Food Control and Army Moves Dominant World News
Washington reports progressive food control measures and a large U S base hospital planned at Fort McPherson near Atlanta Ga The Olympia flagship ran aground near Block Island while a sailor died In Washington officials push coal price regulation and army mobilization as Pershing gains more troops and a Russian mission pledges continued war effort amid anxieties over Brazil and food policy in Wilsons administration
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General Trade Commission
Greece breaks with Germany and allies threaten new war
Greece has severed diplomatic relations with Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey and is expected to declare war on the central powers as a result of the ongoing conflict on Greek soil. Premier Lloyd George in Glasgow pledges continued Allied aims and urges frugal food use while submarine warfare remains limited.
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Wilson
United States Troops Land in France and Food War Moves
Two contingents of Major General Pershing's expeditionary force arrived safely in France, under Brig. Gen. Sibert, bringing supplies and preparing for active combat. President Wilson forms an export control board to curb wheat and bunker coal shipments and to pressure coal barons toward lower prices, while in Russia Root and Kerensky push to stabilize Petrograd with U.S. aid, and Greece's Venizelos forms a new cabinet as Allied pressure grows.
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W.S. Thayer
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Yale
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Athens
Constantine
Switzerland
Macedonia
Dobrudja
Data
Aecord
London
Russian Front Advances and British Gains Near Lens
Russians renew large scale attacks along an eighteen mile front from Brzezany to Lemberg, with heavy losses on both sides. Berlin claims Russian assaults pressed by Entente pressure while Haig tightens Lens, and British forces take positions west of Lens with hundreds of German prisoners and war materiel captured in June.
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Volhynia
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Lemburg
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Food Neutrals Supplying Germany Food Imports From America
Washington reports Britain provided evidence that Germany draws large food supplies from neutral European countries and that much of this is replaced by imports from the United States. Scandinavia and Holland shipments could feed about 7.1 million soldiers, with calories covering 2.5 million troops. The German interior department runs a special division to buy neutrals’ foodstuffs, and price-law exclusions early in the war spurred protests from German producers.
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Europe
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Sinn Fein
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Washington
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Holland
American aid seen as gradual but significant in Europe
Zurich report cites T Frankfurter Zeitung critic noting American help, though arriving in stages, will affect Franco's military actions. The critic warns Germany should not overestimate current gains, as even with African support the German position would not strengthen quickly.
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Germany
Car Plunges Into River Near Niagara Falls
Nine people are known dead after a belt line car plunged from a Gorge route embankment into Whirlpool rapids. Two occupants were seen after the crash but are now believed dead, with an additional several missing.
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