War News in the South: US Efforts and Frontline Fixes
Reports detail Gaston Means trial testimony, strikes in Newark, deserter hunts in DeKalb Tennessee, and the death of Lieut. Roosevelt. US military moves include medical staffing, canalizing troops, and a San Diego cruiser sinking. Allied offensives yield prisoners and guns as Pershing and Bliss are knighted.
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Newark
N. J
C. P. Gibson
DeKalb County
Tennessee
Quuntin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Havre
General Pershing
United States
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Fickinger
Ark
Week in Review: War News and Allied Advances in Albania
Pan-German politics, Allied aid to Russia, and new Siberian plans dominate the week. Italian French British actions in Albania push toward Berat and the Via Egnatia while German policy faces internal criticism. Allied air power strengthens on the western front as American crews aid the assault and morale rises with news of Quentin Roosevelt's air victory.
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Edward W. Pickard
Russia
Germany
Near East
Reichstag
Murman Coast
Finland
Irkutsk
Siberia
Novoniolaevsk
Wilson
Europe
Liberia
America
von Kuehlmann
Admiral von Hintze
Teuton
von Hintze
Admiral von Tirpitz
China
Mexico
Huerta
Carranza
United States
Albania
Adriatic
Fieri
Berat
Austria-Hungary
Balkans
Saloniki
Macedonia
Shkumbi
Egnatia
Vardar
Monastir
von Below
Zita
Italy
Atlantic
War Department
Allied Pressure Pushes German Line Back in France
Allied forces led by American and French troops pushed along a 60 mile front from Soissons to Rheims, recapturing Cateau-Thierry and Brasses, breaking through German lines with gains of over three miles in places. Large numbers of prisoners were taken as aviators harassed retreating units and American Indians prominently supported Perishing's division.
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Aisne
Marne
Drouth
England
General Pershing
General Bliss
Order of Bath
Order of Sts. Michael and George
Soissons
Chateau Thierry
Siberia
Great Britain
France
Foch
Villers Bretonneux
Somme
Hebuterne
Rheims
Charons
Clemenceau
J. F. Brown
Champagne
Battle of the Marne
Red Cross
Jolly
Jane Jeffery
Kawachi
Tokoyama Bay
Nagasaki
Descrivec
Vaux
Hill 204
von Hindenburg
Supreme Command
America
Chateau-Thierry
Cateau-Thierry
Paris
Vilage of
Brasses
Ourey
Courtoi Wood
Ardre Valley
St. Euphraise
Submarine Attack Off Cape Cod Sinks Barges and Fires on Shore
An enemy submarine shelled a tow off Cape Cod near Orleans for about an hour. It sank three barges, set a fourth and the tug on fire, and dropped four shells on the mainland. Chatham aviation station hydroplanes forced a submerge briefly. Tow crew of 41 including three women and five children escaped by lifeboats. one seriously wounded.
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Orleans
Mass
Cape Cod
Chatham Aviation Station
Chatham
Highland Light
Cape
American Troop Strength Tops 1.2 Million
General March told the Senate military committee that American troop shipments have surpassed 1,200,000 men. The German offensive in France has reached its high water mark and the initiative now passes to Allied and American forces on the western front.
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Presicer Wilson
Representate Lever
South Carolina
House Committee On Agriculture
Aisne
Marne
United States
Italy
Belgium
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Washington
France
General March
Senate Military Committee
Wilson Sends Message to Colonel Roosevelt
President Wilson learns of Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt's death and sends a distressed note to Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. He honors the young aviator's gallantry and expresses deep grief that his service ended tragically.
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Wilson
Roosevelt
Washington
Quentin Roosevelt
Oys
F Bay
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the News OF the South
Southland
Victoriano Huerta
Chicago
Gaston B. Means
North Carolina
J. C. King
Means
Austria
Entente
Navy Department
San Diego
Long Island
Point-o’-Woods
N. Y
Fire Island
Department of Agriculture
Carpathia
Haitien Council of State
Semenoff-Orloff
Harbin
William R. Smith
Lenine
Hugo Haase
Sveaborg
Golgotha
Mannerheim
Mr. Morris
Sweden
Morris
Count von Mirbach
Moscow
Berlin
Vienna
Hungary
Thasday
Compiegne
Gans
Estrees-St. Denis
Petain
Retz
West Front
Lieut
Senate
Massachusetts
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