Big German bases fall one by one before Allies
Allied advances push through Flanders reaching Thourout Menin Bruges and Lille as British seize ground within three miles of Lille and Douai is bottled up. Americans widen efforts along the Meuse while Germans defend near Verdun and the Briey Longwy fields amid stalled operations east of Cambrai.
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Meuse
Lille
Douai
Cambrai
International
Thourout
Menin
Flanders
Thielt
Bruges
Ostend
Zeebrugge
Verdun
Briey- Longwy
France
Metz
Meuse Battle Updates Reach Paris and British Gains
German reinforcements rush to both sides of the Meuse as American lines push forward. Pershing reports Hill 299 captured after changing hands thrice and breaking the Kriemhilde Stellung. British and Allied reports note gains near Lille Douai, Menin, Wynendaele wood, and Lichtervelde with 1,200 prisoners taken.
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Washington
Meuse
General Pershing
War Department
The
London
Douai
Lille
War Office
Flanders
Ypres
British
Menin
Lichtervelde
Dixmude
Wynendaele Wood
Ostend
Thourout
Lite
Asane
American Troops Advance a Mile near Verdun
American forces northwest of Verdun, aided by tanks and air support, pushed a mile forward and crossed the Aire as the second day of a fresh battle unfolded. They widened the Kriemhilde breach and captured St Juvin with eighty prisoners, while fighting through wire defenses and repelling counterattacks. German commander Von Der Maritz warned that the fate of the nation may depend on defending this front.
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Aire
Argonne forest-Meuse
Kriemhilde
Grand Pre
St. Juvin
St. Georges-et-Landres
St. Georges
von der Maritz
Gemans
French Praise Reply to Wilson Peace Note
Paris reports the French press welcomes Wilsons peace reply with cordial tone. The Journal lauds rapid, united phrasing of ideas. Echo de Paris notes a separate Austria note targets a bloc’s destruction before Europe’s future peace. Homme Libre predicts Germany now must speak and anticipates rapid developments.
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Paris
Wilson
Germany
Echo de Paris
Austria
Europe
Homme Libre
Clemenceau
Connecticut firms ordered to desist by FTC
The Federal Trade Commission ordered American Agricultural Company of Connecticut with a New York branch and The Brown Company Inc. of Trenton New Jersey to stop buying or offering to buy raw materials at prices unwarranted by trade conditions. The commission found bids for animal fats in Philadelphia and Atlantic City were prohibitive to small competitors and aimed to destroy local rivals.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
American Agricultural Company
Connecticut
New York City
Brcown Company, Inc
Trenton
N. J
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Peace riots surge in Berlin amid antiwar clashes
Amsterdam reports peace riots in Berlin with a mob marching through streets shouting down with the war the Kaiser and Hindenburg. A pitched battle with police left statues of the Hohenzollerns smashed and the burgo-master's residence stoned. Mutinies claimed in the German army at Limburg.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Hindenburg
Limburg
Twelve Thousand Prisoners and Guns Captured
Paris reports the allies captured twelve thousand prisoners and 100 guns in two days on the Flanders front. Belgian advance was rapid, with a division taking six German batteries with horses. Journal notes maps of Courtrai and Ghent released to correspondents for the first time since 1914.
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Paris
Flanders
Echo de Paris
Courtrai
Ghent
New York District Reports Overnight Liberty Loan Gain
New York district officials announced a gain of 103 million eight hundred one thousand fifty overnight, a figure declared by the Liberty Loan Committee. The update reflects substantial progress in New York’s drive for the war loan and highlights ongoing public support and fundraising momentum in the district.
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New York
Liberty Loan Committee
The
Liberty Loan Committee of
Middletown
Nourse-Sherman Co
Fighting Fourth Liberty Loan
Army bill to fund American war effort tops Washington plan
Washington outlines a sweeping $9,000,000,000 deficiency appropriation to expand the American army to 4,850,000, creating 3,000,000 fighters in the field by mid 1919. Senate and House committee leaders push rapid passage to sustain artillery, chemical warfare, ships, and logistics for victory.
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House of Representatives
United States
America
Berlin
House Appropriations Committee
House
Congress
Swager Sherley
Kentucky
Hous Appropriations Committee
Navy
Shipping Board
Sherley
War Department
Peyton C. March
March
Germany
New Haven
Connecticut
Rocky Mountains
Michigan
North Carolina
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