Germans Shell Front as Aims Shift to Vesle Line
In a 100 mile Marne front action German forces burn villages inside the Soissons Rheims salient and appear to plan a withdrawal toward the Vesle river line. Allied reports say the Soissons Chateau Thierry communications are partly in enemy hands and the Marne crossing remains difficult due to shelling and gas.
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Rheims
Chateau Thierry
Marne
Seattle Girls Carnival Opens at Navy Camp Grounds
The Seattle Girls Victory carnival runs from Tuesday 11 a m to Sunday midnight at the naval training camp. It features 101 attractions, a 5000 seat grand stand, 150 piece navy band, and a 1500 person pageant The event raises funds for a new emergency hospital and Navy Relief Society with major donations and extensive public support.
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Naval Training Camp
Navy Relief Society
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British Munitions Workers Threaten Walkout Across Cities
Royal proclamation warns of serious consequences as thousands of munition makers threaten to strike on Wednesday in Coventry Manchester Birmingham and Liverpool. Workers demand government action to rescind the license requirement for employing skilled labor.
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Birmingham
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Carnival Schedule on Tuesday at University of Washington
The program lists lunch at 12:30, a band concert at 3:30, drills by sailors at 4:30, concerts at 5, a pageant The Road to Victory at 9, dancing at 9:30 in the Armory. Morning events include children's races, water sports, and relay events. Afternoon features naval baseball games, tug of war matches, boxing preliminaries for the Navy championship.
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Seattle National Bank
National Bank of Commerce
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German crops fail as hunger threat grows
Washington reports a starvation drive against Germany and Austria as central empire crops suffer from April to June droughts, heat, and a late June frost. Potato losses reach about one third, peas and beans damaged, apples and pears scarce, delaying wheat amid failed deliveries from Romania and Ukraine.
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Germany
Editor Quits Post to Join the U S Army
Ernest W. Jorgenson managing editor of the Portland News, sister paper of The Seattle Star, answered the draft and left for Camp Lewin. He rose from office boy to managing editor in eight years despite a wife and child dependent on him.
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Ore
Ernest W. Jorgenson
Portland News
Seattle Star
Camp Lewin
Altho
Allies Prepare to Consolidate Gains in Drive
New York July 22 Gen Foch moderates his push between the Aisne and the Marne to secure gains and brace for anticipated German counterattacks. Allied caution is urged as Foch shows he will not be drawn into a large scale battle before American involvement. the thrust remains local and has already helped Paris by driving Germans north of the Marne.
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Honduras Declares War on Germany
Washington dispatch reports Honduras declared war on Germany on July 19, as announced by the legation. The formal declaration follows the broader Allied alliance shown in July.
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HondurAs
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Jorgy Goes To War From Portland News Family
The Star reports fond regard for Jorgy known as managing editor of the Portland News. A married father of children, he did not seek draft exemption and volunteered for service in Class 1 after discussing with Mrs. Jorgenson. The piece salutes his bravery and wishes luck to both.
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Navy Seeks U-Boat Off U S Coast War Alarm Near Cape Cod
British steamer reports sighting a submarine 50 miles from an Atlantic island. Off Provincetown heavy cannonading believed naval vessels hunted German sub amid explosions. Tug Perth Amboy and four barges sunk by a submarine near Cape Cod. 43 saved, three seriously injured. United States naval craft sweep the area as seaplanes attack the raider.
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Daniels Asks Probe Into Seaplane Bomb Failures
Secretary Daniels urged a Navy investigation into the failure of bombs dropped by a seaplane against the U-boat raider off Orleans Massachusetts. The report showed attacks occurred but no indication bombs exploded, prompting concerns they did not hit or detonate.
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Carl D. Groat
Washington
Navy Ordnance Bureau
Daniela
Orleans
Mass
Bormbe
Government Seizes 2 Hun Metal Firms
The Alien Property Custodian Palmer announced the takeover of German owned metal firms L. Vogelstein & Co. and Baer, Sondheimer & Co. in New York Broadway businesses as part of measures to break German control of the U S metal industry.
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Palmer
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Baer, Sondheimer & Co
Broadway
New York
War brief from fronts across Europe and Asia
United Press reports on German counterattacks near the Somme and Picardy with inconclusive gains. British and French forces raid south of Villers-Bretonneux while a raid north of Bailleul succeeds. Britain records artillery activity in Locre as Austria contemplates a new offensive in Italy.
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Bailleul
Locre
American Troops Turn Tide Says London Paper
The Daily Express reports Indications that American forces have turned the tide of the war by sending in three months more manpower than the Germans. In the Rheims to Soissons pocket the Germans gambled against Gen. Foch and now face disaster as American troops clear Barbillon wood and push five miles north of Chateau Thierry along the Marne.
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The
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Rheims
Soissons
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Barbillon Wood
Chateau Thierry
Barbilion Wood
Marne
6000 Americans Taken in Forward Sweep
Washington dispatch reports Gen Pershing announcing fresh American gains between the Marne and the Aisne with continued vigor. The fighting in recent days yielded more than 6000 prisoners, over 100 cannon, and numerous trench mortars and machine guns captured by American divisions.
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Marne
Alane
Pershing
Three Hundred Czech Captives Executed by Austrians
Berne reports that three hundred Czech captives taken in a recent clash with Italians were executed by shooting. The prisoners allegedly marched to their deaths chanting they went to death calmly and gladly, glorifying it.
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Germans to Guard Petrograd Embassy
Germany has arranged with the Bolshevik government for a guard at the German embassy in Petrograd. The guards will consist of German soldiers dressed in civilian attire.
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Germany
Petrograd
Cologne
Austria Plans New Offensive
Rome reports that Austrian forces plan a major offensive against Italy to be led by German command with an Austrian in nominal command as disclosed by the Idea Nazionale dispatches.
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Idea Nazionale
Hun Forces Put Up Mad Fight Seeking New Front
Military dispatch reports German forces fiercely resisting Allied advances as they contest a new sector on the front. Soviet and American units press gains elsewhere while logistics and air support shape daily skirmishes along the line.
Allied push slows on seven mile front near Chateau Thierry
Dispatch from Paris reports heavy German rear guard action delaying the Franco American advance seven miles south of Oulchy Le Chateau as forces retire toward Fere-en-Tardenois. The Marne crossings increase enemy prisoners while German artillery wanes and a recon plane was shot down by antiaircraft fire near Paris.
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American Troops Repel German Cavalry East of Rheims
American forces facing their first cavalry charge in France repelled a major German horse unit east of Rheims near Chalons. The same unit then halted an infantry and tank attack as artillery and sharpshooters decimated enemy forces on a chalk hill.
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Chalons
British Gain Ground Around Albert
British forces moved forward around Albert yesterday with gains south and east of Hebuterne and north of Albert, according to Field Marshal Haig in London.
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London
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Haig
Austrian Premier Resignation Accepted in Vienna
Copenhagen July 22 Emperor Karl accepts Austrian Premier Von Seydler's resignation. Count Czernin, former Austro Hungarian foreign secretary, likely to succeed him.
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von Seydler
Count Czernin
Kiel Base Filled With Damaged U Boats
Geneva reports from Hamburg that the Kiel submarine base is filled with submarines undergoing repairs.
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Geneva
Hamburg
Americans Pinch Salient as Forces Rally in France
Allied forces tighten grip on the Soissons Rheims salient with combined French American and British attacks. Americans push beyond Beau-St Germain after crossing the Marne, advancing up to a kilometer per hour in places as headquarters shift to maintain communication. Grissoles Bezu-St Germain area reports strong counterattacks as positions tighten.
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Marne
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Bezu-St. Germain
Germans Withdraw North of Chateau Thierry After Engagement
Paris dispatch reports German forces pulling back from near Epieds to Beauvardes and Fossoy, with Epieds four miles northeast of Chateau Thierry and Beauvardes seven miles northeast, indicating a withdrawal about three miles farther north than previously stated. The movement places Beauvardes six miles north of the Marne.
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Fossoy
Chateau Thierry Falls to Allied Advance
French and American troops entered Chateau Thierry Sunday as they push forward in the Marne region against German forces.
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Paris
Marne
Germany rushes 300000 troops to quell Rumania
Washington reports Germany has rushed 300000 troops into Rumania to crush uprisings in the occupied Balkan country. Clashes between Rumanians and German forces have become widespread and violent, forcing Austro Germans to call on western reserves for aid.
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Washington
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Rome
Franco American Advance Across Marne Presses Toward Soissons
Franco American forces push along the Marne from Soissons east of Chateau Thierry and northward toward Vere en Tardenois as German retreat continues. American infantry and French cavalry advance with heavy artillery support, using boats and bridges to cross the river and press the line south of Soissons toward Thierry.
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