Allied Push Up St Quentin Cambrai Front and Balkan Advance
British and French gains in the St Quentin Cambrai area widen the flanking drive with Moeuvres captured and forces returning to pre drive lines. French and Serbian troops push toward Prilep as Bulgarian resistance collapses on the Balkan front, while American artillery keeps Metz under fire. In northern Russia German-led Bolshevik forces suffer a sharp defeat at Ukhtinskaya as Allied landings occur on the Murman coast.
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Balkan Front Shifts as Allied Drive Advances
Paris dispatch reports Bulgarian defeat in the Balkans widening into a rout. Allied forces push from Saloniki toward Pripey with southern Serbia line now approximately nine miles from the city, while penetration continues.
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Influenza Hits Army Camps Across Nation
The weekly Surgeon General report shows extensive influenza outbreaks at Camp Devens Camp Upton Camp Dix Camp Lee and warns similar spread to other camps. Death rate remains low with 2.37 while new cases rise in several diseases and regions. Great Lakes naval station enforces a strict quarantine as 50 000 sailors are affected and Chicago area health authorities collaborate to curb the spread.
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German Reserves Short Hindenburg Has 13 Divisions Fit
German reserves show only 13 divisions fit for immediate offensive actions out of 18 in Hindenburg’s control. An Austrian division may be among those counted. Air observers report a direct hit on a railway bridge at Confins near Metz, a vital link for German front communications. A wind sent an American balloon drifting across the front. occupants parachuted to safety behind German lines. A Mineola plane from Lewisboro, NY, landed after a collision with a camouflaged stone wall. pilot Lieut. W. L. Purcell and the Morand crew sustained wing damage but returned to an army truck.
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All Branches of U S Army Doing Well on Lorraine Front
Report by N C Parke notes diverse American troops excelling on the Lorraine front. An all Indian patrol locates machine gun nests and captures crews west of Moselle. Lieutenant Clayborn Arthur captures a German saloon and its bartenders at Norroy after foraging rabbits. Six Black laborers confront twenty Germans with picks and shovels, taking prisoners. Tank officers praise engineers clearing pit-traps to aid rapid armored advances.
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Doctor S. K. C. Secretary Rejected Goes Over The Top
Paris reports Private John Salmon of Lowell Massachusetts discharged for weak heart by Camp Devens surgeons last winter. He secretly joined the front with Knights of Columbus as secretary to the unit and went over the top unarmed, aiding a wounded comrade while carrying him to safety, prompting a confident joke at the surgeons.
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Grant III leads American relief mission to Switzerland
Col. U. S. Grant III and a commission of American officers left for Switzerland to conduct prisoner relief work. They will travel in mufti to avoid uniforms and will lodge in Berne under guard by American soldiers. German espionage in Berne is reported amid tense Swiss capital conditions. Belgium rejects Germany’s separate peace offer with scorn, saying it cannot serve as a basis for discussion.
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Weather report for New Haven and Connecticut forecasting cooler, partly cloudy conditions
Government Weather Report details a trough along the north Atlantic coast bringing cloudy showers eastern districts and cooler, with high pressure over South Dakota yielding pleasant weather between the Rockies and Mississippi. Temperatures lower, frost reported in Indiana, Nebraska. New Haven area expects showers then clearing and cooler. observed readings include Hartford 60, New York 70, Nantucket 68, others cloudy or clear across several cities.
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