U S French Troops Regain Four Towns in Marne Fight
American and French forces recaptured St Aenan and La Chapelle Monthedon and retook Fossey and Crezaney as fighting raged along the Marne. The battle widened to Mareuil le Port with heavy gains on German lines and a claim of 13 000 prisoners by Berlin.
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Marne
Mareuil- Le-Port
Berlin
St. Aenan
la Chapelle- Monthedon
Fossey
Crezaney
France
Mareuil-le-Port
Paris
Marne Valley
St. Agnan
la Chapelle Monthedon
War Office
Vain
Champagne
von Boehm
Jaulgonne Wid
Dormans
Enemy Forces Enter Fresh Fight South of Marne
Allied reports indicate fresh enemy forces entering combat south of Marne. The engagement concentrates near strategic lines as units push to contain advances and secure positions amid worsening exposure and peril for surrounding troops.
Quentin Roosevelt Killed in Air Fight Over Front Lines
Paris dispatch reports German forces advancing three miles south of the Marne amid heavy resistance from American and French troops. The drive yields about six miles of Allied penetration, with German losses estimated at 100000. elsewhere Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, youngest Roosevelt son, is shot down near Chateau Thierry after aerial combat.
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Roosevelt
Evening Journal
Paris
Marne
Reims
Quentin Roosevelt
Pares
Theodore Roosevelt
Chateau Thierry
Lieut
Yanks Bag Two Hun Planes In Morning Air Fights
In Maine on July 17 during a morning of about a dozen air combats P. J. Aborsphy of Maine shot down an enemy plane 15 miles north of Dormans. Soon after George Robertson of Kansas City Missouri downed another German aircraft with American lines in the same sector.
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Maine
P. J. Aborsphy
Dormans
George Robertson
Kansas City
American Airmen Active Over Maine Front Third German Plane
P. J. Abernethy of Maine shot down a German aircraft 150 miles north of the Maine front for his third victory. George Robertson of Kansas City, another American airman, shot down a German plane inside American lines and was killed in the rail crash at Louisa Kentucky on July 17. Six men were killed and 14 injured when two locomotives crashed into three motor cars carrying laborers on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad.
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Maine
P. J. Abernethy
George Robertson
Kansas City
Sir
Louisa
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
German advance five miles west of Reims confirmed
London reports the German drive west of Reims reached five miles, with American counterattacks producing a satisfactory situation. Germans bombard Chalons sur Marne while claiming only minor progress east of Reims in the Prunay sector amid heavy losses.
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London
Reims
Chalons-Sur- Marne
Prunay
Veste
Loncon
von Below
von Boehm
Americans Repel German River Crossing at Marne
American counter attack on the Marne drives Germans back across the river and seizes 1000 to 1500 prisoners. Volunteers brave shell fire to haul cannons through rain and gas while horses and men suffer heavy losses in a ten hour battle.
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Marne
Sam
Galient
Bowies
Rush
German Offensive Likely With Sixty to Seventy Divisions
A July 17 report estimates German forces in position for a major offensive. Some forty divisions have already been engaged, suggesting a potential force of about 150,000 with 10,000 casualties expected in the initial phase.
War Aims Echo in Amsterdam Notes on Alsace and Treacherous Talks
Austrian foreign minister Baron von Barian says only discussions on territory remain after asserting unity with wartime principles. In Vienna, talks with premiers reveal a secret Reichsrat session planned on military issues, while Munich forms a German Mexican society to boost relations and student exchanges.
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Baron Barian
Alsace-Lorraine
Trieste
Trentine
Berlin
Reichsrath
Seydler
Vienna
Vossiche Zeitung
Reichesrat
Mexico
Munich
Bavaria
Germany
Mexikanische Rundschau
Business Is Business
A fragment shows a tense exchange where a character argues urgency over travel and job security, implying a motive tied to money and staying at a location described as Clerk Country inn. The dialogue hints at leverage and personal stakes driving decisions.
Kawachi Sinks After Explosion Off Nagasaki
The Japanese battleship Kawachi of 21 420 tons sank at Tokoyama bay 150 miles northeast of Nagasaki on July 12. Five hundred crewmen died. Built at Kure in 1912 she carried 960 officers and men. Armament included twelve 2 inch guns ten 6 inch guns eight 4 7 inch guns twelve 12 pounders and five 18 inch torpedo tubes.
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Tokyo
Tokoyam Bay
Nagasaki
Kure
Mooney Sentenced to San Quentin for Murder
San Francisco July 17 Judge Franklin A Griffin of the superior court ordered Thommas J Mooney committed to San Quentin penitentiary to await execution there on Friday August 23 for murder linked to a preparedness day bomb explosion in the city.
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San Francisco
Thommas J. Mooney
San Quentin Penitentiary
Franklin A. Griffin
Superior Court
Mooney
Paris Bombardment Resumes After Morning Pause
Paris reports a resumed long range bombardment in the morning marking renewed hostilities. The event adds to ongoing siege efforts and raises concerns over civilian impact and strategic outcomes in the midst of the conflict.
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Paris
Horvath Aids Slovaks Move Toward Trans Baikal Line
General Horvath, named provisional ruler of Siberia, will aid Czecho Slovak troop movement toward the trans Baikal region via the Chinese Eastern railway. The Czechs plan to reach Irkutsk to reestablish contact with western Siberia and seek Chinese permission to cross Manchuria. Some Austrian prisoners in Siberia are willing to join the Czechs.
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London
Horvath
Siberia
The
Times
trans-Baikal
Irkutsk
Manchuria
Food prices up 63 percent in five years
U S retail food prices rose 63 percent over the five years ending May 15 with beef up 82 percent cornmeal 30 milk 26 and pork chops 20 percent. This followed a 5 percent rise for the year ending May 15 and vegetable declines. A separate note says Wilson signed the wire control resolution giving him authority to seize telephone and telegraph lines for the duration of the war.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Statistics
Wiilson
Wilson Greets Boy Scouts at Washington Arrival
President Wilson shook hands with 28 boy scouts from Pittsburgh who traveled to Washington aboard Diegeles bearing a message of greeting from Major Babcook.
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Wilson
Washington
President Wilson
Pittsburgh
Major Babcook
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Talare
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Dormand
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Brave Inferno
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Entente
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