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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1918
Page
1
American wagon drivers and soldiers repelled German air attacks in the Altkireh sector while anti aircraft guns downed a German observation plane near St Ide. In Lorraine Americans captured six Germans in a raid around Rembercourt, disarming them without resistance.
In Norfolk Virginia on September 23 a mob of 300 to 400 black civilians led by about 20 soldiers from Camp Morrison stormed the Second Precinct station to free two soldiers jailed for robbing a photographer's studio. The attack shattered many windows as officers fired warning shots and riot guns. Ten people were shot before reinforcements arrived to restore order.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker lauded the ports central storage facilities and subsistence services in Paris after inspecting the aviation field. He noted remarkable progress in building up supply infrastructure and the efficiency of the service as troops were rapidly shipped from the United States.
A World War I dispatch quotes Secretary Baker asserting that U S efforts had beaten the German espionage system from the start while a correspondent recalls six months with the service of supply and discussions of the German network.
The war office states that poor weather kept aviation activity feeble on the night of the 20th. During a brief clear spell aviators dropped nearly sixteen tons of projectiles on enemy airfields with fires seen at Stenay Merville Etain Bezencourt and Juniville and explosions noted at the railway station Etain.
The Sixth Czecho-Slovak division held point 703 at Dissalte south of Nago against two enemy columns. They repulsed the encircled attack with valor, machine gunners going outside their lines to fight and crush the assault.
The Nantes city council voted unanimously to adopt St. Mihiel after its liberation and opened a public subscription to involve residents in the patriotic effort. The council also sent a congratulatory address to General Pershing and the American army. Victor Murdoch of Kansas was named by President Wilson for another term on the Federal Trade Commission.
British night operations smashed lines near Gavrelle and north of the Scarpe on a two mile front, with gains east of Epehy and advances south of Villers Guislain. Mouevres repulse and La Bassée area fighting noted, as Paris reports heavy artillery nearby. Washington announces plan to sell rail and Pullman tickets in one transaction by November 1.
Nazareth, the boyhood home of Christ, fell to General Allenby as British cavalry cut off retreating Ottoman units. About 18,000 prisoners and 120 guns were captured, with Nazareth, Afule, and Beisan occupied. British forces reported a decisive victory and minimal losses while pursuing scattered Turkish troops.
The United States asks ambassadors worldwide to secure immediate action by neutral and allied governments to condemn Bolshevik crimes in Petrograd and Moscow. Washington reports thousands of executions without trial and crowded prisons, seeking universal abhorrence of the terror.
Food Administrator Hoover calls for a bold 1919 plan to cut waste and halve per person weekly bread and meat consumption. He says saving food can boost Allied shipments to France by 5.78 million tons and save American lives, with no wheatless or meatless days required.
Captain William Moffett announced 4500 Spanish influenza cases at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station with over 1000 transfers to the base hospital. The death rate was about 1 ½ percent, lower than the eastern rate, as warmer weather reduced admissions and virulence. Two regiments, the Fifth and Tenth, reported no deaths.
British forces push toward Turkish positions with reported advances and a growing tally of prisoners as the front develops. The action centers on contested lines and supply routes, signaling a deepening engagement in the region.
British and American forces report a German raid on U S positions met with a heavy American artillery barrage. French forces claim success at Vendeuil and near Cambrai as German civilians evacuate Cambrai. Turkish Seventh and Eighth Armies are reported wiped out with heavy enemy losses and many prisoners taken.
Reports from Palestine indicate two Turkish armies have been wiped out with about forty thousand men captured along with guns and war matériel. Serbians advance twenty five miles, totaling about forty miles into Bulgarian defenses.
Families in the area receive help from the Red Cross and navy relief society. Lieut Comdr Owen J Mink cites Great Lakes findings that nasal sprays with Dobell's solution and mild antiseptics help prevention. Infected individuals should rest in bed. treatment favors cathartics, hot drinks, Dover's powders and aspirin for pain. Station remains open to visitors.
A Kiev dispatch says a soldier fired twice at Leon Trotzky in Kursk but missed. In Kansas, William Morgen, Kansas lieutenant governor and Hutchinson News publisher, leaves for France to work with the YMCA troops for the war effort.
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