British and French Break German Defenses on Front in France
British and French forces report major advances across the Somme and Oise regions. Haig’s troops seize Avesnes Les Bapaume and surrounding towns. French units capture Fresnoy Les Roye and St Mard. Australians claim 12,000 German captives since August 8 with continued rear-guard clashes.
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London
Suzanne
Cappy
Somme
Field Marshal
Haig
Avesnes Les Bapaume
Bapaume
Thilloy
Montauban
Loncueval
St. Leger
Scarpe River
Fampoux
Arras
Neuville-Vitasse
Monchy-Le-Preux
Guemappe
Wancourt
Mory
France
Paris
Avre
Fresnoy-Les- Roye
St. Mard
War Office
Oise
Allette
Pont Saint March
Juvigny
Soissons
Mangin
Aisne
Laon
Chemin Des Dimes
Dar Bereta
Do Bucs
Ont St. 2Ford
Orme-de-Montecouve
Jurvigny
Vasily
British Drive Near Arras Reaches Key Roads
British troops on the Arras front advance north of the Somme reach Longueval and Bapaume pockets and report entering Monehy Le Prenux and Orange Tillis. German resistance delays but is pushed back toward the Bapaume Bengnatre road as Arras gains relief.
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Bapaume
France
Arras
Monehy- Le-Prenux
Orange Tillis
Bapaume-Bengnatre
Bananame
U S Ship Sunk and Finnish Arrests Reported
U S Navy reports six crew members drowned or killed when the American steamer Leke Eden was torpedoed on August 21 with nine crew and one naval guard missing. Names listed include George Bruce and C Craft among others. In Finland, Helsingfors dispatch notes 82 701 arrests by August 19 for the uprising with 3 642 ill and 15 555 unconditionally sentenced as of August 17.
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Washington
Naval Armed Guard
Navy Department
George Bruce
C. Craft
P. Derham
C. Muller
A. Martin
Muller
Naval Guard
Ralph F. Hooten
Laurel Fmm
Fla
F. Peres
A. Mosh
Cook
J. Warms
Grenser
I. Aicardo
Johnsen
Lyredan
Eutler
Lorenzon
Duterok
Stambor
Stockholm
Finland
Helsingfors
Senate Votes on Draft Expansion With Work or Fight Clause
Senate moves to vote by four o clock on extending the draft ages to eighteen through forty five. Debate limited after one. House bill substituted to accelerate action. Work or fight provision joins minor amendments while reclassifications parity for spouses remains unchallenged.
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Washington
Senate
Sheppard
Texas
House
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
Crowder
Yanks Drive Enemy Back on the Vesle Front
American troops advance a third of a mile on a one and a quarter mile front east of Fismes driving Germans from the railroad and seizing a key position. They push along the Vesle front amid gas shells and heavy artillery with repeated counterattacks repelled by machine gun fire. The railway is now held on both sides of Fismes as U S forces press a systematic cleanup of rifle pits and nests.
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France
Fismes
Vesle
Vesig
Veete
la Courvillette
Magneux
Vesie
Night Rocket Attacks Continue in Constant Patrol Watch
American patrols keep constant contact with German lines, nightly rocket launches and harassment of enemy positions ongoing day and night.
Yanks Win in Siberia in Joint Japanese Assault
American and Japanese forces defeated heavily armed Chinese bandits near Vindivostok in Siberia. About 400 attackers with machine guns and trench mortars were driven off after landing forces, with Razdolny threatened and casualties unknown. General Semenoff’s Czech-Slovak troops reportedly win at Metstevskaia, taking prisoners.
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Vindivostok
Siberia
Razdolny
Peking
Semenoff
Metstevskaia
Japs Defeat Bolsheviki at Ussuri Front
Dispatches from Vladivostok say Japanese forces close on the Ussuri front with Enge neuka sailors aided by armored cars routing Bolshevik troops amid heavy artillery. Trans-Baikal opponents retreat after Japanese arrival at Manchuria leaving about 3000 Bolshevik fighters in the region.
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London
Ussuri
Vladivostok
Engeneuka
Semenoff
trans-Baikal
Manchuri
Na Tion Tsin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Boshevik
Airmen raid Pola naval base and other targets
Nome Aug 27 American airmen raided the Austrian naval base at Pola on the Adriatic. One plane fell into the sea and was rescued. British and Italian aviators bombed Durazzo and Caracola while British airmen alone hit Catero railway station submarine depot and hangar.
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Nome
Pola
Adriatic
Admiralty
Venice
Durazzo
Caracola
Catero
U.S. Prohibition Date Seen Shifting to July 1 1919
President Wilson and prohibition leaders show no objection to passing the bill while debating the effective date. Senate supporters and opponents converge on July 1 1919 as the likely start date to avoid altering the war revenue estimates and avoid disturbing liquor revenue. Senator Sheppard says the president did not object to action but favors extending the date.
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Sheppard
Wilson
Congress
Washington
Senate Prohibition
Senate
White House
Texas
Woman's Peace Party Leader Faces Espionage Act Bounds
Mrs. Allinson was summoned to the federal building on a Department of Justice complaint and, after a secret hourlong conference with Francis Borelli, was released on her own cognizance. She was instructed to tell local associates that the Chicago chapter must stay within the espionage act or effectively cease to exist, as Jane Addams leads the national organization.
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Federal
Department of Justice
Chicago
Woman's Peace Party
Francis Borelli
United States
Allinson
Jane Addams
260 000 Germans Register Under Alien Laws in U S
The Department of Justice reports about 260000 unlawfully resident German males registered with police and postmasters under alien regulations in January. A few more are added periodically and German women figures are not yet fully tabulated, but believed under 200000. The interned German total remains undisclosed.
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Washington
United States
Department of Justice
Crown Prince Rupprecht Engaged to Princess Antoinette
King Leopold of Bavaria announced at a family dinner that Crown Prince Rupprecht will marry Princess Antoinette of Luxembourg. The official statement came from Montevideo.
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Leopold
Crown Prince
Princess Antoinette of
Luxemborg
Copenhagen
Denmark
Bavaria
Rupprecht
Antoinette of
Luxembourg
Two Navy Quartermasters Killed in Seaplane Crash
Washington reports Navy quartermasters Dale Vern Campbell of Portland Oregon and Lester Achan Barnett of Mount Pleasant Tennessee were killed August 22 in a seaplane accident near French Worters.
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Navy
Washington
Dale Vern Campbell
Portland
Ore
Lester Achan Barnett
Mount Pleasant
Tenn
French Worters
Red Cross Imports Exempt From Duties Bill Passed
Washington Aug 27 A House bill suspending customs duties on Red Cross imports passed the Senate and was sent to President Wilson for approval. The measure would relieve Red Cross relief supplies from duty as they are shipped for wartime aid.
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Washingtonn
House
Senate
Wilson
U. S. Warns Mrs Allinson in Leavenworth Case
Chicago August 27. Mrs Alice Dow Allinson mother of Brent Dow Allinson the conscientious objector serving a one year sentence at Fort Leavenworth for persistent refusal to comply with military orders. The government warns her to avoid public statements regarding her son.
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Chicago
Alice Dow Allinson
Brent Dow Allinson
Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary
Germans Admit Defeat Amid War Strains and Allied Confidence
The Prussian minister of war concedes a defeat in an interview cited by the Morgenpost as Allied forces press toward a possible Rhine retreat. Dutch and American reports note German reverses, growing unrest, and preparations for a difficult winter as public anxiety rises about fighting and sacrifices ahead.
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Zurich
L’heure
Washington
Germany
Morgenpost
British Smash Ahead South of the Somme At Longueval
Allied forces press the assault as German resistance around Longueval weakens. British troops push forward toward the village on the Somme front with momentum from recent gains and identified targets.
French Advance Pushes In Region Near Bapaume
British forces hold northern Bapaume and push toward Dompierre and Suvanne. They advance north of the Somme through Montauban, seize woods near the town and reach Longueval while taking many prisoners and large stores of war material.
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Evening Journal
London
Bapaume
Dompierre
Somme
Suvanne
Montauban
Longueval
French Make Gains in St. March Region Southwest of Roye
French forces near St March southwest of Roye repulsed several German counterattacks and took many prisoners, marking additional gains as of August 27 according to a special dispatch.
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Roge
Paris
St. March
Roye
Mutinous German Battalion Reported in Amsterdam
A dispatch from Amsterdam on August 27 states a German battalion mutinied and every tenth soldier was executed. The report notes severe discipline followed the uprising and details are limited from the source.
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Evening Journal
Amsterdam
A_ dispatch
War outlook and economic strain from Vienna to Zurich
The report notes ongoing war fatigue and renewed German withdrawals on the western front. It cites Austria facing a worsening economy with Vienna firms suspending coal heavy industries, while Zurich reports German officials signaling a new retreat and continued enemy pressure.
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Austria
Vienna
Zurich
SINKING OF FOUR FISHING SCHOONERS REPORTED
Reports to the navy department state four fishing schooners were sunk by a submarine off Point Platts Miquelon. Vessels named Maurice B Adams M Walters J J Flaherty and E B Walters. Crews except B B Walters landed and reached St Vierre. Another Gloucester schooner J J Flaherty was sunk by a German submarine with 24 aboard landing at St Vierre.
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Washington
Navy Department
Point Platts
Miquelon
Maurice B. Adams
M. Walters
J. J. Finherty
E. B. Walters
B. Bh
Mass
J. J. Flaherty
Charles T. Gregory
St. Vierre Miquelon
Steel Strike Hits Seattle Contractors Over Pay And Conditions
In Seattle on August 27, after talks between Pacific Coast Steel and Emergency Meet contract workers broke down, over 1000 employees walked off. They demand wages and conditions comparable to those in shipyards.
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Seattle
Wash
Pacific Coast Steel Company
Meet Corporation
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U.S
Beeches
Rede
Rhine
the Somme
U. S. Emergency Fleet Corporation
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