French Driven From Lorraine After Six Days of Fighting
German forces pressed in Lorraine and Northern Belgium as French and Belgian troops retreated. Reports from Ostend and Namur describe heavy artillery actions and German advances toward Ghent and Ostend with Belgian resistance dwindling. The official bulletin highlights French efforts at Mulhausen and Altkirch, the shelling along the Meuse, and the capture of several German positions before a planned continuation on the next page.
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Brussels
Chateau Sahne
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Deline
Dieuze
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Muthausen
Dornach
Mulhausen
Altkirch
Alsace
Rhine
Upper
Carrie
Thann
French Court Martial for Germans Charged with Battlefield Robberies
One hundred Germans accused of robbing fallen soldiers arrived at Clermont Ferrand under guard to face a court martial before the Thirteenth army corps. Police guarded the crowd as valuables including jewels and money were found, with claims they wore Red Cross insignia to aid looting on the battlefield.
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Paris
Ug 21
Clermont Ferrand
Department
Puy-de-Dame
Malhan
Thirteenth Army Corps
Red Cross
Baltic Free From Foe Says Berlin Message
Berlin states the Baltic is free of hostile ships after repeated German navy reconnaissance up to the Finnish gulf. The message comes via Reuters with Amsterdam quoting an official source.
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Berlin
Tonden
Reuter Telegram Company
Amaterdam
Liege Receives 10 Million Dollar Province Tax
In Liege the burgomaster proclaims that the German military governor has levied a ten million dollar tax on the province. The tax will be collected by civil authorities. A Baltimore and Ohio rail fare is listed as 153 dollars round trip for Saturdays and Sundays with return by 9 am Monday.
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London
Liege
Baltimore and
Ohio
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio
Atlantic City
Belgians Await Siege at Antwerp After Brussels Fall
Antwerp prepares for a long siege as Belgians retreat from Brussels. Germany demands 40 million dollars from Brussels and bombs Namur while probing the French line near Dinant. German forces push west along the Meuse as French troops defeat a German cavalry detachment from Leopoldshohe and Hueningen. Russia hauls 880,000 troops via Russian Poland into Germany.
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Hueningen
Russia
Germany
Russian
Poland
New Rule on Censorship at Cables and Wireless
The President and Secretary of State weigh neutrality enforcement at U S cable offices and wireless stations In a plan drafted for German chargé Haniel von Helmhausen the aim is no censorship on cables and limited wireless controls If Germany approves the scheme would let German or other governments send code messages from Sayville wireless station under an American naval officer's supervision to block unneutral content The debate contrasts censors on cables vs wireless and seeks parity with England while noting the Hague convention and U S war information policy
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United States
Haniel von Helmhausen
Sayville
Long Island
Danials
Navy Department
Germany
England
Cities and Countryside Along Big Battle Front Laid Waste
Special Cebb to The Washington Post reports from London that Louvain has been reoccupied by the French, with Brussels exposed to potential house-to-house fighting. Belgian authorities vow to treat such actions as criminal, while German advances scorch towns and fields along a 30 mile front, with tens of thousands of German dead and Belgian resistance lauded as heroic in a grim war narrative.
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Washington Post
London
Alfred Stead
Daily Express
Qstead
Louvain
Brussels
Belgium
Diest
Tirlemont
Lancers
Light Brigade
Furious 2 Day Fight Rush Grain to France 240 Hold Off 2 000 Men
London August 22 Amsterdam Reuters telegram reports German Cavalry outflanked Belgian defenders near Diest Tirlemont St Trond as Germans advance across central Belgium. Belgians retreat in good order amid heavy casualties, a series of hard fought fields marks retreat. Railways lift embargo as 2,000,000 bushels of grain shipped to Europe for bread.
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Reuter Telegram Company
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Europe
Washington Post
New Orleans
France
Algiers
Allied Troops Retake Tirlemont in Belgian Counter Blow
Allied forces routed German units at Tirlemont last night, a move seen as a counter blow to hold Brussels and threaten their northern line between Huy and Namur. Reuters notes German cavalry patrols near Antwerp with ten prisoners taken in Magnes, while Brussels suburbs report telegraph and telephone lines being cut and rural mayors arming civil guards to deter attacks.
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Tirlemont
British War Press Bureau
Alles
Brussels
Helgiana
Antwerp
Belgium
Huy
Namur
Reuter
Magnes
Ghent
Japan Faces New Clash Over Tsingtau Port Defense
Austria may push Japan toward war over the Austria German squadron at Tsingtau, China. Japan has a U S policy declaration on its ultimatum to Germany. Germans mass Chinese corps around Tsingtau while Tokyo readies attack plans as the German ambassador prepares to leave. Japanese censors ban cables about U S or Hawaii relations.
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Japan
United States
Germany
Roosevelt withdraws endorsement sparks Progressive bid split
Theodore Roosevelt withdraws his support for former State Senator Harvey Hinman for New York governor on the Progressive ticket and pledges to back a straight Progressive campaign. He says he will not be Progressive candidate under any circumstance and aims to campaign across the state. Hinman’s Saratoga stand frustrates fusion efforts as Roosevelts’s camp commits to a full statewide fight.
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Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Harvey D Hinman
New York State
Col Roosevelt
Sagamore HI
Progressive Party
New York
Wilam Hotebbles
Frederick M Davenport
Col. Roosevelt
Hinman
Saratoga
Roosevelt
Sagamore Han
William H Childs
Japan May Declare War Against Austrians Next
Aug 21 Tokyo reports Japan ready to strike Germany and war with Austria if Germans refuse to yield. Austrian ship in Kiauchau and British ships nearby. Japanese officials warn of casus belli if Austrians stay with Germans. government censored, ships and troops movements tightly controlled. CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE.
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Japan
Tokyo
Germany
Austria
Kiauchau
Kiauchan
War
Navy
Japan Bans News On U S Relations and Hawaii Islands
Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports August 12 notices showing Tokyo queries unanswered and Japanese papers in Honolulu told no dispatches about the Hawaiian Islands or relations with the United States may leave Tokyo or be transmitted from Tokyo, signaling strict censorship.
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Japan
U. S
Hawaiian Islands
San Francisco
Empire
Honolulu
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Tokyo
Hawaian Islands
United States
Russian Army Corps Invasion Planned From St Petersburg
An official dispatch from St Petersburg states that twenty Russian army corps will carry out the invasion of Prussia under the influence of Grand Duke Nicholas. The report, dated in London on August 21, attributes the plan to Russian service authorities and hints at a major mobilization.
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St. Petersburg
Prussia
Grand Duke
Nichola
Britain extends 50 million dollar loan to Belgium
London reports that Great Britain will loan Belgium £10,000,000 equivalent to $50,000,000. The amount will be raised by treasury bills with tenders called today.
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England
London
Great Britain
Treasury Biles
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