Two Billion Liberty Loan Push Boosts Oversubscription
President Wilson urges Americans to outpace the six billion dollar Liberty loan with record pledges in the nine days ending October 19. Districts report steep progress with Chicago, St Louis, and New York among leaders. Detroit oversubscribes its quota with Ford Motor funds joining. Local influenza closures complicate house-to-house sales.
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Yanks Of Lost Battalion Reject Surrender Offer
Major Whittlesey led the 77th division's Lost Battalion in the Argonne forest as they endured four days of siege with scarce food and ammunition. Despite German ambush and constant fire, the unit refused to surrender, guided by a Spartan spirit and strong support from Captain Leo Stromee and others.
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Viscount Grey Sees Peace Within Reach in War Speech
Viscount Grey, former foreign affairs secretary, told a Westminster meeting that peace could be within reach in two years though not yet. He praised President Wilson's reply to the German note and urged Britain to give united support to the government until peace is secured. A league of nations, he said, cannot replace ending the war.
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Labor Rule Limits Overtime To Forty Hours A Week
Washington October 11 the war labor board announced that no laborer shall draw overtime unless he works forty regular hours per week except for illness or other just cause This bans the practice of laying off during the week to work Sunday overtime for higher pay The ruling addresses complaints from war industries about such labor tactics
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Many Communities Call for Doctors in Influenza Fight
United States Public Health Service urged physicians nationwide to enroll for influenza duty. Illinois doctors were asked to send names to Senior Surgeon J O Cobb at the Marine Hospital with a salary of 200 dollars per month plus travel and 4 dollars a day for lodging and subsistence. Five or six Illinois communities lacked doctors and should contact Dr St Clair Drake at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago.
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Evening Papers Back Wilson Reply Asks Probing Questions
London papers present a unified stance on President Wilson’s reply to Prince Maximilian. The Westminster Gazette says it fills allies with hope, the Pall Mall Gazette credits it with testing German overtures, and The Standard argues it exposes insincerity behind Maximilian’s proposals.
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German night bulletin from Berlin reports failed attacks
Berlin dispatch via London on October 10 says Enea ry attacks east of Cambrai and St Quentin and on both sides of the Meuse failed according to the evening official communication from headquarters.
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TWO OCEAN DISASTERS MANY LOST
Survivors report a German submarine torpedoed the American steamship Ticonderoga 1,700 miles off the Atlantic coast. Eight lifeboats were shredded and scores of sailors killed or wounded, with only 20 of 250 aboard surviving. A second sinking, the Japanese Hirano Maru, left about 300 presumed lost after a torpedo strike south of Ireland. Sterret rescued a few survivors from the chaos at sea.
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Berlin Reply Drawn In German Dispatch
Copenhagen reports that Germany drafted a reply to President Wilson's note after a conference with Prince Maximilian Chancellor Von Payer and military leaders. A Basel dispatch notes Berlin says Reichstag conservatives plan a quick move to shape the executive body in Germany to discuss Wilson's peace proposal.
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Cambrai Left Smoking Ruin By Hun Army
Cambrai tonight is a smoking ruin as German bombs and incendiaries devastate the city. Canadian forces report widespread destruction from nine o clock onward with the cathedral damaged and fires raging through streets and public buildings. Father Thiey aided wounded civilians despite German orders to evacuate.
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Wilson Urges Rally for Fourth Liberty Loan
President Wilson issues a statement urging a strong response to the fourth liberty loan campaign. He says the loan should be fully subscribed and greatly oversubscribed, warning that any relaxation would cause tragic damage to the nation and the world.
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Pneumonia Deaths Reported at Camp Custer Bases
At Camp Custer and Batt Creek Michigan, officials announce 11 fifty nine additional pneumonia deaths. About 1 000 cases of pneumonia are being treated at the base hospital.
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Haigs Men Take Le Cateau Rail Base In War News
Washington dispatch reports a possible decisive German collapse between Cambrai and St Quentin, opening a center gap that could force a large German retreat. Observers say a French British breakthrough north and south might destroy an army, potentially enabling a Rhine valley invasion if the German line falters.
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Tanks Use In Clearing German Machine Gun Nests
Anglo American forces southeast of Cambrai report stiff fighting as British tanks aid in clearing machine gun nests between Fresnay and Bahain. Allied troops occupy positions a thousand yards south of Le Cateau road and have seized Estoumel and Igniel Les Fresettes. British cavalry east of Cambrai pushing forward with Beaumont signaling late last night of good progress.
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Autoless Sunday To Be Abandoned Soon
Washington reports the auto less Sunday program will be abandoned in favor of a new gasoline restriction plan. W Champlin Robinson, head of the fuel administration oil construction division, said an announcement is expected soon and the plan may distribute gasoline saving across the week without a card rationing system.
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Churchill reports heavy Allied shelling across fourteen days
London tonight reports Winston Churchill, the British minister of munition, stating that over fifteen consecutive days the British artillery fired more than 19 000 tons of shells upon the target areas.
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Germans Fall Back Along Long Line In Great German Retreat
Allied forces press the German line from Cambrai to St Quentin as British French and American troops chase the retreating enemy across open country. Le Cateau marks the deepest Allied penetration amid rapid advances and shrinking German defenses.
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Geddes Visits Naval Academy in Annapolis
British First Sea Lord Sir Erte Geddes and Secretary Daniela visited the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland Thursday along the visitor rounds. Geddes and his party toured the facilities and engaged with academy officials during the tour.
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