Allies Sweep Picardy as 86,000 Prisoners Taken and Many Guns Captured
Paris reports 86,000 Allied prisoners including over 1,000 officers and more than 500 guns captured in Picardy. French forces push from Montdidier toward Roye and Noyon, seizing Marquivillers Grivillers Cambronne and Boulogne La Grasse while stalling German counterattacks near Lihons and Nesle as Chaulnes falls to Australian and Canadian troops. The retreating German line shows disorder with heavy artillery and reserves rushed to cover the withdrawal.
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Paris
Picardy
Montdidier
Marquivillers
Roye
Grivillers
Montdidier-Roye
War Office
Avre
Oise
Noyon
Cambronne
Machmont
Montidier
Canny-sur-Matz
Lassigny
Boulogne-La Grasse
Bus
Maxies
Foe
London
Wlihons
Haig
Somme
Nesle
Chaulnes
Hindenburg
Guyencourt
Chevrincourt
Arras
Albert
Kemmel
Flanders
Bray
Menauke
Etinhem
Framerville
Lihons
Hallu Station
Hallu
Parvillers
L’eschelle
Armancourt
Tilleloy Park
Roye sur-Matz
Mareuil-Lamotte
Samson and
Machemont
Montdidiet
Soissons
Noyon-Ham
Roye-Noyon
Ham
Rawlinson
Vauvillers
von Hutier
von Marwitz
Big Hun Gun Is Silent
Paris reports a long range German cannon that had pounded Paris for over four months has not fired for two days. The lull is tied to the Allied push toward Noyon and Guiscard six and a half miles north of Noyon where French advances threaten the German positions.
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Paris
Noyon
Guiscard
Aviator Uses Parachute at Fort Worth Field
Lieut. James H. Dale of St. Louis completed a 3000 foot parachute jump from an airplane at Taliaferro field, the third person to achieve the feat. Lieut. M J Plumm of Chicago set a world record with 134 consecutive loops, surpassing the previous mark of 126.
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Fort Worth
Tex
James H. Dale
St. Louis
Taliaferro Field
M. J. Plumm
Chicago
German destroyer sunk off Zeebrugge by British mine
London reports a German destroyer was sunk eight miles off Zeebrugge. The admiralty says it was probably lost to a British mine. British aircraft bombarded enemy mine sweepers operating near Zeebrugge.
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London
Zeebrugge
Admiralty
Government urged to seize packing industry assets
The federal trade commission urges immediate government control of meat packing, recommending monopoly ownership of rolling stock and refrigerated cars, government operation of major stock yards, and acquisition of cold storage facilities to ensure open, competitive markets and equal terms for all producers and handlers.
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Washington
Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudahy
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Railroad Administration
Railroad Commission
U S Grain Crop Outlook Shrugs Corn Dip Wheat Rise
The monthly government crop report estimates the year wheat at 878 million bushels and corn at 2.989 billion. If correct at harvest, corn would fall 170 million from last year while wheat rises 228 million. Previous forecast had higher corn and wheat. Other forecasts include oats 1.428 billion, barley 232 million, rye 76.7 million.
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Washington
United States
No More U. S. Volunteers Suspended Across Services
Washington announces a complete suspension of voluntary enlistment in the army and navy to avoid disrupting industry while Congress considers a bill to extend the draft ages from eighteen to forty five. Secretaries Baker and Daniels issued the orders after a meeting and Wilson's late visit to their offices.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Baker
Daniels
Wilson
Fresno Grocery Fire Destroys Block In Downtown
A major blaze in Fresno California on Friday afternoon caused about 500000 dollars in damage. The fire started in the Kuttner Goldstein company grocery and swept through half a city block in the business district drawing firefighters from several stations.
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Fresno
Cal
Kuttner-Goldstein Company
Lenin Declares State of War Defense in Moscow Gathering
Lenine told a Moscow soviet gathering that a State of war exists with the entente. Tchitcherin calls it a State of defense, not a formal war, as allies report bolsheviks hinder allied envoys and Archangel incident prompts evacuation. Japan’s Gen. Ozawa to lead Japanese section of Siberian expedition with US and allies.
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Lenine
Moscow
Washington
Poole
State Department
Tchitcherin
Commissionaire of Foreign Affairs
Russia
Germany
Murman
Bir
Archangel
Onega
United States
Kikuzo Ozana
Japan
Siberia
War on Japan Rumors Reach Moscow and Siberia Plan
Reports from Moscow via Berlin say Bolshevik Russia weighs declaring war on Japan. Lenine reportedly opposes but may be compelled to act. In Washington diplomats were cut off from allies by Trotzky orders and American troops may head to Siberia under Gen Graves with regiments from the Philippines forming the nucleus.
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London
Moscow
Berlin
Russia
Japan
Copenhagen
Lenine
Washington
State Department
Francis
Murman Coast
Leon Trotzky
Vladivostok
Archangel
William S. Graves
Camp Fremont
Cal
Siberia
General March
Philippines
United States
Wilson
Graves
McAdoo backs 80 percent war profit tax plan
Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo condemns war profiteering and pushes for an 80 percent tax on war profits to be included in the revenue bill. He plans to press the measure upon his return to Washington and cites a telegram to Chairman Kitchin urging strong action.
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Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
Washington
Kitchin
House
Ways and Means Committee
Glacier Park
White House Picket Arrests Disrupt Suffrage Meeting
Police halted a suffrage protest in Lafayette Park near the White House. A mob of officers arrested over 50 demonstrators, including Miss Alice Paul, head of the National Woman's party, as the meeting opener began.
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Washington
Lafayette Park
White House
Marquis Lafayette
Alice Paul
National Woman’s Party
Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds Saloons Closure Order
The Minnesota supreme court affirmed Governor Burnquist and Adjt. Gen. W F Rhinow in using state troops to reclose three saloons at Blooming Prairie Minnesota. The ruling endorses the executive action amid enforcement of liquor laws.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota Supreme Court
Burnquist
Adjt
W. F. Rhinow
Blooming Prairie
Plans U S Army of 5 000 000 Men
General March told the Senate military committee the War Department plans an army of about 5,000,000 men to be raised as soon as possible under the administration power bill raising draft ages to forty five. He favored not recalling Congress before the August 24 recess. Senator Chamberlain said Daniels or Benson would be invited to discuss extending the draft to the navy.
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Washington
Administration
General March
Senate Military Committee
War Department
March
Congress
Wadsworth
Navy
Chamberlain
Resignation of National League President John Tener
The National League received the resignation of John K Tener on Tuesday at its New York office. Tener had led the league for several years after serving as governor of Pennsylvania and recently joined a large contracting firm in New York and Philadelphia, with business pressures cited as pulling him away from baseball.
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John K. Tener
New York
National Baseball League
League
Tener
Pennsylvania
New York City
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Ends Maine Vacation with Return to New York
Former President Theodore Roosevelt wraps up a two week stay on the Maine coast with daughter Mrs. Richard Derby and departs for New York.
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Roosevelt
New York
Dark Harbor
Maine
Richard Derby
Auto makers urged to switch to 100 percent war work
Washington reports the war industries board asked passenger automobile manufacturers to convert fully to war work by January 1 1919. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce received the plan after firms volunteered to cut output by 50 percent. The board warned that material supply promises cannot be made in advance and urged rapid full conversion for industry survival.
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Washington
War Industries Board
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
New draft rules eyed to exempt married men
Washington reports Secretary Baker told the Senate military committee that the Navy Department is considering new draft regulations in which the government would perform the selecting. He urged prompt passage of the age limit act and suggested marriage could create a deferred classification with a standard set of questions for registrants guiding automatic rules.
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Washington
Naw Department
Baker
Senate Military Committee
Arswe
Bethlehem Steel Plans $500 Million Bond Issue
Newark Aug 10 The Bethlehem Steel corporation voted to mortgage its entire property and issue bonds totaling 500 million dollars to finance wartime extensions and discharge obligations. Two ships sunk by U boats reported from Washington in August 10 dispatches.
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Newark
N. J
Bethlehem Steel ‘Corporation
Iso
Washington
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Tokyo
McAdoo
Minnesota
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