07 Aug 1918
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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1918
Page
1
Albany dispatch reports Governor Whitman facing a rival bid after ex-Senator Seth G. Heacock filed for Lieutenant Governor. Democratic Alfred E Smith ticket filed with 16 000 signatures. Secretary Francis M Huge led petitions with 32 000 names.
Washington August 6 1918 123 vessels totaling 631 044 tons were launched in July the highest monthly output in U S shipbuilding history The Emergency Fleet Corporation notes 36 steel ships 217 025 tons and 5 wooden ships 15 855 tons completed in July Four days added 16 ships 86 130 tons steel 4 wooden 14 000 tons Total ships for the Shipping Board this year 1 719 536 deadweight tons with ongoing deliveries from Alameda Hog Island and other yards Northcliffe and Sir Joseph Maclay British officials sent congratulatory messages praising the achievement as a wartime boost to anti submarine efforts.
Ex-State Senator Seth Heacock of Herkimer County filed petitions at Albany with the Secretary of State to appear on the primary ballot for the nomination for Lieutenant Governor against incumbent Edward Shoeneck. The Whitman camp and supporters reacted with mystified surprise as the challenge emerged.
The British Government has awarded contracts to British manufacturers to supply military clothing to refit 2,000,000 American soldiers. The order, reported from Glasgow, breaks records and adds to contracts for French and British Armies. No cloth will be produced for civilian use without a permit.
Dena issued on page nine. When you think of Writh.
Reports from the front describe American colored troops brigaded with Gouraud's army east of Rheims excelling with the bayonet. French officers praise their prowess and expect further colored contingents to operate with African units.
Paris August 6 Louis J Malvy former Interior Minister found guilty of malfeasance in office and sentenced to five years banishment The High Court dismissed treason charges but held he betrayed his duties by backing or tolerating propaganda and aiding newspapers linked to the defeatist movement Malvy may choose his frontier and be escorted there by police
Special cable report from Aug. 6 describes U S forces expanding across the north bank of the Vesle, nursing fierce German rearguard actions. Artillery duels intensify as 77mm and 105mm guns hammer back and forth, with Americans moving up guns and threatening German positions toward the Aisne. The piece notes German orders to hold Fismes Heights and predicts a possible German retreat once American pressure continues.
The text details Louis Malvy, allied with Joseph Caillaux, serving as under secretary and later Minister of the Interior in wartime cabinets. It notes Malvy’s prominent role during the Agadir crisis era, his political influence through Caillaux, and events around the Defaitists crackdown and related executions. It also mentions Bernstorff dispatches and police conduct under his watch.
Paris reports General Ferdinand Foch elevated to Marshal of France by the Council of Ministers. Premier Clemenceau cites Foch and allied forces overrunning enemy advances, recapturing Soissons and Chateau-Thierry, and taking 35,000 prisoners and 700 guns. Petain also receives the Military Medal.
General Mangin described to The Times how the Aug. 2 turning point battle unfolded. He outlined the Maneuver, the key objective at Grand Rozoy, and the French reversal of the Germans near Villers Cotterets as their advance toward Soissons was checked.
London dispatch notes American confidence in France’s military success but warns coal shortages threaten Allied morale and operations. Call for immediate coordinated U S and British action to bolster production and distribution from British mines, with labor shortages risking next winter for England France and Italy.
Allied forces hold positions along the Vesle river despite German shelling while French troops advance north of Montdidier toward the Avre and reach the river between Braches and Morisel. The French War Office notes German surprise attacks were checked and prisoners taken.
On the Aisne-Marne front Aug 6, American units held ground around Fismes after a heavy barrage. An American machine gun detachment repelled a German infantry and machine gun battalion near the Vesle, wiping them out as bridge builders advanced with river crossing plans.
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