British and French on 22 mile front near St Quentin
British and French forces surged along a 22 mile front near St Quentin advancing up to three miles and seizing Fresnoy le Petit Berthaucourt Patry Le Verguier Villeret Hargicourt Gauche Wood Templeux le Guerrard Roussey Epehy and Peiziere. Australians and French also gained ground as Germans offered stiff resistance and deployed heavy shelling while Haig reported 6 000 prisoners captured and cross line advances across the sector.
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Berthaucourt
Gauche Wood
Templeaux-le-Guerard
London
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Patry
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Villeret
Gouzeaucourt
Villers-Guislain
Templeux-le-Guerrard
Roussey
Epehy
Peiziere
Linte
Paris
Aix-Mile
War Office
British Troops Break German Lines in Sixteen Mile Front
Official reports from London and Paris narrate Allied forces advancing under heavy rain to seize main Hindenburg line positions from Holnon to Gouzeaucourt. British and Dominion divisions reached outer defenses, captured multiple villages, and took over 6,000 prisoners plus guns. Paris describes westward progress near Holnon Ensigny Le Francilly Selency and other gains with hundreds of captives.
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Associated Pressy
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St. Quent' Ikwie
Wytner
Hinden- Terie Bite
Sali
Findoilire
Folyon An
Gougeancourt
Peiziere
Tem- Jeurard
Mohy
Bonssoy
Valievet
Sorwaird Zone
Cages Whens la
Paris
St. Quentin
Holnon
Ensigny-le-Grande
Francilly-Selencys
Savy Wood
Montaiieres-Cleres
Cantescourt
Jouy
Soissons
Allemant
German Front Defenses Rally in Face of British Push
Berlin reports Anglo French attacks along a broad front from Havrincourt wood to the Somme, with counterattacks underway as Germans defend west of the Siegfried positions. The appeal urges bold resistance and duty, while Von Morgen reportedly fled north of the Ancre during British assaults. London says German attack at Moeuvres pushed the British to the village outskirts.
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Berlin
London
Havrincourt Wood
Somme
Hargicourt
Omignon
Berone
Tanka
von Morgen
Ancre
Moeuvres
Suffer in Bulgarian prison released British officers
Geneva reports ten British soldiers including seven officers freed from Bulgarian military prison arrive in weakened condition. One officer says Bulgarians will remain Orientals and Europeanized reform unlikely as Bulgaria starves under German exploitation. He notes Sofia dinner costs and general anti-empire sentiment rising.
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Geneva
Bulgaria
Germany
Austria
Yankees Best of Big Gun Warfare on Lorraine Front
American artillery and air power repelled German infantry attacks west of the Moselle. Observers report dead Germans in the pillaged zone as U S gunners destroyed German ammunition dumps near Lachaussee and disrupted rail near Chambley. Prisoners express discouragement upon hearing of Austrian peace notions, amid growing Central Powers morale decline.
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Moselle
Lachaussee
Thiaucourt
Watronville
Marheuiles
Satlx
Haumont
Combres
Chaussee
Chambley
Sammes
Beney
Chateau St. Benoit
Associated Press
Germany
Americans Advance Near Metz as Paris Reports Progress
Paris reports American forces pressing the Metz defenses along the Moselle while German withdrawals reshape the frontline. American infantry reach about 10 miles from Conflans and patrols extend several miles farther north, with Pagny sur Moselle within reach to the south and west of Metz.
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Paris
United Press
Metz
L’heure
Moselle
Conflans
Meltz- Conflans
Mont Medy
Pagny- Sur-Moselle
Balkan Allies Push 10 Miles Capture Fifty Guns
Allied forces press the Macedonian front with a ten mile advance and capture fifty guns as Bulgarian resistance wanes. Serbian and French troops push through Gradeznitza to Sokol and Vetrenik, while German units aid Bulgarian defense before being driven back. The drive aims to sever Turkey from the Central Powers and disrupt Austria-Hungary's southern wing.
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Associated Press
London
Saloniki
Gradeshnitzz
Starovina
Tme
Turkey
Bulgaria
Serbis
Roumania
Austria
Death of Rev. A. M. Rivers in Hagerstown Maryland
The Rev. Abraham M. Evers a United Brethren minister died this evening in Hagerstown Maryland after a 45 year ministry He built Grace Church in Hagerstown and First Church in Frederick and served congregations across Virginia Maryland and West Virginia For seven years he was presiding elder of the Maryland and Virginia conference Three of his brothers were also ministers.
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Abraham M. Evers
United Brethren
Grace Church
First
Frederick
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
Maryland and
Mainisterm
Davis Named Ambassador to Britain Amid War Tensions
President Wilson selects John W. Davis to succeed Walter Hines Page as ambassador to the Court of St James. Davis, arriving in Switzerland to lead talks on prisoner treatment, is praised in Washington and London for his strong anti-German stance and fusion of American resolve with British aims. He will return home before assuming duties.
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Switzerland
Washington Post Co
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John W. Davis
Walter Hines Page
Court of St. James
America
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London
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House
Thad
Davin
United States
7000 pound bombs harled by Hun aeroplanes
German aircraft bombed the St Quentin sector last night using several huge new type planes. Three were shot down east of Peronne. The planes reportedly seated eight men and carried bombs thirteen feet long containing 2900 pounds of explosives, the largest bombs the Germans have produced.
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Associated Press
France
St. Quentin
Peronne
Noted Legal Victories Mark Davis Career Path
The Berne conference and successor talks are undecided as Davis, 45, from Clarkburg West Virginia, is solicitor general since 1912. Mrs. Davis aids diplomatic relief abroad with Julia Davis in her second year at Wellesley, and Miss Davis plans London work. Davis argued key Supreme Court cases on selective service and the eight hour law, both won by the government.
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Julia McDonald Davis
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Viscount Motono Dies After Long Illness in Tokio
Viscount Icchira Motono former Japanese foreign minister dies in Tokio from a chronic stomach ailment. A veteran diplomat born 1863, he rose from translator to minister, serving as ambassador at Petrograd and as minister at Paris and Brussels. He became foreign minister in November 1916.
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Japan
Tokio
China
Viscount Motone
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Petrograd
Paris
Brussels
War correspondents foretell Verdun battle revival
Amsterdam dispatch cites German war correspondents predicting that fighting on the Verdun front will soon intensify with a major battle anticipated.
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Amsterdam
Verdun Front
Two Mennonite Clergymen Fined for Espionage Law Technical Violation
In Martinsburg West Virginia on September 1, Rev L J Heatwohl of Dale Enterprise and Rev Ralph W Benner of a Mennonite church pleaded guilty to indictments under the US espionage law. They were each fined 1000 dollars by Judge Daylamn. Their defense said the violation was technical not intentional as Benner had advised his congregation on war savings stamps based on a bishop's letter referring to a prior church stance. Congress had since amended the law, but the pair chose to plead guilty to the technical breach.
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W. Va
L. J. Heatwohl
Dale Enterprise
Mennonite Church
Ralph W. Henner
Daylamn
George N. Conrad
Harrisonburg
French Repulse Assaults Near Soissons Plateau
German troops launched violent counter-attacks overnight on the plateau northeast of Sancy, seven miles northeast of Soissons. The French war office reports the assaults were repulsed and that the French troops held their lines.
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Paris
Sancy
Soissons
French War Office
Russian and Czech Forces Seek Allied Aid in Far East
In Vladivostok and Tomsk reports detail a growing Siberian government influence and a Czech led force. The Czechs push for allied support while Col Gaida declares martial law to curb railway strikes amid Bolshevik resistance. Ambiguous Moscow links and Siberian mobilization frame a tense regional outlook.
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