French Hold Champagne Front as Americans Push Forward
French positions remain intact along the Champagne front despite hours of fierce combat. American and French forces attack, retaking ground including Bourbonniere farm near St Agnan, and press east toward Rheims as German assaults along the Marne and near Chatillon endure heavy artillery fire.
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War Office reports patrols and heavy shelling on front
London reports prisoners taken in patrols north of Bethune and west of Merville while enemy artillery and trench mortars show increased activity in the Albert sector during the night The French statement notes stubborn fighting from Rheims to the Marne with counterattacks and held lines in Bouquigny Chataignierres and along the Champage front Italian HQ says on Monday evening a British detachment penetrated enemy lines southeast of Asiago with heavy losses and 24 prisoners taken, plus two hostile planes shot down
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Pershing's War Department Day Report on July Actions
Section A reports American troops east of Rheims cooperating with French forces to repel attacks, holding positions, and capturing prisoners and machine guns. Section B details a successful American counterattack south of the Marne on July 15, with heavy enemy losses and captures, plus praise from French commanders for U.S. conduct. A second Vosges engagement describes an attempted enemy attack on a 1000 yard front, repulsed by artillery and trench mortars, with an early morning withdrawal.
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von Boehm
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German forces attack north of St. Aguarr heights
Paris July 17 official statement confirms German forces moved south of the Marne, pushing forward and attacking yesterday and last evening the heights north of St. Aguarr. Continued on second page.
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Supply Lines Secure Regions From German Invasion Threat
George Rothwell Brown reports that American lines of communication in France remain invulnerable to German attack. The Marne railroad is not the main link from coast bases to front zones, and even enemy disruption would not halt Pershing’s troops. Ample transport and secure routes, chosen months ago by French and American engineers, ensure uninterrupted movement and supply across a broad, fortified area.
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Germans Bomb Their Own Men in Prison Camp Raid
Paris July 17 Havag Agency reports ninety four Germans killed and seventy four wounded when five German aviators bombed a prisoners camp near Troyes behind the French front. The raid lasted about an hour and two French guards were wounded.
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American Colored Troops Fight in Great Drive on the Marne
American colored troops enter heavy combat as the German offensive resumes. Their white commanding officer, ill with a broken ankle, returns by automobile to assume command. three other officers recover and rejoin. Artillery halts the German attack where the negro troops hold the line, inflicting heavy losses on the attackers.
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Cavalry Breaks Austrian Line to Seize Berat Note
British and Italian cavalry drive at night into Austrian lines along the Semeni River, capture a bridge and a retreating force, then overtake a railway train. British air bombing aided by Semeni bridge destruction. Albanian front, Berat is taken, with heavy enemy casualties and prisoners including starving Italians and Viennese café staff.
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Germania paper condemns German government over world war origins
Milwaukee July 17 Germania a Teesadmiweakly newspaper with wide American circulation assails the German government for the war origins and conduct retracting earlier war utterances and admitting it echoed the government line.
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View of Crisis Passes as Allied Forces Hold Front
General Pershing and Bliss issued cautious reports on the German offensive. Officials see the battle narrowing to a local action on a front of under twenty miles with Franco American forces mounting hopeful counterattacks and air power proving decisive in slowing the thrust toward Rheims and Seppany.
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Dutch Had German Cargo Sails Recalled By Britain Objection
A Dutch white book on convoy to the East Indies shows the vessel sailed with German dyestuffs that Britain objected to. Dutch authorities decided to discharge that portion of the cargo to avoid armed confrontation with British warships and the convoy being stopped.
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Five Aerial Losses by Americans in Dormans Fight
American aviators shot down five German airplanes and a taftoon over Dormans on the Marne. Zenos Miller of Wooster Ohio downed a balloon and repelled three fighters. Charles Porter of New Milford knocked down a German pilot as his machine fell. Francie Simmonds of New York brought down two German planes. Arthur Jones of Haywards, San Francisco area, downed one plane and Ralph Obel of Nogales, Ariz, destroyed a two seater.
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Vienna shifts generals amid Italian front changes
Amsterdam July 17 Emperor Charles I approves Field Marshal Conrad von Hoetzendorf relief from command and appointment as colonel of all guard regiments and hereditary count. Archduke Joseph named commander of an army group while Prince Alof Schoenberg-Hartenstein takes a cavalry post. Nieuw Amsterdam reaches port at Nieuw Amsterdam. Rotterdam July 16 Holland-America liner from New York arrives in the Hoofden.
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Roosevelt’s son Quentin believed alive. later confirmed killed
Cable from Paris conveyed hope to Mrs Theodore Roosevelt that Quentin Roosevelt might survive. Reports from Paris state he was killed in a Marne sector air battle after engaging seven German planes. Maj Hitchcock recalls earlier uncertainty and notes Quentin’s popular, unassuming character at Mineola aviation camp.
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Quentin Roosevelt and His Washington Boyhood Pranks
Quentin Roosevelt born in Washington in 1897 when his father was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He spent seven years of boyhood at the White House attending public schools. Washington recalls his mischievous pranks and naturalist interests as a valued local memory. The guards learned the boy was their master and kept his pets from interfering with the White House grounds.
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