Health rate at 1.9 per 1000 in military population
Report shows an annual disease death rate of 1.9 per 1,000 for American expeditionary and U S troops, far below civil rates. It notes improved sanitation, camp expansions, and training center upgrades as part of the effort, with comparisons to earlier wars.
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N.C
Fayettesville
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Czechs Defeat Bolsheviks in Transbaikalia Battle
Reports from London and Harbin state Czecho-Slovak forces captured Berchnen dfusch near Lake Baikal and defeated Bolshevik units. Tokyo and Moscow dispatches note Japanese units aiding eastern Siberia forces, and Red guards publicly executed 300 Czech prisoners in Simbirsk as retaliation.
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Petrograd
Weser Zeitung
Bremen
Three U. S. Ships Sunk by U Boats in War Waters
The navy department announces three American vessels sunk in foreign waters by German submarines. The Lake Eden, an army chartered cargo transport, was sunk August 21. the West Bridge, 8 800 tons, August 16. and the Cubore, 7 300 tons, August 15. Sixteen crewmen from Lake Eden are missing, 39 accounted for, three lost from West Bridge, none from Cubore.
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Washington
Navy Department
Lake Eden
U. S. S. West Bridge
U. S
West Bridge
Cubore
British Air Raids Hit Five German Towns and Five Air Dromes
London reports five important German towns and five airfields heavily bombarded by British squadrons on the night of August 21 22. Frankfort and Cologne were targeted with heavy attacks and good results noted.
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London
Germany
Air Ministry
Frankfort
Cologne
Cooper Injured In Taxi Accident In Wisconsin
Congress man Henry Allen Cooper sustained a severe neck sprain when thrown from a taxi while en route to a speech in Janesville Wisconsin. He was taken to Mercy hospital and later home in Racine. In Washington Dr Baltasar Brum Uruguay foreign minister arrived with a special mission and held formal calls with Secretary Lansing.
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Wis
Henry Allen Cooper
Todgerton
Mercy Hospital
Racine
Uruguay
Lees Lansing
Washington
Baltasar Brum
Arived
Lansing
Petrograd Riots Trigger Martial Law Amid Loyalist Clash
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph reports hundreds killed or wounded as Lettish guards clash with rioters in Petrograd near the Smolny institute. Martial law is proclaimed as workers cry Down with the Germans and the Kremlin. Japan dispatches say troops landed at Nikolaievsk to shield allied citizens.
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London
Petrograd
Amsterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
Berlin
Kremlin
Smolny Institute
Nikolaievsk
Tien Tsin
Revenue bill draft nears completion with 80 percent war tax
Washington reports the house ways and means committee tentatively adopts an excess profits tax plan as part of an 8 billion dollar revenue bill. The McAdoo plan features an 80 percent war profits tax with a 10 percent exemption and tiered rates from 8 to 70 percent. The schedule allows a single 8 percent deduction and designates war or excess profits taxes as alternatives to maximize revenue.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
Chicago Police Chief Dies After Prolonged Illness
Herman F. Schuettler , Chicago's chief of police, died Thursday night at Alexian Brothers hospital after a long illness. He had been on extended leave, returned two months ago from Florida seeking health. Born July 14, 1861, he was Chicago's most famous policeman.
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Chicago
Herman F. Schuettler
Alexian Brothers Hospital
Schuettler
Florida
Chief Schuettler
Finance Minister Proposes $2.5 Billion World War Credit
Paris reports Louis Kootz, minister of finance, presented at a cabinet meeting a proposal for a military credit of 2.5 billion dollars to cover fourth quarter 1918 expenditures.
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Paris
Louis Kootz
Montanan Torpedoed and Sunk in Foreign Waters
The American steamer Montanan of 6,650 tons gross was torpedoed and sunk in foreign waters on August 16. Eighty-one survivors were landed. Three civilians and two naval armed guard members are reported missing. The Montanan served the army quartermaster’s department as a supply ship. A Canadian port also reports a German crewed steam trawler Triumph raiding fishing banks off Nova Scotia after being captured by a U boat.
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Naval Armed Guard
Navy Department
Quartermaster’s Department of the Army
Montanana
David W. Johnson
Chester C. Eldridge
Atlantic
Triumph
Nova Scotia
U S Troops Arrive in Vladivostok and Russia Councils Formed
The Thirty first Regiment of regulars lands at Vladivostok from Manila as Washington reports Russia in a state of war with the United States. Two international councils are to be created at Archangel and Vladivostok to coordinate Allied and U S efforts, with ambassadors and high officials named from Britain France and Japan. The Petrograd consulate is closed and American affairs placed under Norwegian control while Americans are warned to leave.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Imbrie
Petrograd
Vladivostok
Manila
Baker
France
Archangel
Francis
Great Britain
Charles Blio
Senate subcommittee faults early aircraft delays and calls for aviation department
The senate military subcommittee issued an impartial report criticizing initial aircraft production delays and praising progress. It urges creating a separate aviation department led by two cabinet officers, notes the 640 million dollar 1917 appropriation exhausted with 884 million more needed, and defers corruption questions 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 Adds Baseball to Army Training Policy
The French war ministry orders baseball included in general army training to boost soldier fitness and aid hand grenade practice. Also reports a British plane trip from a French airfield to England with nine passengers taking about thirty minutes.
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Paris
French War Ministry
France
England
London
Senate Aircraft Quiz Off
Abrupt note reports no further details on the airplane situation as of August 26. The fragment notes a Senate related quiz and ongoing uncertainty about the aircraft event.
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Senate
Great Battle for Chicago War Expo At Grant Park
Chicago hosts a government war exposition in Grant Park from September 2 to 15. Air power arrives with ten American and three British planes en route, while four large dirigible balloons head from the East and a battery of 75 mm guns with artillerymen is planned for display.
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Chicago
Grant Park
Sub Sunk Near Winter Quarter Shoal off Virginia Coast
The U S Navy says a captain reported ramming and probably sinking a submarine near Winter Quarter Shoal on August 17 off the northern Virginia coast. The steamer returned to port with a badly damaged bow and the captain claims the sinking. An Atlantic Port reports a 400 foot enemy submarine was sent off the Atlantic coast by a British tanker after the tanker fired 76 shots.
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Washington
Navy Department
Winter Quarter Shoal
Virginia
Atlantic
Tornado Toll Drops Across Minnesota Town
A violent tornado struck Tyler Minnesota and southeastern Minnesota on Wednesday killing 34 people with 20 missing and 100 injured. The twister damaged the moving picture theater restaurant and many homes and knocked out the electric light plant and city water works plunging the town into darkness.
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Tyler
Minn
Minnesota
Miners Seek Wage Increase Across Districts
Washington August 24 President Hayes of the United Mine Workers and two representatives from each mining district gather at headquarters to discuss demand for higher wages. The meeting aims to unify action and set dates for possible strikes or bargaining.
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Washington
Hayes
The
United Mine Workers
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