Thrilling flight over Kovel fronts reveals German air mastery
Chief correspondent Carl W. Ackhaman flies with German aviators near Kovel. He notes a machine like precision in German operations, sees 20 aircraft bombing Michailovka rail lines, surveys troops moving to front, and reports Russian defenses described as crippled while Kovel is fortified for winter.
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Kovel
Kaiser
Czar
Carl W. Ackhaman
von Linningen
Klevel
Berlin
Volhynian
Michailovka
Stokhod
Gangs Levy On Society Plea To Gregory For Help
Federal Secret Service agents deployed to Atlantic City Cape May Bar Harbor and other resort towns to trap gang blackmailers report a society woman paid nearly 100000 in hush money. Justice Department notes a gay summer season saw numerous cases and police cooperation is improving as arrests are anticipated.
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Federal
Secret Service
Atlantic City
Bar Harbor
Cape May
Department of Justice
Gregory
Agmeroud
Revolt Plot and Mass Arrests in Chihuahua City
Gen Jacinto Trevino announced the thwarted revolutionary plot to seize Chihuahua City led by former bandit chieftains. About 100 were held including Jose Ynez Salazar Felix Terrazas H Ramos Ricardo Eulogio Ortiz and Ventura Rodriguez. The prisoners face court martial and possible execution. In Juarez police seized arms ahead of potential unrest as calls to unrest endure across border cities. Union leaders in New York press for eight hour day while rejecting arbitration and threatening a nationwide rail strike involving hundreds of thousands of workers.
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Chihuahua City
Mex
Jacinto Trevino
Jose Ynes Salazar
Felix Terrazas
H. Ramos Ricardo
Pasqual Orozco
Eulogio Ortiz
Col
Ventura Rodriguez
Trevino
Canute Reyes
II Juarez
el Paso
Tax
Chihuahua
Juares
New York
Wilson
Four Brotherhoods
Federal Board of Mediation and
American aviator Dowd killed in a fall near Paris
Dennis Dowd a Brooklyn lawyer who joined the French flying corps last May was killed at Buc near Paris when his aeroplane fell from about four feet after loss of control observed by friends. Dowd nearly finished training for a pilot certificate, had the best record among Americans at Buc aviation school, and was engaged to Mile Paulette Parent da St Glyn of Neuilly. He graduated from Georgetown and Columbia Law School and had practiced in Birmingham before the war.
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Washington Post
Paris
Dennis Dowd
Brooklyn
French Flying Corps
Foreign Legion
Buc
Dowd
Buc Aviation School
Mile Paulette Parent da St Glyn
Neuilly
Georgetown
Columbia Law School
Birmingham
Ala
French and Russians Drive Front Advances on 30 Mile Somme Sector
French forces pierced defenses along a 30 mile front north of the Somme, taking Maurepas village and 1,000 German prisoners with 30 machine guns. Russians seized the 35 mile Stripa line from Tarnopol to Buczacz, turning flanks by capturing Brody and Stanislau as Gan. Letchitzky’s advance moves south of Stanislau.
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Maurepas
Stripa
van Halicz
Kosloff
Tarnopol
Buczacz
Brody
Stanislau
Gan
Letchitzky
Dashing Attack Sweeps Germans Third Lines
Paris Aug 12 French forces breached the third German line from Hardecourt to Buscourt, advancing 6% kilometers and taking trenches to 3,000 meters depth. Maurepas village fell with about 1,000 prisoners and 39 machine guns captured, as German counterattacks failed. Violent artillery duels continued near Verdun and the Somme, with French and British forces repulsed by German fire.
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Paris
Somme
Hardecourt
Buscourt
War Office
Maurepas
Clery
D’ery
Aniecourt
Verdun
Fleury
Vaux-Chapitre
Hem Wood
Bomme
la Maisorette
Hem Station
Vaux
Chapiré
Chenoin
Berlin
London
France
Thiaumont
Fortified Villages on Stripa River Occupied
Petrograd reports that the main enemy winter line before Tarnopol and Buczacz has fallen under Russian control. The statement notes the coinciding birthday celebration for Grand Duke Alexei Nikolaievich with the battering down of the enemy fortifications from the Pripet River to the Romanian frontier.
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Petrograd
Tarnopol
Buczaca
Alexia Nikolaievitch
Pripet River
Fortified Villages Fall in Smuggling War Report
A wartime news brief describes German advances and Soviet counter moves, naming Gen. Brussioff and others as they seize villages around Tarnopol and Stanislau. It notes enemy retreat, river crossings, and railway disruptions, with a later line about a Berlin statement on Bystritza and Dniester maneuvers and a schedule listing a reduced rate to Boston.
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Sareth
Weerna
Buezacs
Slobodkagurna
Folvarki
Monasteriyska
Monasterayska
Csortkott
Ziota Lipa
Norovanka
Krasecruv
Uselezelions
Stanislau
Bystritza- Nadvornaskol
Bystritza-Solotvina
Bride of Walter Hines Page’s Son Dies Abroad
Mrs. Frank Copeland Page, 25, daughter in law of Ambassador Walter Hines Page, died of infantile paralysis at summer home in Long Island after returning from their wedding trip to London. Katherine Sefton, formerly of Auburn, N Y, married to Frank Page last June, died with her husband present. Doctors believe onset occurred after their return, with death following a brief illness. Separate note: seven New York adults offered blood for serum production as part of ongoing treatment efforts while sixty children have already received the serum and showed improvement.
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Frank C. Page
Katherine Sefton
London
New York
Frank Copeland Page
Walter Hines Page
United States
Great Britain
South Garden City
Long Island
Page
Katherine Setton
Frederick Sefton
Auburn
Charles D Osborne
Harvard
Ambassador Page
Garden City
New York City
Sinking of Temmel Maru and other wartime shipping losses
A Japanese steamer Temmel Maru of 3,360 tons was sunk by a submarine that showed no flag after shelling without warning. Six crewed aboard were said to have been fired upon while taking refuge in boats. Reports detail multiple Allied and neutral vessels sunk or held up by German and Italian submarines in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, with crews rescued or missing as ships were torpedoed or scuttled.
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Garrateon
Newlands
Garretson
Mediterranean
Vladivostok
New York
Havre
Auk
Marie
Credo
Boro
Cmps
Robert
Madrid
Antiope
Nicola Athananoulfe
Kealian
Turkish Forces Headed For European War Front
London report cites Berliner Tageblatt via Reuters that Turkish troops from Asiatic provinces move to Europe under a great aegis. The transport includes Arabs and newly equipped soldiers. The route book notes road impacts.
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Berliner Tageblatt
Reuters
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Feld
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