Health records show low disease death rate for American forces
The army reports an overseas disease death rate of 1.9 per 1,000 for 2.5 million troops, far below civil rates. The health gains stem from military sanitation, nurse expansion, and the Children's Year program aiding foreign-born mothers in learning child care and English.
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United States
Marne Salient
Washington
New England
Seattle
Pittsburg
Wisconsin
Washington State
Czechs Defeat Bolsheviks in Transbaikalia Victory
Reports from London and Harbin indicate Czecho-Slovak forces captured Berchnedinsch south of Lake Baikal and won a decisive battle against Bolsheviks. Japanese and allied units assisted with retirement at Ussuri clashes. mass executions followed in Simbirsk per Moscow dispatch.
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Robert Cecil
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Lake Baikel
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Volga
Moscow
Hamburg Nachrichten
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Red Guard
Murmansk
Petrograd
Weser Zeitung
Bremen
Three U S Ships Sunk By German Submarines
The Navy department announced the sinking of three American vessels in foreign waters by German submarines. The Lake Eden was sunk August 21 with 16 crew missing and 39 accounted for. The West Bridge, 8 800 tons, was sunk August 16 with three men lost. The Cultore, 7 300 tons, went down August 15 with no crew fatalities. The West Bridge and Cultore were homeward bound.
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Washington
Navy Department
Lake Eden
U. S. S. West Bridge
West Bridge
British Bombardment Targets Five German Cities
London reports five key German towns and five airfields were heavily bombed by British squadrons on August 21 22. Frankfort and Cologne were major targets and the official air ministry statement says heavy attacks yielded good results.
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London
Germany
Air Ministry
Frankfort
Cologne
Congressman Cooper Injured In Taxi Fall Near Edgerton
Congressman Henry Allen Cooper suffered a severe neck sprain when thrown from a taxi en route to Edgerton to deliver a speech on Irm jay. He was taken to Mercy hospital and returned home to Racine later in the afternoon.
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Janesville
Wis
Henry Allen Cooper
Throwen
Edgerton
Mercy Hospital
Racine
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Visits Washington Under Lansing Talks
Dr. Baltasar Brum Uruguay's foreign minister arrived in Washington leading a special mission and held formal calls with Secretary Lansing on the following Thursday as the guest of the nation.
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Lansing
Washington
Baltasar Brum
Arived
Riot in Petrograd Leaves Hundreds Dead or Wounded
An Amsterdam Telegraph dispatch reports hundreds killed or wounded in a battle between Lettish guards and rioters in Petrograd. Martial law was declared after workers marched shouting against Germans and the Kremlin. Japanese troops reportedly landed at Nikolaievsk to guard allied nationals.
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London
Petrograd
Amsterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
Berlin
Kremlin
Smolny Institute
Nikolaievsk
Tien Tsin
Revenue bill nears completion with wartime tax plan
Washington reports the house ways and means committee tentatively adopted an excess profits tax schedule as part of the $8 billion revenue bill. The plan follows McAdoo and Kitchin proposals, setting a flat 10 percent exemption and rates from 8 to 70 percent on various profit levels, with alternative taxes chosen for maximum yield.
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McAdoo and Kitchin
Washington
Ways and Means
Treasury
Chicago Police Chief Herman Schuettler Dies
Chicago news reports the death of Herman F. Schuettler, in his 70s, longtime Chicago police chief. He died Thursday night at Alexian Brothers Hospital after months of illness and a recent return from Florida. He had taken extended leave and was a prominent figure in the force.
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Herman F. Schuettler
Alexian Brothers’ Hospital
Schuettler
Florida
Chief Schuettler
French Finance Minister Pushes $2.5 Billion Military Credit
Paris August 26 Louis Kootz minister of finance submitted a proposal for a military credit of 2.5 billion dollars at a cabinet meeting to cover fourth quarter 1918 expenditures.
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Paris
Louis Kootz
Montanan Sunk by Torpedo in Foreign Waters
The Montanan of 6,650 tons gross was torpedoed and sunk August 16 in foreign waters with the probable loss of three civilian crew and two naval armed guard members. Eighty-one survivors were landed. The ship served the army quartermaster as a supply vessel. Names of three civilians were not released. A second note reports Triumph, a German crewed steam trawler, raiding fishing banks off Nova Scotia after capture.
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Naval Armed Guard
Navy Department
Quartermaster's Department of the Army
Montanan
David W. Johnson
Chester C. Eldridge
Atlantic
Triumph
Nova Scotia
U S Forces Reach Vladivostok and Dual Russia Councils Formed
The Thirty‑first Regiment of regulars arrives at Vladivostok from Manila as the Bolshevik state of war with the United States is declared. Two international councils are planned, one at Archangel and one at Vladivostok, to coordinate Allied and U S actions in Russia with ambassadors and high officials from Britain France Japan and the United States.
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Russia
Washington
United States
Imbrie
Petrograd
Manila
Baker
France
Archangel
Francis
Great Britain
Sir Charles Eliot
Senate orders new aviation department amid war delays
Washington reports the senate military subcommittee’s aviation inquiry criticizes early war delays, endorses improved conditions, and calls for a cabinet headed aviation department. It notes vast funds were wasted, unused, or exhausted, and urges action while deferring corruption findings to the justice inquiry led by Charles E. Hughes.
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Washington
Senate Military Subcommittee
Department of Aviation
Department of Justice
Charles E. Hughes
Congress
France Boosts Athletics in Army Training
The French war ministry orders baseball added to general army training as a boost to soldier fitness and hand grenade practice. A British airplane carried nine passengers from France to England in half an hour, the flight between a French airdrome and an English one.
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Paris
French War Ministry
France
England
London
Senate Aircraft Quiz Off
Washington August 26 no further investigation of the airplane situation is indicated as the Senate weighs aviation policy and oversight questions.
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Senate
Washington
Great Battle for Chicago at Grant Park Expo
Chicago officials announce a government war exposition in Grant Park from September 2 to 15. The display will simulate an air sea and ground attack with a fleet of ten American and three British planes en route, plus a dirigible and a battery of 75 mm shells with artillerymen on site.
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Wilson
Edward N. Hurley
The
Shipping Board
Chicago
Grant Park
Submarine Sinking Reported Near Virginia Coast
The U S navy says a steering captain reported ramming and likely sinking a submarine off Winter Quarter Shoal near the Virginia coast around 9 30 p m Saturday August 17 The American steamer returned to port with a damaged bow and the captain believes he sank the submerged craft A separate note from Atlantic Port states a 400 foot enemy submarine was sent off the Atlantic coast by a British tanker after twenty six shots.
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Washington
Navy Department
Winter Quarter Shoal
Virginia
Atlantic
Tornado Toll Rises in Minnesota Town
A Minnesota tornado killed 34 in Tyler and left 20 missing and 100 injured. The storm struck the heart of the town, destroying 40 homes and key facilities, blacking out the city after damaging the electric plant and water works. A separate note reports Col. George T. Patterson of the Portsmouth harbor post died by suicide after a nervous breakdown.
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Tyler
Minn
Minnesota
Portsmouth
N. H
George T. Patterson
U.S. A
Portsmouth Harbor
Miners Ask Increase From Mine Owner
A fragmentary Washington report notes miners request a wage increase from the mine owner. Details are unclear in the damaged text but reference to a work strike or wage push by miners. A person named Hayes is mentioned in connection with the mine.
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Washington
Hayes
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