England Not to Quit Till Foe's Defeat
London reports Allied gains as Germans driven back along a 100 mile front east of Paris. British prime minister seeks 400,000 more troops. Britain vows to fight on until Germany is decisively defeated. Reports from Paris, Petrograd, and Vienna highlight fierce fighting and strategic implications for the Western Front.
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England
Berlin
Bordeaux
Paris
France
London
Washington
D. C
Great Britain
Germany
Wilson
Pare
John Prench
Marshal French
London Gazette
Petrocrat
Vistula
Koenigsbers
Baltic
East Prussia
Cracow
Austria
German Empire
Japan agrees to stand to finish conflict
Petrograd reports a Tokio dispatch stating Japan has agreed with the allies not to conclude peace without the consent of the allied nations.
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Japan
Petrograd
London
Tokio
Weather and War Notes From A Stormy Era
The report covers unsettled weather with showers tonight and Friday for Rock Island Davenport Moline and vicinity with temperatures around 56 at 7 pm and highs 65 yesterday. It also notes astronomical events and a lengthy Field Marshal French battle account detailing British struggles near the Oise and the Oceanic wreck with British forces holding a line amid German pressure and troop mobilization in Brussels.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Flyer Dies Sacrifice To Wreck Foe Plane
London dispatch reports Captain Nester of Russia, famed for looping the loop, sacrificed his life to crash into an Austrian aeroplane during reconnaissance, both aircraft falling. A Dutch-Express account later covers a German British air duel over northern France with no casualties. Bericht from Berlin notes Sergeant Major Werner’s vivid front flight over French and British troops, pursued by faster opposing planes.
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London
Nesterof
Petrograd
Reuter Telegram Company
Nesteroff
Express
Rotterdam
German Flying Corps
France
Mons
Bierlin
Chicago Men Held in Jail Are Let Out
A party of American correspondents accompanying the German army across Belgium and into France were detained near Aix la Chapelle for four days under tense conditions. They included Roger Lewis and Irvin Cobb, both Chicagoans, with James Bennett, McCutcheon, and Harry Hansen.
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Rotterdam
Belgium
France
Roger Lewis
Associated Press
Irvin Cobb
Saturday Evening Post
James O'Donnell Bennett
John T. McCutcheon
Harry Hansen
Chicago
Aix-La-Chapelle
Maurice Gerbault
Lawrence Stevens
Detroit
Victoria Hennebeard
King Albert
Stevens
German Ships Sunk by French Cruisers and Allies
Bordeaux dispatch reports two German merchant ships sunk in the Atlantic by French cruisers Conde and Decartes aided by the British Bristol. Other German vessels named include Graecia Kronprinz Wilhelm and Neckar. Separate notes mention the Finnish steamer Svea bore missing with many British and American passengers, and the Brandenburg evading British ships to reach Norway. The Prinz Waldemar seeks refuge in Honolulu with indefinite stay.
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Paris
Bordeaux
Havas
Atlantic
Conde
Decartes
Bristol
Graecia
Lloyd
Stockholm
London
Sveabore
Raumo
Finland
New York
Philadelphia
Drotheim
Norway
Honolulu
Prinz Waldemar
Stone Urges Neutrality to Aid Mediation Effort
In Washington on September 10 Chairman Stone of the Senate foreign relations committee delivered a prepared speech urging Americans to maintain neutrality amid the European war. He called on naturalized citizens to follow the president's proclamation and warned that bias in influential papers could weaken U.S. mediation power.
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Stone
Washington, D. C
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Peror William
Wilson
Belgium
Kaiser
William
Peace Pacts For Nations At War
Washington reports Britain France Spain and China have agreed to sign peace commission treaties with the United States. The pacts aim to keep the US from sudden involvement in the war, with Turkey and Greece close to signing. Germany Russia and Japan have signaled acceptance though no conventions drafted yet.
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Washington, D. C
Great Britain
France
Spain
China
United States
Wilson
Bryan
Turkey
Greece
Germany
Russia
Japan
German War Loan Reported at One Billion Dollars
A wireless message to the German embassy claims Germany announced a war loan of 1,000,000,000 in treasury bills, with an unlimited state loan at 5 percent. Amsterdam reports Berlin papers say Imperial Bank directors will publish terms for the first war loan of 250,000,000 in 5 percent bonds and notes, issued at 97.50 and redeemable in five 50,000,000 sections every six years starting October 1, 1915.
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Germany
Washington
London
Reuter
Amsterdam
Berlin
Imperial Bank
Treasury
British Army Regiments to France from Hongkong
Reports from Hongkong say the Cornwall and Gloucestershire regiments have been ordered to Marseilles. Troops embark on a steamer September 14, with the hospital ship Delta and a cruiser to accompany the transport.
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Hongkong
France
Shanghai
Cornwall and Gloucestershire
Marseilles
Delta
German Fleet Moves East Through Gulf of Bothnia
Copenhagen reports a German squadron of 91 ships including battleships cruisers and torpedo boats moving east along the gulf of Bothnia with ships observed at multiple points as it steams east.
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London
Copenhagen
Gulf of Bothnia
Auto crash kills Borden party near Ocean City
Dr Matthew S Borden an Equitable Life officer and son of a Fall River mill owner died when his car struck a moving locomotive at Palmero station Reading railroad New Jersey Also killed were Mr and Mrs Wood of New York and chauffeur Leo Gulfreund A fifth passenger Ryan was injured They had been en route to Cape May for a convention and were traveling at 35 to 40 mph when the collision occurred. The bodies were torn from the car and flung from the wreckage.
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Ocean City
N. J
Matthew S. Borden
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Fall River
Mass
J. Harvey Wood
Wood
New York
Leo Gulfreund
Borden
Palmero Station
Reading Railroad
Dr. Borden
Cape May
Lakewood
Mrs Busse files suit over Pine Meadow Farm partition
Mrs. Fred Busse widow of Chicago’s ex mayor sues in Lake County Circuit Court seeking partition of Pine Meadow Farm at Fox Lake valued at 35 000 with 10 000 Guernsey herd. She alleges George Busse idle and con vivial, kept books, blocked access, and denies any partnership. A receiver and injunction are sought. no action yet.
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George Busse
Guernsey
Democrats Agree On War Revenue Tax Bill
Washington September 10 The democratic ways and means committee is finishing a war revenue tax bill imposing a three percent levy on all freight transport, a fifty cent beer increase, and twenty cents per gallon on domestic wines. The measure aims to raise about 17 million dollars yearly. President Wilson had opposed a freight tax but now agrees.
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Washington, D. C
Democratic Ways and Means Committee
Wilson
Steamship Red Cross Delayed Indefinitely
The Red Cross steamship, formerly Hamburg-American liner Hamburg, faces an indefinite delay as Britain and France probe its neutrality status due to German crew members who have begun naturalization. U S Navy Captain Rust plans to return to New York to finalize a crew consisting only of Americans or neutrals under State Department guidance.
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New York
Red Cross
Hamburg
American Red Cross
United States
Washington
Lansing
State Department
Rust
Austria Ready to Sue to Stop War Near Berlin
Petrograd dispatch reports Austria evacuating Cracow as Russian center advances toward Berlin. Breslau capture imminent with Austrian losses said to be heavy. Rome Viennese note claims 120000 Archduke Frederick troops lost. Germans move toward Poland to aid Austrians across the Vistula.
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London
Petrograd
Cracow
Rome
Vienna
Berlin
Silesia
Breslau
U S Packers Control Argentine Beef Output
New York reports that US beef packers now exert full control over Argentina's beef, eroding its price-checking role. Jacob Bloch testifies that Argentine beef must come from American packers, noting beef hearts rising from 25 cents to about 1.50 dollars after control. He describes regional mercy over small dealers and urges Congress to tax beef, open western lands for grazing, ban killing female calves and small calves, allocate 10 percent of income tax to cattle raising, and establish public slaughterhouses like England.
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U. S
New York
United States
McAdoo
Jacob Bloch
Argentina
New York City
Bloch
Pathfinder Sunk by Torpedo Off North Sea
London report reveals the British cruiser Pathfinder, believed to be lost to a mine on Sept. 6, was actually sunk by a torpedo. The casualty detail and surrounding wartime confusion are noted in naval dispatches from the North Sea.
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Pathfinder
London
North Sea
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