Canada forms Royal Canadian Naval Air Service for coastal defense
Hon. C. C. Ballantyne announces the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service to defend Atlantic coasts during the war. The force will operate with the RCN, use naval-style uniforms, and include aeroplanes airships and kite balloons supplied by the United States. Cadet recruitment will open in time, with training in the United States and England for some cadets.
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C. C. Ballantyne
Naval Services
Canada
Royal Canadian Naval Air Service
R.C.N
Admiralty
Barron
United States
Lieut. Johnson
U.S.N
Air Minister
Director of Naval Services
Admiral Kingsmill
R.N.A.S
R.A.F
Royal Naval Air Service
Atlantic
England
Internal Combustion Engineers
Canada Adopts the Allied War Loaf Policy
The Canada food board adopts the allied loaf policy requiring 20 percent substitutes with wheat flour. An official memorandum notes government approval and urges household use of substitutes to conserve flour and wheat for potential shortages next year.
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Canada
Canada Food Board
Allied Food Controllers
Europe
United States
Naval transport feat drives Allied war effort
The passage details how the British navy secured sea transport for immense Allied needs from war start to June 30, with 20,000,000 men and 110,000,000 tons of stores conveyed. It notes fleet growth from 2.5 to 6.5 million displacement tons and a net wartime loss of 3,282 sailors by April 27, 1918, about one per 60 ships carried.
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Firth of Forth
Militant Turn in War Prompts Cautious Optimism
A century-old analysis notes Allied gains in the west over six months, with 214000 prisoners and 2000 cannons seized. It cites Austrian Piave defeat, reduced submarine threat, and victories in Macedonia and Palestine as context, while warning against overconfidence and predicting a long, costly struggle ahead.
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Russia
Macedonia
Palestine
Nauen
St. Mihiel Salient
Five Subs Monthly Losses Admit German Admiralty Speaker
Captain von Mantey told a Dortmund navy league meeting that Germany loses about five submarines and 125 officers and men monthly. He said Scheer and Hindenburg will seek ways to strike the enemy, and that English and American powers are not feared. He noted raids are hampered by foe strength and limited eyes in the fleet and suggested a larger battle fleet might have altered the U boat war. The Cologne Gazette cites weather as a factor in August tonnage declines, while German victory or defeat hinges on submarines.
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von Mantey
Dortmund
Scheer
Hindenburg
America
Germany
England
Cologne Gazette
Government Ads Urge Support for War Industries
Germans urged through government newspaper notices to sustain agriculture and munition production. Citizens are told to give up surplus clothing to help workers in key industries endure shortages amid growing gloom.
Made in China Now A Pencil Factory Opens in Shanghai
A Shanghai pencil factory with a daily output of one hundred gross marks a new industry in China. The product compares favorably with imports from Germany and Austria and may replace foreign makes in time.
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Shanghai
China
Germany
Austria
Greater Part of Wheat Is Grading No. 1
Competent authorities report a record No. 1 Northern grade for Western Canada wheat this year as samples received at the Winnipeg Grain Exchange rival or surpass those of prior years. Most arriving cars grade No. 1 due to ideal weather during ripening and lack of heavy rains since cutting. Several high grade flax samples have also reached the exchange, with Manitoba flax largely grown for the British government from Siberian seed.
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Canada
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Manitoba
Siberia
Righty Canadians Blinded in War
Captain E A Baker who lost sight in France has been appointed to the department of soldiers' civil re-establishment vocational staff to aid blind soldiers. A Queen's graduate and Military Cross recipient, he trained at St Dunstan's and will help establish blind soldier training in London before Canadians return home. About eighty Canadians have been blinded since the war began.
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Department of Soldiers
Ottawa
James Lougheed
E. A. Baker
France
Baker
Queen's
Flanders
Canada
England
Goliaths
Davids
Mount Blanc
Mont Blancs
Old England
Berlin
Germany
Britain
Philip of
Spain
Louis the Great
Napoleon
Kipling
Great Britain
America
British Isles
Move Big Bridge On Car Trucks
A Popular Mechanics feature shows a 4000 ton railway bridge moved 136 feet on freight car trucks over the Missouri River at St. Joseph Missouri. Hydraulic jacks on the car trucks raised the structure during a nine hour and fifteen minute traffic interruption, enabling a longer span to be inserted.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Missouri River
St. Joseph
Frenzied Physician Not France
A quip from the Boston Transcript circulates about a patient visiting a doctor to collect a debt rather than seeking medical care. The exchange mocks medical urgency and misdirection in a humorous note.
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France
Boston Transcript
Doom of Germany sealed when Britain entered the war
A Philadelphia Public Ledger columnist lauds Britain's decisive role in World War I, detailing Britain’s vast mobilization, empire contributions, naval dominance, and extended global involvement from Suez to Vladivostok. The piece asserts Germany’s doom was sealed when Britain joined the Allied cause.
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Germany
Britain
Origin of Bolshevik name explained by Russian doctor
A Russian doctor offers the true origin of the term Bolshevik tracing it to a 1903 Russian Social Democratic party conference. He notes a vote created a majority group called the Dolsheviks and a minority group called the Mencheviks, shaping later usage.
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Russian
Social Democratic Party
Shevisto
Men¢Stvo
Dolsheviks
Mencheviks
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