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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1918
Page
2
Washingtonians largely obeyed the fuel administration call for a carless Sunday. Police reported two minor accidents and no major incidents as street life adapted to walking, buses, and limited government use vehicles. taxicabs faced many refusals while crowds followed officers calmly.
Theodore Roosevelt lauds Senator Lodge's peace formula as noble and statesmanlike. He credits Lodge and allied senators for bearing wartime burdens, advancing the cause of victory, and shaping a peace worth the cost. The piece also notes Congressional leaders who aided military and aviation efforts and recalls Roosevelt era carriage days.
Farmer Robert Dave found a baby girl about one year old on his doorstep three miles below Fairfax en route to Alexandria. A car was heard stopping and a pasteboard box with the infant inside was found. A note urged Day to keep the baby for a month. New head army supply in France.
Fragmented official report notes delayed counts and scattered figures among Allied lines. It mentions counterattacks near the Oise area being repulsed with limited gains and references multiple units and battalion-level actions amid trench engagements. The wording is garbled but implies a Paris theater clash with defensive success.
Day reports from Tondon on Sept 1 describe repeated advances against opposing forces near Quantin and Transley. The report claims 100 prisoners captured near DHeoust-St Mein and villages cleared, with further advances east toward Ia Bassea Hoetaires while enemy lines were repulsed near Arras Cambrai.
Paris Rome and Berlin bulletins describe night actions across the Somme and Stelvio sectors, with French troops crossing the Somme east of Epenancourt and capturing Rouy le Petit while taking 260 prisoners. German statements claim front gains halted and Allied attacks repulsed amid shifting lines near Ypres Arras and Crecy.
In this city tinfoil salvaged by a tobacco workers group is converted into money for the Red Cross salvage department. Superintendent John Blakely reports weekly collections averaging pounds yielding fractions of a cent per pound, with proceeds going to support Red Cross work.
Reports from Moscow and Amsterdam say Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, was shot by a young woman of the Social Revolutionary party. He is described as seriously wounded, with conflicting dispatches on his condition. Kerensky comments on Russia's future and U.S. interest amid the crisis.
A lengthy Labor Day continuation describes the National Speedway Association racing meet under ASA sanction, with Camp Meige infantry policing and speeches by Washington officials. Numerous city events follow, including a park outing at Randle Park with speeches by Brown and Msahany, a post office closure, a YWCA program, a soldier carnival with Red Cross aid, a band concert, a St Ignatius Church riding tournament, Good Hope Orphan Asylum picnic, and a seven day carnival for Silver Spring’s street Heriting fund. Bishop Harding’s pastoral praises labor and wartime duty, urging aid to the war effort and civic kindness toward workers as Episcopal services draw soldiers and community leaders alike.
American forces in France extended their line eastward around Juvigny facing stiff German resistance. Despite heavy machine gun fire and shelling, Americans and French artillery pounded the town, encircled German positions, and captured 236 prisoners as they pushed toward the northwest.
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