Foch Drives On Foe Flanks In Heavy Allied Offense
British and French forces push along a wide front from Cambrai to La Fere and Soissons as La Fere and Travecy fall under pressure. French Americans advance near Chemin des Dames while German counterattacks falter. alerted by Haig on strong enemy assaults and trench gains near Epehy Vermand and St Quentin.
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la Pere
Eny
Travecy
la Fere
St. Gobain
Hindenburg Line
Laon
Soiissons
Chemin Des Dames
Laffeux
War Office
Pield Marshal Harig
Scomrt-St. Quentin
Cambrai
Gouzeaucourt
Epehy
Vermand
St. Quentin
Havringcourt Wood
American Drive Advances in Metz Sector in World War I
British report the first major American offensive opening at 5 a.m. in the Metz sector between the Meuse and Moire rivers. Yankees seize ten villages early as German resistance falters. French troops support on both flanks of the attack.
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Evening Journal
London
Metz
Meuse
Moiselle
American Troops Land at Archangel to Aid North Russia Campaign
U S Army announces landing of American troops at Archangel to support allied efforts to restore order in northern Russia. General March authorized the release. exact numbers and embarkation points were not disclosed, but it was presumed troops came from English camps.
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Siberia
Russia
Washington
Archangel
General March
American Red Cross
London
War Relief Trains to Tour Nation During Liberty Loan Campaign
Seventeen special trains filled with war relays will travel the country from September 28 to October 19 to advertise the war effort alongside the Liberty loan. They will stop briefly in towns and spend longer in major cities with American and allied soldiers accompanying the exhibits and giving lectures. The event is part of a nationwide effort to boost support for the loan and war effort.
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Washington
Soviet Executes Old Russian Ministers in Moscow Purge
London reports 87 recent executions in Moscow including former cabinet ministers under Nicholas II and other czarist officials. The list names Alecel Khostoff H Propopopoff J Steheglovitoff M Maklakoff and M Vostergoff among others. Neutral ministers protest brutal executions and warn of expulsion of Bolsheviks. Thousands of officers were held, cholera spread, and reprisals followed claims of hostages and shootings.
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London
Moscow
Nicholas
M. Tehitecherin
Alecel Khostoff
H. Propopopoff
The
Interior
J. ©. Steheglovitoff
M. Maklakoff
M. Vostergoff
Stockholm
Russia
Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Alexieff
Antibolshevik
Crowder Urges All Patriots to Register for Draft
Provost Marshal General Crowder calls men aged eighteen to forty five to register on September 12 to form a pool of about 13 million. The census will total roughly 28.4 million men when combined with prior enrollments, guiding selective service and home-front support for the war effort. Registrars await at posts as penalties for evasion include a year in prison. Read The Evening Journal.
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Washington
Crowder
America
Gasoline Deficit Signals Further Use Curbs Likely
Washington reports figures on U S gasoline production and consumption show a large deficit. The Fuel Administration sent data to the senate in response to Senator Lodge's resolution, indicating curtailment measures may be extended.
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Woshington
United States
The
Fuel Administration
Senate
Lodge
War relief yarn to continue for soldiers as production curbs take effect
Washington reports the war industries board will allow continued knitting yarn supplies for woolen garments for American troops despite a production restriction program approved for spinners. El Paso says Julio Acosta, a Villa era general, and his brother Jose Dolores Acosta were executed by the Mexican home guard in Las Cenvas Chihuahua per an official Chihuahua City statement.
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The
War Industries Board
el Paso
Tex
Julio Acosta
Villa
CN. M
Home Guard
Las Cenvas
Chihuahua
Mexicco
Chihuahua City
Acosta
Jose Dolores Acosta
First US alien property sale to auction Orenstein Koppel plant
The German owned Orenstein-Arthur Koppel machinery plant in Koppel Pennsylvania taken over by the Alien Property Custodian will be sold at public auction. Proceeds will be used to buy Liberty bonds. The sale marks a shift to a 100 percent American owned business. Subsidiaries include Koppel Land Beaver Connecting Railroad Koppel Water and Koppel Sales companies along with Pennsylvania Car and Manufacturing and Universal Railway Products.
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Washington
Orenstein-Arthur Koppel Company
Koppel
Cnstedian
Liberty Bonds
Berlin
Palmer
Koppel Land Company
Beaver Connecting Railroad Company
Koppel Water Company
Koppel Sales Company
Koppel, Pa
Pennsylvania Car and Manufacturing Company
Pittsburgh
Universal Railway Products Company
New York
Troopship Torpedoed Off English Coast
U S navy reports the British liner Persic with 2800 American troops aboard torpedoed off the English coast on September 8. All hands saved after crowding the deck and using ropes to reach destroyers circling the stricken vessel.
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Washington
Navy Department
Sims
London
United States Navy Department
White Star
Persic
Chicago
Cleveland
Turks Kill French Priests in Persian Harest Attack
An official dispatch from France relayed from Teheran confirms Turkish forces killed French priests in Persia. Victims include Father Soutag, a Lozarist priest, and several other clergymen.
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Washington
France
Paris
Teheran
Persia
Father Soutag
Russian Capital Scene Of Butchery In Petrograd
A dispatch from the American legation in Christiania reports Petrograd burning in 12 places with indiscriminate street massacres. Unclear if organized by Bolshevik authorities amid general anarchy. Lansing cautions about unclear actors.
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Washington
Christiania
Petrograd
Lansing
Stockholm
Vologda
Yaroslav
Moscow
Perm
Red
Copenhagen
Russia
Berlin
Call for 2000 selective men issued for stenography duties
Washington September 12 news: Provost Marshal General Crowder issues a call for 2000 white selective men for limited service. They will serve as stenographers and typists and be mobilized September 23 to serve in various companies and forts, with every state except Arkansas contributing recruits.
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Washington
Crowder
Arkansas
British advance tightens around St Quentin in September drive
Special to Eventage Journal reports British forces encircling St Quentin with Vermand Vendetles and Attilly captured and Holnon wood secured as the main objective nears. In Flanders the British seize a fortified railway bridge southwest of La Bassee.
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London
St. Quentin
Vermand
Vendetles
Attilly
Holnonwood
Flanders
la Bassee
President's Dander Up Reported Statement at Chicago
Secretary Tumulty asks Will Hays to confirm a published report that on Labor Day in Chicago he told 51 Republican state chairmen that Democratic leaders would even end the war with any compromise to ensure re election of a Democratic Congress. The note was written at the president's request.
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Washington
Tumulty
Will B. Hays
National Republican Committee
Chicago
War tax bill aims to raise one third of war funding
Washington reports the new war tax bill will raise one third of the 24 billion needed for America's WWI funding in the coming fiscal year. It targets most tax sources and seeks broad citizen participation, claiming the burden is lighter than England's.
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Washington
America
Congress
United States
England
Workers demand more food in Germany amid shortages
The German socialist party and trade unions urged Chancellor Hertling to address growing food shortages. The communication, published in Vorwaerts, accuses the government of favoring food producing interests and failing to relieve the hungry population.
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Trade Unions
Hertling
Copenhagen
German Socialist Party
Berlin
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