Germans Launch New Offensive in Champagne
Paris reports German forces opened a new offensive in the Champagne region, capturing positions near Maisons de Champagne and taking 424 prisoners including seven officers. French counterattacks failed to hold in places, with Germans briefly gaining a foothold before being driven out. A separate Berlin claim notes heavy bombardment and gas shells with four concentric attacks across an eight kilometer front.
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Werlin
Champagne
war office
Massiges
Maisons de Champagne
Murness
Paris
La Courtaine
Mon Tetu
Hartmanns-Wellerskopf Heights See Battles Shift
Knute Nelson, Minnesota senator, chairs committee on Indtions, reports tense talks about the Vosges front. French forces lose the crest of Hirzstein as German troops reconquer trenches near Hirzain. Bertin claims twenty officers, 1083 chasseurs and fifteen machine guns captured. French statement notes German control of a neck of land near the summit. French troops withdraw. Artillery duel continues with precise fire inflicting losses on the enemy.
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Vosges
Hirzstein
Hartmanns-Wellerskopf
Paris
Bertin
Hirzaiin
Washington debates stance on Italian ship Verdi guns
Washington reports indicate the United States will decide its course in the Verdi affair after further talks between State Department Counsellor Polk and the Italian ambassador Macchi di Cellere. The talks follow the Verdi’s arrival in New York with three inch guns mounted, with emphasis on keeping passenger ships entry rules unchanged.
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Washington
United States
Giuseppe Verdi
New York
Polk
state department
Macchi di Cellere
Mnet
American porta mount no ques
Krupp Fires Damage Essen Works in Shed Blaze
Amsterdam reports to Frankfurter Zeitung that a Saturday fire at the Krupp works in Essen destroyed a shed used for models and spread to a wheel workshop building, leaving both structures entirely ruined. First Uncle Tom is Dead in New York as Samuel Lucas, famed for portraying the character in the Civil War era, dies at 75. London reports from Salonika that French planes bomb Sofia, causing damage and widespread panic in the Bulgarian capital.
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Krupp
Amsterdam
Frankfurter Zeitung
Essen
Uncle Tom
New York
Samuel Lucas
Boston Museum Stock company
London
salonika
Sofia
Conscription Debates Shape National Defence Plans
Washington reports General Scott urging universal military service as a fallback to volunteer forces, noting 2,000,000 men needed for war and 4,000,000 in the 18–21 age group with 700,000 yearly reach. He favors prepped continental defense and railcar mobile guns, while President Wilson may address defense in speeches.
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Washington
United States
house military committee
Scott
Europe
Ringland
Gneeral Scott
Anthony
war college division
general staff
Austria-Hungary
France
Germany
war department
Wilson
congress
Baltimore
New York
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