Allied confidence grows as American troops surge for war end
Gen March cites 1.5 million American soldiers aboard for France, predicting 4.9 million by midsummer. He emphasizes soldier qualities, describes captures of 68 guns and 3,690 prisoners, and notes ongoing organization of the First US Field Army amid western front shifts and French British advances toward Bapaume.
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En. March
France
War Department
Gen. March
Maren
Frenen
Noyon
Pateau
Oise
de Allette
Carlepont Forest
Nuyon
March
Obituaries and funeral notices from Baltimore area
Death notices dated August 24 1918 include Victoria Allen Bowie Ensign Delozier Davidson Fletcher Meridith Lydia Golpsborough Hunt Meredith Ernest Carts Morris Waters and Charles Belford Young with service dates and burial plans across Baltimore and nearby areas Georgetown Landover and Washington. Relatives are named for several listings and funeral times announced for late August.
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Swintieth Street
Licy
Golpsboroough Hunt
George Blean Hunt
Oak Wil Cemetery
Sibley Hospital
Fletcher Nerlidith
Smith
Ernest Carts
J. Edgar
Myrtle E. Smith
Sage
Christian Church
Landover
Waters
Morris W
Catherine A. Waters
Young
Charles Belford
George W. Sensner
A. N
Kenyon Street
Fire threat in Annapolis shipyard saves three submarine chasers
Prompt actions by the Annapolis fire department aided by Naval Academy sailors saved hulls of three submarine chasers and two government tugs from destruction. Fire at Chance Marine Construction Co plant on the Severn River started in the laundry and spread to the shipyard office building. Investigators probe possible enemy sabotage as multiple ignition points were reported. Eastport lacked fire facilities, delaying containment until rescue efforts arrived.
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Washington Post
Annapolis
Annapolis Fire Department
Naval Academy
Chance Marine Construction Co
Fastport
Severn River
Severn Boat Club
Eastport
Annapoli
Bolshevik Rebuttal on Allied Interventions and Eastern Front
A Tokyo dispatch reports Japanese forces advancing beyond Nikolaievsk in Siberia as tensions rise in Manchuria. Peking notes a Chinese contingent moves toward Vladivostok to join allied forces. Berlin’s Tageblatt cites a Russian Bolshevik reply to American Japanese messages defending the Soviet stance and condemning Czech Slovak forces allied with landowners. Hunger and typhus plague northern Russia as railway disruption worsens. Red Cross doctors at Harbin reported.
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Bondon
Tokyo
Japanese War Office
Siberia
Nikolaievak
Peking
Associated Press
Vladivostok
Mukden
Manchuria
Amsterdam
Berlin
Stockholm
Pan
Aussian Federal Republic
Soviet Republic
Red Soviet Army
Pean
Ths
Tchitchernin
Russia
Ensign Murphy Tracks German Submarines From Shack
London reports detail Ensign T H Murphy at a US naval air station guiding seaplanes to locate subs. Yale’s E J Schieffelin and Harvard’s L T Cutter led a flight that damaged a U boat with a depth charge and aided by a torpedo boat destroyer crew that finished the vessel.
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Associated Press
London
T. H. Murphy
Committee’ On Public Information
United States Nevai'’ Air Station
Enelen Murphy
Anaigna
Naval
Ensigh E. J. Schieffelin
New York City
Yale University
John ‘S
Schleffelin
Yale
Cutler
Harvard
Cutter
Kaiser Relies on Bishops Amid Fulda Message
The German emperor pledges reliance on bishops in a Fulda message reported by a German newspaper. He expresses satisfaction and confidence in church cooperation, calls for strengthening national unity, recognizing dangers from enemies, and a firm determination to overcome adversity through faith and divine aid.
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Fulda
j-Nastay
Abe
Germgp
Lam
Germany
Yank machine gunners disobey to join attack in war letter
London dispatch reports a Canadian machine gun unit recounting how American gunners attached for instruction disobeyed orders and pressed forward into German lines during the attack. The officers describe the Americans crossing No Man's Land, escorting prisoners, and fighting alongside Canadian troops for two days.
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London
Associated Press
No Man's Land
Maeréa
Adams
Coronel
Floods devastate Galicia. famine spreads in Cracow area
Continuous rains and floods cause bridge and building destruction across Cracow and eastern Galicia. Many people drown as rivers surge. Grain crops ruined and potatoes rot in fields. Typhus smallpox and dysentery spread amid famine. In England, 160000 Yorkshire miners idle as pits shut.
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Zurich
Cracow
Galicia
Peruvians Demand War on Germany Mutiny at Ancon
Lima reports two hundred Peruvian troops mutinied at the Ancon garrison outside the capital. Maj Armando Halino issued a revolutionary manifesto denouncing the government and calling for immediate war on Germany and transfer of interned ships to the United States. Loyal columns pursue the insurgents as rumors of wider revolt spread without confirmation.
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Peru
Ancon
Armando Halino
Germany
United States
France
Wilson
Republic
Arequipa
Cuzco
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Thos. S. Sergeon
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PA. Ave. NW
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Washington
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Willis B. Spears
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J. H. Small & Sons
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Gos Mattison
New York
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