French Gain Ground As Gury, Bray Fall In Battle
Paris reports French troops captured Gury and Haig says allied forces advanced east of Fouquescourt and near Bray. British and American units pressed the Somme front, seized Proyart, and took hundreds of German prisoners. Air actions dominated with missions against bridges while tank crews and infantry push toward the Hindenburg line.
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Paris
Gury
Roye
London
Somme
Oise
Fouquescourt
Proyart
Bray
Haig
Associated Presa
France
Associated Press
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Bethincourt
Perona
Chauuly
Parvillers
Damery Andechy
L’echelle Armanecourt Dancourt
Popincourt
Rogersgur-Matz
Mareuil
Samson
Antoval
Ribecourt
Hindenburg
Avre
Roye-sur- Matz
Chevincourt
Vesle
Fismes
Monastir
Seres
Officials report Allied advance in Somme area and Picardy
London dispatch details French and British gains on the Somme and in Picardy with large prisoner and gun captures. French forces push toward Roye Des Loges and Thiescourt plateau while German resistance remains stiff north of the Somme. Nearly 40,000 prisoners and 700 guns reported taken by Allies.
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Roye
France
Associated Press
Avre
Ose
Thiescourt
Noyon
Ribecourt
Paris
Picardy
Anna Held Dies after Long Illness in New York
New York August 12 Actress Anna Held died late today after several months of illness from myeloma a rare spinal marrow disintegration. She had been gravely ill since April and repeatedly rallied until a pneumonia attack weeks ago. Doctors cited her remarkable will power as key to brief recoveries.
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New York
Anna Held
Miss Held
Carmen Strike for Increase on Cham bersburgh Line
Special to The Washington Post from Hagerstown Maryland reports more than half the trainmen on the Chambersburg Green Castle and Waynesboro Electric Railway, a branch of the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway, are on strike. Last week they won an increase to 25 to 28 cents an hour and now demand 35 cents and 40 cents for certain jobs.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
Chambersburgh
Green Castle
Waynesboro
Hagerstown and Frederick
Victims Gassed by U-Boat Reported Out of Danger
Communications from the Cape Fear River coast guard at Smith's Island report that none of the victims aboard the lighthouse crew or life saving station personnel suffered serious injury. The event involved a brood of chickens killed and other animals gasping after a U-boat incident near Wilmington.
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Wilmington
Coast Guard
Smith’s Island
Cape Fear
Lghthouse
Charles Swann
Coast Guards
Willis
Navy Department
Colquitt Denies German Propaganda Conference
Dallas report says former Texas governor Colquitt denied attending any conference to buy a New York newspaper as German propaganda. He recalled a January 1915 New York trip for other business and said any discussion with Texas men about the New York Sun was informal and unproductive. He denied meetings with Dr Dernberg or negotiations aiming to disloyalize the United States.
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Dallas
Tex
O B
Colquitt
Texas Today
New York
Becker
Texas
New York Sun
Dernberg
Viereck
Hugh M Smith
Bureau of Fisheries
New England
United States Fisheries Service
Smith
Gloucester
Fisheries Service
Sweden
Our First Defeat in War Report Sparks Debate in Berlin
Amsterdam reports a military writer suggesting withdrawal to new German positions to avoid heavier losses. Berlin papers question reverses and censures, with Ludendorff and Turkish attach contrasting views on the Marne. The Somme to avre defeat blamed on troops and Von Kuehlmann speech. Vorwaerts urges truth.
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Amsterdam
Berlin Zeitung Am Mittag
Hague
Berlin
Munich
Ludendorff
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Hamburg
The
Marne
Deutsches Zeitung
Somme
Avre
Orase
Rupprecht
Bavaria
von Kuehlmann
Vorwaerts
Foch thanks America for aid and continued support
Mme Le Marshal Foch expresses profound gratitude to America for aid to French widows and orphans, praising American generosity via the Lafayette Memorial Fund. She appeals for ongoing assistance, noting relief to victims and the duty of France to share in the Allied victory effort.
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New York
America
Mme le Marshal Foch
John Moffatt
Lafayette
France
Slavs Arrest Aliens Move of Bolshevik Center Planned
Reports from Moscow via Berlin describe wholesale arrests of allied nationals and a planned move of the Bolshevik government from Moscow to Kronstadt. Lenine and Trotzky are said to be there with prisoners, while German ambassador Helfferich fears for staff safety and relocates to Pskov amid a growing food crisis and intensified anti-Czech campaigns.
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Amsterdam
Moscow
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
Kronstadt
Lenine
Trotzky
Soviets
Russia
Tageblatt of
Helfferich
Pskov
Petrograd
Rugana
Vossische Zeitung
Helferrich
Russian Empire
Volga
Samara
Simbirak
Central
Glia
Pravda
Soviet Republic
Slayer of Von Eichhorn Executed in Kiel
Amsterdam reports Boris Dan skle, the assassin of Herman von Eichhorn, was executed in Kiel after a German military court confirmed sentence. The ruling was pronounced Saturday and carried out immediately.
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Amsterdam
Boris Dan~skle
Wield Muraha
Herman von Hichhorn
Kiel
British Raid Night Assault Near Asiago Attains 360 Prisoners
Italian front report details a coordinated British operation between midnight and 4 AM along the Asiago line. About a dozen raids targeted dugouts and machine gun positions, reaching the town outskirts and taking 360 prisoners with enemy casualties. The action lit the mountain night with flares and shellfire, leaving the area in smoke and darkness as troops withdrew.
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Ward Price
London Times
Washington Post
the Public Ledger
Italy
Asiago
Brea
Peace offensive begun at Munich
Amsterdam reports a new peace offensive linked to Prof J Quidde of Vienna Prof Heinrich Lammasch of Budapest and Bishop Frankner of the Meman Catholic Church in Hungary. They seek a secret ballot by belligerent representatives to exchange peace views via interparliamentary groups.
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Amsterdam
Munich
Tageblatt
Berlin
J. Quidde
Vienna
Heinrich Lammasch
Budapest
Frankner
Meman Catholic Church
Hungary
Tec Interparliamentary
Wnier
Christiania
Quidde
Lammasch
Quiddie
Germany
Wilson
British Down Big Zeppelin Over English Channel
British airmen report sinking a large German Zeppelin off the English coast after close aerial attacks. The airship, observed at daybreak, was destroyed in flames following a brief fight with Royal Air Force planes.
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London
East Coat
Royal Air Tores
U Boat Gas Attacks Coast and Sinks Vessels
Reports from Nantucket and Georges Bank indicate German U boats attacked the Atlantic coast with gas and depth charges. A destroyer fired on a submarine east of Virginia, possibly sinking or damaging it. Six men were gassed on Smith Island NC, with no deaths, as officials warn of continued submarine activity and potential coastal strikes.
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Washington Post Co
Atlantic Seaboard
Nantucket
Coast Guard
Smith Island
North Carolina
Virginia
Daniels
Navy Department
Daniele
Sixth Naval District
Charleston
Col Chase
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Caswell
N Cc
Willis
Smith Inland Guard
Smith's Island
Cape Fear
Wilmington
Atlantic
Seashde
New England
Patie
Associated Press
Mass
Penistone
Georges Bank
Penistons
Boston
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Herleville
Carmen
HM Paper
Mme. Foch
Enine
Gelfferich
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von Eichhorn
Kiev
Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
United States
Supreme Court
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Public Service Commission
Navy
Ay Albert W. Fox
Syd‘land
Almers
Massachusetts
Fisheries Division
Food Administration
Washington
James Phelan
Stoddard
Phelan
U.S. Fisheries Service
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Robert Wharton
Robert
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Robert and
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