American Offensive Reported in Meuse Moselle Sector
Washington officials received word of a major American offensive between the Meuse and Moselle rivers with reports of daylight advances capturing villages and taking many prisoners. British forces moved toward St Quentin, Vermand, Vendelles, and Attilly as French and British announced gains, rail positions, and crossings along the Canal du Nord as the St Mihiel region and surrounding fronts saw intensified action.
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Fench RE
Washington
General Pershing
Meuse
Moselle
Department
General March
Foch
Pershing
Lorraine
St. Mihiel
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National Guard
United States
Metz
War Department
Noward
Baker
Woevre
Verdun
France
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Flanders
Cambrai
Canal du Nord
Cavrincourt
Moeuvres
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Vermand
Vendelles
Holnon Woods
Havrincourt
Railway Triangle
la Bassee
Paris
French War Office
Ailette
Rheims
Presnes
Champagne
Vosges
Vendeuil
Oise Canal
Travecy
LaFere-St. Quentin
Italians Dying in Austrian Prisons Report
Paris reports from Swiss arrivals that about thirty thousand Italian prisoners die weekly in Austrian detention camps from hunger and disease. Emaciated detainees are sent to Switzerland. several survivors obtained solid food from women and died. Red Cross efforts find widespread food scarcities and deteriorating conditions in Austria and Germany, with meat scarce since January and prices for eggs high. The officer notes impending collapse of Germany and Austria due to famine.
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Paris
Red Cross
Switzerland
Austria
Germany
No Beer No Harvest Says Hertfordshire Laborers
London Sept 12 harvest hands in Hertfordshire warn no beer means no harvest. The heated dispute raises temperatures as locals expect "Jarge" to get his beer. He tries cider for relief but finds it uninspiring and unhelpful.
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London
Hertfordshire Harvest
Purse Presented to East Hampton Pastor at Parsonage
Members of the Dorcas society of East Hampton visited Rev. and Mrs. Charles E. Anderson at the Liberty street parsonage Wednesday evening and presented a purse to Rev. Mr. Anderson. The presentation speech was made by Carl Peterson of East Hampton. Rev. Anderson responded feelingly. A social hour followed with refreshments.
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Dorcas Society
East Hampton
Charles E. Anderson
Liberty Street
Mr. Anderson
Carl Peterson
Anderson
German General Killed Near St Quentin in War Dispatch
London reports General Huhn of the German army was killed last week near St Quentin by British aviators. A number of other German generals narrowly escaped a similar fate, according to a Hamburger Fremdenblatt dispatch cited by the Express.
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London
Huhn
St. Quentin
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Geneva
Express
Bean Causes Baby's Death in Missouri
In Bismark Missouri on September 11 a case of accidental choking ends in tragedy. An eighteen month old child named AngKness swallowed a bean which lodged in the windpipe causing fatal asphyxia. Authorities note the incident as an unfortunate household accident.
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Bismark
Russian situation threatens world in postwar outlook
Washington reports the Russian crisis endangers the world as Teutonic schemes push to mobilize Bolshevik power. Fires, killings, and anti Jewish riots mar Petrograd and Moscow, while Allied troops aid Siberia and Archangel efforts. Main Russian chaos persists with unlikely stabilization for months.
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Washington
Russia
Petrograd
Moscow
Vladivostok
Siberian
Graves
Siberia
Far East
Murman
Archangel
North
White Sea
Bolsheviks
Youngest U S commissioned officer cited in Seattle
Aviation Lieutenant F C Gribble, age nineteen, is claimed as the youngest commissioned officer in the U S military. He earned his aviation commission in San Antonio after enlisting in the Coast Artillery Corps shortly after the U S entered the war.
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Seattle
Wash
United States
F. C. Gribble
San Antonio
Tex
Coast Artillery Corps
Resigned to Be Major in Army Judge Advocate General
Charles H. McDonald, longtime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission board of review, resigns to serve as a major in the judge advocate general's department of the army. McDonald hails from Oshkosh Wisconsin and steps down as the commission’s leader.
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Washington
Charles H. McDonald
Board of Review of
The
Federal Trade Commission
Judge Advocate-General’s Department
Army
McDonald
Oshkosh
Wis
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