Marines Awarded Croix de Guerre in French Ceremony
The Marine Corps explains the French Croix de Guerre award to thirty Marines and five officers for gallant action near Verdun to Marne battles. The ceremony united Marines and poilus in a symbolic display of Allied bond amid heavy rain and shellfire.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
Marine Corps Headquarters
Verdun
Marne
Aisne
Somme
America
Marine Brigade
France
Yankees Win New Laurels In Desperate War Drive
News from the Western Front reports American troops in France gaining ground after hard fighting along the Vesle and Soissons fronts. German defenses collapsed in places, while Prussian guards fought fiercely to halt the advance. Allied forces pushed toward Chamery and Seringes, with air combat intensifying as German and American pilots vied for control.
Allied advance bogged by stiff German resistance near Noyon
In the Picardy offensive the enemy holds firm around Noyon as reserves pour in to halt the Allied push toward Roye and the Somme crossings near Peronne and Ham. Prisoners, including generals and colonels, total about six thousand with over five hundred guns captured. eleven German divisions identified among captives.
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Montdidier
Soisons
Ham Road
Roye-Noyon
Nesle
Ham
Chaféty
Rawlinson
Lihons
Somme
Peronne
von Huties
von Marwitz
Germans Dig In Along Vesle River In WWI Reporting
Allied observers report German forces dug in opposite the Franco American line along the Vesle. They string barbed wire on hills northwest of Fismes while trenches extend west and east of Longr val and in the Perles valley. American prisoners say the enemy hid in a rock quarry cave near Longuval used to shelter troops. Franco American artillery shelled the cave all day until it was rendered untenable.
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Vesle
Aisne
Ville-en- Tardenois
Ardre
Fismes
Longuval
Longrval
Perles
Coal Shortage Urges Full Work By Miners In Proclamation
President Wilson calls coal miners and operators to maximum effort to avert a threatened winter shortage. He urges full-time work and asks essential industry workers to accept deferred draft classification.
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Washington
Wilson
French Troops Advance Near Royer and Oise Rivers
Paris reports French forces pressed German defenses along the Oise and adjacent areas. They captured several villages west and south of Royer and pushed south of the river to the wooded zone between the Mate and Oise. Nearby towns La Berliere and Gury were reached, and Moreu La Motte is said to be captured.
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Vre
Oise
Severa Lins
Royer
Vne
Mate
LaBerliere
Gury
Moreu LaMotte
Air Raids Reported on Karlsruhe in War Update
London reports air raids have been made on Karlsruhe with casualty figures not yet confirmed. A Stockholm dispatch notes Swedish representatives in Moscow aided by British and French consuls who were recently arrested by the Bolshevik council were released.
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