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Newspaper
Warren Evening Times
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1918
Page
3
On the Aisne Marne front resistance stiffens and a heavy battle is anticipated along positions held. Reports describe intense hand to hand combat between American forces and German troops as the enemy concentrates at the Vesle River line.
Allied forces press a northward push on the Aisne Marne line amid German resistance. In the Ourcq area American troops clear Seringes et Varllot and Hill 184 while advancing near Fere en Tardennois. London and Rome dispatches report raids and counterattacks with Allied gains and German losses.
Washington reports rising friction between Turkey and Germany with no break yet. Turkey warned against ceding control of the Baku region on the Caspian Sea while talks stalled after Hakki Pasha’s death as officials note potential Allied advantages but foresee no immediate developments.
Austrian war office reports Allied forces in Southern Albania advanced their front at many points during Tuesday morning. The advance comes as Albania sits at the western end of the Balkan front amid ongoing operations in the region.
Allied forces push toward Soissons as French positions tighten. Reports indicate advancing units probing enemy lines and preparing for possible breakout operations around the northern French front.
Allied forces led by French and American troops extended the wedge north of the Ourcq river as German countermeasures failed to budge entrenched lines east of Oulcy La Chateau. Fighting rages along Ville en Tardennois and Seringes et Vieil as Aisne Marne operations continue.
General March says the fight on the western front has become a battle to destroy each other as German reserves and Allied forces clash. The Rainbow Division joins the eastward drive toward Fere-en-Tardonnais while the Soissons Rhineland region tightens, and six new divisions are planned for U S mobilization.
Washington July 31 The final plans for taking over the nation’s wire communications have been made by Postmaster General Burleson acting under a presidential proclamation to assume control of telegraph and telephone systems at midnight. A formal statement was expected this afternoon.
Taunton reports that since March before the latest period the British have taken 14 500 German prisoners on the western front. The figures were officially announced in the House of Commons this afternoon. The first of Germanys offensives began on March 21.
The railway administration in a supplement to the general order grants wage increases for shop workers and carmen and second class electrical workers. Shop workers with four or more years experience on January 1 1915 earning under 65 cents per hour will gain 8 cents, with structured raises by experience. Carmen and second class electrical workers under 45 cents will gain 13 cents, subject to high skill adjustments. Apprentices start at 24 cents with staged increases through three years. All railway workers must justify wage increases per Director General McAdoo. Streetcar workers in about nineteen cities will receive 30 to 40 percent increases with a city-specific minimum wage set by the National War Labor Board.
Berlin reports that Ukrainia has agreed to cede the Russian province of Bessarabia to Roumania in exchange for commercial concessions. The July 31 dispatch notes the agreement reached and the terms under discussion.
Rome reports that military works in the harbor of Pola the Austro Hungarian naval base were bombed today fires were seen near submarine and aviation stations official announcement states military targets in Pola suffered fire and damage.
Field Marshal Hermann Von Eichern dies in Kiev amid reports of a revolutionary plot. Berlin advices say the killing stems from anti German sentiment in Moscow. The adjutant to the military leader was also slain in the incident.
Reports from Amsterdam Copenhagen and London describe the killing of Field Marshal von Eichorn and his adjutant in Kiev amid rising anti German feeling. Berlin links the plot to Moscow and a communist committee. street fighting continues in Moscow as Bolsheviks tighten control and Czecho Slovak forces push toward the capital.
Washington July 3 reports say a rupture between the Bolshevik government in Russia and the Allied powers could be forced by the former's attitude. The State Department seeks full details on Ambassador Francis and other diplomats who left Vologda for Kakandaska and Lapland. The Bolsheviks supposedly urged them not to Moscow.
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