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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1917
Page
2
International and domestic war updates including US farmers pushes for a minimum price of 8 cents per pound for cotton, Hoover on food production, ship shortages, and Allied submarine activity. Also notes on mobilization, labor strikes, and diplomatic moves with Argentina severing ties with Germany and Greek army mobilization.
News review highlights British attack along the Menin road near Ypres with Haig aiming to sever Ruprecht’s forces and cut U boat bases. Russian premier Kerensky proclaims a republic while facing army and Cossack tensions. Argentina moves to break relations with Germany over the Luxburg incident as labor unrest spreads in the United States.
European dispatch notes Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary urging belligerents to enter talks based on the pontiff's suggestions as a basis for a just lasting peace. Germany and Austria Hungary back Vatican efforts while Italian forces report gains at Bainsizza Monte San Gabriele with hundreds of prisoners captured.
Retired Major General L Scott will be sent back to active duty as chief of staff in December and will be joined by Major General Tasker Bliss who will succeed him. Both hope to return to the firing line as they await assignments at the War College and Camp. General Scott retired Saturday September twenty second. General Bliss expected in December.
Buenos Aires reporters say the Argentine chamber planned to vote on breaking off diplomatic ties with Germany. A German note, discussed by Count von Bernstorff, failed to clarify Germany’s submarine policy, leaving the government unsure of a possible shift.
London notes a Reuters dispatch from Aires to Argentina says a German envoy has given satisfaction to the Argentine government on unspecified matters.
The report notes that the German Austrian papal peace note offers no definite basis for peace. Indications suggest no clear American terms or intentions are laid out, leaving the Allied position and aims unspecified.
A Chicago figure, Jasper T. Darling, president of the Amer bargo conference, declares he was convinced by statements that he was selected by plotters as a tool of German interests. He questions the money source and says the funds passed through opponents while he opposed exporting certain goods.
The provisional government decides to reduce the number of men in the army to relieve older or wounded soldiers and cut defense costs. The move aims to free up manpower and reduce financial strain, though wording is unclear in the fragment.
In Louisville Kentucky relatives reveal the grave of Mrs. Bingham formerly Mrs. Plagler was secretly exhumed. An autopsy was performed in Wilmington North Carolina on September 18 by a detective and several physicians. Vital organs were removed and sent to New York for examination as part of a case against Judge Bingham.
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