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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1914
Page
1
An injunction limits actions in a Tensas Basin land deal case as probes proceed under the commission’s act. Court actions pause further movements while investigations outline roles of involved parties and potential remedies.
Congressman J Walter Elder files suit in Rayville on behalf of J S Sutton of Morehouse Parish to halt the Tensas Basin Levee Board land sale investigation. Judge McIntosh issues injunction citing constitutional and 1914 Act violations including dual office holding and excess expenditures.
German forces in retreat are reported to offer stiff resistance to Allied armies as they pull back on the front lines.
The French war office says Germans in France retreat with weak resistance. The British report crosses the Oureq and pursues the German right wing. Germany reportedly loses seventy two field pieces from an army corps as Verdun containment looms.
A Bordereux dispatch to the French embassy reports five German armies in France driven back and the general situation shifting to the Allies advantage over the past three days. The Austrian army near Tomaszow suffered a disastrous retreat on the opposite front.
London reports the German assault east of Viary le Francois intensifies as Allied attempts to hold the center falter. A breakthrough could threaten the French frontier forts and the rear of Castemana sixth army corps near Nancy, with the wider line at stake.
Belgian officials report a rout of German forces in Belgium as Allied forces rally after retreat. German corps likely pull back to avoid battle or reach the Marne. London dispatch notes the third French army captured all artillery of a German army corps.
Washington reports the United States will likely back powers in protesting Turkey's abolition of foreigner rights. Identical protest notes have reached Constantinople, and London reports the Russian Army Corps of Finland tried and failed to enter East Prussia via Lick.
A French official report notes German right wing and central forces retreating in France as Allied advances seize guns, men, and stores. Serbians capture Semlin across from Belgrade. Russians claim Tomaszow in Russian Poland and repulse Germans near Chorzzele and Myzsinec. East Prussia reports a defeat of the Russian Twenty second Army Corps at Lick. A Belgiun front segment faces food shortages in German lines. Petrograd says Russians separate Austrian left from Tomaszow and Rawa in Russian Poland. France's Poincare denies dum dum bullet charges to Wilson.
Paris reports a Meaux battle scene showing German infantry in a sunken road with shells bursting from batteries three miles distant. The ground is littered with bodies, discarded equipment, and torn poplar branches as trees suffer shell damage.
The afternoon session on Friday features a boost for Buy-A-Bale in the conference business segment. Attendees hear updates on funding, partnerships, and potential market expansion.
The Ouachita parish cotton conference approved two bold sets of resolutions. They call for a fixed minimum price of not less than 9 cents per pound middling, a 50 percent reduction in 1915 acreage, and a bankers’ pact to withhold financing unless farmers sign to cut acreage. The buy a bale plan urges banks and firms in Monroe to solicit 10 cent per pound purchases, with special receipts and badges for buyers. Delegates from North Louisiana discussed depot protection and storage, while Monroe officials pledged city support to safeguard the crop.
London dispatch reports Britain ready to fight on until Kaiser power is broken and the Hohenzollerns face annihilation. Asquith demands 500000 more troops while Vienna and Rome hint at peace talks, questioned by British resolve and Belgian losses.
A terse note from a local hearing club indicates no discussion of peace pacts and mentions barriers faced by deaf patrons in public forums.
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