Australians Reach Peronne as Allies Advance
British and Australian forces press the Somme front amid German withdrawals with Peronne captured by Australian troops. British gains include Lens area advances and crossings along the Lys while French seize Crecy au Mont and Leury. Prisoners exceed two thousand. overall August totals rise with hundreds of guns, mortars, and machine guns reported.
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JUVIGNY
PERONNE
LENS
CRECY AU MONT
LEURY
Bullecourt
Morval
Lys
Somme Canal
Paris
Ailette
Coucy le Chateau
war office
Soissons
Hoenancourt
le Petit
Nesse
London
Associated Press
Armentieres
Zilebeke
Voormerede
Vuerstrast
Linderhoel
La Creche
Doulisu
La Gorgus
Essuits
La Couture
France
Juvigeny
Juvieny
Germans Shell Toul Line and Raid, Driven Off
German artillery heavily shelled American lines in the Toul sector overnight. At dawn about 290 Germans attacked behind a barrage but were driven off before reaching the trenches. some German dead remained near wire. Another raid in the Vosges was repulsed.
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Toul Line
Lorraine
Associated Press
Toul
Vosges
Hertling Denies Pan German Rule In Germany
Amsterdam reports Chancellor von Hertling rebutting Britains claims of Pan-German militarism. He asserts Germany is governed by the emperor with constitutional support from the bundesrat and reichstag, stating there is only the German policy and one German party. He warns against war psychology and party rigidity affecting enemies.
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Amsterdam
Universal Service
Germany
federal council
bundesrath
reichstag
Count von Hertling
Lord Hobart Dee
Germay
Cermany
Kovaramiaat
FESS WILL ACCEPT G. O. P. LEADERSHIP
Representative Simeon D. Feas of Ohio formally resigns as chairman of the Republican national congressional committee and will accept the chairmanship. His first act will be to meet Will H. Hays and conference Republican State chairs to plan the campaign, showing joint control by national and congressional committees.
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Simeon D. Feas
Ohio
Republican national congressional
Frank P Woods
koown
spons
Fossig
Congress
Feas
Will H. Hays
Republican national committee
national committee
congressional
Recaptured officers to face sabotage charge at Holzminden
A London Times dispatch reports that seventeen Allied officers recaptured after the Holzminden escape will be tried not for escape but for sabotage, a charge without fixed punishment, allowing a hostile court to show its bias. It also notes a separate case of a prisoner wounded by a bayonet during a German camp incident.
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London Times
Washington Post
Gopgright
Lecsor Co
London
Holzminden
assa
Ina | Aisne
Associated Presa
Juvigny
Solesons
War reports from Pershing Haig and Haig fronts
Official communiques detail Allied successes north of the Aisne capturing 169 prisoners at Juvigny and advances near Goucy le Chateau Crecy au Mont Peronne and Mont St Quentin with Australian and British forces. Air losses total eight enemy planes and bombing results yield 23 tons of ordnance along Vauraillon Neuville sur Margival Waffaux Manteuil Lafasse. Field Marshal Haig reports substantial gains around Peronne with over 2,000 prisoners and advances near Combles Morval Bullecourt and Lendecourt. Canadians and Australians push forward in Lens and other sectors, with large captures of guns and machine tools.
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Paris
Somme
Canal au Nord
Allette
Goucy le Chateau
Crecy au Mont
Vauraillon
Neuville sur Margival
WLaffaux
Manteuil- Lafasse
oissous
London
Haig
Peronne
Mont St. Quentin
Flamicourt
St. Denis
Combles
Bouchavesnes
Rancourt
St. Pierre-Vaastwood
positon
Arras- Cambrai
Morval
Beaulen~court
Ran—court
Fromicourt
Bullecourt
Lendecourt
Iles Cagficourt
Hendecourt
Lens
Lya
Doulleu
Le Verrier
Steenwerck
Neuve
Spain to seize all German ships interned in ports
Madrid reports the Spanish government will take over all German steamers interned in Spanish ports in response to German torpedoes against Spanish vessels. The Ataz Mendl, carrying coal from England to Spain, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.
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Madrid
Spain
Berlin
Dato
Ataz- Mendl
England
Yankees Drive Allied Fronts Clash Across Flanders
American troops push toward Mount Kemmel and advance from Juvigny in a wide offensive across Flanders and the Aisne. Voermezeele and Vierstraad fall as 600 prisoners are taken. Brits and Americans share the ridge as heavy fighting continues with guns and mortars in use.
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Soussions
Juvigny
France
Flanders
Belgium
Mount Kemmel
Voermezeele
Ypres
Vierstraad
Lenine Death Rumors Stir Berlin on Bolshevik Chief
Albert W. Fox reports Lenine shot in Moscow with Copenhagen-Petrograd messages conflicting on status. U.S. officials doubt official word and weigh Germany’s use of Lenine as a tool. The piece portrays Lenine as self centered and duplicitous, aiding German aims while preaching democracy.
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ALBERT W. Fox
Washington Port Co
Nickolai Lenina
polehevik premisr
Moscow
Exchange Telegraph
Copenhagen
Petrograd
esasilan
socialist party
United States
State Department
Lenine
Russia
Germany
Lenina
Teutons
Berlin
Labor Day 1914 A Call to Help Win the War
President Wilson exhorts labor to unite as a single army in the war effort. He frames the conflict as a war of emancipation, with every worker as a weapon in the national cause and stresses government as servant, not master, to secure justice and freedom worldwide. He urges consecration to mobilize industry and labor for victory and a new, just peace.
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Russia
Nickolai Lenine
constituent assembly
ses
Wilson
1914
Germany
Belgium
France
Europe
Austria
lsborers
America
toola
puppeta
lsborer
alnea
Baltimore flier saves man at sea during raid
Italian Army HQ reports J. H. Hammond of Baltimore rescuing Ludlow during a Pola raid. Amid Austrian fire and five enemy planes, Hammond landed beside Ludlow, loaded him aboard, set the bomber afire, repelled attackers, then escaped toward the Adriatic coast before both men swam ashore after their plane failed.
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Italy
J. H Hammond
Baltimore
ident. Ludlow
Pola
Ludlow
Adriatic
Hammond
Ludiow
Air mail service shows no breaks in August routes
Postmaster General Burleson stated the August air mail service between Washington Philadelphia and New York operated without break or serious delay. The month had 27 flying days and 108 legs, with only two forced landings. The first ten days used military pilots, while the last twenty relied on civilian air mail staff. Total cargo carried was EpRia DOundEps coed.
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Burleson
Washington
Philadelphia
New York
Postoffice Department
EpRia DOundEps
Great Labor Day in Washington Marks War Effort
President Wilson issued a Labor Day proclamation calling for unity between labor and war aims. McAdoo and Wilson sent greetings to soldiers and workers as railroads are urged to support the national effort. Schwab reports rapid shipbuilding progress abroad while American industry powers the war machine. Benning hosts automobile races at 2:30 p.m. with fanfare and multiple entertainments for troops and workers.
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Schwab
Hiahborate
Washington
Benning
Wilson
McAdoo
aled
Europe
America
Emergency Fleet Corporation
automobilista
Benning race track
conteat
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HERTLING
FESS
Official War Reports
Pershing
Aisne
Woevre
Alsace
Cabinet
MT. KEMMEL
Voormeezle
Mont Kemmel
Our
Kemmel
Sapberg
feaar
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Kerensky
Breat-Litovak
antente
Lenins
Count von Mirbach
BALTIMORE FLIER
Companion
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McAdae
McAdoo Ali Medoo
Schunb
Democracy
Frank P. Walsh
national war labor board
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