Allied forces push near Somme as German losses grow
Aug 10 4:30 pm Internal News Service reports one late American division advancing toward the Somme river with Daven and Soutcho captured. Allied casualties under 6,000. Germans suffer heavy losses, more than 25,000 prisoners, and several divisions brought to the front. French attacks in Oise region meet little resistance. Pocket near Bouchoir to Montdicher dissolved. Germans may retreat behind the Somme to 1916 line.
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Daven
Soutcho
Ger- Josses
Eno
Lihons
Oise
Bouchoir
Verolles
Gratibus
Montdicherly
Becquigny
Erchesay
Fignieres
Arvillers
Canadians Turn Captured Artillery on Fleeing Huns
On Aug 10 the British army on the Pic front reported more than 25,000 prisoners taken from German forces, including over 600 officers and 300 large guns. Canadian and Allied troops seized captured cannon as they pursued retreating Germans, with several reports of German airmen bombing their own prisoners. A German counterattack at Chapilly earlier today was repulsed.
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Artilery
Pic Front
Seation
Navy
Chapilly
Marines Idolize US Marines In France Beileau Wood Rename
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt cabled that English and French are enthusiastic over the Marines and their Beileau wood action. He says the position at Beileau wood was difficult and the Marines cleared the area as Germans retreated twenty miles at the narrowest point. Lloyd George praised Americans saying allies captured hundreds of guns in the Picardy drive and hailed the Americans for brilliant qualities.
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Roosevelt
Daniels
Washington
Bois Belleau Wood
United States
Bois Belleau de la Brigade la Marines
Beileau Wood
France
Lloyd George
London
Newport
Picardy Front
Germans Fear for Albert Front in August News
London dispatch says Germans fear defenses north of Albert may crack and Americans are taking an important part in western front operations. British airmen claim sinking a German destroyer eight miles northwest Zeebrugge with mine sweepers heavily bombed in the district per admiralty report.
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Albert
London
Albert May
Evening Standard
Western Front
Zeebruggee
North
Admiralty
Montdidier Captured by Allied Forces On Picardy Front
Paris reports that Montdidier, a German base on the Picardy front, has fallen to allied troops, with earlier London dispatches confirming entry. Also noting a derailment near East Haven on the Shore Line division disrupted traffic, and a New York suit against alleged monopolies under the anti trust act was dismissed.
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Paris
Picardy Front
London
International News Service
East Haven
New Haven
Shore Line
New Haven Road
Fea Os
New York
Governt
Wals
Govern
Meek
Allies Have Foe On The Run Says March
Washington reports General P C March declares the allies are everywhere on the offense and will keep hitting Germany hard. He cites broader use of manpower and the Rainbow division's praised actions in crossings and battles along the Vesle and Ourcq fronts. The 27th division, linked to O'Ryan, is mentioned as training with British in Flanders.
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P. C. March
War Department
National Guard
New York State
John F. O’ryan
British War Office
Somme
Ancre
March
Flanders
Ourcq
Alsace
France
Vesle
Foch
Amiens
Chaulnes
Aisne- Marne
Rainbow
New England
Ahich
Last Surviving Lincoln Elector Kellogg Dies at 88
William Pitt Kellogg former governor of Louisiana and last surviving elector of Lincoln in 1860 died in Washington at age 88 Born December 8 1830 in Orwell Vermont son of Rev Sherman Kellogg He served as Civil War cavalry colonel resigning for health His wife Mary E Wills of Canton Illinois died in March 19XX
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Louisiana
Washington
Wiliam Pitt Kellogg
Orwell
Sherman Kellogg
Kellogg
New Orleans
Mary E. Wills
Canton
General Electric Strike Hearings Open in Washington
The third in a series of hearings on GE labor controversies opened in Washington. Representatives of 14,000 GE workers from Lynn Massachusetts demanded the right to unionize and higher wages. Similar wage gains had recently been granted for GE workers in Schenectady New York and Pittsfield Massachusetts.
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General Electric
Washington
General Electric Co
Gen. Electric
Lynn
Mass
National War Labor
Schenectady
N. Y
Pittsfield
Russian Situation Critical In Germany
Copenhagen reports German newspapers admit the Russian situation is critical and warn readers to prepare for a government change in Russia within a few days.
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Copenhagen
Tere
Russia
Contracts For Wooden Ships
Contracts for twenty four wood cargo vessels and barges of 200 to 4500 tons each were let by the shipping board for the week ending August 3, announced today.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Casualties in American forces list wartime losses
Washington reports five army and one marine corps casualty rosters. Army totals show 64 killed in action and 211 missing, with numerous wounded and disease deaths. marine list records 11 killed in action, 5 died of wounds, and 9 wounded severely. Officers named include Lieutenants Moore Beach Blanchard Kirk Hanlon and Billard.
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Marine Corps
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Berwin
Til
Clayton W. Beach
Muskegon
Mich
Hugh C. Blanchard
Pemberton_ building
Boston
Mass
Theodore T. Kirk
Covina
Cal
Herman H. Smith
Brooklyn
N. Y
Joseph T. Hanlon
Baltimore
Phil Billard
Topeka
Kan
Edwin Lhewllyn
Oconowoc
Wis
James R. Manning
George Howard Butler
Chicago
Oscar L. E Ck
Big Rapids
Edwin E. Elliott
Minneapolis
Minn
Samuel J. Elliott
Edwardsville
Francis Walker Gardner
Belden
Robert Henry Rose Loughborough
D. C
John McKrider
Osceola
Ark
New England
Fred Jones
Chelsea
Carl P. Hovey
St. Johnsbury
Hugh Kotonski
Dominick S. Parks
Lawrence
Harry Tighe
Worcester
Arnold L. Wilson
Presque Isle
John West
West Street
Hartford
Conn
Francis H. Healy
Babcock Street
Frank J. Moynihan
Holyoke
Sebastiano Barber
Front Street
Marciano Calo
Leonard
Waterbury
Tracey Avenue
Daniel M. Healy
Tax on Leased Wires Faces Fight in House Ways and Means
Washington August 10 critics say a ten percent levy on leased wires and news phone circuits could bar most papers from telegraph news. The Ways and Means Committee backs the rate, arguing it raises only a modest 1 million dollars but may curb war news distribution and hurt press associations already strained by wartime costs.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Department
Europe
Kitchen
Crew Rescued After Schooner Seamen Sunk by U Boat
Captain and crew of the American schooner Stanley M Seamen shelled by a German submarine on August 5 about 100 miles off Cape Hatteras were landed at Hampton Roads by a British vessel. They were picked up at sea on August 8. The captain said the submarine commander asked for gasoline but none was aboard. He left in a small boat as the sub drew alongside to take stores.
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Washington
Stanley M
Cape Hatteras
Hampton Roads
Navy Department
William H Newman Dies In New York At 71
William H Newman formerly with the New York Central railroad and a noted railroad man died this afternoon at the Hotel Biltmore New York from a complication of diseases He was 71 years old Success is apt to come to those who count every cent and make every cent count.
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William H. Newman
New York
New York Central Railroad
Biltmore
Voting by Soldiers in War Time Is Planned
Albany reports that U S forces will not pause to vote. military needs govern. A uniform national system will be used to obtain soldiers votes with secrecy and protective measures. plans include possible Paris supervisory commission and use of mail for ballot return.
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America
Union
Uncle Sam
War and Navy Department
Washington
Henry J. Adams
Secretary of State’s
Crosby L. Grant
Hugo
New York State
Navy Department
Paris
France
Wall Street Message Sparks College Gaffe
In a humorous exchange from the Boston Transcript a college boy jokes about tackling the stock market as soon as he earns his degree. An old man replies dryly that such ambition suits young men in Wall Street.
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Boston ‘Transcript
Wall Street
An Eye To the Future
Kansas City Star opinion piece arguing to curb profiteers and close hollow spots to deter abuse before soldiers return from France. It frames reform as preventing exploitation and closing loopholes as a wartime safeguard.
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Kansas City Star
France
Edward T French in Tank Corps amid family elopement ties
Edward Tuck French, nephew of Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt, enlisted as a private in the Tank Corps in Boston. He eloped from Newport last June with Tot Harrington, a telephone girl who deserted him twice during their honeymoon. His sister also eloped previously, marrying Handome Jack Geraghty, now reconciled with the family.
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Edward
T. French
Tank Corps
Edward Tuck French
Elsie French Vanderbilt
Boston
French
Newport
Shore Line Electric strike halts New London local lines
New London August 10 local lines of the Shore Line Electric Railway Co were tied up by a strike of 75 conductors and mortermen over the new fare registers known as the Rooke system. Motor men joined. East Lyme and Norwich cars ran, but service was badly crippled. Superintendent R H Perkins declined to negotiate.
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Shore Line Electric Railway Co
East Lyme
Norwich
R. H. Perkins
Stock Market gains lift steel and shipping shares in brisk session
New York trading opened with strong demand for steel and shipping issues. Steel common rose to 112 3-4, Crucible Steel hit 68 7-8, Baldwin 95 3-4, marine preferred 99 7-8, and Union Pacific advanced to 122. Total volume 231,100 shares, bonds $3,099,000. Grain mixed with corn easing and oats slipping in Chicago trade.
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Baldwin
Marine Preferred
Atlantic Gulf and West Indies
Union Pacific
United Cigar Stores
Liberty
Shorts
Steel Common
Republic Steel
Crucible
Mexican Petroleum
Marines
Burns Brothers
General Motors
American Force in France Approaching 1.5 Million
Washington reports that nearly one million to 1.5 million American troops are in France as of August. General March says the war department aims to average 250,000 arrivals monthly through winter. Pershing notes dock facilities improvements enable handling more troops and supplies, with no casualty figures yet released.
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France
Gene Peyton C. March
Senate Military Committee
Ft War Department
General March
War Department
Pershing
America
March
Greens the grocer and the pride of South 11th Street
The Philadelphia Bulletin recalls Barton Willing’s quip about society leaders who snub others and a boastful grocer named Greens who ran a small South 11th street shop. A hodcarrier’s casual weather banter prompts Greens to retort and reveal his inflated self view. The anecdote ends with a remark on conceit as self-esteem of others.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Barton Willing
Philadelphia
Greens
South 11Th Street
Pick Smith over There as War Aviator Hero
The village pest Pick Smith is featured in a World War I news reel at the Palace Theatre as an aviator abroad. Dressed in a French general’s uniform, he receives a war cross while winking at locals who knew him as a mischievous boy. Kansas City Star reports the proud sight from New York August 10.
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Huns
Palace Theatre
Peck
Pickering Smith
Kansas City Star
New York
Guido von Steer
Joseph
Bethlen
Full Steam Ahead Great News Says Lloyd George
Premier Lloyd George speaking at a Welsh celebration hailed the second Allied Offensive led by Marshal Haig in the Piardy sector. He pledged to fight it through to the end and expressed confidence that victory would bring real peace despite fears of renewed slaughter.
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England
Marshal Haig
Piardy
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