Americans Advance On 33 Mile Front From Metz
American forces push along a 33 mile front under heavy Metz artillery, clearing way with shells that smother machine guns in woods. German defenses along the Hindenburg line grow stronger as dugouts and barbed wire are fortified. Metz and Briey coal mines loom as strategic targets.
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Hindenburg Line
London
Pershing
Faine
Associated Press
Rindgenburg Line
Briey
Whiting Ady Quotation Promotes Local Branding
A clipped line urges readers to associate the name wroma with WHITING in a promotional blip. The note underscores a branding cue attributed to Ady, reflecting a local tagline moment.
Pershing Cables War Gains After St Mihiel Drive
Read Sunday message from Headquarters AEF dated Sept 14 reports St Mihiel sector touch with enemy repulsed counter attack near Jaulny. In 27 hours the front collapsed, freeing over 150 square miles and 15,000 prisoners. They seized 100 plus guns, machine guns, trench mortars and vast matériel while enemy stores were burned. Bridges left uninjured indicate rapid retreat. French and British Italian air forces supported the pursuit and bombardment effort.
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Unis
British WWI report on capture near Maissemy and gains
Field Marshal Haig reports a successful minor operation early today with British forces taking Maissemy northwest of St Quentin and the adjacent trench system to the six to east. About one hundred prisoners and several machine guns were captured, with additional patrols taking a few more prisoners along the front. Artillery activity remained high at points south of the Arras Cambrai road.
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London
Haig
Maissemy
St. Quentin
Sixta
Arras-Cambrai Road
War Office bulletin reports Allied and German actions near St Quentin
War Office statements detail daily fighting across multiple fronts. Northwest of St Quentin advances by Allied troops and repulsed hostilities in Trescault La Bassee and other sectors with gas shell activity northwest of Armentieres. German reports claim repeated French and Allied attacks near Havrincourt Ailette Aisne and Vauxallion repulsed with significant artillery exchanges and prisoners taken.
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la Fassee Canal
Havrincourt
Wavrincourt
Aiignon Brook
von Garlowitz
Ailette
Aisne
Fiancyeriana
Brunswick
Vauxallion
Allement
Laffaux
Sancy
Vailly
Paris
Vauxailion
Soissons
War Office
Champagne
Lorraine
British Capture Maissemy and trench system
London report states British forces seized Maissemy northeast of St Quentin along with the southeast and east trench system. Haig reports progress northwest of St Quentin with gains north and south of Holnonwood. German local attacks in Trescault near Cambrai and near La Bassée in Flanders were repulsed.
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London
Maissemy
St. Quentin
Haig
War Office
Holnonwood
Trescault
Cambrai
Flanders
la Bassee
German Reichsbank aided Russia plot exposed in war files
Secret documents reveal Reichsbank and German staffs financing Bolsheviks in Russia and plans to control Russia economy after the war. Lenine and Trotzky cited, with notes showing Germany's aims to bar Allies from Russian industry and to dominate coal oil metallurgy and chemical sectors through a Russian advisory body. French and German offensives update the war scene with Mangin attacking north of Soissons and capturing positions along the Hindenburg line.
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Thiaucourt
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Demmartin
Weel
Hatonville
Associated Press
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Russia
Reichsbank
Lenine
Trotzky
Germany
Teutons
France
Mangin
Soissons
Laffaux
Soissons-Maubeuge
Mennejean Farm
Allemant
Centrol
America
Nachrichten
Troteky
Cincinnati Police Strike Continues With No Settlement
Cincinnati Ohio September 15 There was no change in the strike of Cincinnati policemen today neither side making a move toward a settlement or the controversy. Home guards continued to patrol the city and suburbs.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Italian War Office reports capture near Gravella
Rome reports that infantry and artillery with air support attacked and seized the enemy defensive line on Gravella south of Corte. Prisoners numbered 2423 including 12 officers. Machine guns, rifles and substantial war material were captured.
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War Office
Gravella
Corte
Clerks Wanted As Internal Revenue Bureau Seeks Thousands
In line with a plan by the union of German and Austrian banks, a call for clerks is issued. The Internal Revenue Bureau announces needs for thousands of accountants as part of the new revenue bill administration. Accountancy experience is essential. salaries range from 1200 to 3600 dollars. Both men and women urged to apply via the civil services commission. Employment does not grant draft exemption.
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Xperi
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Civil Services Commission
Dreft
Columbia division car schedules modernized
The Washington Railway and Electric Company on the Columbia division began new schedules that went into effect yesterday. Cars on the Treasury to District line and Treasury to Fifteenth and northeast lines no longer clustered. the changes aim for more regular spacing in downtown service.
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Washington Railway’ and Electric Company
Hirch
Treasury
District Line
Fifteenth
Baker restrains joy as Baker visits Paris after St Mihiel
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker returned from the front in mud stained gear after accompanying American troops at St Mihiel. He spoke in a formal statement praising the Allied victory and the spirits of the soldiers while noting refugees returning to their homes in France.
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Paris
St. Mihiel
Newton D. Baker
Bt. Mihiel
Baker
Pershing
United States
France
Bomb Metz region and big war plant bombed
London reports continued heavy air raids around Metz and on the Daimler works at Stuttgart. Attacks targeted Metz Sablons Courcelles and nearby railway yards with many direct hits on the triangle, workshops, gas works and airfields. Night raids hit Metz Kaiserslautern Saarbrucken and Frescaty Boulay. Three Luftwaffe machines missing. British sorties say 27 tons of bombs dropped in 24 hours.
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Metz
Air Ministry
Metz-Sahlens
Courcelles
Metz-Sablona
Roulay
Metz-Sablons
Courcellea
Ehrange
Saarbrucken
Kaiserslautern
Frescaty
Boulay
Freecery
Galway Castle Sinks With 964 Aboard After Torpedo Hit
189 missing and 36 naval officers plus 33 crew members among the 964 aboard the British liner Galway Castle after a torpedo strike in a storm off a South Africa bound voyage. The ship floated two days with captains and volunteers aiding rescue. bodies of three children washed ashore. Henry Burton minister of railways saved, Maj Habuntine believed aboard. Union Castle Mail Steamship Co owns the vessel, built Belfast 1911, port of registry London.
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London
Galway Castle
South Africa
Henry Burton
Union of South Africa
Maj
Habuntine
New York
Union Castle Mall Steamship Company
England
Belfast
Lendon
British steamer escapes U-boat attack off US coast
An Atlantic port report says a British passenger liner, shelled by a German submarine 84 miles off the American coast in dense fog, altered course and outran the U-boat. Five shells were fired at the ship, which carried 56 wounded Canadian officers. none struck. The vessel arrived safely after the fog and sea conditions.
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Atlantic
Transport Service
Farley in Critical Condition at Mamaroneck Home
Cardinal Farley was reported in dying condition at his summer home in Mamaroneck New York. Physicians held two consultations as a possible rally was hinted but a heart weakness developed in the last day and the cardinal’s status remained critical after a relapse on Saturday.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
Cardinal Farley
Germany Has Peace Offer to Belgium Amid Conference Call
News wires report Germany offering peace terms to Belgium and Austria proposing a neutral delegates conference to discuss basic peace principles. The Austro Hungarian plan calls for confidential, nonbinding talks with all belligerents to explore possibilities for ending the war, with Rome and Paris wary of German manipulation and seeking a firm, final settlement as urged by President Wilson.
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Associated Press
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Holy See
Jtill
Austria-Hungary
Albert W. Fox
Washington Post Co
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Teuton
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Wilson
Mount Vernon
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