Allies drive recovers Picardy towns and yanks 86,000 prisoners
Paris reports Aug 12 that allied forces have seized Marquivillers and Chaulnes near Roye, with Grivillers and other villages captured as the line advances toward the Hindenburg line. More than 500 guns and 86,000 prisoners, including over 1,000 officers, have been taken as German resistance weakens.
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Paris
Picardy
Montdidier
Marquivillers
Roye
Grivillers
Montdidier-Roye
War Office
von Hutier
von Marwitz
French Win Many Towns in Picardy Drive
French forces gain ground between the Avre and Oise pushing to within six and a half miles of Noyon and capturing Cambronne and Machmont. They take Boulogne La Grasse and advance east of Bus and Montdidier amid German retreat. British and French advances press on along the Somme and Avre fronts with heavy enemy losses reported.
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Chevrincourt
Arras
Albert
Kemmel
Flanders
Chaulnes
Bray
Somme
Meaulte
Etinhem
Framerville
Lihons
Halln Station
Halln
Parvillers
L’eschelle
Armancourt
Tilleloy Park
Roye sur-Matz
Mareuil-Lamotte
Samson and
Machemont
Oise
Noyon
Montdidier
Soissons
Noyon-Ham
Roye-Noyon
Nesle
Ham
Rawlinson
Vauvillers
Paris
Avre
Roye
War Office
Cambronne
Machmont
Montidier
Canny-sur-Matz
Lassigny
Noyen
Boulogne-La Grasse
Hindenburg
Goyencourt
Thiescourt
von Hutier
L’eschell
Urin
Silent long-range German cannon ends as Paris quiets
Paris reports the German long-range cannon silent for two days after four months of bombardment. Allies push toward Noyon and Guiscard, threatening German positions within six and a half miles of Noyon, with firing shifting as front lines move.
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Paris
Noyon
Guiscard
Aviator Uses Parachute At Taliaferro Field
Lieut. James H. Dale of St. Louis jumped 3,000 feet with a parachute from an airplane at Taliaferro field, the third person to achieve the feat. Lieut. M. J. Plumm of Chicago set a new world record with 134 successive loops, surpassing the previous 126.
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Fort Worth
Tex
James H. Dale
St. Louis
Taliaferro Field
M. J. Plumm
Chicago
German destroyer sunk near Zeebrugge by mine claim
An official British admiralty statement says a German destroyer was sunk eight miles from Zeebrugge likely after hitting a mine. British aircraft heavily bombarded enemy mine sweepers operating off Zeebrugge as part of the action.
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London
Zeebrugge
Admiralty
Government urged to seize packing firm assets and create centralized markets
The federal trade commission urges President Wilson to grant a government monopoly over meat transport rolling stock and refrigerator cars, acquire key stock yards as open markets with uniform charges, and take over branch houses and cold storage facilities to ensure competitive, equal terms for producers, handlers, and consumers.
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Washington
Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudahy
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Railroad Administration
Railroad Commission
Bumper Grain Crop Outlook From Government Report
The monthly government report estimates U S wheat at 228 000 000 bushels above last year and corn at 2 989 000 000 bushels. Oats 1 428 000 000 barley 232 000 000 rye 76 700 000 bushels. August 1 conditions set harvest expectations.
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Washington
United States
No More U. S. Volunteers Suspended For Draft Bill
Washington on August 10 reports voluntary enlistment in the army and navy suspended to avoid industry disruption while the bill to extend draft ages to 18 to 45 is settled. Secretaries Baker and Daniels ordered no further enlistments until new orders. The move follows a Baker Daniels conference and President Wilson's late day visit to their offices.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Baker
Daniels
Wilson
Fire in Fresno Destroys Half a Block, $500000 in Loss
A Fresno fire Friday afternoon caused about 500000 dollars in damage and destroyed half a block in the business district. The blaze started in the Kuttner Goldstein company grocery.
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Fresno
Cal
Kuttner-Goldstein Company
Lenin Declares State of War Defense, Moscow Meeting Says
Lenine told a Moscow soviet gathering that a state of war exists between Russia and the entente allies. Tchitcherin called it a state of defense. Reports say bolsheviks bar Allied officers from leaving Russia and archangel evacuated after allied troop landings. Japan names Gen. Ozana to lead its Siberian expedition command.
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Lenine
Moscow
Washington
Poole
State Department
Tchitcherin
Commissionaire of Foreign Affairs
Russia
Germany
Murman
Techitcherin
Archangel
Onega
United States
Kikuzo Ozana
Japan
Siberia
War on Japan May Be Declared by Bolsheviks
Moscow reports indicate the Bolshevik government may declare war on Japan despite popular opposition. The dispatch notes Lenine’s initial opposition but suggests Russia could be compelled to act.
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London
Moscow
Berlin
Russia
Japan
Copenhagen
Lenine
Washington
State Department
Francis
Murman Coast
Leon Trotzky
Vladivostok
Archangel
McAdoo backs 80 percent war profit tax plan
Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo advocates a new revenue bill provision to tax war profits at 80 percent. He aims to press this in the House bill after returning to Washington next Monday and cites a telegram to Chairman Kitchin from Glacier Park urging the tax.
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Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
Washington
Kitchin
House
Ways and Means Committee
Glacier Park
Take White House Pickets
Police halted a suffrage protest in Lafayette Park opposite the White House as the meeting began. A squad moved to arrest the speakers at the Lafayette monument. over 50 arrests followed including Alice Paul, president of the National Woman's party.
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Washington
Lafayette Park
White House
Marquis Lafayette
Alice Paul
National Woman’s Party
Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds Governor Action
St Paul Aug 12 The Minnesota supreme court upheld Governor Burnquist and Adjt. Gen Rhinow for using state troops to reclose three saloons at Blooming Prairie Minn in a recent order.
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Minnesota
St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota Supreme Court
Burnquist
Adjt
W. F. Rhinow
Blooming Prairie
Plans for a 5,000,000 man U S Army in 1916
General March pledged the administration draft ages to 18 through 45 and said the War Department aims to raise about 5,000,000 troops as soon as possible. He warned there is no need to recall Congress before the recess ends August 24. Senators discussed extending the draft to the navy with Secretary Daniels or Admiral Benson to testify.
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Washington
William §. Graves
Camp Fremont
Cal
Siberia
General March
Liberia
Philippines
United States
March
Wilson
State Department
Graves
Administration
Senate Military Committee
War Department
Congress
Wadsworth
Navy
Chamberlain
Secretary Daniels
Admiral Benson
Resignation of National League President Tener Reported
John K. Tener resigned as president of the National League, received Tuesday at the league’s New York office. Tener, who previously served as governor of Pennsylvania, had lately aligned with a large contracting firm in New York and Philadelphia, with business pressure pulling him from baseball.
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John K. Tener
New York
National Baseball League
League
Tener
Pennsylvania
New York City
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Leaves Maine for New York Vacation Close
Former President Theodore Roosevelt ends a two week Maine coast retreat with his daughter Mrs. Richard Derby and departs for New York accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt.
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Roosevelt
New York
Dark Harbor
Maine
Richard Derby
Automakers urged to switch to 100 percent war work
Washington reports that the war industries board directed passenger automobile makers to convert plants to full war production by January 1, 1919. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce was informed after voluntary curtailment talks and warned there is no promise of future material supplies.
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Washington
War Industries Board
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Draft exemption proposals discussed by War Department
Secretary Baker told the Senate military committee that new draft rules may let the government select exemptions. He favors treating marriage as a deferred class and would require registrants to answer a fixed set of questions to guide classification.
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Washington
War Department
Baker
Senate Military Committee
Bethlehem Steel Plans $500 Million Bond Issue
Newark N J August 10 The Bethlehem Steel Corporation proposed mortgage of its entire property to secure a 500 million dollar bond issue to finance wartime extensions and to discharge existing obligations.
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Newark
N. J
Bethlehem Steels Corporation
Two Ships Sunk by U Boats Reported
A brief World War II era bulletin notes German submarines sinking two ships. The report, dated August 10 from Washington, references German marines and naval activity with limited details.
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Washington
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Hindenburg Line
U. S
Baker and Daniels
RUSS
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St. Loui Republic
Tokyo
McAdoo
U.S. Army
Senate Committee
Ree
Tower
Falls, Mic
Autq Building
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