Allies Press German Forces North of the Marne in Open Battle
Paris battlefront report describes French and American units pushing Germans toward the Vesle with reduced resistance. American advance of nearly a mile in open order follows German retreat as Hartennes et Taux and Ville en Tardenois come under Allied control. London dispatch notes bitter fighting near Cirges Bellevue farm with German 200th Jaeger and 216th divisions.
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Associated Press
Paris
The
Marne
Vesle
War Office
Aisne-Marne
Soissions
Rheims
Nesles Forest
Ourcq
London
Sergy
Reuter
Bellevue Farm
Cirges
Kemmel
Flanders
Laon
Keystone Division Troops Slaughter Huns by Hundreds
North of Chateau Thierry Pennsylvania soldiers press the attack with Latrobe officers credited for routing German positions. Captured Germans rise to conflict with 67 taken by a Latrobe officer as British and American forces push forward. Hospital tags are torn off by returning fighters to strengthen the line.
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Keystone Division
Pennsylvania
Chateau Thierry
Latrobe
Pennsylvanians Win Prisoner Tally in France Front Action
Carroll dispatch from Aug 1 reports American units advancing east of Roncheres and into woods east of Cergy. Lt Marshall Barron of Latrobe is credited with 67 prisoners and Major Joseph Thompson directs machine gunners to clear trenches as 100 prisoners are taken.
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Foch
Sergey
Roncheres
Cergy
Chateau -Thierry
Eric Hoard
Rochester
N. Y
Joseph Thompson
Beaver Falls
J. E. Boyle
Pittsburgh
Marshall Barron
Latrobe
HUN POSITIONS CRUMBLE UNDER SMASHING DRIVE
London reports Franco British attack on the Marne front penetrated five miles and reached depths of up to three miles. The ridge between the Ourcq and Aisne was captured along with Meuniere wood near Goussancourt. Advices describe the turn of the summer campaign and possibly the war.
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Associated Press
London
Marne
Ourcq
Aisne
Meuniere Wood
Goussancourt
Salient
Ukraine Burns with Hate for Han Usurpers
Stockholm reports from Zeta Hoeglung, Swedish Socialist Left leader, describing Ukraine before Field Marshal von Eichorn's assassination. He cites peasant hostility to Germans, 25 000 armed peasants, grain and cattle destruction, and local guerrilla warfare foretelling the harvest period clashes.
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Stockholm
Ukraine
Marshal von Eichorn
Zeta Hoeglung
Politiken
Copenhagen
Hoeglund
Eichhorn
Russia
Dagger’s Point
Japan Joins Allies in Swift Aid for Liberia
Washington reports joint action by Japan the Entente Powers and the United States in Siberia to aid the Czecho Slovaks. President Wilson and Secretary Baker discussed the plan and a large Chinese force in Manchuria is set to cooperate with Japan under Japanese command.
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Associated Press
Washington
Japan
America
Siberia
Tokio
Wilson
War and Navy
Polk
Baker
Mr. Polk
White House
China
Pao Kuci Ching
Lei Lung King
Manchuria
Flag Ceremony At Island Park In Harrisburg Tonight
A notable military event unfolds at Island Park in Harrisburg this evening at 7 30 as Company I Second Infantry Pennsylvania Reserve Militia stages flag presentation exercises. The display follows United States Regular Army regulations and is expected to draw a large crowd, offering locals a rare chance to witness a formal flag ceremony.
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Harrisburg
Island Park
Second Infantry
Pennsylvania
Block Festival Raises 165 for the Red Cross
Harrisburg residents rally a fundraiser as three local women plan to invade the Red Cross chapter rooms with a dinner pail fill to aid the war relief, following moving remarks by a wounded Harrisburg boy to his mother. A Norwegian brig Alkher was sunk off Norway by a German submarine, crew saved.
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the Red Cross
Harrisburg
The
American Red Cross
Associated Press
London
Alkher
Aredale
Norway
Helmets of Huns sent to U S relatives on Aisne Marne line
Soldiers report German helmets with bullets sent to relatives in the United States from camps near the front. Y M C A and Red Cross members share trophies found along retreat routes. Some helmets addressed "From the Kaiser" or "From Hindenburg," many wrapped in flour sacks, many shows initials of senders.
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Aisne-Marne
United States
Red Cross
Hindenburg
Boys Fined For Alleged Rowdyism on Playgrounds
August Bria and LeRoy McIntyre were fined five dollars each by Alderman A M Landis for disorderly conduct on city playgrounds. They ignored a prior order to stay away, with J K Staples, the city playground supervisor, bringing the case.
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August Bria
LeRoy McIntyre
A. M. Landis
J. K. Staples
Harm Area Weather Update Tonight and Saturday
For Harm and vicinity, expect fair conditions tonight and likely Saturday with little temperature change. Breeze light and skies mostly clear as the weekend begins.
Enemy Property Turned to Liberty Bonds in World War II
New York August 2. The money and property formerly German owned has been taken over by A Mitchell Palmer enemy property custodian and surpassed 500 million dollars. Palmer says he is the largest individual Liberty Bonds purchaser. All cash is sent to the Treasury to be invested and enemy property is converted to cash for bond investment. By July 31 he had bought 42,970,027 dollars of bonds with 2,807,905 more available at the Treasury for the coming loan.
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Associated Press
New York
A. Mitchell Palmer
M. Palmer
Treasury
Liberty Bonds Sell At Par On Stock Exchange
Liberty 31 percent bonds, exempt from taxation, sold at par today on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time this year. Steady buying of this issue by leading financial interests has been evident recently.
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Liberty
New York
Stock Exchange
Railroad administration serves notice on ticket scrappers
Washington August 2 The railroad administration served notice today on ticket scrappers to quit their business at once under threat of prosecution.
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U. 8S
Associated Press
Washington
Yankee shrimp's quick wit ends one Hun's career
A small American at the Marne outwitted a German in a deadly grapple. The American grabbed a grenade, removed the safety, and planted it in the German's pocket, leaving him with no chance to counter. The German's gear was blown away, denying the foe any souvenir.
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Associated Press
Marne
Reuter
Prisoners Welcomed as Workers Across Front
Weser Zeitung of Bremen quotes a grim forecast on exchange of American and German POWs. It claims Americans will be kept busy in eastern labor markets and in agriculture behind the front, with extra rations only for those who prove strong workers, amid harsh warnings about the diet gap caused by Allied measures.
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Sners Weiser Zeitung
HUN Voice
Amsterdam
Weser Zeitung
Bremen
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Contremain
Chateau Thierry-Soissons
France
Ville-en-Tardenois
Soissons
Coulongs
Vezilly Wood
Villers-Agron
Romigny
Ville en-Tardenois
TRE
Raymond G. Carroll
Carroll
Telegraph
Keystone
Rainbow
Public Ledger
Harrisburg Telegraph
American Expeditionary Forces
Special Cable Dispatch
Public Ledger Co. and
Telegraph Printing Co
Liberia
Polic
U. S
Tainhead
Western Union
Ireau- Far
White Sox
NAVY
Chicago
W T. Denny
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Swindler
John Krauschauch
Scranton
Toledo
Colorado
Harrisburger
Buffalo
Frederick Brenckman
Turkestan
Basel
Switzerland
Karl Helfferich
Minnister Trotzky
Stern Spentures
Field Marshal
von Eichhorn
King Emanuel
Rome
Victor Emanuel
Pardo
Lima
Peru
Harrisburns Fast
Carroman
W. Gevanili Harrinburg
Colter
Earth
Strot Jackson
Nellie
Damen Steelton
Rabel Venu
Harria
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