Empey’s Frontline Trials on Listening Posts in France
Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, enlists with the British Army and endures trench life in France. The chapter recounts dangerous digs for a machine gun emplacement, gas exposure, and the gruesome discovery of a German corpse. Empey details the toll of wounds, medical trains, and the sobering contrast between military need and war’s grim reality.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Chaplain
No Man's Land
Listening Post Duty in the Trenches Amid Frontline Fatigue
The narrator recounts sixteen days in rest billets then back to the front. A bomber is named the general utility man, and Empey and Wheeler are chosen to volunteer for listening post duty. Fritz unleashes machine gun fire as duties are assigned, marking a tense prelude to a night of rain and hardship.
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Empey
Wheeler
Fritz
Night Raids and Mud as Two Soldiers Watch No Man's Land
In a wet, cold night on the Western Front two soldiers crawl between the trenches listening for German mines and patrols. They hear distant gunfire, a muffled march, and a near miss as they hide in the mud until relief comes and they return to their trench exhausted but alive.
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Jupiter Pluvius
No Man's Land
Geman
No Man’s Land
Slit
Wheeler
Fritz
Bowies
Woolworth
Niagara Falls
Donner
Blitzen
Dugout First Come First Served Near Advanced Observation Post
I am assigned the machine gunners dugout by the artillery observation post, a dry roomy space with cots built by prior occupants. I name it with a signboard, and two Royal Field Artillery men may rest there off duty. Bombardier Wilson of Battery D 238 befriends me and shares a tale of a bold stunt their unit pulled early in the war.
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Royal Field Artillery
Bombardier Wilson
Pepper
Germans Take Kemmel Hill in Bitter Ypres Clash
German forces captured Kemmel Hill after a fierce defense by French troops. The loss widens the Ypres salient and outflanks British positions on the Messines ridge, with Dranoutre also reported fallen as German gains extend along the Wytschaete Bailleul Meteren line.
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Kemmell
Ypres
France
Delma Radcliffe
British War Office
Armentieres
Teutons
Wytschaete- Bailleul-Meteren
Kemmel Hill
Wytschaete
Germany's War Losses Reach Two Million Men
Amsterdam reports Germany lists 2,000,000 war dead and wounded through Schulze before the Reichstag committee. Some 750,000 sick or wounded have returned to the front, 629,000 discharged as unfit, including 70,000 cripples, totaling about 98,000 cripples to date.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Frankfurter Zeitung
Schulze
Reichstag
Appointment declined by Speaker Clark
Jefferson City Judge Walter Graves of the Missouri Supreme Court was offered appointment to the United States Senate to succeed the late Senator Stone after Governor Gardiner announced the proffer following Senator Clark’s declination to accept the post.
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Jefferson City
Walter Graves
Missouri Supreme Court
United States
Senator Stone
Gardiner
Clark
French Retake Ground In Counter Attacks
Paris reports counter-attacks along the line from Villers Bretonneux to south of the Luce. Our troops regained a large portion of ground lost earlier in the region despite strong enemy resistance and the arrival of reinforcements, according to the official war office statement.
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Paris
Villers-Bretonneux
Luce
War Office
Newspaper Publishers Appeal to Shipping Board
A delegation of newspaper publishers appealed to the Shipping Board for aid to bring 63 000 cards of wood pulp from Canada to relieve rapid depletion of print paper stocks. They were told that 130 ships moving from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic this summer may carry wood pulp if it does not interfere with coal movement.
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Washington
The
Shipping Board
Canada
Great Lakes
Atlantic Ocean
Germans in possession of Dranoutre says Haig
London reports Field Marshal Haig's official communique stating Germans hold Dranoutre with Kemmel mountain and village, and that north of the Lys the battle rages along the entire front from Dranoutre to the Pre Comines canal.
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Dranoutre
Haig
London
Kemmel
Field Marshal
France
Lys
Fercely
Pushes potato campaign to NC cities to move surplus
Raleigh State Food Administrator Henry A Page urges the ten largest NC cities to organize immediately a vigorous Irish potato campaign. The crop last year was large and a severe winter slowed movement causing millions of bushels to exceed normal demand and over 25 000 bushels to remain with North Carolina producers. Reports from Winston Salem Durham and Raleigh show campaign plans well under way.
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Raleigh
Henry A. Page
North Carolina
Graham Urges One-Tenth Salary Loan From State Employees
North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture W A Graham urges state and national government salary earners in the department to lend the government at least one tenth of a year’s pay for Liberty Bonds and War Savings Certificates. He notes his own loans will total 1525 dollars after settlements and says farmers, who are four fifths of the state’s citizens, should help by public subscriptions.
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Raleigh
E. Schilling
A. W. Graham
North Carolina
Department
Ww. A. Graham
North Carolina brief notes on war effort and local honors
The piece highlights minority participation in the draft, Heath issues delaying Congressman Hood’s primary, and 1918 state wheat estimates rising from 204000 to 208000. It also notes a Durham revival adding 305 Baptist church members, Julia Alexander as Charlotte’s first woman lawyer before the Supreme Court, $17009 in Thrift Stamps sold in Vance County, and professor R J Thornton from the University enlisting in the Navy.
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North Carolina
George E. Hood
South Carolina
Baptist Church
Durham
Julia Alexander
Charlotte
Supreme Court
Vance County
R. J. Thornton
Journalsm
The
University
Navy
Gardners Address Urges Full Education For All In War Time
Lieutenant Governor O Max Gardner told Cary High School graduates that ignorance is a greater menace than the German threat and every child should receive the fullest educational opportunities. He praised Cary High School, urged teamwork in the war effort, and said teachers and schools shape men and women who will sustain liberty.
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Cary
O. Max Gardner
Cary High School
North Carolina
Gardner
Charles Brantley Aycock
States
A. and M. College
America
Splendid Shape Raleigh Credit Unions Record March Growth
Mr W R Camp reports NC Raleigh credit unions in March topped prior records. Deposits rose from about 4000 in March 1917 to about 12000 in March 1918. Total resources climbed from 11000 to 21000 during the year.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
W. R. Camp
Peculiar Shooting Affair in Ashe County
In North Wilkesboro Ashe county a grim case emerged as Flem Osborn shot Wilson Osborn through the heart. Wilson Osborn then killed Flem Osborn with a back shot as he rose, dying instantly. The incident, rooted in an old family grudge, left Flem Osborn unmarried and with a large family.
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North Wilkesboro
Ashe County
Flem Osborn
Little Horse Creek
Wilson Osborn
Wilson Osborne
Sngle
Supreme Court rules on status of enemy alien son case
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled no error in the trial of Xrachanake vs Acme Manufacturing Co of New Hanover. The case questioned the standing of a minor son of an enemy alien, an Austrian native, declared enemy by wartime proclamation. The court affirmed the plaintiff’s position and upheld the judgment.
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Raleigh
Supreme ‘Court
Xrachanake
Acme Manufacturing Company
New Hanover
Austria-Hungary
Austria
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Sas
Tommy
Kemmee Hill
State Food Administration
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