French Forces Reach Ham Region and Noyon Front
Allied operations in France report French troops reaching the Ham region and capturing Noyon while advancing near Guiscard and Happlincourt. British and American forces drive forward crossing the Somme and capturing Juvigny as tanks support heavy artillery and air cover.
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Ham
Noyon
France
Guiscard
Happlincourt
Happlinecourt
Chauny
Bapaume
London
Picardy
Les Boeufs
Morval
Combles
Peronne
Somme
Bapaume- Beaulecourt
Beaulincourt
Beaulencourt
Scarpe
Dorcourt-Queant
Maurepas
Ginchy
Juillemont
U. S
Soissons
Welsh Miner Elevated to Brigadier General
Godfrey Jones a Welsh mine foreman turned private, then brigadier general nominee, rose from early doubts about his leadership to lead men in major French battles after joining the Cardiff Pals battalion of the South Wales Borderers. He earned a night school diploma, was reduced to a digger before another chance, and later proved his capability in war.
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London
Godfrey Jones
The
Daily Mail
Jones
Cardiff “Pals
South Wales Borderers
France
British two seat plane thwarts large German air force
A British two seat airplane auttacked 120 German chasers and pursued them beyond their lines. It was attacked by 20 German planes, 12 above and eight below. The British claim a single enemy machine downed in flames before returning to base with the pilot wounded and the observer steering.
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Juvigny
Couronne Woods
France
Nogales Border Clash Ends As Civilians Blamed
Civilians in Nogales are blamed for cross border shooting as a ceasefire holds after an armistice. Casualties include one American officer and two soldiers killed with 28 wounded. Felix Penaloza mayor of Nogales Sonora among the Mexican dead.
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Nogales
Ariz
Cabell
Abasolo
Sonora
Frederick J. Herman
Washington
William A. Holbrook
War Department
General Holbrook
Southern Department
Senator Ollie M. James Dies in Baltimore Hospital
Kentucky political leader Senator Ollie M. James died at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore after a three month illness. The five term congressman and 1912 U S senator nominee, born July 17 1871 in Crittenden County, was with Mrs. James and Jr. H. James.
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Baltimore
Ollie M. James
Kentucky
Johns Hopkins Hospital
James
H. James
Congress
United States
Crittenden County
Governor Goodrich Injured In Indiana Auto Collision
Indiana Governor James P. Goodrich was seriously injured when his automobile collided with a street car on Wednesday night. He was hospitalized at St. Vincent's with concussion, skull fracture, broken collarbone and left hip fracture, and remains partly conscious.
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Indianapolis
James P. Goodrich
Indiana
St. Vincent's Hospital
Bolsheviks Retreat On Ussuri Front Near Vladivostok
Reports from Shanghai via Reuters say Bolsheviks have fallen back six miles on the Ussuri front as Allied forces begin a general advance. American and Japanese troops are entraining for the line. In Siberia General Semenoff has crossed the frontier and retaken Mutsievski station near Manchuli, taking prisoners.
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London
Ussuri
Vladivostok
Shanghai
Reuters Limited
Peking
Semenoff
Siberian
Mutsievski Station
Manchuli
Prohibition Date Set For July First War Measure
President Wilson and Senate leaders indicated support for national prohibition during the war with a target date of July 1 next year. Negotiations suggested the date would not affect current liquor revenue, avoiding changes to the war revenue bill based on about $900 million in tax estimates.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Madden Attacks FTC Over Packing Industry Report
Representative Martin B Madden of Chicago attacked the Federal Trade Commission in a House speech over its packing industry report He accused the commission of grooming senatorial candidates among members and urged removal or abolition He defended big packers praising their achievements and noted Davies seeking Wisconsin office Harris pursuing Georgia Senate and Heney running for California governor
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Washington
Martin B. Madden
Chicago
Federal Trade Commission
House
Commission
Madden
Davies
Wisconsin
Harris
Georgia
Francis J. Heney
California
Ambassador Page Resigns From Britain Post
Walter Hines Page ambassador to Great Britain since April 1918 resigns due to ill health. President Wilson has accepted the resignation as Page and Mrs. Page plan to return to America after months of war strain.
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Washington
Walter Hines Page
Garden City
N. Y
United States
Great Britain
Wilson
London
Ambassador Page
Page
America
Propaganda Dropped on Agram by Italian Planes
Italian airplanes recently dropped propaganda manifestos on Agram capital of Slavonia and Croatia Austrian advices received in Switzerland on Tuesday afternoon report.
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Agram
Berne
Slavonia
Croatia
Switzerland
Mutiny Rumors Tie German Battalion Refusal to Front
Amsterdam dispatch reports persistent rumors from a German source via the Telegraaf that a German battalion refused orders to the front and that one tenth of its men were shot as punishment.
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Hans
Amsterdam
Telegraaf
Steel Workers Strike After Negotiations Breakoff
Seattle Aug 28 negotiations with Pacific Coast Steel and Emergency Jet workers collapse leading to a strike among contract employees.
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Seattle
Wash
Pacific Coast Steel Company
Jeet Corporation
Harrison Wins Mississippi Congressional Primary Victory
Senator elect Pat Harrison defeats two opponents in the Mississippi primary by 6 668 votes according to official returns released Wednesday.
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Harrison
Neel
Vardaman
Jackson
Miss
Pat Harrison
Mississipi
Government May Act in Strike Reported
Coal miners in Alberta went on strike on Wednesday. Negotiations are under way for settlement, but if the miners do not return to work soon the government may intervene, according to reports from Winnipeg Manitoba.
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Winnipeg
Man
Alberta
260000 Germans Register in United States
About 260 000 naturalized and naturalized Germans live in the United States and have registered with police and post offices under alien regulations the department of justice reported.
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Washington
United States
Department of Justice
Finland Army Command Reshuffled by Premier Svinhufvud
Amsterdam reports that Finland's supreme command has been dissolved by Premier Svinhufvud. General Wilkman is named to lead the Finnish army as the Kreuz Zeitung of Berlin notes.
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Roy
Montdidier
Moreuil
Stoye
Berlin
Finland
Amsterdam
Svinhufvud
Kreuz Zeltung
Wilkman
French Gas Deadly in Prague? French gas horror report
Paris reports a captured German order to the Eleventh Army acknowledging the deadly efficacy of French gas and the wholesale havoc it has caused.
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Paris
Eleventh Army
No Autos on Sunday Rule Urged by Fuel Administration
The fuel administration asks the public east of the Mississippi to refrain from using gasoline for passenger cars motorcycles and motorboats on Sundays until further notice. If voluntary action fails prohibitory regulations may be enforced. Taxis are included in the ban with several exceptions for essential services and rural residents without other transport.
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Washington
The
Fuel Administration
Mississippi River
German Soldiers Mock Officers in Prisoner Cages
HMNS reports German soldiers show open contempt for their officers in cages holding thousands of prisoners. Insults and loud denials echo across the cages as prisoners and officers alike express longing for peace by any agreement.
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France
Germany
Japs Defeat the Bolsheviki on Fronts
Japanese troops concentrate on the Ussuri front and at Enge neuka sailors aided by armored cars routed Bolshevik forces amid heavy artillery fire. General Semenoff’s Trans-Baikal opponents pulled back with Japanese arrival at Manchuria. About 3,000 Bolsheviks remain in the area.
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London
Ussuri
Vladivostok
Engeneuka
Bollshevik
Semenoff
trans-Baikal
Manchuri
Tien Tsin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Kermit Roosevelt Awarded Military Cross in Mesopotamia
London reports the official gazette awards temporary and honorary Capt. Kermit Roosevelt, son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, the Military Cross for services in Mesopotamia.
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Kermit Roosevelt
London
Roosevelt
Mesopotamia
German Bomb Kills Elderly French Woman in Woevre
With American forces in France August 30 the German bombing of the Woevre area intensified. An eighty four year old French woman was killed by a German air burst.
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France
Woevre
Call 900 Draft Men From Porto Rico
Provost Marshal General issues call for 900 drafted men from Porto Rico to be mobilized at Camp Las Cas, San Juan. White and colored draftees included.
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Porto Rico
Washington
Camp Las Cag
San Juan
Two Navy Quartermasters Die in Seaplane Crash
Two Navy quartermasters were killed when a seaplane crash occurred in French waters on August 22. The dead are Danle Vern Campbell of Portland Oregon and Lester Achan Barnett of Mount Pleasant Tennessee.
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Navy
Washington
Dnale Vern Campbell
Portland
Ore
Lester Achan Barnett
Mount Pleasant
Tenn
Red Cross Imports Free of Customs Duties
Washington bill suspends customs duties on American Red Cross imports and passes the Senate. It was sent to President Wilson for approval.
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Washington
House
Senate
Wilson
1845 Draft Bill Passes Senate With Strikes Conditional
Washington Aug. 29 The manpower bill sending men 18 to 45 into the draft passed the Senate with a work or fight clause. The Thomas-Reed anti strike amendment was approved 40 to 29 and made inoperative if strikers submit disputes to the War Labor Board. Minimum draft age for 19 was defeated 52 to 21. Registration set for Sept 5 to 7. final passage likely before week end, with President Wilson expected to sign.
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Washington
Senate
House
McKellar
Tennessee
Cummins
Iowa
War Labor Board
War Department
Poindexter
Wilson
United War Exposition Opens With Statue Unveiling
Chicago August 29 opening ceremony for the two week United States government war exposition on the lake front begins Monday September 2 with the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty by Florence Lowden daughter of Governor Lowden. The program includes naval and military band music and a chorus. The schedule lists days for Belgian British French Italian and Canadian days plus observances for Red Cross Labor Y M C A and other groups with diverse nationalities featured on specific dates.
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Chicago
Lake Front
Florence Lowden
Lowden
Red Cross
Lafayette- Marne
Alsace-Lorraine
Knights of Columbus
Pershing
Army
Navy
Allies report over
General March announced that allied forces have captured more than 112000 prisoners since July 1 and seized 1300 field cannons and larger from the Germans.
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Washington
March
Pilot Killed as Army Plane Crashes at Dallas Airfield
Dallas report says Aviation Lieut. Charles G. Hyde died instantly when an army airplane spun into the ground from 300 feet. Lieut. R. E. Yarman, who was with him, sustained serious injuries.
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Dallas
Tex
Charles G. Hyde
R. E. Yarman
Shoemakers in Parley discuss wartime shoe standardization
In Parley Washington on August 30 shoe manufacturers met with a War Industries Board plan to limit production to a few standard shoe patterns. A fixed price will be set for each pattern as part of the plan.
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Parley
Washington
War Industries Board
Shipbuilding Push Puts 3 Million Tons in War Fleet
Washington reports America's shipbuilding program has added 3,000,000 deadweight tons of shipping to the war effort. Unofficial figures show 662 ships slid down the ways at American plants, boosting naval logistics.
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Washington
America
Rebels Make Gains Near Amoy in Fukien Province
Rebel forces achieve successes against government troops near Amoy as Fukien forces face a dangerous position.
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Peking
Amoy
Fukien
Senate votes for dry U.S. amendment powers zones around mines
The Senate adopted an amendment to extend wartime prohibition until troop demobilization, and to authorize the president to set dry zones around coal mines, shipyards, munitions plants and other war industries. The measure shifts to the House amid debate over wine interests and timing.
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President
Sheppard
Wilson
Phelan
California
Kahn
Postmasters Renamed in Western Cities by Wilson
Washington lists renamed postmasters in Illinois Indiana Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin. Cities include Aurora Bloomington Cairo Chicago Heights East St. Louis Jacksonville Kankakee Urbana Rock Island Deadar Evansville Kokomo Logansport Vincennes Marion Richmond South Bend Terre Haute Wabash Warsaw Alpena Benton Harbor Calumet Jackson Lansing Pontiac Port Huron Duluth Minneapolis Green Bay Milwaukee Wausau.
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Washington
Wilson
Illinois
Aurora
Bloomington
Cairo
Chicago Heights
East St. Louis
Jacksonville
Kankakee
Urbana
Rock Island
Indiana
Deadar
Evansville
Kokomo
Logansport
Vincennes
Marion
Richmond
South Bend
Terre Haute
Wabash
Warsaw
Michigan
Alpena
Benton Harbor
Calumet
Jackson
Lansing
Pontiac
Port Huron
Minnesota
Duluth
Minneapolis
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Milwaukee
Wausau
United States Mediates Border Crisis in Central America
Nicaragua and Honduras withdraw troops from disputed borders and submit the boundary dispute to the United States through their foreign ministers in Washington at Washington’s urging.
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Washington
Nicaragua
Honduras
United States
Spanish Steamship Crusa Sunk by German U-Boat
Paris reports the Spanish steam er Crusa was sunk by a German submarine. Newspapers warn the incident could escalate tensions between Spain and Germany and threaten a broader crisis.
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Paris
Crusa
Spain
Germany
Czecho-Slovaks Capture Key Siberian Rail Point
Czecho-Slovak forces push east in western Siberia and seize Vorkendinski, a major Trans-Siberian rail hub, in a decisive advance reported from London.
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London
Siberia
Vorkendinski
Rathbone McAdoo Aid Nominated for Treasury Post
Washington August 31 Albert Rathbone of New York was nominated by President Wilson to be assistant secretary of the treasury to succeed Oscar Crosby who goes to France to represent the treasury there.
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Rathbone
McAdoo Aid
Washington
Albert Rathbone
New York
Wilson
the Treasury
Oscar T. Crosby
Treasury
France
Britain Seeks New Treasury Credit For War Aid
Washington reports an additional $400 million credit to Great Britain bringing total British credits to $3.725 billion and allies to $7.09204 billion.
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Britain
Washington
Great Britain
Treasury
Ukraine Revolt Expands as Austro German Forces Face Trouble
London report notes the Ukraine peasant uprising grows stronger with ongoing clashes against Austro German forces. Authorities indicate increasing difficulty for the invaders to control and exploit the region.
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Ukraine
London
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