Carranza 15 Likely to Thwart Peace Talks
Reports from Washington indicate growing distrust that Gen Carranza will cooperate with the pan American effort to end Mexico's factional strife. Ortega and Cordoza have departed Mexico City, leaving no Latin American or Brazilian representation there as diplomats plan to resume talks in New York and discuss a Buenos Aires financial congress in September.
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Lansing
Gotham
Buenos Aires
Canada
el Paso
Mexico City
Juan Ortega
Carranza
Carranza Ortegas
Mexico
M Cordoza
Ortega
Alao
Washington
Mendex
New York
New York City
McAdoo
United States
Langing
Newton
Cardoza
O Shaughnessy
Vera
Crus
Senor da Gama
da Sama
Kaiser Makes Peace Offer to Russia Declined by Czar
London dispatch reports Kaiser proposed a separate peace via the King of Denmark with Russia to yield Galicia while Germany kept western Poland. Petrograd officials deny any peace negotiations, with the proposal dismissed as unworthy in duma lobbies.
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Kaiser
Russia
Czar
London
Reuter
Petrograd
Boerse Gazette
Denmark
Germany
Duma
Vedernee Vremya
Galicia
Poland
Foreign Office
Dunkirk Business Continues Between Shells in Bombardment
In Dunkirk France the German gun from Flanders fires at five minute intervals. The city keeps functioning with residents using half a minute to reach cellars between blasts. The post office sees clerks and customers vanish to the basement 40 minutes after the first shell, then return to resumes normal business after the explosion.
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Dunkirk
France
Flanders
General Post Office
French Say British Lack Courage At Gallipoli
Overseas News Agency reports friction between French and British officers at Gallipoli Peninsula. Telegraphs from Athens say they were forbidden to converse amid claims the British have lost courage due to heavy losses.
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Straits
Berlin
Aug
Sayville
Athens
Gallipol Peninsula
Brazilian Ettvoy Seeks Warship Trip to Key West
Mexico City reports Brazilian Minister to Mexico Jose Manuel Cardoza de Olveira asks Washington for a warship to sail him from Veracruz to Key West on his way to Washington for talks with Brazilian and U.S. officials. Carranza forces recaptured water works and electric plant. no disorders noted.
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Ettvoy
Mexico
Key West
Mexico City
Jose Manuel Cardoza de Olveira
United States
State Department
Washington
Fla
Ancient tablet links Noah to early death curse
Philadelphia report on a Sumerian tablet in the University of Pennsylvania Museum claiming Noah disobeyed the cassia tree command and earned a curse of early death. Langdon and Oxford scholars date the tablet older than Genesis, suggesting 4 000 to 5 000 years of tradition precedes biblical records.
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Cassia Tree
Waa
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Philadelphia
Adam
Rye
Noah
Steven Langdon
Oxford University
England
Garden of Paradise
Langdon
Russian casualties put at 3,500,000 by mid July
The Daily Mail reports unofficial Russian losses up to mid July total 3.5 million in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Despite this heavy toll, the Russian people remain cheerful and confident of final victory as the war drags on.
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London
Daily Mail
Landslide wrecks village in Newport area
Special cable reports seven killed and many injured when a massive landslide devastated the village of Ragogna on the Simpson one Duchess de Chaulnes and sister Miss Shonis introduce new style nose veils during morning gown adjournment. Several items note on sale and travel guides tied to Washington Post promotions.
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Washington Post
Geneva
Ragogna
Simpsonone
Duchess de Chaulnes
Miss Shonis
Newport
KR. L
Duchess de Ines
Paris
Theodore Shonis
New York
Marguerite Shonis
Law York
Richmond
Price
Columbia Theater
Mary Pickford
Crown Prince Drives German Push in Vosges Front
Front dispatches report the crown prince pressing toward Verdun as French troops bolster defenses on Hill Nos 213 and 218. German assaults falter, French bayonets and artillery repelling advances, while Belgians retreat under heavy bombardment near the Yser. Limiting violence, Alsace fighting noted with German attempts near Schatzmannels repelled.
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Washington Post
London
Crown Prince
Issul
Vosges
Verdun
Paris
Aldaie
Alsace
Linge
Schratzmannels
Honneck
Attempted assassination of Russian official in Petrograd
Reuters reports in London that an attack aimed at M Neratoff, assistant Russian minister of foreign affairs, occurred in his room. The assailant, a former department official, rushed in with an axe, drew a revolver, and was overpowered by attendants after the weapon was wrested from him. He was dismissed two years ago and is believed demented.
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London
M Neratoff
Reuter
Petrograd
M. Neratoff
British Sink Ships to Build Dardanelles Bridge
British forces sunk five Italian ships off Gallipoli filled with ballast to form a bridge for landing heavy artillery. A Vossische Zeitung report says a British submarine did not blow up the Galata Stam boul bridge, per a reliable source.
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Dardanelles
Milan, Aug
Gallipoli
Vossrache Zeitung
Galata
Stamboul
Six Mexican bandits killed at Norias ranch Texas
Coroua Christi Aug 8 six Mexicans killed and three Americans wounded after a raid on Norias ranch 40 miles north of Sarita. Mexicans returned later and battle spread as ranch men barricaded in the house. A special train with volunteers and troops was sent from Sarita Brownsville and Kingsville for aid.
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Coroua Christi
Tex
Nortas Ranch
Noria
Norias Ranch
Sarita
Brownsville
Kingsville
Sanita Ig
Norias
United States
Carrans Likely to Block Peace in Balkans War News
A compact item notes Carrans likely to block peace as tensions rise in Balkan fronts with related references to France, Haiti customs, and Allied support shifts. Other brief items mention government actions and military considerations across pages.
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Carrans
Boy Hills
Haiti
Balkans
Serock
Pullman
Louisiana
Clem
Army
Atlantic City
Ltd
Ison
Hoke Smith
Navy League
George Williamson
Washington
Balkans Move Toward Allies Greece Poised to Act
Dispatches from Rome and London report Balkan nations settling differences and Bulgaria near aligning with the allies. Serbia may cede Macedonia to Bulgaria while Greece resists Kavala return unless Venizelos returns. Turkey reinforces Adrianople-Lule Burgas defenses as Balkan diplomacy heats up and Constantine eyes neutrality.
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Venizelos
Constantine
Roumania
Rome
Ang
Tribuna
Balkans
Bulgaria
Greece
Serbia
Albania
Roymania
Balkan
Turkey
London
Macedonia
Kavala
Vilayet
Saloniki
M Venizelou
M Venizelos
Athens
Reuter
Sofia Sanys
Russia
Wilson’s Sunday Rush From Cabinet Reports to Rutland Ride
Important communications from Secretary of War Garrison Attorney General Gregory and Secretary of State Lansing occupied President Wilson’s attention for hours today. In the afternoon he, with his family, drove 125 miles to Rutland over the Green Mountains. Reports sent by Lansing concerned a conference with Pan American representatives on the Mexican situation. Status of the matter remains undisclosed tonight.
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Cornish
N. H
Garrison
Gregory
Lansing
Wilson
Rutland
Green Mountains
Lawsing
Forts of Serock Fall to Teutons
London reports German forces advancing on the Polish front as they cut Russian lines by capturing Fort Serock and nearby forts at Narew and Bug junction. They crossed the Vistula near Warsaw and threaten access to railways from Warsaw via Vilna and Dvina to Petrograd.
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Yser
London
Calata
Berlin
Albert
Serock
Russia
Warsaw
Nicholas
Narew
Ossowitz
New Japanese Cabinet Foreign Minister Kato Named
Tokyo reports Premier Count Okuma plans to stay in office temporarily as he forms a cabinet. The new lineup includes Count Shigenobu Okuma as foreign minister and Tokitoshi Taketomi as minister of marine, amid internal Okuma supporter dissent over retirement. The emperor asked Okuma to remain, while Osaka leaders press for his retirement.
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Count
Tokyo
Count Okuma
Shigenobu Okuma
Tokitoshi Taketomi
Tomosaburo Kato
Ichinosuke Oka
Yukio Ozeki
Katerido Minoura
Masakata Sengoku
Foreign Ministry
Takaaki Kaio
Okuma
Japan
Obuma
Osaka
Okuma Organization
Wxist
Austrian air raid devastates Belgrade and assaults Warsaw frontier
Reports from Geneva say Austrian aviators reduced Belgrade’s central railway station to ashes. German forces under von Buelow push along the Warsaw front near Lomza and Chelm, claiming breakthroughs and threatening the main Warsaw Vilna Dvinyk Petrograd railway. Russian defenses resist but fronts show severe strain as German infantry assault continues with gas.
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Geneva
Belgrade
Spana
Sosna
Petrograd
Dvinek
Ponlewesch
Jara River
Shis
von Buelow
Warsaw
Vilna
Dvinyk
Brest-Litovak
U-Boat Sinkings Hit British Swedish Vessels
London reports that the British steamer Glenravel of Belfast 1039 tons Swedish steamer Malmland 377% tons and trawler Ocean Queen were torpedoed by German U boats. Crews landed. Glenravel owned by Antrim Iron Gra Company Belfast Malmland owned in Gothenburg.
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London, Aug &Lloyds
Glenravel
Belfant
Malmland
Ocean Queen
Antrim Iron Gra Company
Belfast
Gothenburg
Maryland Steel Co. Wins 100,000-Ton Russian Rails Order
Baltimore August 8, the Maryland Steel Company announced it has secured a Russian government contract for 100000 tons of steel rails. The deal signals a major export and reinforces Maryland’s steel industry position amid wartime demand.
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Baltimore
Maryland Steel Company
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Georgetown University Hospital
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St. March
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Hait
Charles Morris
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Texas
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