French Drive Puts Pressure Near Lassigny Massif
Paris Aug 13 The French resumed the offensive between the Matz and Oise rivers pushing north and east of Gury to threaten Lassigny as Oscar war office reports strong German resistance failed to halt the advance. Haig reports combined Allied losses and prisoner totals as 28,000 and 600 guns captured. The Germans hold crossfire on roads amid artillery fire.
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Foch
Noyon
Paris
Massif
Haig
Matz
Oise
Gury
Lassigny
War Office
French Gain Control Of Lassigny Massif In Advance
French forces repulsed a heavy German counter attack at Lassigny and gained control of the massif's southern end. Since the Montdidier Amiens offensive began August 8, Allied forces have taken about 28 000 men and 600 guns, with Lassigny and the Divette valley under French command. The loss is expected to shift German positions across a wide area within 48 hours.
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Lassigny
London
Montdidier-Amiens
Fourth Army
Haig
Ficardy
Divette
Official Paris report on World War I trench advances
The Paris official report states that during the day troops resumed attacks in the wooded area between the Matz and the Oise. Despite strong enemy resistance, they made progress to the north and east of Gury, gained a footing in the park of Plessier de Roye, and reached Belval. Eastward, lines advanced about two kilometers north of Cambronne.
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Paris
Matz
Oise
Gury
Plessier de Roye
Belval
Cambronne
War front notes from Aug 13 in France and Flanders
London dispatch reports progress north of the Roye road and on the Somme with more prisoners taken. A local enemy attack near Fouquescourt is repulsed, and patrols south of the Scarpe and near Vieux-Berquin yield a few prisoners. Merris sector repelled after sharp fighting alongside brief Paris update noting no major events and raids in Vosges and upper Alsace without results.
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London
Roye Road
Somme
Fouqguescourt
Scarpe
Arras
Vieux-Berquin
Flanders
Merris
Paris
Vosges
Upper Alsace
War Office statement on Zebra valley patrol at Height 2682
Official dispatch reports a patrol attacking an enemy post in the Zebra valley, killing some garrison and capturing survivors. It notes that if the key to Noyon falls, enemy retreat would be harder and that stabilizing the Roye Lassigny front marks the closing feature of the Avre battle’s first phase.
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Rome
War Office
Zebra Valley
Noyon
Roye-Lassigny
Avre
Lieut Cash Dead and Pool Hall Wounded
Lieut Frank H M Cash of 1300 Harvard Street NW has died after being reported seriously wounded. The casualty list also notes Paul Hull of Glenmont Maryland as wounded severely in action. Hull served on the Mexican border and trained at Camp McClellan before going overseas. Hull is 19 years old.
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Frank H. M. Cash
Harvard Street
Cash
Quentin
Roosevelt
Charles Taft
Paul Hull
Glenmont
Hull
Mexican
Camp McClellan
Wilson Proclaims Tight Rules on Shipping Board Powers
President Wilson issued a proclamation enforcing amendments to the Shipping Act to curb foreign control of American ships and shipyards. Selling mortgaging leasing or delivering an American vessel to a foreigner becomes a crime without board consent. Contracts for war related ship construction by foreigners and transfers of shipyard ownership without board consent are banned.
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Wilson
Shipping Board
442 Perish on French Transport in Mediterranean
Paris reports 442 men missing after torpedoing of the French steamer Djemnah between July 14 and 15 while en route Bizerta to Alexandria with troops. Fourteen days later the Mediterranean Australian was torpedoed. 17 sailors killed and 948 passengers saved with three missing. A third torpedoed vessel remained afloat.
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Associated Press
Paris
Djemnah
Mediterranean
Bizerta
Alexandria
Messageries Maritimes
Kehr Affgat
Trio of Lenin Trotzky Leaders Rally for Counter Revolution Fight
News from Amsterdam reports that a Soviet triumvirate led by Lenin Trotzky and Zinoviev has been given unlimited power to crush counter revolutionaries. A harsh manifesto promises annihilation of foes, with peasants who hide grain facing revolutionary courts and possible capital punishment for illicit traders. Emperor Charles of Austria will meet with Berlin and Vienna envoys to discuss pending questions at German main headquarters.
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Russia
Nikolai Lenine
Leon Trotzky
M. Zinovieff
Lenine
Moscow
Rhenische Westfallsche Zettung
Emperor Charles of Austria
Baron Burian
Prince von Hohenlohe
Berlin
Count von Wedel
Vienna
Frankfort
Britain Recognizes Ally In Czecho-Slovak Nation
London reports Britain has formally recognized the Czecho-Slovaks as an allied nation and their three armies as an allied force fighting the central powers. Italy and France already took similar steps. Washington weighs a similar course. Capt. Hurban cites Von Taube leading German and Austrian former prisoners with Bolsheviks in Siberia and notes his prior abuses of Slavic inmates.
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London
Mally
Italy
France
Lansing
Associated Press
Great Britain
T. G. Hasaryk
Czecho-Slovak National Council
Siberia
von Taube
Vladimir S. Hurban
Hurban
Irkutzk
Irkutsk
Heavy fight on Vesle near Masy points between Soissons and Rheims
Intense shelling and troop movements reported along the Vesle river between Masy and the Soissons Rheims corridor. Allied forces are probing positions as artillery confirms ongoing contact with enemy lines. No decisive breakthrough announced.
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Masy
Soissons
Rheims
U boat sinks British ship as war at sea continues
Off the north Atlantic coast a British armed merchantman claims to have sunk a U boat after a battle. The Norwegian steamer Sommerstad was sunk near Fire Island, with 31 crew saved. The attack follows earlier submarine tolls near New York and a plan to protect convoys with new anti submarine craft.
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Atlantic
North Atlantic
New York
Sommerstad
Fire Island
San Diego
United States Shipping Board
Bergen
Norway
Newcastle
England
Record
A. F Klaveness & Company
Wilson and Daniels discuss U boat threat off Atlantic coast
President Wilson and Secretary Daniels focus on German submarine campaign near American shores. They weigh policy once more as U boat actions escalate, with emphasis on protecting troops and munitions while aiding Allies in the war zone.
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Daniels
Navy Department
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