Bulgarians in wild retreat on Balkan front reports say
London dispatch confirms a seventy mile front evacuation from Monastir to the Vardar. Servians gain ground as 5,000 prisoners and sixty guns fall to Allied forces. Italians and French sectors see heavy artillery while Monastir remains Allied held. Paris notes a mounting rout and 20 mile Macedonia advance.
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Balkan Front
Monastir
Vardar
London
Doiran
Salonika
Earle C. Reeves
Balkan
Monstair
Poloho
Paris
Balkans
Servia
Prilep
Austro Hungaro Peace Offer Still Open
Vienna officially announces the Austro Hungarian peace offer remains open after the note was issued. A dispatch cites British Foreign Secretary J Waifour reacting to the development and discusses the fresh state of affairs.
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Amsterdam
Vienna
J Waifour
Pershing replies to Haig’s congratulations
London dispatch says General Pershing telegraphed Field Marshal Haig, praising the British army’s heroism and assuring American troops will fight alongside them until permanent world peace is assured. The message expresses deep appreciation for Haig’s sentiment and extends affectionate regards to all ranks of the American army.
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London
Gen. Pershing
Marshal Haig
Belgium Rejects Austria Peace Terms
Havre France September 20 Belgium has scornfully rejected Germanys offer of a separate peace The offer cannot serve as a basis for serious discussion
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Havre
France
Belgium
Germany
Emergency Fleet manager grilled as Senate probes Hog Island
Washington Sept 20 Senate Commerce Committee questioned Charles Piez general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation about conditions at Hog Island shipyard The inquiry focuses on labor conditions management and possible draft evader influence While Piez questioned hog island productivity critics say labor morale and efficiency need speeding up recorded rivet rates show a drop after contest periods and draft evader concerns persist noted by Senator Rausdale
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Washington
Charles Piez
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Senate Commerce Committee
Hog Island
Pies
Philadelphia
Fletcher
Rausdell
Hoggland
Epidemics Hit Army Camps And Great Lakes Naval Base
Health report notes extensive influenza at Camp Devens Camp Upton Camp Dix and Camp Lee with rising admissions and low death rate. Great Lakes Naval Training Station near quarantine as Spanish flu spreads. Chicago suburbs report cases and cooperation with city health officials to contain outbreak.
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Washington
Camp Devens
Mass
Camp Upton
Long Island
Camp Dix
N. J
Camp Lee
Gorgas
War Department
Great Lakes
Ill
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Lake Michigan
Roy Mendelsohn
Chicago
Northwestern University
Evanston
Weather forecast for Pennsylvania and Ohio
Weather update reports fair but cooler conditions with possible light frost tonight. Saturday remains cool with continued fair conditions across Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Washington
Penn’a
Ohio
Liberty Day Proclaimed For October 12 By Wilson
President Wilson designates October 12 as Liberty Day urging nationwide celebration of America’s discovery to boost the Fourth Liberty Loan. Federal employees who can be spared may be excused to join observances and patriotic demonstrations scheduled under Treasury and education officials.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
America
Woodrow Wilson
United States of America
Secretary of the Treasury
Liberty Loan Committee
United States Bureau of Education
German Led Bolsheviks Suffer Severe Defeat in Russia
An Archangel announced by the new Nort Russian government reports a severe defeat of German led Bolsheviki forces in northern Russia. The engagement occurred about 40 miles east of the Finnish frontier with 4000 rifles and many boats and horses captured. Allied forces have landed on the Murman coast.
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London
Russia
Nort
Archangel
Finland
Murman Coast
Sixty Killed in Wreck in France
Paris reports a major rail disaster in the Marseilles Express in the Pacy tunnel between Dijon and La Roche. The first section telescoped by the second section killed more than thirty and left about four hundred injured. American soldiers aided rescue efforts and received praise for their actions.
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Paris
Marseilles
Pacy
Dijon
la Roche
Crowder tightens shipyard attendance rules in wartime
Washington reports new regulations by Provost Marshal General Crowder require immediate induction into the military for shipyard workers who miss work more than two and a half to three days monthly without a valid excuse. Senate committee also heard Chas. A. Pies of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Washington records show Washington state registered 192,573 men on Sept 12, a 31 percent rise over the 146,858 estimate.
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Washington
Crowder
Chas. A. Pies
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Senate Commerce Committee
Illinois Man James R Mann Jr Ends Life in Chicago
James R Mann Jr, believed son of Congressman Mann, shot himself at a Chicago boarding house. He left two notes one for landlady Eva Wilkins and another to Mrs James Mann in Washington DC. Police link suicide to his parentage and cause listed as puperculosis.
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James R. Mann
Self
Congressman
Mann
Chicago
James R. Mann, Jr
Eva Wilkins
James Mann
Highland Apartments
Washington, D.C
Maza
Nurse Awarded Croix de Guerre for Gallantry
Paris report notes Miss Florence Bullard of Glen Falls New York, a Red Cross nurse, cited for bravery under heavy artillery fire. She exposed herself to enemy fire to locate and aid wounded soldiers, especially during the July 201st battle when bombs burst nearby.
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Paris
Florence Bullard
Glen Falls
Red Cross
Bullard
Roosevelt Ill With Pneumonia At Atlantic Port
Franklin D Roosevelt Assistant secretary of The Navy ill with pneumonia. Attending physician reports favorable progress after arriving from France yesterday. Resting well and expected to return to Washington in a few days.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Atlantic
France
Washington
Americans Repulse German Night Attack In France
Report from the Lorraine front says an early morning German assault in mist against American lines in Haumont and Rebercourt sectors was met with a fierce American counter barrage that routed the attack. American forces also advanced on Vigneulles from Les Eparges capturing ground, towns, prisoners, guns, equipment, and rations.
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Haumont and
Rember!court
Newton
Parke
France
Vigneulles
Les Eparges
Meuse- Moselle
America
Henry G. Wales
N.S
Lorraine
Haumont
Rebercourt
Meuse Moselle
Doncourt
Imperial Royal Regiment of
Vienna
Hindenburg
Lieut
Luke
Phoenix
Ariz
Woevre
Defenses of Metz Strengthened for American Attack
On the Lorraine Front Sept 20 German prisoners say Metz defenses are being bolstered as American guns pound the city. Austrians are used for work. The old fort designs are seen as obstacles and earthworks are being updated while many Metz guns were sent to Turkey and Bulgaria earlier in the war.
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Newton C. Parke
T. N.S. Stall
Lorraine
von Hindenburg
Metz
Leige
Maubeure
Warsaw
Turkey
Bulgaria
French and British Gain Ground in Picardy and Aisne Fronts
Paris dispatch reports renewed Allied gains on the Picardy front as British advance near Cambrai and Moeuvres, plus French gains north of the Aisne and in the St. Quentin sector. American forces repulse German assaults on the Vesle near Jonchery as Meuse Moselle patrols press toward Metz.
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Frank Charlton
S. Cable
Picardy
St. Quentin
Cambrai
Moeuvres
St Quentin
Aisne
Ailette
Chemin Des Dames
Vesle
Jonchery
Metz
Meuse-Moselle
Balkan
Servia
Prilep
Paris
Tim Aisne
War Office
British sweep toward St Quentin captures Moeuvres
London announces British troops push on the front northwest of St Quentin advancing about a mile and taking the town of Moeuvres as German resistance stiffens. Malassise Farm north of Lempire is seized and Moeuvres is recaptured amid continued heavy fighting.
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London
St. Quentin
Moeuvres
War Office
Cambrai
Hindenburg Line
Epehy
Mucuvres
Leupire-Epehy
Malassise
Hulluch
Lempire-Epehy
Hullach
British War Office
Malassise Farm
Lempire
Paris
Aisne
Chemin Des Dames
Main- V
Hindenburg
Duoy
France
Fresnoy
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Charlton’s Daily Review
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