New War Program Seeks Three Million in France
The report details a wartime funding plan seeking 8 billion dollars with 1 billion to be allocated for France. It notes a committee division led by Rep Rain ey of Illinois over estate tax increases and Secretary McAdoo urging enactment before the upcoming Liberty Loan drive ending September 28. It also mentions plans to deploy 3 million Americans by June 30 and signals further divisions in training.
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Rainey
Ilinois
McAdoo
German Retreat Opens Wide in Picardy Front
German forces abandon ten miles of front from Albert to Arras retreating toward Bapaume. Four towns cost them thousands of lives to seize, including Beaumont-Hamel and Bucquoy, as Haig reports a great retreat in Picardy. French troops push toward Noyon with strong gains at Ribecourt and Lassigny, while mustard gas and heavy fighting shape the triangle between Lassigny, Ribecourt, and Noyon.
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London
Picardy
Flanders
Albert
Arras
Bapaume
Beaumont-Hame
Bucquoy
Germany
Berlin
Ludendorff
Humbert
Noyon
French War Office
Ribecourt
Lassigny
Aisne
Lassieny
All Physicians to Be in Service Soon
Washington Aug 15 selective service will be extended to United States physicians on a voluntary basis as announced by Dr Franklin Martin head of the general medical board detailing a plan to mobilize medical men for service.
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Washington
United States
Franklin Martin
General Medical Board
Nurses Reserve Enrollment Campaign Scarce Reports
Des Moines reports almost no progress in enrolling young women in the student nurses reserve. Des Moines county trails the 75 enrollment goal by ten. Training details are at campaign headquarters in the Central Life building. Eligible women 19 to 35 with good health and education are urged to consider enlistment amid wartime nurse shortages and a predicted postwar demand. Training offers board lodging laundry and $15 monthly. enlistment may begin April 1, 1919.
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Des Moines
W. D. Finkbine
Central Life
America
Nueces
Life in Soil Requires Active Growth Not Just Air or Moisture
The article argues warmth is vital to life action in soil. Air and moisture enable life but do not constitute it. A living soil shows growth and development while a dead soil remains inactive.
U S Consul Requests Passports Cited By Officials
U S consul has asked for his passports as leaders face accountability for the issue. The request signals government officials may be held responsible for handling or withholding travel papers amid ongoing scrutiny.
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U.S
American Consul Poole Turns Over Moscow Office Amid Chaos
Official dispatches at Washington reveal Consul General Poole witnessed consuls and staff arrested in Moscow and destroyed his code papers before turning affairs to the Swedish consul. He urged safe conduct for himself and allies amid hostages and arrests of French and British missions, noting potential changes if Lenin and Trotsky flee.
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Washington
Poole
Moscow
Archangel
Tchitcherin
Lenine
Trotsky
Sweden
Russia
Germany Fears Another Defeat In Rhine Province News
Berlin papers note Anglo French main thrust may falter but warn of ongoing Somme attacks. Rhine editors urge nerve, depict potential defeatism, rail against enemy ruthlessness, while American aid is seen as a counter to despair.
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Amsterdam
Aus
Berlin
Rhine
Pech
Haig
Somme
Baron von der Osten
Rhenische Westfaltische Ze
Cologne
Volks Zeitung
Germany
Strutele
Dusseldorf
Essen
M'adoo Proposes War Profits Plan
Secretary of the Treasury M a doo outlines a plan to tax excess profits from war industry. The proposal estimates about 300 million dollars in additional revenue compared with the existing committer system.
Treasury chief urges immediate passage of tax plan for war profits
Secretary McAdoo urges the Ways and Means Committee to pass a new revenue bill with an excess profits tax and an optional war profits levy. He projects the treasury plan would raise up to 400 million dollars more than the tentative version, citing figures for Ford and Standard Oil. The committee aims to agree by tonight, with McAdoo and Chairman Kitchin promising cooperation.
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Washington
McAdoo
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
Leffingwell
Love
Internal Revenue
Roper
T. S. Adams
Excess Profits Tax Advisory Board of the Treasury
Kitchin
Mr. Kitchin
Treasury Plan
Ford
Industry
Standard Oil
Third Allied Offensive Forward in Flanders and Oise Sector
Washington reports a new Allied drive against German lines in Flanders or between the Oise and Soissons. General March notes German retreat beyond fifty miles from Paris as Pershing trains 1,250,000 troops in the first army corps. Some officers expect Roye and Lassigny to fall first, then Noyon, with possible all American attack beyond Verdun.
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Washington
Flanders
Oise
Soissons
Picardy
General March
Paris
Noyon
Roye
Lassigny
Noy
Marek
Pershing
Ilinois National Guard
Verdun
Field Marshal
Foch
Huns Conscripting Russians for German Units
A Vladivostok dispatch to the Daily Mail reports German forces conscripting Russians aged eighteen to forty five. Prisoners from the Czecho-Slovak front say units under Germanization feature German officers and Magyars with a majority of Russians, and disobedience leads to death verdicts from revolutionary tribunals.
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London
Daily Mail
Vladivostok
Czech Soldiers Executed in Bohemia and Rallies Suppressed
Munich and Dresden press reports via Zurich say seventy four Czech soldiers were executed in Bohemia amid mass arrests. Hungarian garrisons are reinforced, arms seized, meetings banned, and several newspapers suppressed or censored as authorities fear a wider uprising.
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London
Bohemia
Munich
Dresden
Zurich
Huns Hint at Peace Terms With Kaiser's Wording Shift
General March informs Senator Chamberlain that the United States must mobilize 1,006,000 additional troops immediately to win the war. The plan calls for 3,000,000 in France by June 30, 1919, plus eighteen more divisions in training at home.
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Evening Journal
Washington
March
Chamberlain
Senate
United States
France
Germany open to peace terms says German official
London report cites Admiral von Hintze German foreign secretary stating Germany would consider peace terms. Report notes Amsterdam source and Aug 15 date. The claim frames a potential shift in wartime diplomacy involving Germany and its foreign policy chief.
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Evening Journal
London
Amsterdam
Germany
von Hintze
Admiral von Behncke Named Minister of Marine
Amsterdam Aug 1 Vice Admiral von Behncke is appointed minister of Marine by the Kaiser to succeed Vice Admiral von Capel.
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Amsterdam
von Behncke
Kaiser
von Capel
Yankees Hold Lines Amid Massive Vesle River Raid
Paris reports Aug 1 1918 German air offensive to dislodge American and French forces along the Vesle River failed as troops held positions. Germans retreat east of Amiens, with enemy losses estimated at 420000 in the past month and 2000 dead or wounded plus 76000 taken prisoner in recent battles.
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Frentne
Paris
Vesle
Amiens
Colleges to Train with Student Army Units
Washington D C Aug D The War Department Commission on Education adds the largest colleges to a list to be equipped for student army training camps extending military training on a wider scale than before.
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Washington, B.C
War Department Commission On Education
American schooner reports sunk by submarine
London dispatch reports an American schooner victim of a submarine near Amsterdam. The vessel was set ablaze and burned down to the waterline.
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London
Amsterdam
Haig’s Troops Drive Germans From Heluterne Sector
In a morning bulletin Haig’s forces wiped out a German salient and pushed the enemy back from the Heluterne Sector toward Albert. German troops are retreating as British lines hold firm near the front.
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London
Aue. L
Haig
Heluterne
Albert
War Tone In West Aims Victory On Western Front
President Wilson accepts Allied and American military experts view that the war must be fought to a final victory on the Western and Italian fronts. The emphasis is on pressing operations in Europe to end the conflict decisively.
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West
Man Power Bill Likely Delayed Amid Senate Debate
Washington Aug 1 1945 The Man Power Bill was reported to the Senate today by Senator Chamberlain. The bill may be delayed if opposition develops and demands a discussion. Continued on page six.
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Washington, D.C
Senate
Chamberlain
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