French and Canadians push near Roye front lines
Paris reports French and Canadian troops advanced three miles west of Roye with deeper gains at Bois des Loges south of Roye. British repulsed a Damery attack and pressed toward Fresnoy les Nose and Fransart as German efforts around Somme face heavy resistance. Reports cite captured positions, prisoner counts, and continued artillery operations along the Lys and Somme fronts.
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Paris
Guyencourt
Laucourt
Roye
Bois Des Loges
London
Damery
Frrench
Fresnoy Les Nose
Fransart
Haig
Tyanen
Laourenne
Somme
Ese
Ratiltes
Stronges
Fresnoy Les Roye
War front dispatches from Paris and London Aug 16
Allied and German fronts report continued fighting across northern France with pushes near Roye Avre and Lassigny. French and Canadian forces advance on Guyencourt St Mard les Triot Laucourt and Loges wood while Villers les Rose and Ribecourt change hands amid heavy artillery activity and shifting German lines.
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Paris
Roye
Avre
Guyencourt
St. Mard-les-Triot
Laucourt
Loges Wood
Vesle Front Aerial War U S Airmen Strike German Posts
American aviators along the Vesle fight a retaliatory gas and air bombing campaign by German forces while shells pound crossroads south of the Vesle. U S fliers bomb bridges near Aisne and Pommary Barancourt as Longuyon and Thiancourt are targeted with direct hits and warehouse strikes. Lieut Tobin of San Antonio is confirmed victor in an August 10 combat, while Lieut Miller of New York is killed August 3 after a patrol is attacked by a larger German force.
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Vesle
Aisne
Fismes
France
Thursdaug
Associated Press
Pommary-Barancgourt
Verdun- Metz
Longuyon
Verdun
Thiancourt
Thirncourt
Taat Dommary-Baroncourt
Edgar C. Tobin
San Antonio
Texas
Lieut
Miller
Paris
Walter B. Miller
New York City
Lafayette Escadrille
Germans Invite Neutral Attaches to Amiens Line
Amsterdam reports a Berlin dispatch stating neutral military attaches have gone to the Amiens Montdidier front signaling possible fresh German operations in Picardy. The note mentions the prior gathering of neutral attaches and war correspondents at the eve of the German offensive on March 21.
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Amiens
Amsterdam
Amiens-Montdidier Front
Berlin
Picardy
Leon Te
German War Losses Total 6 Million by July 1918
Paris reports from Associated Press say German total casualties from the war’s start to end of July 1918 are about 6,000,000. Of these, 1,400,000 were killed by the start of the German offensive in March. Between March 27 and June 17, 120,000 more were killed.
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Associated Press
Paris
Brazilian Motorship Madrugada Sunk Off Virginia Coast
The Brazilian motorship Madrugada, 1613 gross tons, was sunk by shellfire from a German submarine near Winter Quarter shoal off the northern Virginia coast. Captain Frederick Rouse and 21 crew members were rescued after four hours in lifeboats.
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New York
Winter Quarter Shoal
Virginia
Frederick Rouse
Tanker Burns Near Beaufort With U-Boat Nearby
A large oil tank steamer about 25 miles off Cape Ilatteras is afire as a submarine lies nearby. Crew members have been removed by fire guards. It is presumed the German sub fired the shelling that started the blaze.
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Beaufort
Cape Ilatteras
Fife Guards
President and Mrs Wilson Enjoy North Shore Day Outing
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson spent a restful day at a North Shore summer home in Manchester Mass. They walked before breakfast, golfed with Dr. Gary T. Grayson, and dined with Col. and Mrs. House. Gov. McCall visited briefly as crowds gathered but motor traffic was restricted for security. The couple later took a long evening motor ride with the Houses.
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Manchester
Mas
Col
House
Gov. McCall
Wilson
Mrs. Mouse
First American air squadron flies over German lines
The 18 De Haviland Liberty Motors aircraft led by Brig. Gen. Foulois crossed German lines in a 20,000 foot reconnaisance over the western front. The mission, lasting about 15 minutes, returned without casualties as observers gathered crucial behind-the-lines information.
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Washington Post Co
B. F. Foulois
Germany
Gen. Pershing
Baker
Foulois
de Havilands
Pershing
Nieuport
Humbert’s Army Advances North and Then Turns East
Gen Humbert explains his unit’s two phase push in the Thiescourt massif as part of Marshal Foch’s plan with Haig and Debeney. Humbert’s forces reached the Montdidier road, then wheeled east to join the other armies toward Roye, retaking Ribecourt and moving toward Noyon while vowing to fight until terms are forced on Germany.
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Humbert
Foch
France
Gerald Campbell
London Times
Washington Post
The
Public Ledger Co
Thiescourt
Haig
Deben
Nesle
Debeny
Roye
Thiencourt
Reye
Houlogne la Grasse
Conchy
Ricquebourg
Epincourt
Chevincourt
Danny-Gary
Mareuil
Cossacks Win On Don Reds Claim Gain In North
Don Cossacks push along the Don left bank toward Zaragin one day from march, while reports from Kiev say Voronezh government enters talks for a joint central authority. British troops move from India to Turkestan and guard Transcaspian Railroad to Kabul frontier amid Bolshevik gains in Archangel and Onega. 160000 Austro-German prisoners mobilized by Bolsheviks threaten Czecho-Slovaks. 1000 Czechs reach Harbin en route to join Semenoff.
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Amsterdam
Don Cossacks
Don
Zaragin
Kiev
Voronesh
Cologne Zeitung
Adolph Joffe
Berlin
Moscow
Wossische Zeitung
Baku
Caspian
India
Turkestan
Baluchistan
Persia
Turcymans
Bokhbarang
Transcaspian
Afghanistan
Indian
Balu
Engeli
Caspian Sea
Resht
Hamadan
Vladivostok
Siberia
Irkutsk
Harbin
Russia
Brest-Litovak
Peeseeie
Eastern Front Reconstructed to Divide German Forces
A wartime analysis argues for reshaping the eastern front to reduce German strength in the west. It outlines a new British right wing from Palestine and Mesopotamia to southern Russia and a northern Murman Archangel plan, linking to Russian nationalist areas and aiming to sever German supply lines and influence.
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East Front
Baltic
Hukovina
Corso
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Caucasus
Persia
Russia
Maudé
Ena
France
Palestine
Dimasus
Aleppo
Sin
Jerusalem
Mosul
Hetimes
Bagdad
Qur New Right
Murman Coast
Archangel
Qur New Left
Siberia
Finland
Germany
Open Sea
Scandinavia
Danish Sound
Kiel
Atlantic
Murman
Belgium
Vologda
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Lys
Heason
Hius
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Wrhead
Damers Wood
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Ten Wands
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Official War Reports
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Villers-les- Rose
Nesle-Noyon
Ribecoud
Lassigny-Oise
Noyon
Frens
Villers-Les- Rive
St. Aurin
Armancourt
Chaulnes-Rove
Damery Wood
Lassigny
Chasseurs
Plessier
Neyon
Ribecourt
Meuse
Antoval
I Vermont
Plemont
Somme Battle
Essarts
la Bassee
Parvillers
the Ancre
U.S
U. 3S
Yonguyon
Thiaucourt
Dommary- Baroncourt
Flying Corps
the Vesle
Hans
Sybil
Gloucester
Mass
Navy
Department
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Englan Éoast
Haviland
Liberty Motors
Pershing Cabres
America
Albert W. Fox
the Sunday Post
Rudyard Hkipling
Koch
Gen. Humbert
Offens
Montdidier
Montdidier- Compeigne
Rollot
Cuvilly
Cuvilly-Ressous-Chevincourt
Gury
St. Claude Farm
Montigny
Bethancourt
England
Clear River
REDS
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Czec
Onega
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Molionday
Aug. Ly
Semenoff
American Railway Commission
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Aly
Black Sea
Siberian
Herbert Sidebotham
the Public Ledger Co
Kuban
Sea of Asev
Den
den Amshi
Frdhive
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