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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1918
Page
1
Allied forces pound Metz fortifications as Yankee shells hit central defenses. British and French troops converge on St Quentin. Serbia shows renewed fighting capacity and gains, reversing early war setbacks and contributing to momentum.
On Sept 19 American aviators report heavy artillery shells hitting Metz center with a large factory struck and fortifications hit directly. The advance pushes patrols forward to the new Hindenburg line, now 15 miles inside the German hold, with refugees returning to villages between the Meuse and Moselle as roads are repaired and the line consolidates.
United Press dispatch reports American forces advancing toward Gorze and on the Moselle near Metz as Fort Kronprinz braces under siege guns. Army gunners aim to neutralize the key fort while patrols push through villages and woods along the Hindenburg line.
Milan dispatch reports the Vatican will not reply to Austria s peace note seeking the pope s moral support. Corriere Della Sera cites a reliable source saying Catholics largely favor a peace based on justice. Italy s Popolo Italia refuses to publish the note and urges a firm response like General Foch.
The text notes the U S advance toward the Bricy iron mining country in eastern France and German Lorraine as the St Mihiel salient is reduced. It explains Germany has drawn most of its iron for munitions from that region over the past four years while the map shows the current battle line.
United Press dispatch from Washington reports Austria may offer autonomy to Czecho-Slovaks and Southern Slavs as a strategy to win a straw vote on allied war aims. Diplomats note Austria would cite Britain as support for a limited freedom plan while Germany tries to sow unity doubts. military experts warn no quick end to the war despite signs Germany struggles.
In Rome on September 18 a government statement says the Austrian note has not yet reached Italy. It argues the proposal for negotiations lacks real peace intent and that recent Austro-Hungarian and German statements, aside from ceding territories and the Brest and Bucharest treaties, make useful negotiations impossible.
Sept 19 Hattonville near Vigneulles reports a French mother praying for Allied victory when a German soldier killed her by slashing her throat. American Lieutenant Raymond Pennoyer later found her body in a bloodstained bed beside the home of German occupiers.
Washington September 19 The spread of Spanish influenza along the Atlantic coast prompts renewed Navy health warnings that German U boats may have dispersed germs. Lieut Col Doane of the Shipping Board health section says camps reinforce the theory that Germans may have inoculated crews ashore. Earlier warnings linked prisoner transport from torpedoed ships to outbreak sites and fears of released infected carriers.
London dispatch says the allies likely will let Wilson’s reply to Austria stand but will issue a joint up to date statement of common war aims soon. The information came from a reliable source today.
London newspapers welcomed John W. Davis as American ambassador and expected him to advance Anglo American unity, continuing the prior policy.
London reports British troops have evacuated Baku on the western Caspian shore once a center of the world’s great petroleum region. The British expedition occupied Baku August 16, advancing from Bagdad across Persia with Russian and Armenian support to oppose Turkish and German forces.
London dispatch reports a Franco-Serbian offensive routed Bulgarian forces. Seven towns seized, the advance extended to 12 1/2 miles, with 4 000+ prisoners taken. Bulgarians retreat under pressure as villages and stores burn amid rapid Allied pursuit across high terrain.
Chicago dispatch reports Archbishop Meletios Metaxakis of the Church of Greece on a patriotic mission. He says a successful Balkan offensive would foretell the war’s end, dismay the Turks and Bulgars, and profoundly affect the Russian people.
War Department announces civilians may join officers training schools. Eligible candidates include Class 1 and deferred class men with non industrial deferments, aged 18 to 45. Some entrants will come from the army and from civil life. Applications are to be made to the corresponding educational institutions.
The message appears to offer a mechanism to pursue charges under a specific act. It implies a call to action to initiate formal charges, suggesting procedural steps or a legal avenue without detailing the case or jurisdiction. No names, dates, or places are provided.
British and French forces widened their advance across a broad front from Cambrai toward St Quentin, taking about 11 miles of outposts and over 6 000 prisoners as German counterattacks were repulsed. Australian troops seized most of the Hindenburg line outposts from Pontru to Gouzeaucourt.
Paris dispatch reports the French war office saying troops penetrated Contascourt southwest of St. Quentin and that German attack northeast of Courlandon on the Vesle was stopped before reaching French lines. North of the Aisne, French positions were held firmly.
San Francisco Sept 19 The wage adjustment board of the United States Shipping Board says the revised wage scale for Pacific coast shipbuilding plant employees will be announced on October 1 in a telegram to the Iron Trades Council.
At Great Lakes naval training station officers report prompt quarantine of mild influenza cases has prevented further spread of Spanish influenza. The action aims to keep recruits healthy as operations continue amid the ongoing health concern.
United Press reports long range shells in Metz center and hits on forts and a factory. American main forces hold the Hindenburg line with a patrol penetrating beyond Pagny Sur Moselle. In Picardy the British repelled eight mile German attacks with heavy losses. In Flanders British gains near Ploegsteert. Bulgarians retreating as French Greek and Serbian forces pursue beyond twelve miles.
First Lieutenant David E. Putnam of Newton Massachusetts one of America's top aces was killed in late Wednesday afternoon on patrol duty on the Lorraine front. He flew with Lieutenant W Robertson of Fort Smith Texas when seven enemy planes attacked. Four enemy machines circled and shot him from above. Putnam died from two heart wounds as his aircraft hit the ground behind American lines Robertson escaped Putnam had been awarded the French War Cross on March 23 of the year.
Genera Ardenne in the Berlin Tageblatt argues the German west front forms a corner open to west and south attacks, signaling a new retreat. He warns Foch will capitalize on the strategic situation as pressures mount along the front.
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