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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1918
Page
6
Between Avre and Oige near Chaulnes Ro ye Noyon the Erench forces push forward as enemy strengthens reinforcements. Allied troops prepare to support, with 40 000 prisoners reported.
Paris and London dispatches report intense fighting around Bray and Roye on the Somme with French and British forces advancing. Nearly 10,000 prisoners and 700 guns have been captured in Picardy as Allied operations press on. In Washington, Senate moves to reconvene and consider the manpower bill extending draft ages from 18 to 45 to speed relief of European forces.
Three Waterloo youths are named among casualty rolls. Sergeant Harry W. Marson, first sergeant of Company G, was killed in action July 26. Marson gained statewide fame in 1917 for a recruiting poster featuring himself and the Iowa G A R commander, tied to a veteran’s salute on the capitol steps.
Gen Horvath, head of a new Russian government, says 150000 allied troops needed to stop Germany from seizing Siberia and Mongolia's food resources. He arrived in Vladivostok to open talks with the Vladivostok autonomous Siberian government.
Amsterdam reports Boris Danskic was executed for the assassination of Field Marshal Herman von Hichhorn. The German embassy in Moscow will move to Pskov due to unsafe conditions, routing via Petrograd Helsingfors Finland and Reval on the Baltic coast.
An Atlantic Port reports two steamers carrying survivors of ships sunk by German U boats proceeding to port. Fishermen identify a German submarine commander once in the U S fisheries service as a Brown-named navigator. The Penistone and Sydland were sunk off Nantucket and nearby waters. the Sydland crew saved, Herman Winter schooner sunk with uncertain name. Fifteen survivors reach Boston. war risk rates rise for sailing vessels due to U boat activity.
Lieut Theodore Kirk of Kentucky and Los Angeles was killed by a German shell on July 28 while advancing with bridge builders near Sergy. No others injured. If this paper misses delivery please phone 3330 before 6 30 p.m. for a replacement copy.
One of the first photographs of Dr. Alexander Waekerle, premier of Hungary, arriving in the country. Wekerle has long favored peace without annexations or indemnities and recently confessed in the Hungarian parliament the Austro Hungarian offensive against Italy failed, ending in a rout of dual monarchy forces.
The Western Union Telegraph company announced a 10 percent wage rise for about 45,000 employees in the association, retroactive to July 4, pending Postmaster General Burleson's approval. The $3 million outlay excludes bonuses and commissions for those earning over $23,000 yearly, with messengers and commission staff not covered by the raise.
Petrograd report from Aug 12 describes Trans-Siberian line station masters lacking printed tickets causing trains to wait while they manually complete full ticket forms for each passenger, delaying arrivals by up to an hour.
The Air Mail Service becomes part of the Post Office Department as the first step toward nationwide aeroplane mail. The War Department previously operated the service. Six new planes were placed in service today at College Field in Maryland with christening ceremonies.
French airmen harass retreating Germans around Sunssizny and drop 23 tons of bombs. American fliers claim two German planes down in Tourney sector with a third believed shot down near Thiaucourt. Capt Bridgeman credited with first German aircraft to fall in flames near Xivray. German airship downed north of Ameland and British fighters claim 61 German planes accounted for in the offensive.
France reports the first American field army of five corps under Gen Pershing will operate north of the Marne after 1.3 million U S troops have sailed for France. The corps commanded by Liggett Bullard Bundy Reed and Wright will include about 30 000 troops per division plus auxiliaries, air squadrons tanks and heavy artillery.
In France Gen March reports the 29th division in Alsace southeast of Epinal, the 79th in training areas, the 83rd arriving with infantry landed and artillery soon to land. The 27th National Guard division with Maj. Gen. O’Ryan reportedly with British forces in Flanders. Foch counters Vesle front stabilization with a Picardy blow marking possible Marne battle echoes. In Detroit thousands walk as rail fare protests disrupt service with under half normal operation.
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