France Alarmed as War Readiness Is Questioned
In Washington, M. Clemenceau faced sharp Senate criticism over France’s war preparedness. Charles Humbert alleged inferior artillery and armor, shortages of boots and ammunition, and insufficient fortifications. War Minister McMessimy acknowledged some points, while Clemenceau urged a full government program to address the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
Senate
Maris
Mokiumbert
McMessimy
Mirtyrer
M Humbert
Hal Mate
Oder
Gsoan
Clearing House to Issue Emergency Notes Amid Financial Turmoil
Clearing House committee recommended issuing clearing house certificates as a precaution to stabilize markets after the European financial crash. Banks feared disorder among weaker institutions and foreign patrons while the government prepared direct telegraph ties to the Treasury. Opposition dissolved once wartime hostilities began, with bankers deeming action highly prudent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thase Clearing House
Paris
Rankera
New York
Inentu
Iona
Stata
State Banking Department
Europe
Washington
McAdoo
Treasury Department
National Currency Commission
Clearing House Committee
Germany
France
Russia
Ships Whose Listed Sailings May Be Prevented by European Crisis
The document lists many ships scheduled to sail from various ports but notes that war conditions may prevent Hamburg-America and North German Lloyd lines from sailing. Several vessels are already requisitioned or held up, including La Provence and Imperator, with numerous sail dates across Liverpool London Southampton and French ports, reflecting widespread disruption and insurance concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd
la Provence
France
Government aid for Americans via embassy funds and credits
The State Department seeks to aid Americans abroad by issuing embassy checks and letters of credit through embassies and consulates. Plans include loans, traveler’s checks, and exchange of funds for passage. Agencies aim to hire funds via corporate remittances and emergency congressional appropriation. Thousands of telegrams flow to European posts as refugees seek sustenance and travel home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
United States
Europe
Washington
Mexico
Congress
England
Department
Battleships of England and Germany Ready to Fight
A list of British dreadnoughts and battle cruisers with tonnages, plus the German fleet at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven, detailing numbers of dreadnoughts, destroyers, torpedo boats, and submarines. It notes England’s home fleet protection and German strengths for an initial torpedo battle scenario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Germany
North ‘Sea
New Men for Council and City Board Shuffle
The article outlines expected new council members and a reorganization of boards beginning Sept. 1 led by I. F. Marbury moving to the First ward delegation and K. Field likely to chair the upper board. It notes no opposition to Field’s election yet and hints at potential rivalries and committee shakeups. Also reported are local incidents: David Grayson found unconscious near King Street. George Willett injured at a trestle. J. W. Bartlett funeral. auto crash injuries. and plans for a fall firemen carnival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Grayson
Hboff
Washington Post Burdat
King Street
Alexandra
I. F. Marbury
Board of Aldermen
First Ward
Common Council
Aldreman K. Field
Field
Tower Board
Robey D. Brumback
Howard W. Smith
Fairfax County
Alexandria
Mooffs Run
Grayson
Young and
Talbot
Alexandria Hospital
Walter A. Warfield
Party differences in Congress over war funding
United States avoids special British banker fund. Government plans to retain gold domestically while offering Europe paper in exchange. Debate centers on minimizing war impact and distributing EMT aid. The article notes partisan divides but asserts a united stance on core financial policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
United States
Europe
Government cooperates with bankers in banking shield plan
The United States ships $100 million Aldrich Vreeland currency to New York subtreasury as official circles say the government will not fund British banks. McAdoo and Williams head to New York to discuss foreign exchange, reserves, and a rapid, united response to market strains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Washington
United States
White House
Treasury Department
McAdoo
Willams
Congress
Ulrich-Vreeland
Williams
Clearing House
Chicago
St. Louis
Meadge
McAdaoeft
Treasury
Aldrich-Vreeland
Mr. McAdoo
Max May
Guaranty Trust Company
August St.rich
Ladenburg, Thalman & Co
Franklin Q. Brown
Redmond & Co
Paul M. Warburg
Federal Reserve Board
Adolph C
England
York Foreign Exchange
Europe
Epeche
House
Senate
Federal Reserve Banking
Reserve Board
McReynoldg
John Burke
George E. Roberts
Mint
Burka
Regervs
Ita
Biggest warship of all to be 620 feet long
London reports at Armstrong yard on the Tyne a battleship for a foreign navy, likely Brazilian. The vessel will be 620 feet long, 94 wide, 30,500 tons, with eight 15 inch guns, fourteen 6 inch, ten 4 inch, two torpedo tubes and 151/2 inch armor on belt barbettes and shields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Armstrong
Tyne
Turkey
Greece
Royal Sovereign
Clark to Speak at Massachusetts Ave Block Carnival
Speaker Clark of the House will address the opening of the block carnival on Massachusetts avenue between Tenth and Eleventh streets tonight and tomorrow. Baby parade Tuesday and a musical program Wednesday highlight the Park Road Methodist Protestant Church event season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark
House of Representatives
Massachusetts Avenue
Tenth
Eleventh
Park Road Methodist Protestant Church
Chicago Banks Move to Clearing House Basis
Chicago banks will adopt a clearing house certificate system tomorrow and savings depositors must notify withdrawals. A four banker committee of the Chicago Clearing House Association approved the plan to curb further extraordinary gold exports from the United States.
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Clearing House Committee
Seasion
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Messrs
Harding
Hamlin
Clearing House Association
Clearing Hole Committee
Chicago
Cocaga Clearing House Association
United States
Embassy officials defer on decision on transporting home Americans
Officials could not state whether a plan to send transport for hundreds of American girl students and chaperones home from the continent has been decided. Washington dispatches indicate the President is weighing the question. Judge Felder of Atlanta plans a Hotel Cecil meeting tomorrow to urge action. The girls study music and languages and travel with chaperons. arrivals from the continent call their situation unhappy.
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Congress
New York
Aldrich-Weeland
Treasury
Banka
Hurden American Finance
Washington
Judge Felder
Atlanta
Hotel Cecil
United States
Bert
Paris
Aix Les Baines
Reroupiers
Cunard Steamship Company
Liverpool
Great Britain
Colonial Office
Duke of Connaught
Canada
Earl of Liverpool
New Zealand
Antwerp
Kroonland
Europe
Chicago Railway Commission
Germany
Austria
Agivic Guard
Virginians Marooned by Europe Travel Slowdown
A list of prominent Virginians stranded abroad as steamship timetables halt in Europe. Included are Judge R. T. Duke Mrs Duke George R. B. Michie Neville G. Henshaw University of Virginia figures such as President Edwin A Alderman Prof Thomas Fitzhugh Willam Muse Hunley and others in London Paris and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Duke
Scotland
England
George R. B. Michle
People’s National Bank
Gaughter
London
Neville G. Henshaw
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virgnia
Alderman
Thomas Fitzhugh
Fitzhugh
Germany
Willam Muse Hunley
University of Virginia
James Cook Bardin
Albert G. A Balz
Spain
Paris
Myrtle Rea
M. L Rea
Lucy Whately
Walter Whately
Crozet
John QO. Beaty
Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature
France
R. C. M. Page
E A. Moulton
Naples
Christian T Stegar
War Lesson For U S Gen Wood Dispatches Regimental Reforms
Maj Gen Leonard Wood urges expansion of the U S army arguing for infantry units of 190 men per company, more regiments and twelve extra field artillery battalions, seven more engineer companies, and additional technical troops to meet expanded duties in the Philippines Hawaii and Panama. He also calls for more guns and ammunition for field artillery to shorten mobilization time and warns delays would ruin war chances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
United States
Leonard Wood
Sta of the Arms
Department of the East
Wood
Philippines
Hawaii
Panama
Flight Almost Panicked Flight as Americans Fend for Seats
Americans crowded London stations waiting hours for trains as engines of war neared. Paris hotels close, services desert, and Americans seek aid and cash letters of credit while authorities seize autos and food runs vanish.
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Humbert
M. Clemenceau
Mo Humbert
Moselle
Rhine
Toulon
Verduane
M Clamenceau
Indi
New York Exchange
Oceania
Vaterlan
St. Lou
WooKaiser
North German
Olympic + White Star Aus
Grant Hamburg
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Olympia
White Star
George Washipeton
Loyd Boulogne
New Amaterdam
Holland
America -Holland-America
Noordam
Ryndam
Holland-America
Rotterdam
Belgium
New Amsterdam
Marquette
Finland
Lapland
Treasury ‘Department
Wremen
Bremen
Friedrich der Groase
Kaiser Wilhelm
Hamburg
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Vaterland
Pretoria
President Grant
Hamsue-Americ
Adriatic Sea
Trieste
Katherin Franz Joseph
Altonia Ib
Belveder
Saxonia
Marthe
Austriatrar
Kaiger Franz Joseph
Carpathia
Belvedere
Aerie
Cunard
Mediterranean
Genoa
Koenig Albert
North
Ger
Princess Irene
Garpathia
Madonna
Kcente Albert North
Prinzess Irene North
Palermo
Kaiser Franz Joseph x Str
Fevenis ‘Albert
Altonia
Martha Washington
Gibraltar
Ivernia
Koenig
Fabre Cunard
Fabre Man
Cumberland
Bianka Barton
Barton
Taspbaugh, Markwood and
Lippold
North Sea
Tiger
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Mary
Lion
Princess Royal
Ajar
Audacious
Centurion
King George V
Conqueror
Monarch
Orion
Thunderer
Colossus
Hercules
Neptune
Collingwood
St. Vincent
Vanguard
Superb
Kiel
Wilhelmshaven
Oldenburg
Helgeland
Ostfriesland
Thuringen
Friedrich der Grosse
Goeben
Moltke
von der Tann
Posen
Rheinland
Westfalen
Nassau
Kaiserin
Prinz Regent
Luitpold
Mans
Alexandrians
Hague
George Willett
Washington-Virginia Railway Company
Little Hunting Creek
Mount Vernon
J. W. Bartlett
J. William Bartlett
Wilkes Street
Mr. Clark
the Baptist Church
Manassas
Bethel Cemetery
James B. Fitzgerald
J. Owen Lynch
King and Alfred Streets
Mr. Lynch
Relief Took and Ladder Company
Cable
Times
The
Roosevelt
Japan
Grant
North Germany
America
Brazil
Throng TU
U.S
Gen. Wood
Guantanamo
Panama Canal
Gontinten
Beng
Oscar Straus
Dieppe
Catala
L ¥ Banet
W Os Dallba
Charles Carroll
del Willam Jat
Judge Henry & Priest
Wiliam P Piexotio
James Deering
United States Treasury
Faris
Carlton
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