German retreat across Somme as British push toward Lens
German forces retreat miles from the Ypres area to near Peronne while British and Canadian troops break the Drocourt Queant line and seize Lens. French American troops under Mangin hold the Soissons plateau as advances across northern France continue with numerous towns and prisoners falling to the advance.
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Associated Press
France
Drocourt-Queant
Lens
Operpigny
Pouai
Oite
Queant
Lys
Estaire
Soissons
Mangin
British push past Drocourt Queant line in heavy fighting
British forces report major gains on a 10 000 yard front beyond the Drocourt Queant line with Laudemont Brecourt and Etaing captured and Cagnicourt momentarily falling as Haig’s troops drive east of Peronne toward Cambrai amid bitter German resistance on the Somme sector and along the Oise Aisne front.
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Villers Les Cagnicourt
Haig
Cambrai
Drocourt-Queant
Enroll the Nations Boys in County Working Reserve
Government peers plan to enroll the Nations boys into a county working reserve program. The effort aims to assign able youths to county labor or service roles under official oversight.
Inflict Geatest Disaster of the War on Germans
London reports the Procourt Queant Switch line breakthrough as a major Allied success with vast captures of men and material. The loss is described as one of the worst German disasters of the war and a blow provoking high command anxiety and potential reversals for the Germans.
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Procourt- Queant
British Forces Capture Lens in Major German Retreat
Sedon Sept 3 The British captured Lens and Queant as Germans evacuated the area. British forces advanced beyond the Drocourt Queant line to positions near Buissy and Prouville, taking over 10 000 prisoners yesterday and more this morning. They also held Poignies Velu Dhertincourt Borquingny and advanced four miles on a twenty mile front. In Flanders British troops took Waalverghem as the line remained in British possession.
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Sedon
Lens
Queant
Drocourt- Queant
Poant
Buissy
Queans
Prouville
Poignies
Velu
Dhertincourt
Borquingny
Ing
Flanders
Waalverghem
Kemmel
Queant-Drocourt
Huns Retreat Across Dorcourt-Queant Front During Storming
Canadian and English troops broke the Dorcourt Queant line with strong assault and drove the enemy from positions along the front. The retreat extended across the front as German defenses collapsed under the offensive pressure.
Czecho Slovak Cotton Group Recognized Nation War News
Washington reports the United States recognizes the Czecho Slovak peoples as a legitimate nation fighting Germany and Austria Hungary with Britain France Italy and Japan also granting recognition. Paris hosts headquarters with borders including Bohemian Moravia and Galicia under Austrian control. Local cotton markets surge as spot prices rise to thirty five cents with forecasts of forty five to fifty cents. The North Louisiana Planters Association seeks seven cents per pound for linters and seventy five dollars per ton for seed. August cotton receipts show 40 percent of expected bales. total 1 137 000. The August drought trimmed production to 2 482 000 bales, while the Agriculture Department projects 1918 output at 11 127 000 590 pound bales. A buyer purchases 260 bales at 35 cents.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Nattion
Paris
Bohemian
Moravia
Galicia
North Louisiana Planters Association
John M Parker
Washinngton
Department of Agriculture
Monroe Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
Refugees from Russia to Finland for Sweden embarkation
Washington reports safe conduct through Finland for Allied citizens leaving Russia. German authorities permit the plan, and Finnish policy objects none. Special trains will move refugees including one hundred Americans to a Swedish port for return home.
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Washington
Finland
Russia
Men Not Employed in 2 Productive Occupations Notified
In compliance with the Work or Fight ruling four registrants in Ouachita were asked to appear at 9 a.m. September 5 to present evidence explaining their non employment in productive occupations. The four men named are Steve Grays Jessie Warren Wallace Atkins and Harry Arethas. Notices cite Sections 121 B and 121 C of Selective Service Regulations.
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War Department
Board For
Ouachita
Ouachita Board
Steve Grays
Wood Street
Jessie Warren
Monroe Hotel
Wallace Atkins
Causey Brothers
Harry Arethas
Metropolitan Cafe
Armored infantry terror at Juvigny in French-American assault
With the French Army on September 3 the Americans joined a push on Juvigny using what the French call Shock Cars. These armored infantry cars, manned by a French lieutenant, reportedly killed about 200 German troops before the town. The machines move like foot troops and fire with quick firers and cannon, delivering deadly precision in the advance.
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Juvigny
Leutenant
Americans Capture Men and Machine Guns
Washington reports continued American advances north of the Aisne despite strong resistance. In the Terny Soray area they captured, the Americans took 572 prisoners, two large guns and 75 machine guns.
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Washington
Aisne
Pershing
Terny Soray
Ground strewn with dead soldiers in latest trench battles
French forces in the field report heavy combat on the plateau north of Soissons. Between Crecy-au-Mont and Seuilly and between Juvigny and Terny, German divisions suffered severe losses as they counterattacked five times to halt the advancing French. The morning field shows dead Prussians and Germans from Monday’s fighting.
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Soissons
Crecy-au-Mont
Seuilly
Juvigny
Terny
Board classifies new registrants in 194 entries
The fifty one new registrants aged 18 on August 24 are classified except for three. Of the 48 classified, 36 are class one, four class two, four class three, four class four, and five physically unfit class five.
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BOARD
Entente Allied Troops Advance in Northern Russia
British war office reports Entente forces in northern European Russia captured enemy positions on August 21, 75 miles south of Archangel near Obozebrskaya, despite Russian opposition.
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London
European
Russia
Obozebrskaya
Archangel
British War Office
French and American forces push east of Soissons
French troops advance east of Crecy au Mont and Juvigny and occupy Neuilley and Terny Serny northeast of Soissons. American troops reach the Bethune Soissons road embankments after breaking through heavy barbed wire. Austro-Hungarian prisoners taken as Mangin’s forces near Couey north of Soissons. overall front between the Oise and Aisne rivers reported in good condition.
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Paris
Lrench
Crecy-au-Mont
Juvigny
Neuilley
Terny- Serny
Soissons
War Office
France
Associated Press
Bethune- Soissons Road
Acre
Havas
Mangin
Couey
Oise
Aisne
New York to Launch Major Slacker Draft Evader Drive
New York plans a large scale roundup by 20,009 to 25,000 government agents under the Justice Department to locate draft evaders. Men 21 to 31 registered last year will be stopped and shown their boards. those unable to prove registration will be detained at armories until boards verify their status. Local police, state constables, and auxiliaries will assist alongside American Protective League volunteers and sailors.
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New York
New York Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Secret Service
American Protective League
Lumber Headquarters Moved to Philadelphia in Reorganization
The Emergency Fleet Corporation moves its lumber headquarters from New Orleans to Philadelphia amid a new lumber division creation. W J Haymen, previously Lumber Administration assistant, is named general lumber superintendent.
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Washington
Emergency Fleet Corporation Lumber
New Orleans
Philadelphia
W J. Haymen
Lumber Administration
Boys Working Reserve enrollment set for September 28
Louisiana prepares to enroll boys in the Boys Working Reserve to aid home industry and farms. The program aims to register youth for essential work at home rather than foreign service, with state and parish leaders instructed on registration procedures.
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Louisiana
Hilarris
Parish
Defense
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Dorcourt-Queant
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