Hand to Hand Fighting on Battle Front
Desperate night and day fighting along a long front in France with heavy losses as Germans press to break Allied lines. The French and British corps counter with fierce bayonet action, regaining ground near Rheims and Verdun with no decisive outcome yet reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ten Tone
Aisne
France
Oige
Somme
Rheims
Nogent L'Abbesse
Argonne
Meuse
Verdun-Tour Nancy
Alsace-Lorraine
the Aisne
Austerlitz
Leipzig
Belgium
Paris
Lis
Berlin
Germany
Vrench
Verdun
Bapaume
von Kluh
Allies Capture Lissa in Dalmatia After Bombardment
Dispatches report Lissa, a Austrian seaport in Dalmatia, bombarded by a French fleet on September 19. Troops later landed from French warships and garrisoned the town as British and French flags flew over the semaphore station. Separately, a German aeroplane bombed a Boulogne shipyard with no injuries. A Philadelphia tragedy sees five year old May Summers decapitated by a trolley car in view of her mother.
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Guy
Dalmatia
Rome
Lissa
May Summers
Philadelphia
A General Survey Of The War In The Great Battle
The third week of the Aisne battle leaves France England and allies in a deadlock as reinforcements pour in. Paris and London report shifting German strength while Berlin notes German gains. Across Europe Galicia falls Przemysl collapsed Cracow looms and Russia advances. Naval clashes include U-9 sinking three British cruisers and other engagements near Zanzibar and the Baltic.
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the Aisne
France
England
von Kluck
von Buelow
Berlin
Teuton
Galicia
Przemysl
Warsaw
Belgium
Aboukir
Cressy
Hogue
Mach
Moglish
The
Hague
Haeglish
Pegasus
Zanzibar
Koenigsberg
Germany
Baltic Sea
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Boulogne
Dinout
American Press Association
Xperience
Harvey H. Johnston
Ladies’ Home Journal
Loughry
Eixtra
Benjamin & A Washington
New York
W. R. Loughry & Co
Footers Dye Works
America
Wine & Wine
Indiana
Beyer Bauman
J. M. Stewart & Co
Indiana Hardware Co
Peterson & Co
Keller Bros
Underwear Department
Sloan Bros
Court House
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