French Reach Frontline Deep in Somme Region
French and British forces push along a 40 mile front from Havrincourt to the Aisne river capturing Tergnier Ham and Chauny. French advances total two to seven miles in 30 hours with La Fere and St Quentin now nearer, while pillage and destruction accompany the German retreat.
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Ham
Tergnier
Chauny
Flanders
Picardy
Aisne
Foch
Laon
ST Quentin
Lafere
London
Havrincourt
St. Quentin
Coucy Forest
Hindenburg
Vesle
Rheims
Soissons
Marne
Chemin Des Dames
Ailette
Paris
War Office
Somme
Oise
Cenlis Wood
Pithou
Sommette
Eaucourt
Dury
Olivey
French War Office
Bas~ Oles
Manteuil la Fosse
Conde
Conde-sur-Aisne
Vesse
la Fere
Anizy
Fresnes
Hindenburg Line
St. Gebin Forest
Germany
Forest of
St. Gobain
Aisne River
Vauxaillon
Laffaux
Hancourt
Sarrel-le Grand
Metz-en- Loutre
Havrincourt Wood
Bapaume-Cambrai
Cambrai
Artois Batles
Peronne
Sorrel-le-Grand
Mers-en-Coutre
LaBassee Canal
Canteleux
Vielaines
Wulverghem
Messines
Lebanon Pilgrimage Sets Gov Trumbull Birthplaces Visit
Lebanon September 7 leverages the Governor Jonathan Trumbull birthplaces and the War Office as focus points for a Connecticut pilgrimage. Governor Marcus H. Holcomb and numerous city mayors will attend at Leon War Bureau invitation. Activities start 11 a.m. with band music and songs. A quip closes with a dictionary joke about flirting.
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Lebanon
Jonathan Trumbull
Willi A. Buckingham
Old War Office
Connecticut
Marcus H. Holcomb
Leon War Bureau
Slacker Automobiles to Be Reported in Connecticut
Hartford authorities urge state defense council and local agencies to compile lists of motorists believed to violate Sunday gasoline conservation. War bureaus, police, and town committees should act promptly to create authentic lists and publicize names. Exemptions include freight tractors, professional vehicles, ambulances, fire, police, funeral wagons, railway equipment, repair outfits, and rural essential errands. On Sept 8, cars en route to Lebanon on a patriotic pilgrimage may be exempt if owners vow not to use them for pleasure that Sunday. pilgrimage vehicles should display Enroute to Lebanon markers, not used to mask joy rides.
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Hartford
Connecticut State Council of Defense
Connecticut
Lebanon
Prediction Russia Reborn Says Former British Ambassador
Sir George Buchanan, ex British ambassador to Russia, told the Russo British club in London he expects Russia to rise reborn and join the free nations. He argued Russians supported the czar in 1914 and remained determined to fight the war to a finish with the allies.
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London
Russia
George Buchanan
Sir George
Germany
Federal Express Crashes Into Dead Engine Near New York
Two workers were injured in a wreck when a Federal Express train on the New York New Haven & Hartford line from Boston to Washington struck the rear of a dead electric engine in Woodside yards near Woodside and Polk avenues in Long Island City. Injured include Abraham Greenbang, 23, Hartford, Conn., with leg cuts, and Pansy Hebberd, 38, Liberty, Mass., with facial lacerations.
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Federal Express
New York
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Boston
Washington
Woodside
Polk Avenues
Long Island City
Abraham Greenbang
Clark Street
Hartford
Conn
Pansy Hebberd
Liberty
Mass
Weather Forecast For New Haven And Connecticut
Forecast for New Haven and vicinity calls for fair weather tonight and Sunday with a slight warming trend. Connecticut expected to be fair and slightly warmer with light northwest to west winds. Observations show varied readings from Atlantic City to Washington with scattered showers along the coast and a high pressure ridge from Texas to New York keeping most regions mild.
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New Haven
Connecticut
Rocky Mountains
Lake Region
Atlantic
Florida
Maine
Texas
New York
Mississippi River
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Block Island
Boston
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Chicago
Denver
Detroit
Hartford
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Nantucket
New Orleans
Norfolk
Northfield
Pittsburg
Portland
St. Louis
Washington
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F. O’connell
Old Hindenburg
France
State Council OF Defense
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