World War Headlines From The Front
Condensed notes on World War I events: Notre Dame de Rheims destroyed. Russian warships damaged at Helsingfors. German offensive in Western Prussia checked. Russians bombarding Przemysl. Austrian losses near Baranow Ranichow. Japanese General Kamio reports engagement near Kiauchau. Jules Vedrines in midair battle. Luneville occupation by Germans. Berlin dispatch on western battle lines. Allied counterattacks and German advances. Kreischzyn taken by Russians. Tribuna Rome cites large Russian forces. British operations Sept 10–18 show steady advance. Serbian army recalled from Austria. Emden sinks British steamers. Ceylon to send troops. Britain accepts aid.
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Ranichow
Galicia
Villa to be named supreme head of Mexican constitutionalists
Foreign Gen Francisco Villa is expected to be named to succeed General Carranza as supreme chief of the constitutionalist party in Mexico when the generals and governors meet in the capital on October 1. The Tennessee will leave London for America about October 1 carrying home virtually all the army officers who came over to Europe on government relief work. The Black Diamond collie Lingan rammed and sank the government steamer Montmagny in a fog on the St Lawrence. fourteen people died. The House of Lords passed the Irish home rule and Welsh disestablishment bills. the act will not take effect until after the war.
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Mexico
Tennessee
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Beaujeu Banks
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House of Lords
Merbes-le-Chateau
Sambre
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poire-sur-Sambre
Nivelles
Binche
Buissiere
Loire-sur-Sambre
Bruissiere
August Blairiaux
Robert J. Thompson
Aachen
Liege
Thompson
Renouchamp
Ardennes
Louvain
Jarotzsky
Thaddeus von Jarotzsky
Brussels
Leutenant
Beaumont
Belgium
Washington mobilizes battleships amid neutrality conflict
The Federal Reserve Board approved a 100 million dollar gold fund to meet Europe obligations as President Wilson faced a million women’s appeal to end the war. A censorship ruling on wireless messages was issued to preserve neutrality, and tensions rose with diplomatic apologies over comments by Sir Lionel Carden. Secretary Daniels ordered Atlantic battleships mobilized following Navy General Board guidance, while Secretary Bryan announced U S protests in response to Turkish capitulations and the Porte actions.
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Europe
Wilson
White House
Mme. Rosika Schwimmer
Hungary
Industrial Woman Suffrage Alliance
Gregory
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Atlantic Ocean
General Board of the Navy
Omaha baseball pioneer Charles M. Lord dies in Milwaukee
Charles M. Lord long associated with Omaha's first baseball clubs and former manager of Evansville and St Joseph teams died in Milwaukee. In other reports, the Francis H Leggett sank off the Oregon coast with many perishing. two survivors saved. International Harvester paused a dividend due to wartime conditions. A derailment on the Alabama Great Southern near Klondyke, Livingston, left eight dead and many injured.
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Omaha
Evansville
Ind
St. Joseph
Milwaukee
Francis H. Leggett
Oregon Coast
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
Klondyke Station
Livingston
Ala
German Atrocities Not Proved Says American Writer
James O'Donnell Bennett and colleagues travel 100 miles through 20 towns in Belgium and conclude that reports of German cruelties are myths. The dispatch, sent from Aix-la-Chapelle, quotes witnesses and notes generally courteous German conduct, with few confirmed noncombatant deaths and widespread sniping disputed.
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Chicago Tribune
James O’donnell Bennett
Aix-la-Chapelle
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Belgium
Mr. Bennett
John T. McCutcheon
Irvin S. Cobb
Saturday Evening Post
Roger Lewis
Associated Press
Harry Hangen
Chicago Daily News
Bennett
New York
Brussels
Holland
Louvain
Waterloo
Merbes-le-Chateau
Maubeuge
Arthur Nicodem
Nicodem
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