Americans Advance Seven Miles Across Verdun Front
Allied forces led by American troops in cooperation with French on the left continued a wide 20 mile front attack northwest of Verdun, penetrating enemy lines about seven miles and taking Varennes Montblainville Vauquois and Cheppy after stiff resistance. Over 5 000 prisoners reported as our troops also seized Bois de Forges and towns including Montfaucon Bethincourt Gercourt drillancourt Millancourt and Servon in the hour long operations.
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Verdun
Welles
Forges Brook
Wood
Malancourt
Bethincourt
Montfaucon
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Varennes
Montblainville
Vauquois
Cheppy
Servon
Bois de Forges
Millancourt
Cuisy
Nantille’s
Septsarges
Danneaux
Gercourt-et-Drillancourt
France
Kent
Champagne
London
Associated Press
Suippe
Meuse
Paris
Fourth Army
Argonne Forest
la Liberte
Marne
Veuzleres
Hindenburg
Vouzieres
Haig Reports Prisoners and St Quentin Actions Enduring
Official dispatches from London Paris and Berlin detail Haig and French forces engaging in trench counterattacks near St Quentin Argonne and Champagne with high gallantry. Braithwaite's Ninth Corps reportedly captured 1500 prisoners in northwest St Quentin while Franco American units attacked near the Argonne and Champagne and Meuse fronts under artillery preparation.
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London
Haig
Ninth Corps
W. P. Braithwaite
St. Quentin
Berlin
Champagne
Argonne
Maas
Meuse
Allied divisions in France 28th and 35th data noted
The Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fifth National Guard divisions under Maj. Gen. Muir and Maj. Gen. Smith were key forces in the Sec corps. The iron Twenty-eighth defended the center at the Aisne Marne salient before moving to Fismes on August 6 7, while the Thirty-fifth arrived in France last June and saw action on the Vosges front through September 4.
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Pennsylvania
Pershing
National Guard
Kansas
Missouri
CG. H. Muir
W. P. Smith
Sec
Roberts Lee Bullard
Twenty-eighth
Iron
Aisen-Marne
Fismes
France
Voskes Front
Gompers Praises Peace Amid War Talks in Paris
Samuel Gompers, AFL president, praised a German official claim of others' belligerence at a Paris luncheon. He argued war united democratic nations and dismissed hopes for a nonchalant outcome, noting those who wielded swords must face them in return. Walter Berry called Gompers peace inevitable.
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Paris
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
American Club
Gompers
Walter Berry
International Court of First Instance
Cairo
British Warships Destroy Two U Boats in North Sea
London reports British naval craft destroyed two German submarines after a destroyer depth charged a U boat near a merchant steamer. One sub surfaced briefly before guns opened, while a British submarine fired bow torpedoes, causing a massive explosion and disappearance of the second U-boat. survivors were reportedly found in the water.
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London
Thua
Yank's Blow Amazes Terrain Difficul Fight
Washington Post 1918 report on Pershing's Argonne advance across a 20 mile front. U S troops penetrate seven miles deep, capture twelve villages including Varennes Montblainville Jaulnois and Cheppy, with Pennsylvania Kansas and Missouri units under General Liggett. Strong emphasis on Foch’s aim to flank the Hindenburg line and sever northern German communications, with difficult terrain and heavy resistance noted.
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Washington Post Cn
Argonne
Pershing
Varennes
Montblainville
Jausnois
Cheppy
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Missouri
Liggett
Verdun
Marshal Foch
Champagne
Hindenburg
Staf
British and Greek Forces Push Into Bulgaria From Doiran
Allied columns led by British and Greek troops drive over the Belachista range toward Doiran as Serbian French and Italian units advance on Uskub. Bulgarians retreat in confusion leaving material and prisoners. German reinforcements arrive, but capture of Uskub is deemed decisive to end the campaign.
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Istib
Gradsko
Uskub
Saloniki
Bulgaria
Belachista
Doiran
Lake
London
Associated Press
Veles
Macedonia
Kosturine
Serbia
Ishtik
Isvor
Prilep
Babuna
Lake Doiran
Delran
Russian Provisional Authority Forms Five Member Committee
The Pan-Russian conference at Ufa unites European Russia and Siberia under a five member sovereign authority, to be responsible to the Constituent Assembly opening January 1 1919 with 250 members. An army of about 200000 in Siberia is raised to fight Germans as terror tightens Moscow Kronstadt and Petrograd.
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Constituent Assembly
Siberian
Russia
Kerensky
Ufa
European Russia
Samera
Bolsheviki
Sberian Grovermmant
Union of Liberty of the
Rerhie
Ranalasance
Ave
M. Technicovsky
North
Archangel
M. Vologodaky
M. Astorf
Moscow
Constitutional Democratic Party
Department of Foreign Affairs
Constituent Assembly of All Russia
Siberia
Constituent Assembly of
All Russia
Samara
Germany
Brest-Litovsk
All
Paratesance
M. Golovatchef
Gmenek
Poole
Stockholm
Mussia
State Department
Lenine
Petrograd
Kronstadt
Uritzky
Wedding Held War Work Use of Gasoline Justified in England
London dispatch reports summonses against a Liverpool firm for using petrol to convey a wedding party to and from church were withdrawn after magistrates had adjourned pending petrol controller guidance. Police estimate withdrawal followed deputy controller instructions that marrying couples were performing a public duty.
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England
London
Washington
The
Public Ledger Co
Liverpool
U.S. Shipbuilding Sets New Global Record
Commissioner H E Chamberlain reports that the United States built 1 956 455 gross tons in the year ending yesterday surpassing the 1913 British record. Britain’s 1 612 649 tons in eleven months bring total to 3 465 698 tons, exceeding the 1915 world record of 3 232 882 tons.
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America
HE. T. Chamberlain
Bureau of Navigation
Department of Commerce
Edward N. Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Chamberlain
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Explosion on harbor dump injures laborer near Japanese steamer
An explosion in Atlantic harbor caused by dumping ashes and garbage from a Japanese steamer injured a laborer and sparked major concern along the waterfront. Pieces of the explosive were recovered and turned to the Department of Justice for analysis. Police suspect the device originated from a steamer's polluting dump.
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Atlantic
Department of Justice
Puikera
Grip Alt Big Gale 723 New Cases In Army
Epidemic of Spanish influenza and grip in army camps grows with 5,139 new cases in 24 hours and 170 deaths mostly from pneumonia. Crowder cancels entrainment of 142000 draft registrants. camps Kearney and Eustis added to influenza list. Total army camps tally 85146 cases and 3038 pneumonia. Camp Devens reports 1007 new influenza cases. general mobilization of doctors and nurses continues. World War I era health crisis spreads to civilians, with federal and local efforts to curb transmission.
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Crowder
Surgeon General of the Army
Kearney
California
Eustis
Virginia
Camp Devens
Massachusetts
Pneumonis
March
District of Columbia
Smurgeon
Camp
Dix
Devens
New England
Spread of Influenza Here Denied Alarm
Washington health officers reject alarm over Spanish influenza while urging prevention. Six civilian and 74 military camp cases reported. civilian total 20, camp total 142. Two deaths so far. Dr. Murphy and Dr. Fowler note mild cases and promote cleanliness, clothing, fresh air, and water intake. Alvin Davis, former Star employee, dies of the disease at Naval Hospital in Chelsen Mass.
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Washington
J. 4A Murphy
Health Department
Fowler
Dr. Fowler
Alvin Davis
the Star
Naval Hospital
Chelsen
Masa
H. W. Davis
South Dakota Avenue
RAZES WALL IN BETHLEHEM SPECIAL CAPE FROM LONDON TIMES
The note from Rev. Philip Waggett describes removing a 1842 wall in the Church of the Nativity Bethlehem. The 30 foot barrier had shut off the chelt from the apse and nave, aimed at serving a market use. The wall’s removal reveals the nave for the first time in living memory with divergent views on aesthetics versus preservation.
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London Times
Washington Post
The
Public Ledger Co
London
Bethlehem
Philip Waggett
Society of St. John, the Evangelist
Church of the Nativity
Rituge
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