ten week stay, declares the Allied spirit never stronger. He cites American troop deployments as a decisive factor in morale and victory, praising the cooperation between United States, Britain, and France and noting admiration for the Allied navies.
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Stedfast
Borden
America
Robert J. Borden
Canada
England
Hohe
Mons
Europe
United States
Great Britain
France
David Beatty
Admiral Bima
Admiral Rodman
Allied Troops Withdrawn North of Ussuri River
Fragmentary report from Aug 28 cites Allied forces on the Ussuri near Vladivostok forced to retreat after stiff resistance. Pieces mention German and Slovak forces, prisoners, and alleged machine gun use, with scattered references to Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Moscow sources. text is largely garbled.
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Tanlor
Dhe
Ussuri
Vladivostok
Daily Mail
Saya
Commack
Psnannes Pippieheti Semianitors
Tiga
Sadidonal
Payments to Allies Pass Six Billion Mark in War Aid
Washington reports that payments to the Allies since U S entry into the war have exceeded six billion dollars in total credits and actual disbursements. Current loans outstanding total about 6.692 billion dollars with Russia holding 137 million unspent. Britain, France, Greece, Cuba, and Serbia hold the rest in various credit accounts.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Greece
Cuba
Serbia
Newspapers Have Controversy Over Italy Policy
Rome reports bitter debate in the press over Italy's foreign policy. The Corriere Della Sera attacks Baron Sonnino for not being liberal enough toward the Jugoslav claims on the eastern Adriatic. The Giornale D'Italia argues Sonnino must honor the 1914 London agreement awaiting Austria's settlement, with Italy to be generous to eastern neighbors.
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Rome
Italy
Corriere Della Sera
Milan
Baron Sonning
Adriatic
Giornale D'Italia
Baron Sonnino
London
Bombardment hits five German towns and airfields
British aerial squadrons heavily bombarded five German towns and five hostile airfields on the night of August 21 22 targeting Frankfurt and Cologne with substantial results reported by the air ministry. Frank Munson resigns from the shipping board and returns to New York to lead Munson Steamship Line. Marines in France urged to send letters detailing front line incidents for the corps permanent record.
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London
Germany
Air Ministry
Frankfurt
Cologne
Munson
Washington
Frank ©. Munson
New York
Shipping Board
Munron Steamship Line
United States
France
Marine Corps
British advance deepens on Somme in heavy fighting
In northern Picardy the front sees one of the war’s greatest battles as British forces push forward beyond Meaulté and Meaulte area. Towns such as Boiry Becquerelle Gomie Court Happy Valley Chuignolles and Herleville are reported captured with gains approaching a mile to two miles inside former German positions.
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Associated Press
Picardy
Boiry-Becquerelle
Boubles
Gomiecourt
Meaulte
Albert
Happy Valley
Bray
Somme
Chuignolles
Herleville
France
Chaignolles
Meaulie
Bray-Albert Road
Haig
Tara Hill
Propaganda Drove Allies in War Debate and British Front Report
Washington declares German propaganda aimed at sowing Allied discord will be detected and countered by the United States. British front reports describe heavy fighting south of the Somme with Haig men capturing towns, taking prisoners, and pressing the German line across a five mile front amid rising German casualties.
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Washington
United States
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
America
Outers
Gomiecourt
All Reise
Haig
Yankees Expected to Answer 1 Big Bertha
Paris reports in special type L Heure notes raise question will Bertha’s echo soon be heard. New York reports that men who enlist in the British army Jewish battalion are assured service in Palestine per Major White. Weather in New York shows no major changes expected though some fluctuations may occur.
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Paris
Palestine
New York
Peryice
Bei C
Brooman White
White
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Moscow
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Amsterdam
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