Ground Glass in Food Across Agencies Urges Caution
Public information committee notes only one confirmed case of ground glass in inspected food at Mort Smith Arkansas baker. Also outlines priorities for guidance of distribution agencies and emphasizes school districts as community organizing units during wartime.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
Mort Smith
Ark
Iits
Ganopines
HSI
United States
Council of National Defense
Nnien
Battle Watch Over Ypres and Allied Push Near Messines Ridge
As German forces press toward Bethune and Ypres, Haig's line holds with stubborn British resistance and French reinforcements arriving. American troops move up in France and Secretary Baker urges rapid, large-scale US manpower to crush Germany. Bethlehem Steel's Schwab named director general of shipbuilding as US agencies reorganize to speed up merchant vessel output.
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Northwest
France
Flinders
Huns
Messines Ridge
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Baker
America
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Flanders
Hale
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Passchendaele
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Aisne
Foch
Glyenehy
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Locon
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Tine
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Haig
England
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Ifun
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Dunkirk
Coas
Ta Bassee Canal
Warebrouck
Meteren
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Thethune
Loa Bassee Canal
St. Venant
Givenchy
Atlantic
Almerton
United States
Europe
Germany
Toul
Lord George
Ireland
Sir William Robertson
Imperial General Staff
Viscount Milner
Earl of Derby
Charles M. Schwab
Odf
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Hurley
Shipping Board
Pier
Turley
Germans Take Kemmel Hill in Harsh War Push
German forces captured Kemmel Hill a key to the Ypres salient after surrounding entrenched French troops. The loss threatens the Allied line from Armentieres toward Ypres as German divisions probe the British French front along the Wrytschaete to Meteren belt.
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Kemmell
Ypres
France
Delma Radcliffe
British War Office
Armentieres
Teutons
Kemmell Hill
Kemmel
Tts
Wytsehaete
Moessines
Germany’s War Losses Put At Two Million Men
Amsterdam reports that Germany’s losses in the war total two million men. A statement cited by The Frankfurter Zeitung and attributed to General Schulze says 750,000 wounded have returned to the front and 629,000 were discharged as unfit, including 70,000 cripples. Up to date about 98,000 cripples remain to be reckoned with.
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War Department
Germany
Amsterdam
Frankfurter Zeitung
Schulze
Reichstag
Schulge
Appointment declined by Speaker Clark in Missouri case
Jefferson City judge Walter Graves of the Missouri Supreme Court has been offered the U S Senate seat to succeed the late Senator Stone after Governor Gardiner announced the proposal. Speaker Clark declined the appointment.
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Pel Bolo Pasha
Preneh Itnitor
Vincennes
United States
Chamberlain
Senate
W. B. Bloodgood
Milwaukee Council of Defense
Wisconsin
Bloodgood
Timmojonsanen
Fo Cuba
Havana
Jefferson City
Walter Graves
Missouri Supreme Court
Senator Stone
Gardiner
Clark
French Counter Attacks Regain Ground Near Villers-Bretonneux
Official war office statement says French forces launched counter-attacks from Villers-Bretonneaux to south of the Luceere and retook a large part of the ground lost, despite stiff enemy resistance and reinforcements.
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Aris
Villers-Bretonneaux
Luceere
War Office
Newspaper Publishers Appeal to Shipping Board
A delegation of newspaper publishers appealed to the Shipping Board for aid to import 63 000 cards of wood pulp from Canada to relieve depletion of print paper stocks. They were told that 1320 ships crossing this summer from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic could carry wood pulp if it does not interfere with proposed coal movement.
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Washington
The
Shipping Board
Canada
Great Lakes
Atlantic Ocean
Germans Hold Dranoutre and Kemmel in Fierce Front
Field Marshal Haig reports Germans in possession of Dranoutre and Kemmel mountain and village. North of the Lys the battle rages along the front from the neighborhood of Dranoutre to the Ypres Comines canal as forces contest territory.
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Kemmel
Dranoutre
Field Marshal
Haig
France
Lys
Ypres-Comines Canal
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