Wild flight of Bulgar soldiers continues in France
March Chief of Staff says news from the Western Front is excellent and reports say 1,700,000 Americans are now in France. The War Department has no confirmation of press reports that Americans are being badly used by Bolsheviks in Russia. Lor raine line held by the Yankees.
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West Front
War Department
Russia
Lorraine
Yankees
Frank A. Stetson
J. N.S. Sta
Washington
March
Feaure
Murman Coast
Serbian Advance Is Confirmed by General Staff
Washington dispatch reports Gen. March confirming American overseas forces surpass 1,759,000. He cites Western front gains, stabilized Pershing line, and German retreat to the Kriehmelde line. Allied advances include Picardy, Soissons, and the Soissons-Laon axis, plus Serbian and French actions in Macedonia continuing to drive enemy back.
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St. Quentin
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Laon
Macedonia
Palestine
Baku
St. Mihiel
Clemenceau Son
Pershing
March
I. L. Reid
Holbrook
Reid
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144Th
France
Vosges
Crawford Calls Down Wrath of God on Germany
Cleveland September 21 1915 Dr W O H Crawford president of Allegheny College denounces the German Empire before 20000 Methodist ministers and laymen charging ultimate responsibility for world crimes including Belgium rapine and the Lusitania sinking in a fiery sermon after returning from YMCA service in Europe
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Northeast Ohio Conference
W. O H. Crawford
Allegheny College
Germany
Belgium
Lusitania
Tia
Ty. Crawford
Europe
Weather Forecast for Washington Tonight and Sunday
Washington reports a forecast for September 21 indicating Penn a and Fair tonight with brighter skies tomorrow. Temperatures trend slightly warmer, and conditions are expected to be fair with a touch of warmth on Sunday.
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Washington
Penn
Roosevelt Recovering From Pneumonia in New York Home
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the Navy, staying at his mother's home in New York, is reported improving after a slight attack of pneumonia. He passed a comfortable night and was in good spirits.
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New York
Franklin D. Troosevel
Explosion Sinks British Monitor in Harbor
The British monitor was sunk in a harbor on Sept 16 by an internal explosion. Twenty persons were killed and fifty seven are missing, the Admiralty announced this afternoon.
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London
Admiralty
Ramor Denied Likely Big German Story
Washington report denies a serious shortage of small calibre ammunition would halt the American advance in Lorraine and refutes claims that the Y M C A profited in France huts. War Department officials cite a month’s supply of 75 shells and note prices dropped since direct government purchases. Relief-work abuses and civilian non fighting berths are under review with Keppel indicating future restrictions on females abroad. Pershing fully approves YMCA and allied relief efforts with no complaints from him.
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Crowell and Keppell
Lorraine
Y. M
France
War Department
Senate Military Committee
Crowell
Chamberlain
Keppel
Department
Kepfpelt
New
Indiana
Keppell
Pershing
Americans in Russia being slaughtered report circulates
Copenhagen reports Americans are being ruthlessly slaughtered by Bolsheviks in Russia amid claims allied citizens are to be arrested after a Soviet meeting. The dispatch says Bolsheviks have allied with Germany for operations in the Murman coast and that killings and food shortages worsen. A separate Stockholm dispatch notes Petrograd is being looted and fires rage as mobs kill.
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Russia
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Murman Coast
Petrograd
London
Stockholm
Servians Reach Tcherna River and advance in Balkans
Allied dispatch reports Servians pierce ten miles in one day, capturing Godiyak and several villages, with infantry passing Krievo Etragovo Drago jel and Polochko. Prisoners, including a colonel, and guns taken. aviators fire on retreating Bulgarians as Serb center nears Bosha river and Vardar front advances.
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Dragojel
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Tcherna
Drenska
Priliep
Vardar
Strigovo
Krymvo
Bosha
Demirkapu
Servian War Office
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Etragovo
Trishino
Duditsa
Bulgar
Teacher Refuses Kaiser's Parade Demand in Verdun Era
Marguerite Feber, a 24 year old former Mayoress of Hannonville, led the village school after Germans seized the town in 1914. She recalls the Kaiser's birthday demand to march children in his honor, and her reply that she would parade only at the Kaiser’s funeral. American forces began freeing Hannonville, and she received nine proposals in the first day.
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Marguerite Feber
Hannonville
Verdun
Marguerite
Tiannonville
Germany
Kaiser
Gir
Yankees
War Department approves one Christmas package for overseas soldiers
The War Department says each overseas service member may receive a single package from home this Christmas. To ensure delivery by December 25, mail must be sent by November 15 in standard containers provided by local Red Cross chapters. A Pershing coupon will verify sender and soldier address in France.
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Washington
Rept
War Department
Department
Pershing
Red Cross
France
Gen. Pershing
Final Action On Bone Day Issue Is Side Tracked
Washington Sept 21 Action on bone dry prohibition was postponed in the House after a brief clash between the Drys and Wets The Sims emergency power bill was sidelined despite a bid by Chairman Sims to secure early consideration labeling it a war measure and killed quickly Rep Stafford of Wisconsin led the move against immediate consideration of the bone amendment Chairman Lever said he would bring the amendment up Monday
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Sims
Interstate Commerce Committee
Rep
Stafford
Wisconsin
Lever
Agricultural Committee
Malting of grain for liquor prohibited by today’s order
Washington on September 21 malting of grain for brewing beer or near beer was prohibited today by the United States Food Administration. The order is immediately effective. Malting will be permitted for yeast vinegar cereal breakfast foods malt extracts and other such products but no grain shall be malted for these legitimate purposes till sales have actually been made.
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Washinton
United States Food Administration
Allies Strike in Three Fronts Across World War II
British and French troops push near a key German base in the northwest and south while American forces pound positions around Metz. A separate offensive east of Monastir yields magnificent results, signaling a widening Allied advance on multiple fronts.
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Metz
Monastir
Palestine Attack a Big Success in World War I Theater
Army dispatches describe Allied advances across three fronts including French, British, and Balkan theaters. French take Benay near St Quentin, British gains at Messines Ridge, and a significant Palestine push cut off Turkish forces, with American guns pressing Metz and patrol clashes rising on the Lorraine front.
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Balkans
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Gauche Wood
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