Teutons Force Vistula in August War Push
Austrian and German forces press Russians in Poland as Berlin reports forcing the Vistula at Warsaw and capturing Praga on the east bank. Von Hindenburg’s troops advance toward Kovno while Russians retreat along the Wieprz and Narew fronts. numerous prisoners taken amid heavy fighting and refugee distress in Latvia and Courland.
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Detroit Priest Arrives With Refugees on Way West
Rev Henry Syoen arrives in America leading 108 Holglang refugees all women and eighty children. They will be placed in homes in western cities as part of refugee resettlement efforts.
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America
Kaiser Losses and Global Mortality Totals Reported
A Morning Post dispatch from Berne cites German casualty lists with Prussian losses 1,641,569 and Bavaria Saxony and Württemberg 637,114 totaling 2,178,583, excluding naval losses and POWs. Swiss estimates via Overseas News peg Russian losses at 3,000,000. Ottawa reports Canadian casualties at 10,680 with 1,877 dead 6,738 wounded and 2,066 missing. George F. Loder, the “father of the Mystic Shrine,” dies at 73 after a long illness. Belgian miners’ teachers reportedly executed for striking Borinage workers for the Germans.
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Turkish Battleship Barbarossa Sunk by Entente Submarine
Constantinople reports the Turkish battleship Barbarossa, formerly the German Kurfurst Friedrich Wilhelm, of about 9000 tons, was sunk by an Entente submarine. Most officers and men were saved, per an official proclamation issued in the Turkish capital.
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Germans Open Major Offensive On Western Front
Paris reports a general German assault against Belgian British and French positions along the western front. Attacks from the North Sea to Alsace, with heavy bombardment north of Souchez Artola and repeated trench assaults repulsed. British retake Hooge trenches near Ypres, while French claims of German victories are denied.
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Italy to Reinforce Allies With 650000 Troops Soon
New York August 10 Italy plans to send 650000 fresh troops to France or the Dardanelles within three weeks, according to Captain Victor Del Franchis of the Italian army who arrived aboard the Duca d Aosta. He cited 600000 troops in Tutte and 150000 more in Taranto with 150 to 200 transports ready. He will buy leather goods for the Hallam army and visit New England factories.
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Lightning Kills Twelve Sheep at Sharpless Estate
West Chester Pennsylvania August 10 thunderstorm kills twelve sheep on the estate of B M Sharpless in West Goshen. Twenty sheltered near a wire fence when lightning struck the fence and ran along the wire killing all sheep adjacent instantly.
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B M. Sharpless
West Goshen
Corporal Captures Fifty Avetrians In Trenches
An Italian corporal earned a gold medal for valor after surprising fifty Avattian troops in trenches. He ordered surrender and, after drawing attention of a nearby Hallan outpost, marched the prisoners to Italian lines. Say you saw it in The News.
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