Enveloping Western Front Push Advances Toward Bruges
German bases crumble under Allied pressure as British forces reach artillery range of Thielt and close on Bruges. American advances along the Meuse face renewed German resistance, with Verdun and Metz corridors at stake and potential for a wider retreat into German territory. Weather outlook notes partly cloudy, cooler conditions near Lake Erie.
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Thourout
Menin
Flanders
Thielt
Bruges
Ostend
Zeebrugge
Meuse
Kriembhilde
Argonne Forest
Woevre
von der Maritz
Germany
Verdun
Metz
Laon
Hrnise
Maria
Durazzo
Port Philip Sunk in Atlantic Collision Off Coast
An outward bound British freighter the Port Philip was sunk in a collision with a U S collier near an Atlantic port. Twenty crewmen who leaped into the sea were rescued by a harbor boat. the rest were saved. The Port Philip, 4500 tons, formerly with Commonwealth and Dominion Line of London, was being used as a transport.
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Atlantic
United States
Port Phillip
Commonwealth and Dominion Line
London
Pershing thanks Edystone Rifle plant workers for pledge
Gen Pershing acknowledged the Ed dystone Rifle plant of the Midvale steel and ordnance company at Ed dystone Pennsylvania for their pledge of earnest regular and steadfast work. He sent a cable via Brig Gen J T Thompson director of Arsenals expressing the AEF’s gratitude and encouragement for the coming months.
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Washington
Gen -Pershing
Eddystone
Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company
Eddystone Pa
J. T. Thompson
Persting
French Press Hails Wilson Peace Reply to Germany
Paris reports the entire French press welcomes President Wilson's reply to Germany. Journals praise the speed and clarity of his note and note Austria received a separate message. Clemenceau papers urge Germany to speak next as the future peace of Europe looms with expected rapid developments.
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Wilson
Germany
Paris
Journal
Echo de Paris
Austria
Europe
Home Libre
Clemenceau
Theing
Major General McRoberts Relieved From Army Ordnance Post
Washington reports Maj. Gen OC Williams announced Brig. Gen Sam McRoberts is relieved from duty as chief of the procurement division of the army ordnance department. Lieut Col Robert P Lamont succeeds him and McRoberts will join the American Expeditionary Forces staff in France. Lamont was president of the American Steel Foundries company of Chicago and was commissioned February 4, 1913.
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Washington
OC. Willims
Ordnance
Sam McRoberts
Army Ordnance Department
Robert P. Lamont
McRoberts
France
Col. Lamont
American Steel Feaundries Company
Chicago
Uberty Bows
Meeker Dies of Pneumonia in Capital Hospital
Congressman Jacob E H Meeker of St Louis died at 7 05 today at the Jewish Hospital after a few days illness. He married on his death bed last night to Mrs Alice V Redman widow and his secretary.
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St. Louis
Jacob E H. Meeker
Jewish Hospital
Treasury Says Fourth Liberty Loan Subscriptions Reach Over 3.6 Billion
The Treasury Department reports that with four days remaining in the campaign only a little more than 3.6 billion dollars has been subscribed to the Fourth Liberty Loan. The fund drive continues to seek broader public participation and support.
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Fourth Liberty Loan
Treasury Department
Officials optimistic as Fourth Liberty Loan progress lagging
Washington reports only about 3 billion dollars subscribed four days before the drive ends, half the quota. Officials fear the loan will need around 750 million daily to surpass the six billion target, while last minute rushes may lift totals. District reports from Minneapolis, St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia and New York show signs of movement as influenza abates and outdoor meetings grow. In Cleveland, night raid campaigns in 120 towns employ Paul Revere style tactics to spur subscriptions. New York district records a gain of 103,601,050 overnight and total subscriptions reach 817,589,650.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Federal Reserve
Boston
Philadelphia
New York
Cleveland
Federal Reserve District
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Paul Reveres
Liberty Loan Committee
New Turkish Cabinet Collapses in Copenhagen Report
A dispatch from Copenhagen dated October 16 says the new Turkish cabinet headed by Twfik Pasha has collapsed. Twfik Pasha is succeeded as premier by Tzzet Pasha.
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Copenhagen
Twfk Pasha
Dipatch
Twfik Pasha
Tzzet
Chicago Specialist Arrives In Boston To Study Plague
Boston Massachusetts October 16 Dr Ham Monde Bunderson of the Chicago City Department of Health is in Boston to study Massachusetts methods for fighting the Spanish influenza epidemic He says the disease is making profound headway in Chicago and visited the state laboratory where Tufts College Dr Timothy Leary has developed a new influenza serum for free statewide distribution.
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Boston
Mass
Hammond Bunderson
Chicago City
Department of Health
Massachusetts
Chicago
Bunderson
State Laboratory
Timothy Leary
Tufts College
Wilson Reply Reaches Hon Officials In War News
Washington reports President Wilson rejected a peace with Germany while Hun armies stay in the field and atrocities continue. Berlin learns of the decision as diplomats warn against overinterpreting German political shifts. Entente observers note socialist leaders are used to mask the Kaiser regime.
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Edwin Nevin
Washington
Wilson
Germany
Berlin
State Department
United States
Entente
Kaiser
War Command
Karl Liebknecht
le Say
Liebknecht
France
Belgium
Lin
Victory Billions Aim to Arm U.S. for War on Kaiser
The 1918 defense financing plan seeks a near seven billion dollar appropriation to expand the American Army Navy and Shipping Board powers. It contemplates 4 850 000 troops with a large service and supply cadre and envisions deploying 250 000 men monthly abroad. The measures would empower government control of docks and ship facilities to sustain the war effort.
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Washington
United States
Shipping Board
Navy Department
Naval Establishment
Civil Service
War Department
Sherley
Kentucky
House Appropriations Committee
House
Navy
Am Nm
Aloni
March
House Committee
Germany
Allied Advance in Flanders Exceeds Seven Miles
Allied forces push in Flanders with gains east and northeast of Ypres totaling more than seven miles at points. Reports say 1,240 Allied soldiers captured, Belgian troops reach Winendale Wood and Thourout, French reach Lyncht er veld, British occupy Menin, and numerous German guns taken. About 1,200 civilians liberated as Roulers falls amid minor country damage.
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London
Flanders
Ypres
Winendale Wood
Thourout
Lynchterveld
Menin
Prigoneta
John WR. Parkerson
Ingelmuster- Courtrai
Roulers
Cambrai
Courtrai
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Kaiser to Return to Berlin Next Saturday
Amsterdam reports the Kaiser will return to Berlin to hear reports from the Chief of the German civil cabinet and the General Staff. The Reichstag meeting opening was postponed indefinitely. Wolff agency says Germany's Socialists agree Prince Max remains Chancellor.
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Amsterdam
Okt
Berlin
Reichstag
Wolff Bureau
Max
Sinking at port leaves two sailors and a soldier missing
An Atlantic Port report says two sailors and a soldier are missing after the transport America sank at her pier. Government inquiries continue with questioning of crew, and a large cargo of sugar valued at $1,000,60% is believed lost.
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Atlantic
America
Police hunt two men for Kennedy murder in New York
New York police spread a drag net over Greater New York in search of two men wanted for the murder of James Kennedy. He was shot as he stepped from a taxicab in Second Avenue and the killers escaped in the cab at gunpoint.
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New York
Greater
James Kennedy
Second Avenue
Berlin Rioters Demand Peace Amid War Protests
Amsterdam reports peace riots in Berlin with mobs shouting Down with the war the Kaiser and Hindenburg. Statues of the Hohenzollerns toppled and the Largomaster residence stoned as mutinies flare in Limburg. Banking panic follows Wilson's peace note and dread of German military action.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Kaiser
Hindenburg
Hohenzollerns
Limburg
London
Berlin Stock Exchange
Wilson
Germany
Iit
Copenhagen
Prince Mex
Death of Col Hunsiker, Belgian relief commission member
Washington reports Col Millard Hunsiker, one of the seven original members of the Belgian relief commission, has died in London. He long represented American armament interests in Europe and helped establish the relief body's work after its formation on October 22 1914. He also served on the American Relief Committee aiding refugees returning to the United States.
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Washington
Millard Hunsiker
Commission For Relief On
Belgium
London
Commission
Col. Hunsiker
Europe
Relief Commission
Col Hunsiker
American Relief Committee
United States
Walter Hines Page in New York Hospital After Heart Disease Attack
Walter Hines Page former Ambassador to Great Britain is confined in a New York hospital following a heart disease attack. He was stricken while en route to this country and was reported improved today according to hospital officials.
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Walter Hines Page
Great Britain
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