Entente Gains and War News Across Flanders Front
Regular United States Army reports full war strength at 300000. British and French forces gain ground on a seven mile front near Westock and Bixschoote in Belgium as Canadians and French advance. German bombardment continues with heavy losses. French and British claim successful raids east of Monchy and near the coal city of Jens with significant prisoner captures.
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American Seamen Reach Wage Peace During War
Washington Aug 10 American seamen and their employers have reached a full agreement on wages and working conditions during the war. The settlement, announced by Melata, addresses the manpower shortage for operating merchant ships vital to the national war build up and merchant fleet needs.
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Postoffice Clerk Arrested in $10,000 Theft Case
Tucson Aug. 10 Walter D. Coakley a postoffice clerk was arrested at Lebanon Ind charged with theft after a missing A FIDO package from the Toral pontonce on July 30. Telegram to police authorities confirmed the arrest and theft charge.
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Germans press fierce attacks on Aisne front
Paris reports furious fighting on the Aisne front with hand to hand trench combats. French forces claim progress east of Tixe schoote and west of Langwarck, seizing several farms and machine guns. German assaults north of St Quentin near Fayet were repulsed except at the center. More German attacks along Pantheon form to Epine Des Chestegny were checked.
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French War Department
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Verdun
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British Masses Storm Germans on Arras Front
British forces launched broad infantry assaults along the Arras front from the Manchy-Pelves to the Arran Cambral road. The attacks caused heavy losses to German lines and resulted in prisoners taken, with continued shelling and fighting reported north of St. Quentin and near Ypres.
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Armed Forces Insurance Bills Move Through Congress
Army and Navy personnel would gain government backed life disability and rehabilitation support. Bills by Senator Simmons and Representative Alexander outline premiums, family allowances, and dependents' benefits, with costs estimated near 9.58 billion over ten years.
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Aux
Senator Simmons
Representative Alexander
Railore
Neers
Eaen
Whee
Special board given power in wartime contract plan
Washington reports on a new nine member special commission with broad authority to settle industrial labor disputes and ensure contractors comply with decisions. The National Defense Council recommends awarding contracts only to compliant firms and binding employers and their workers to abide by the board's rulings. Nine members will be appointed: three representing the government, three employers, and three labor.
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Council of National Defenae
Roverment
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Union standards set for U S government projects
New York Aug 10 the threatened strike by carpenters on cantonments navy yard and aviation fields ended after a long conference between federal officials and union leaders. An agreement sets union wages and union labor as the rule on all work contracted by the government, contractors had opposed the union demand for nonunion labor. The settlement announces that only union labor will be employed on the projects.
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Entente ships bombard Turkish coast battery silence
Fatente wit ships since yeate miay have been bombard ing the Turkish batteries along the coast of Asia Minor. Athens dispatches state Erith monitors have silenced one Turkish battery and destroyed an airdome near another.
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Fatente Wit
Yeate Miay
Asia Minor
Athens
Erith
Simmons Urges Just War Tax
Senator Simmons opens debate on the 2 006 870 000 war tax bill urging a revenue mix from incomes and war profits, with bonds, to fund extra expenses without overburdening any group. He argues the ten billion dollar war effort requires fair distribution and cites proposed corporate and tobacco taxes, and publisher tax changes.
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Two Red Cross Men Die Wounded On Battlefront
Paris reports Price McQuillan of Overbrook Pennsylvania and Wayne Veltelloin of Philadelphia were severely wounded by a shell while loading wounded at the advancing post on the front. Their unit, Section 22 ambulance service, serves the American Red Cross in the war zone.
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French forces push east and north near Ypres
A London war office report says French forces on the left flank of the Driel Hanes in Belgium advanced toward the east and north of Dixmood and Monchy La Preux. Raiders blew up German dugouts, inflicting damage as British units continued progress. The British captured the Belgian town of Weathoek near Ypres.
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Commanders Added New Duty Under War Orders
Washington August 1 Army department commanders by war department orders are relieved of cantonments and guard camps within their departments. They will devote eleven entirely to the regular army in their jurisdictions. The move keeps some prominent American commanders in department commands at home rather than sending them to Europe.
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Santa Fe Raises Shopmen's Wages
Chicago August 10. An 11 to 15 percent wage increase for 14 003 Alchitan employer at Santa Fe railroad shops was announced today. The raise takes effect September 1.
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Explosion at London chemical works leaves many dead and injured
London reports a large blast at a major chemical plant last night. Thirteen women’s bodies have been recovered and many workers are injured or missing as rescue teams comb the ruins. Police stations and other venues are treating the wounded while searchers continue.
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New York Slackers Face Punishment
New York City August 10 reports that thousands of men who failed to appear before local exemption boards after being drafted could be arrested and prosecuted in federal court for evasion of the selective draft act.
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Women Insult 1 as They Picket White House Base
An angry crowd at a White House area base watched a women’s party picket denounce Kaiser Wilson. Van Corn noted the protest followed jeers and hissed chants directed at officials amid tense relations and sharp rhetoric.
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Aus
White House
Kaiser Wilson
van Corn
Jews Invited to Join Alliance Meeting to Counter Conscription
New York Aug 1 The American alliance for labor and democracy has sent invitations to more than 400 prominent Jews in Pennsylvania New Jersey Rhode Island and New York to attend a meeting here Monday. Plans will be discussed to counteract the influence of anti conscription groups nationwide. The alliance secretary Robert Maliel says the group works with the American Federation of Labor.
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American Alliance For Labor and Democracy
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Rhode Island
United States
Robert Malael
American Federation of Labor
Freight rates to be reduced from Iowa points
Washington, Ace. 10 reductions in freight rates from Iowa points to destinations in Kansas and Colorado were ordered today, effective within sixty days. The Interstate Commerce Commission found railway increases to parity with Omaha and Kansas City unjustified after Iowa state railroad commissioners applied for action.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Spanish Railroad Men Strike Looms at Madrid
Spanish railroad workers announce a strike after long negotiations with employers. Relations were broken last night and a walkout is expected to start at 8 pm. The government pledges to maintain order as dispatches from Washington report a nomination by President Wilson for a key post in the coming administration.
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