French Smash Line on Somme and Take 1500 Prisoners
French infantry launched a six kilometer offensive north of the Somme and seized the front trenches within minutes. They captured Marrières Wood Hill 145 and the Béthune Péronne road system, taking about 1,500 prisoners.
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London
Somme
Combles
French War Office
Béthune
Péronne
Combies
Marrières Wood
Ranpourt
Bouchavesnes
Bethune Bapaume-Péronne
Cambrea
Berlin
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Albrecht
Kingdom of
Wurttemburg
Verdun
Marriéres Wood
Béthune-Péronne
Feuillaucourt
Helley-en-Santerre
Bieny
Berny
Usus
Lemoncourt
Metz-Sabiens
Dillingen
Ennemy
Randurt
Rancourt
Austrian Commander on Romanian Front Resigns
Vienna reports General Pflanzer-Baltin has resigned from command due to ill health and Emperor Francis Joseph has accepted. He was tasked with defending Transylvania along the Romanian frontier amid rapid military developments and earlier Russian advances. The Budapest correspondent notes Hungarian anger over government failure to prepare for Rumanian moves after war declaration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Amsterdam
London
Pflanzer-Baltin
Francis Joseph
Transylvania
Morning Post
Budapest
Hungary
Rumania
A. A. Brusiloff
Pinsk
von Fpflanzer-Baltin
Bessarabia
Fflanzer
Czernowitz
von Bethner
Carpathians
Pflanzer
Bulgarians Retreat as Allied Forces Press Fronts
Allied forces push on the Macedonian front after a thirty six hour battle with heavy Bulgarian losses. French troops seize two mile front and Kavala forts. British cross Struma and take trenches east of the river. Yenimah village and thirty prisoners fall to French and British detachments. Bulgarian defenses on Doiran and Makukovo face systematic bombardment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Athens
Paris
Mogarda
Struma
William
Bulgaria
Tecvoiyen
Lake Doiran
Makukoxo
Vardar
Nechore
Yenimah
Demir-Hissar
Doiran
Makukovo
French Deputies Cheer For Romania In Chamber Meeting
Paris September 12 The Chamber of Deputies reassembled today as Premier Briand announced a declaration on the diplomatic situation would be issued on Thursday. Finance Minister Ribot spoke on economic matters during the session.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Briand
Ribot
Russians Storm Kapul Mountain in Carpathians
Petrograd reports Russian forces in the Carpathians seized several heights in the Mialy Cheremosh region near the Bukovina border and captured Kapul Mountain with nearly 1,000 prisoners. The operation yielded 15 officers, 900 men, seven machine guns, three trench mortars, and one searchlight.
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Kapul Mountain
Fighting in Caucasus reports and Turkish advances
War Office bulletin details Caucasus front actions with detachments capturing territory near Pirdjani and Massadaraksi heights. Berlin reports Turkish repulses in Ognott sector and gains on the Persian frontier with enemy attacks repelled and positions recaptured.
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Caucasus Front
Pirdjani
Massadaraksi
Berlin
Sayville
Armenia
Turkish War Office
Deobende
Caucasus
Michigan barber arrested in Nichols murder confession
Arthur Waltonen also known as John Lind was arrested in Ironwood Michigan by New York detectives and local police after confessing to the murder of Mrs Elizabeth Nichols of New York. He had worked as a barber in Ironwood for eight months and was identified by a scar noted in a police circular. The case involved two other men and a servant Talas who confessed to aiding the crime. Waltonen will be taken to New York for authorities to proceed.
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Ironwood
Mich
Arthur Waltonen
John Lind
Elizabeth Nichols
East Seventy-ninth Street
New York
Hinlt
Wlonen
Waltona
Lind
Walter Point
Waukegan
Waltonen
Chicago
Onne Talas
Talas
Mrs. Nichols
Yaltonen
Whitman
Enright and Fogarty
Hughes
Leonard Wood
General Wood
Palace
O’brien
Upstate
Manhattan
Maine
Dorsey Nominated for Governor of Georgia in Primary
Hugh M. Dorsey led Georgia primary returns to secure a gubernatorial nomination with strong county support and expected convention votes. The anti Frank case stance and law enforcement platform contrasted with Governor Harris and other rivals. In other states Manning leads in South Carolina Vermont Vermont results show Page ahead in Senate race.
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New York Times
Atlanta
Hugh M. Dorsey
Atlanta Criminal Court
Leo M. Frank
Georgia
Dorsey
Macon
Nate E. Harris
L. G. Hardman
Commerce
Joseph E. Pottle
Milledgeville
Harris
Siarris
Brown
Frank
Mary Phagan
John M. Slaton
Thomas Ek
Watson
Thomson, Ga
Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Georgian
Sunday American
W. R. Hearst
Hearst
New York
Burlington
Carroll
Page
United States Senate
Vermont
Charles W. Gates
Franklin
Allen M. Fletcher
Cavendish
Fletcher
Gates
Roger W Hubbard
Hyde Park
John E. Weeks
Middlebury
Hughes Sees Maine Victory Proving GOP Reunited
Charles Evans Hughes told a Plattsburg audience that Maine’s GOP win proves the Republican Party is reunited and will press forward with its liberal, national outlook. He defended campaign methods, praised training camps, and dismissed charges of destructive rhetoric while noting continued support in upstate New York.
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New York Times
Plattsburg
N. Y
Charles EB. Hughes
Maine
Hughes
Republican Party
Bronx Car Crash Kills Two as Jitney Passengers Perish
A Bronx street car lost control on a steep incline and crashed into a jitney full of workers at West Farms Square. Two killed and fourteen injured as investigators question motormen about strike related training and air brake failure.
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West Farms Square
Bronx
175Th Street
Boston Road
Tremont Avenue
Walker Avenue
Louis Isaacs
East 6Th Street
Mall
New York
William J. Flynn
Isaacs
Richard Sheridan
Mills Hotel No. 2
Flynn
William Quigley
Union Railway
Sheridan
William O. Scheer
Scheer
Julius Grossman
St. Lawrence Avenue
Mount Vernon
Grossman
Church FE
Gates & Co
7D Street
East River
Unionport
Shants Refuses Arbitration on Strike Issues
Interborough Rapid Transit and New York Railways refuse Public Service Commission orders to arbitrate master and servant contracts. They say charges of fraud or intimidation by the Amalgamated Association source are false and insist outsiders must not intervene. Organizer Fitzgerald plans to attend PSC hearing. union reserves comments until a later session with the Mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
New York Railways Company
Public Service Commission
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
William B. Fitzgerald
Carmen’s Union
Ively
Publc Service Commission
Traction
Messrs
Shonts and
Hedley
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Simploves
Mayor and Public Service Commission
Amalgamated Association
Letappo
Traction lines improve service amid broad bus strike impact
Westchester area saw no relief while Bronx residents gained more than double trolley service. Metropolitan subway trains increased, elevated lines rose modestly, and the New York Railways Company ran 275 green cars without strikebreakers. Two deaths and injuries occurred in a Bronx collision tied to a strikebreaking motorman.
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Bronx
Manhattan
Metropolitan
Elevated
New York Railways Company
Third Avenue Railway
Second Avenue
Third Avenue
Amalgamated
Union Railway
Sixth Avenue
Board of Aldermen
Staten Island and Queens
Westchester
Mayor backs peace move as transit strike drags on
The mayor and Public Service Commission press for arbitration in the New York transit strike while Theodore P. Shoats and Frank Hedley refuse to concede. Union leaders plan a conference, but the companies insist on maintaining contracts and reject outsider arbitration.
Surface Cars Move With Strikes In New York Transit Affected
Third Avenue Railway and Union Railways report improved service as strikebreakers ran cars in Manhattan and the Bronx. Frederick W. Whitridge refused to operate subsidiary lines in Yonkers Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, leaving most Westchester trolley routes idle.
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Westchester
Frederick W. Whitridge
Third Avenue Railway
Yonkers
Mount Vernon
New Rochelle
Manhattan
Bronx
Third Avenue Railway Company
Union Railways Company
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Macedonia
Marrieres Wood
Hill 145
Foch
Try
Ginchy
British War Office
France
Foureaux
Leuze
Englih
Ancre
Kavala
War Office
Romania
Chamber
Kapul
The
Teutons
Bialy-Cheremosh River
Prince Leopold of
Stara-Czerwiscze
Archduke Charles
Letdowa
Cimbroslawak
Godeln
Distriza
Cherenmonh
Galicia
Stokhod
Manning
Blease
South Carolina
Columbia
D. C
Richard S. Manning
Cole L. Blease
Wyatt Aiken
Fred H. Dominick
Newberry
James Candler
Tirzah
Albert S. Fant
Belton
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lazaro
T. A. Edwards
A. M. Barber
Jared Y. Sanders
Amos R. Ponder
Mr. Hughes
National Administration
Wilson
Roosevelt
Raw Grew
Bronx Hill
Shonts
Public Service Board
Shants
Fitzgerald
Theodore P. Shoats
Frank Hedley
Respect
Third Avenue and
Patty
Hull
Hippodroume
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