British Forces Reach Hindenburg Line Northwest of St Quentin
British and French units push toward St Quentin with gains near Gouzeaucourt Epehy and Contescourt. Haig reports over 10,000 prisoners and 60 guns taken, with tanks forcing several German surrenders and continued pressure along the Hindenburg line amid heavy counterattacks.
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ST. Quentin
France
Hindenburg Line
Hindenburg
Che
Granamars
Carrincourt
Paris
Contescourt
St.Quentin
Vesle
Courlan
War Reports From Sept 19 Across Western Front
Haig reports heavy counterattack north of Trescault with major German losses including the Sixth Brandenburg division. British gains east of Epehy and near Gouzeaucourt, plus ground north of Gauche Wood. Prisoners exceed 10,000 with over 60 guns captured. four enemy planes downed. Paris notes gains beyond Contescourt and Canters, while Berlin claims limited British attacks and heavy bombardment near Cambrai.
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Berlin
London
Gouzeaucourt
Hargicourt
War Office
Epehy
Honssoy
Nouth
Haig
Trescault
Gauche Wood
Auchy-lez-La Bassee
Wytscha@te
Neuve Chapelle
Ypres-Comines Canal
St. Quentin
Paris
Contescourt
Cantres
Bénay
Jouy
Hindenburg
Lampire
van Gauche
le Cate-ret
Cambrai
Arras-Cambrai
Moeuvres
British Forced to Withdraw at Baku
London reports Baku in Transcaucasia evacuated by British to North Persia due to Armenian troops failing to cooperate against Turkish attacks in August. A Russo Armenian retirement followed a 16 hour battle on September 14 before the evacuation, with Russian reinforcements arriving September 9 and Armenians negotiating to hand the town to the enemy.
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Associated Press
London
Baku
Transcaucasia
Persia
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Caspian
Tabriz
Jonalabed
Prt
Huns Pressures Near Vandieres Amid Lorraine Front Battle
American observers report German raids near Vandieres fail to take prisoners as Lorene lines hold. Germans in Hindenburg defenses show half hearted bombardment while American and French patrols deter further clashes. Yankee shells reach Metz sector, air losses mount as fresh Lorraine units relieve battered formations amid waning offensive will.
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Farge
Germany
Hindenburg
Metz
América
Mars-la-Tour
Confilans
Peace Demonstrations In Germany Raise Mutiny Forks
Dispatch from Cologne reports large peace demonstrations across Germany including Bensen Cologne and Saxony led by democrats. Thousands attended as mutinous recruits mostly 18 year olds refused to board trains for Aachen, soldiers fired on mutineers wounding many. eight killed. Recruits driven from cars as trains left stations.
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Amsterdam
Bensen
Cologne
Sax
Ony
Duteh
Anid
Inge
Ase
Aix-In-Chapelle
Les Nouvelles
Work or Fight draft plans ease industry duties
Provost Marshal Crowder outlines how the draft will balance military needs with industrial capacity. Registrants are classified by questionnaires, with about 109000 moving to productive work and unions and employers urged to file deferred classifications with affidavits and district boards.
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Washington Post Co
Crowder
United States Employment Service
New York
Chicago
Boston
Greveland
New Orleans
St. Louis
San Francisco
Dh Ois
Maershal
Root
Proveast
1Iatrict
Senecral
District Board
American air force reports shells hit Metz center and forts
American aviators report heavy artillery shells dropping in Metz center with direct hits on fortifications. A large factory struck and troops, supplies, and equipment reach the front better than ever. St Mihiel operations left American forces strong, giving experience and confidence to the army.
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Metz
St. Mihiel
Serbian Allies Drive Deep in Macedonian Front
Allied forces led by Serbian troops with French and Greek detachments report steady advances in Macedonia. They claim capture of Topoletz Kuchkov Kamen Polchiate Beshisie Menitza Vitolishte Razitt Bey and 45 villages including Gradeshnitza with 40 plus cannons captured. Bulgarian and British actions described as repulsed with heavy fighting near Gradeshnitza Jojorik heights and Lake Deiran. Cavalry later reported breaking Bulgarian lines on the Baionski front reaching Polehko.
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Debeney
St. Quentin
Peshitch
Macedonia
Sokel-Doebro Polje
Vetrenik
Kozhth
Vance
Topoletz
Kuchkov Kamen
Polchiate
Beshisie
Menitza
Vitolishte
Razitt-Bey
Paris
Associated Press
War Office
Zovnik
Stravina
Gradeshnitza
Koziak
Kosiak
Kuchkov
Teres
Topoles
Sofia
London
Jojorik Heights
Bulgarian War Office
Lake Deiran
United Press
Baionski
Polehko
British armed boarding steamer sunk by German U-boat
London report says a British armed boarding steamer was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on September 12. Fifty eight crew members are missing and the admiralty announced today.
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London
British Admiralty
Burian Defends Note Aims at Democratic World Order
Amsterdam dispatch reports Austro Hungarian Foreign Minister Burian outlining a note to belligerents to seek a democratic settlement. He says the plan avoids a peace offer and is for all sides, not immediate, with allied awareness. Hungarian leader Karolyi backs Wilson points and calls for democratic governments in Austria Hungary and Germany. The German press frames American replies as undermining central powers, with debates over colonies and Alsace Lorraine.
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Prema
Amsterdam
Baron Burian
Vienna
Perhdgs
Michael Karolyi
Itsi
Wilson
Budapest
Frankfort
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Brest-Litovsk
Bucharest
Copenhagen
Balfour
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Vorwearts
Belgium
Alsace- Lorraine
Vorweerts
Lekai Anzeiger
Balfours
England
Deutsche Tages Zeitung
Alsace-Lorraine
Palmer details loan to Arthur Brisbane to buy Times
Federal custodian A Mitchel Palmer released names of fifteen brewers and the United States Brewers Association who raised 407,500 dollars of which 375,000 funded the purchase of the Washington Times. Documents show the loan routed through Feigenspan and Growing Circulation Corporation with several individual brewer contributions and a linked letter from German agents.
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Hans Tauscher
A. Mitchel Palmer
United States Brewers’ Association
Arthur Brisbane
Washington Times
Palmer
Senate
Senator Jones
Washington
Cue‘todian
Harrisburg
Congress
Brisbane
C. W. Feigenapan
Federal Trust Company
Trenton
N. J
Feigenspan
Mr. Palmer
Alexander Konta
United States
Bernhard Dernberg
Germany
Feigenswan
Robert Crain
Times
George Ehret
Feigenapan
Julius Liebmann
J. V. G Huptel
Jacob Ruppert
Joseph H. Ulhtern
Edward Landsberg
Reuter & Co
Houghton Company
Wiliam Hamm
G. Pabst
Fred Miller Brewing Company
C Senmidt & Sons
F. A. Poth & Son
Bergner & Engel
Unite States Brewers’ Associats
United States Brewers’ Asancation. Adv
Felgenpan
Palmers
Corporation
Nassau Street
New York City
William A. le Ford
William R. Hearst
John Sturdevant
Thomas McEntegart
C. W. Figenapan
Crain
American Exchange National Bank
Thursby
Growing Circulation Corporation
J. B. Krause
Equitable Trust Company
Alice ‘Brisbane Thursby
Equitable Truat Company
Willam Street
Foigenspsa
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