German Attacks Meet No Success In 1918 Campaign
Allied forces slow offensive pace on the Western Front with local fighting around Roye Nesle Lassigny and Noyon. British and French improvements north of the Roye road and along the Somme. Americans fight near Somme sector. Reports say Bray potentially captured by British. German attacks repulsed in Flanders Vosges and Alsace. 1918 campaign deemed a disaster.
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International News Service
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Food riots flare in Germany Russia and Spain
Riots over food shortages are reported in Germany, Russia and Spain. In Russia the unrest followed harvest seizures by German troops. Munich sees mobs of women demanding food while in several Spanish towns famine riots erupt and police clash with crowds injuring several.
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Daring exploits of British cavalry on the Picardy front
Bert Ford reports a British horse brigade capturing a German hospital and a train with 400 soldiers, boosting prisoner totals to 1,100. Cavalry divisions advanced with Australian corps, took villages and farms, held positions ahead of infantry, and captured a German train with 100 soldiers. Casualties were about 100, horses losses similar. praise to the brigadier general for timely initiative.
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Amiens
Harbonnieres
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Vauvillers
Ranecourt
Suffrage Meeting Plans Fall Campaign Formulation
Hartford August 5 Mrs Henry Lee ofington will host Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association political workers August 19 for a 3 p m business conference and social gardens. Annie Eliot Trumbull Hartford Equal Suffrage chief with Julia Hinaman county chair plan deputations to press nominees on suffrage views.
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Henry Lee
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Hartford Equal Suffrage Association
Julia Hinaman
Navy Casualties Report Four Deaths in Navy
The Navy Department announced four fatalities today. John J. Holland a Princeton New Jersey cook died from injuries in an automobile accident August 10 in the Philadelphia yard. John A Seigel of Newark attached to the receiving ship here died August 10. Robert L. Johnston of Gillespie Illinois died at Ocean View Virginia on August 6.
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Gilsepie
Ocean View Va
Americans Fight Beside British On French Front
American infantry joined British units on the Amiens front in a modest yet praised offensive. The left and right flanks advanced through Morlancourt and Chapilly, securing first and second objectives by 8:30 pm. American troops captured ten machine guns, three six inch howitzers, and a seventy seven gun, while suffering light wounds among officers and men.
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Amiens
Morlancourt
Somme
Chapilly
Gressaire Wood
W. Kutenberger
Wisconsin Street
Chicago
Albert H. Teich
Teich
Austrian Frontier Closed Signals New Italian Offensive
Berne August 13 The Austrian frontier has been closed since Saturday and may foretell another offensive against Italy. Austria has a pattern of sealing borders before major campaigns to keep troop movements secret. Activity on the Italian battle front has increased, suggesting larger movements to come.
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Weather report for New Haven August forecast
Government weather bulletin for New Haven area notes a slight warm spell tonight and Wednesday with fair conditions and gentle south winds. Observations show New Haven at 84 degrees and clear with surrounding cities recording mixed cloudy and clear conditions, a low disturbance over upper Michigan contributing to showers across the central U S.
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