Germans Win Part of Petrograd Line
Capture section of railway between Dvinsk and Vilna. Artillery gains the day.
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Dvinsk
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Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1915
Page
1
Victim of Official Graft Resentment Sparks Populace Stand in Lake District
The article reports Muscovites rising against perceived graft as German and Austro German forces push toward Pinsk and drive Russians into the lake district. It notes heavy artillery battles along the Western Front and large scale prisoner gains as the war widens across the Sereth river corridor.
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London
von Hindenburg
Rovne Petrograd
Vilna
Dvinsk
Dyinsk
Lake District
Sereth
Ain
Belgium
Argonne
Austra Thuan
Essad Gaining in Albania Amid Provisional Rule
Rome reports Essad Pasha Toptani, former provisional president of Albania, gaining ground as he marches against the Murdites. An envoy was sent to treat for peace, while Esad’s supporters expect him to proclaim himself supreme chief of Albania.
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Rome
Ttalla
Essat
Albania
Esaad
Alpant
Split over Dr Dumba emperor upholds his envoy
Vienna morning papers discuss Dr Dumba Austrian ambassador to the United States with two camps among Austro Hungarian statesmen. Burian faction says Dumba acted under Von Bernstorff without home orders while Hungarian faction defends him to prevent entente arms. Emperor Francis Joseph displeased by US recall action. telegrams between Burian and German chancellor Bethmann Hollweg cited. Kaiser interested as German emperor recalls Jagow to Berlin. Diplomatic rupture with the United States discussed.
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Baron Burian
Kaiser
Geneva
Switz Riand
Vienna
Dr Dumba
United States
Baron Burien
Dumba
von Bernstorff
Bumba
Eleves
Francis Joseph
Burian
von Bethmann Hollweg
Pr Dumba
Penfield
Constantine Dumba
State Department
Capton Papen
Dumbas Plana
Britons Seek Wider War Tax Plans in Berlin Budgets
London reports parliament to debate new taxation to fund war costs. Chancellor Reginald McKenna to unveil a budget aimed at raising revenues beyond a rising income tax, duties on tea and petrol, and heavier taxes on war profits and luxury imports. Discussions include installments for workers and reforms to tax collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beef Trust
London
Reginald McKenna
House of Commone
Belgian Relief Ship May Be Torpedoed
London dispatch reports a British steamer flying the Belgian Relief signals sank on the previous morning. Ten crew members were rescued by steam trawlers. The American Belgian Relief Commission led by Herbert Hoover is investigating to confirm if a relief ship was sunk. Christiana notes Ble was torpedoed with crew saved.
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London
Reuter
Telegram Company
Maiden
Holland
Herbert C Hoover
Christiana
Ble
England
Justice Lamar Rallies From Illness in White Sulphur Springs
White Sulphur Springs West Virginia September 18 The condition of Associate Justice Joseph R Lamer of the United States Supreme Court is slightly improved. He is confined to his room and his illness is not considered serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White ‘Sulphur Springs
White Sulphur Springs
W Va
Joseph R Lamear
United States Supreme Court
Ambassadors Wife Says Berkshire Hills Mean Beautiful America
Mme Dumba wife of Dr Constan tin Dumba ambassador from Austria-Hungary told The Washington Post she has grown to love the Berkshire hills and will miss her American friends and memories as she and her husband depart. She described the recall as a hardship of war and praised the area as beautiful America.
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Berkshire Hills
America
Ruth M. Byersa
Washington Post
Knox
Madam Dumba
Constantin Dumba
Austria-Hungary
Mme Domba
Berkshire
Stockbridge
Mme Dumba
Joss
Lenox
Roumania Orders Big Mobilization to Face Austrian Concentration
In Athens a heavy mobilization of Romanian troops including cavalry regiments is reported amid an unexpected Austrian concentration aimed at Romania. Northwestern Romania reportedly suspends rail traffic to aid troop movements and horses are requisitioned as the reserves move with color. Relations with central powers reach a critical stage as Berlin seeks transit of Austro German troops through Romania and benzine requisites valued at 40 million dollars. More than 200 German wagons with war material are at the Romanian frontier.
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Athens
Roumania
Transylvania
Powera
Roumanian
Parrots Buried With Dying Woman in Staten Island
A dying New York woman, Mrs Anna O Furst, asked her husband Captain Thomas Patrick Furst to have two bright green parrots killed and buried with her. The birds were placed on her coffin as she lay in state, and the SPCA carried out the request on Staten Island.
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New York
Staten Island
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Anna O Furst
Thomas Patrick Furst
Furst
Germans Capture Wind Railredd Czark Army Victim of Graft
News page summary notes Germany gaining an advantage with rail movements and a graft victim. British crisis looms as Allies offer bonds with no collateral. Gerard Calla on Von Jagow and Arabic reparations discussed.
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Gerard Calla
Anna
Britain
Archibald
Hagerstown
James J Hill
Big Loan
Miles
Laskey
Alexandria
Maryland
President cites grave world situation delaying Manassas visit
President Wilson told Virginians that the international crisis facing the United States compels him to postpone his promised trip to Manassas battlefield. He said he must devote his thoughts to current affairs, mortgage his liberty for the moment, and handle urgent matters with discretion, rather than travel.
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Wilson
United States
Manassas
Allied airships raid three towns in retaliation
Paris reports nineteen Allied aircraft conducted a morning strike on Treves Dommary and Baroncour, hitting the station and the Bank of the Empire with about 100 shells. They returned to base and later bombed Demmary station and Baroncour, with other raids along the Danube and Baden. A train near Traneh was halted by shelling after observing troop movements.
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Paris
Treves Dommary
Baroncour
Baden
Luneville
Compeigne
Treves
Donaueschingen
Danube
Marbach
Traneh
Disavowal and Reparations Sought in Arabic Attack
The Wilson and Lansing talks with Count von Bernstorff set a path for disavowing the Arabic torpedoing and seeking reparations for American lives lost. Berlin may receive the evidence in about ten days, with possible shifts in stance after foreign office review. The note says peaceful liners will not be torpedoed without warning, arbitration on indemnity to be limited to factual disputes over attack intent. The case remains unsettled but not hopeless as negotiations continue through the German ambassador.
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Berlin
Gerard
Herr von Jagow
Amer
United States
Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
Tragedy Near Waynesboro Ends in Dual Deaths
Dr J L Sivert shot and poisoned himself after his nude passenger Bettie Poland 19 father hotel proprietor in Georgetown had died in his car near Aleppo road two miles west of the town. The girl, a former patient and Sivert's ward for four years, had been found in the automobile covered with a blanket. Coroner Niagara Fale is investigating as authorities report a suicide and a fatal operating scene.
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Washington Post
Waynesboro
J L Sivert
Bettie Paland
Georgetown
Miss Poland
Sivert
Aleppo
Warren Poland
Hiram Stockdale
Five Thousand Miners Strike Copper Firms in Arizona
Five thousand miners from the Morenci Carroler and Clifton Copper companies walkout seeking the Bisbee wage scale of 34 percent for muckers and 435 dollars for miners. Western Federation of Miners backs the action as other Arizona Copper Company workers nearby are expected to join, producing one of the region's largest strikes in years.
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Arena
Phoenix Ariz
Catroller
Morenci
On Copper Company
Clifton
Western Federation of Miners
Arizona
Yeara
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von Jagow
U. S
British Isles
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