I W W Bomb Attack Shakes Chicago Federal Building
A massive blast at Chicago's Federal Building killed four and wounded over seventy five as the I W W was blamed. Investigators arrested nine at two I W W headquarters and authorities locked down downtown with police and Great Lakes sailors aiding. Haywood, inside the building, denied I W W ties while noting blame would fall on the union.
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Chicago
Federal
Philip J. Barry
Department of Justice
Commonwealth Editor
Marquette
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Home Guards
TW. W
Barry
William D. Haywood
Gental
HHH
Payrtty
W.W
St. Paul
I. W. W. Embers
Sudge Landis
Russia Signs Brest-Litovsk Pact Change War Fronts
London dispatch reports supplementary Brest-Litovsk agreements detailing immediate German evacuation east of Estonia and Livonia and extending to other eastern territories after Russia’s financial obligations are met within four months. Russia will oppose Entente troops in Northern Germany and renounce sovereignty over Estonia and Livonia while retaining transit rights to Reval Riga and Windau. Warships seized after ratification become Russian property.
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London
Brest-Litovsk
Germany
Esthenia
Livonia
Tissia
Russia
Senate Plans Big Change in War Tax Bill
Senator Reed Smoot flags radical changes to the war revenue measure, urging a 1 percent general consumption tax and arguing the current excess profits tax hurts production. He says the bill is economically flawed and politically crafted to tax few voters, with a likely report to the Senate in October.
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Senate
Theodore M. Knappen
Washington
Reed Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Smoot
Goose-Stepping To Berlin Riots Reach Brooklyn Rooms
Report describes German style incursions in New York area with raids on restaurants and theatres, arrests at barber shops, and police actions led by William Blatchford and agents McGee and Scully. Also notes Allied warnings to Soviet leaders and German retreat near the Vesle with smoke screen tactics.
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Sts
Brooklyn
Manhattan
William Blatchford
Department of Justice
Thomas McGee
Charles Scully
Brownsvale
Slacker Raid Traps 75 000 In British Sweep
More than 75,000 slacker suspects were held in the metropolitan district over two days. Chief Charles F. De Woody of the Department of Justice says about 2,600 will be inducted immediately. American Protective League members aided by soldiers and sailors roamed the theatrical district. A British note to Bolshevik Russia demands punishment for the Petrograd embassy attack, praising Captain Cromri and condemning the assault.
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Charles F. de Woody
Department of Justice
American Protective League
Huns Withdraw From Vesle Front After Strong Resistance
With the American army on the Vesle front, Sept 4, German withdrawals were underway. Combat patrols with American and French forces pressed west of Bazoches and east beyond Fismes, meeting stiff machine gun resistance as the main German force pulled back from Vesle crossings.
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Associated Press
Vesle
Bazoches
Fismes
Two Gases That Blind To Be Used by Huns
The Associated Press reports that Central Powers plan to extend use of lachrymator gases in Italy and the western fronts with aims to produce permanent blindness. The claim notes new gases of lachrymatory type and anticipates significant effects on troops.
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France
Soviet Threatens to Carry Assassination Into Allied Nations
Amsterdam reports that a Soviet envoy claims Russia will strike back against assailants by targeting Entente statesmen abroad. The Moscow source also accuses General Boris Savinkoff of organizing the recent murders of Russian officials.
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Amsterdam
Moscow
Frankfort Zeitung
Boris Savinkoff
Russia
Our Men Beat Enemy Cavalry On the Ailette
Special cable from Newark Tribune reports on German Prussian Guard cavalry facing attrition north of Soissons. Captured orders praise tenacity and warn of conserving the pillar of the western front as the Aisne Ailette battle rages. Notes supply and transport shortages hinder German medical and mobility efforts amid shellfire and advancing Allies.
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Wilbur Forrest
the Tribune
Thule
Absselaton
Newark
Soissons
Aisne
Ailette
British Labor Unions Urge Peace Parleys
Derby England Sept. 4 J H Thomas Labor MP for Derby opened a Trades Union Congress debate by proposing a resolution aligning war aims of Labour and Socialist parties of the Central Powers with those of the inter Allied conferences in London. The measure passed by a large majority urging immediate peace talks once France and Belgium are evacuated and calling for labor representation at the peace congress.
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Derby
England
J. H. Thomas
Trades Union Congress
London
France
Belgium
German Empress Wealth Reported Deteriorating
AURICH Switzerland Sept 4 The wealth of the German Empress who last week fell ill with heart trouble is slightly worse today according to Munich newspapers.
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Aurich
Switzerland
Munich
Five Hun Sectors Give Way Under Gen Fochs Blows
Allied forces led by Gen Foch and Gen Mangin smashed German positions along a 140 mile front from Ypres to Rheims. The Franco American hammering forced a general retreat from the Vesle line. Mangin’s Tenth Army unleashed a new thrust northeast of Soissons, taking 1500 prisoners and driving Germans east of Fismes.
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Ypres
Rheims
Vesle
Soissons
Fismes
Mangin
British Sweep Through Canal du Nord and Across Picardy Front
British forces pressed across Canal du Nord and Tortille River on a twenty mile front between the Scarpe and the Somme. In northeast Noyon area French forces pushed the enemy back along a ten mile front and neared Chauny and Ham railway center. In Flanders Anglo Americans advanced within a mile of Armentières, seizing six towns as Haig’s armies widened the push toward the Canal du Nord and captured several thousand prisoners.
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Canal du Nord
Haig
Tortille River
Scarpe
Somme
Noyon
Ham
Chauny
la Fére
Flanders
Armentiéres
Enemy Forces Withdraw Across Flanders Front
Allied offensives press the retreat of German troops from Flanders toward last winter lines east of Passchendaele Ridge. Reports say von Hertling ordered a withdrawal to the Vise line, over twenty miles east of Bapaume. Lens evacuated, but gas clouds hinder Allied advance into the city.
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Flanders
Passchendaele Ridge
von Hertling
Vise
Bapaume
Lens
Thousands Of Germans Captured Near Canal du Nord
British forces advance along the Canal du Nord from Peronne to the Arras Cambrai road with patrols pushing forward at Ruyaulcourt and Moislains. The enemy destroys bridges, uses machine guns from the east bank, and plans a desperate stand before Bourlon Wood and Cambrai while the Hindenburg line to the north is being cleared.
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Canal du Nord
Péronne
Arras-Cambrai
Ruyaulcourt
Moislains
Bourlon Wood
Cambrai
Hindenburg Line
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Judge Landis
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Berlin
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M. Litvinoff
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Petrograd
Lonthis
Cromio
Cromic
Werse
Gates of Armentieres
British Cross Canal du Nord
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