War Prison Camps Set as U S War Dept Seizes Prisoners
War department establishes three war prison barracks at Fort McPherson Georgia Fort Oglethorpe Georgia and Fort Douglas Utah to hold captured soldiers. National Guard units will be sent to southern camps and may go to front in France between November first and mid month. Major General Wood speaks from Memphis on frontline deployment.
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War Department
Washington
Fort McPherson
Fort Oglehhorpe
Fort Douglas
Utah
Regular Army
National Guard
Department of the South
France
Wood
Memphis
Tenn
Washington News Roundup: Wilson, Prohibition, Coal Prices
Report from Washington notes President Wilson appointing William A. Brady to mobilize the movies with camera teams for troops to France and aid to the food administration. The Senate and House pass or move key war measures including a priority shipments bill. Coal prices to drop by $1 to $1.50 a ton at the mine. Six imprisoned suffragists hold a song service for other inmates.
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Washington
Wilson
William A. Brady
United States
France
The
Food Administration
House
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Executions in Saloniki Amid Serbian Conspiracy
Several executions occurred on the outskirts of Saloniki including Colonel Dimi trievich Major Vulovich and an Aus tro-Hungarian volunteer Malobabach amid a conspiracy by a Serbian secret society to overthrow Serbia’s regime and replace it with an oligarchy. The British tug Florida capsized off Pernambuco Brazil with the captain and five seamen drowned including E J Heckroth and W H Supt ren. Four men were saved. In Ottawa Alphonse Verville warned Parliament that Canada would call a general strike of organized labor if conscription is enforced without a majority vote by the people.
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Saloniki
Dimitrievich
Vulovich
Malobabach
Serbia
Florida
Pernambuco
Brazil
E. J. Heckroth
New York
W. H. Suptren
Kentucky
Canada
Ottawa
Ont
Alphonse Verville
Plans to Control Food Stuffs and Coal Good Work in Rus sia
Two contingents of Major General Pershing's expeditionary force landed in France last week under Brig. Gen. Sibert. The operation secured ships and supplies, with the U.S. providing all gear, feeding and equipping troops without French or British aid.
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Root and Kerensky
Russia
Lens
Edward W. Pickard
Pershing
France
Atlantic
W. L. Sibert
United States
General Pershing
St. Quentin
George Creel
Committee On Public Information
War Department
Baker
Creel
McIntyre
Wilson
The
Shipping Board
Coal Committee
Council of National Defense
East St Louis Race Riots Leave Dozens Dead and Wounded
Reports from East St Louis describe a violent wave of race riots with at least twenty dead and many wounded. Fires raged in four districts as white mobs attacked the negro quarter. estimates of fatalities range up to 250, with military law in effect and hundreds arrested.
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Sargeant Samuel Coppedge
Frank Woolley
Earl Hobbs
Harry Walker
Bond Street
East St. Louis
Ill
Fekete
Schaumleffel
St. Clair County
Walsh
St. Louis
Russians Break German Lines in Eastern Galicia Advance
Russian forces seized Koniuchy and nearby fortifications as 16 divisions pressed forward near Brzezany. War Minister Kerensky led the assault in person, inspiring troops to push into German trenches amid heavy artillery fire and renewed Allied rejoicing. The frontline offensive tested Russia’s revolutionary resolve.
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Petrograd
Koniuchy
Brzezany
Galicia
Berlin
Zlota Lipa
Kerensky
Looff
Russia
TWO PRSONERS ESCAPE Shelbyville IN JAIL
Otis Stillwell a former Indiana National Guard member and Orvel Pope a navy deserter escaped from Shelbyville jail this afternoon. Sheriff Alvin Baker and city police scoured river bottoms after the pair pushing past Mrs Baker to take a wash board. Stillwell suspected of selling government firearms.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Otis Stillwell
First Regiment
Indiana National Guard
Orvel Pope
Navy
Alvin Baker
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Teutonic War News
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Dakar
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Rock Creek
Ore
Killamancuc Lake
Boston
Milwaukee River
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
Niagara River
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Henry Levy
Capito Rattan Company
Indianapolis
Congress Hotel
Chicago
George Rowe
Anson
C. H. Potter
Elgin, Ill
Milk Producers’ Association
Herbert C. Hoover
Savannah (Ga
Thomas E. Watson
Post Office Department
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Mr. Hoover
Vedder
Division Streets
Leonard Russo
John Alongo
Interstate Commerce Commission
McChord
1916
Ambassador Sharp
National Army
Quantico
J. H. Glennon
U.S. N
Sebastopal
Warren Pershing
May Pershing
Libert
Ledse
Elihu Root
Moscow
Glennon
Black Sea
Faust
Congress of Cossacks
Sam
Republic of Russia
Frank Billings
Raymond Robins
Harold HH. Swift
Wilbur FE. Post
W. S. Thayer
Johns Hopkins University
Charles Winslow
Yale
Venizelos Controls
Greece
Alexander
Zaimis
Venizelos
Constantine
Switzerland
Macedonia
Dobrudja
London
Spain
Norway
Foreign Office
Cork
Trish
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