Britain Hails Wilson Note In Brisk Press Warmth
British newspapers applaud President Wilson s reply to the pope s peace note calling it direct and bracing. The Guardian likens it to Lloyd George s talk and stresses guarantees for a durable peace amid pacifist debate. French papers note the long deliberation behind the reply and its stance on Prussian militarism.
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London
Wilson
United States
Stockholm
George James Wardle
House of ‘Commons
Filson
Kaiser
Manchester Guardian
Lloyd George
Glasgow
Germany
Foe Is Beaten Says Poincare at Verdun Front
Verdun August 29 President Poincare presented Gen Petain with the grand cross of the Legion of Honor awarded for recent successes at Verdun. In a Place de Armes address he denounced enemy efforts to distort history and spread propaganda. He urged faith in the French cause and the soldiers defending it.
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Verdun
Poincare
Petain
Legion of Honor
Place de Armes
Germany
Coal operators debate price scales and wage talks
Washington reports Federal control of the coal industry again under discussion by National Coal Association directors as a possible Wilson price scale acceptance looms. Illinois operators schedule a joint wage conference with miners’ officials for Sept 6 in Chicago, with broader state-wide participation likely.
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Washington, D C
National Coal Association
Wilson
Springfield
Illinois Coal Operators’ Association
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Central Ilinois Coal Operators’ Association
St. Louis
Hkely Hee
Francis McLaughlin
Illinois Coal Operators' Association
Allied Air Attack on Frankfort Fails
Amsterdam reports a large Allied air squadron from the west attempted to strike Frankfort on the Main last Sunday but was forced to retreat mid flight by intense anti aircraft fire. The Berliner Tageblatt notes the German guns hindered the mission and caused withdrawal before reaching target.
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Frankfort
Amsterdam
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Berliner Tageblatt
Main
WANTED HIS BOY TO GET FIVE GERMANS, HE CAPTURES 30 AT VERDUN
Allen Blount, son of Richard Blount of St. Louis, who joined the foreign legion in April, reports to his father that he was proposed for a war loss palm after taking 30 prisoners single handed at Verdun. He was slightly wounded in the hand. The father had earlier said he wanted his son to account for five Germans.
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Verdun
Paris
Allen
Richard Blount
St. Louis
Foreign Legion
Blount
Waterloo Park Bond Tax Levy Sparks Civil Fuss
City council rebukes park board over land purchases and 2.5 mill levy plan, citing park poverty as justification. Bonds totaling 106000 will run to 1952 with 5.25 percent interest. taxpayers face 256952.50 cost plus interest, while payment schedule assigns annual levies to cover interest and principal.
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Park Commissioners of
Waterloo
Park Commissioners
Lie Council
Chautauqua Park
Gates Park
Byrnes Park
Devitt, Tremble & Co
Chicago
Park Board
Board of Park Commissioners
Black Hawk County
Berlin Planned War in 1909 Witness Says
Witness Gen Michelson testified at the treason trial of Gen Sonkhom- Jinoff that Germany’s military buildup was known to the Russian war ministry and that Berlin contemplated declaring war in 1909 and again in 1913. He served as military attache to the Russian embassy in Berlin from 1906 to 1914 and said he reported Germany’s activity to the Russian war office. The court president pressed for how Germany planned to ally against Russia in 1922, but the witness requested to answer only the president and was cut off.
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Petrograd
Germany
Russine War Ministry
Michelson
Sonkhom- Jinoff
Russia
Berlin
Geryaiiny
Russian War Office
Gen
Avodian troops seize Finland 3 net buildings
Helsingfors faces rapid occupation as Russian troops seize parliament to bar the diet. 100 deputies try to enter. guards keep them out amid protests from Senator Manners to Governor General Stakovitch. The city remains calm as warship crews are ordered to return to vessels.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Fielsingfors Council of Workmen's
Manners
Stakovitch
Copenhagen
Russia
Kirkoff
Vossische Zeitung
Berlin
Stockholm
Kronstadt
Baltic
Nikolai Lenine
Wilson
Washington, D. C
Elihu Rost
Mr. Root
British Vessels Sunk By U Boats Rise In Week
London report shows an uptick in British ship losses last week from mines or submarines. Eighteen ships over 1,600 tons were sunk and twenty three smaller vessels were sent to the bottom according to the weekly Admiralty statement issued last night.
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London
Admiralty
Reichstag Sets Censorship Debate Before Adjournment
The Reichstag main committee, closing its midsummer session, debated censorship and martial law. A motion to abolish martial law failed, while majority resolutions urged ending political censorship and modifying censorial limits. The items were linked to a federal council order on moving pictures. El Tovar Broadleaf Havana de Cigar advertisement.
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Berlin
London
Reichstag
Social Democrats
Federal Council
el Tovar Broadleaf
Havana de Cigar
Daniels Urges Fighting Till Victory At Armor Plant Groundbreaking
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, at Charleston W Va, declares the war is for democratic nations and the German people, denouncing imperial aims. He says no stopping for rumor of peace, pledges continuous wartime preparation and asserts government plants should share production with private factories to keep prices fair.
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Charleston
W. Va
Daniels
America
German Empire
Germany
Saith
Hax
Umynalion
Earth
Save Coal for Your Country Plea to Users
Washington August 30 A wartime appeal from the U S chamber of commerce through its national defense committee urges coal users to cut consumption to preserve national energy for the war effort. It notes coal is a sinew of war and fewer miners and strained transportation hinder additional supply.
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Washington, D. C
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Council of National Defense
Ceal
Counter Attacks and Frontline Conflicts Report
Military dispatches describe minor Franco Belgian front actions with artillery duels and local raids. Austrian counterattacks near Gorizia repelled as Italians gain ground. Russians withdraw part of two regiments in Fokshani. Verdun and Nieuport sectors see continued artillery activity with occasional prisoner captures and a few ships sunk by British and German forces.
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Verdun
Flanders
Paris
London
Rome
Isonzo
Petrograd
Fokshani
Roumanian
Gorizia
Tle
War Office
Champagne
Nieuport London
Nieuport
Seven Tomato Pickers Killed in Train Collision
Seven tomato pickers were killed and two injured when a wagon carrying workers was struck by a train at a crossing near Aberdeen Maryland. The accident occurred as the men rode to work at a Pennsylvania crossing.
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Aberdeen
Pennsylvania
Wreck Near Livermore Kills Woman and Child
Fort Dodge Iowa Aug 30 Sixteen people were injured late yesterday when a southbound Minneapolis and St. Louis passenger train derailed one mile north of Livermore. A woman Mrs Eugene Cochran and her baby boy were killed. The injured, many able to continue, include Charles Wenzel Elvin Welliver Dave Fitzgerald Mattie Repp Mrs Merman Keeney Austin Gibbons John McDonald Irene Anderson J P Gooden Mrs A J Vanwagner Clay Frotsland Conductor Pat Feeney and A Barnes.
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Fort Dodge
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Livermore
Eugene Cochran
Gilmore City
Charles Wenzel
Elvin Welliver
Carroll
Dave Fitzgerald
Clare
Mattie Repp
Perry
Merman Keeney
Laverne
Minn
Austin Gibbons
Dwight
Ill
John McDonald
Eagle Grove
Irene Anderson
Dayton
J. P. Gooden
Council Bluffs
A. J
Spends Vacation as an Army Cook to the Near Son
Rural mail carrier W. A. Davis left for Des Moines to spend two weeks at Camp Dodge. Rather than leisure, he will serve as a camp cook to be near his son in one of the National Guard companies stationed there.
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W. A. Davis
Mr. Davis
Des Moines
Camp Dodge
National Guard
Give France Your Christmas Money
Officials of the national committee of patriotic and defense societies urge that money usually spent on Christmas gifts be redirected to aid sick and wounded soldiers in France, rehabilitate devastated French villages, and support war orphans and cripples.
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Washington, D. C
National Committee of Patriotic and Defense Societies
France
Japan Mission Presented to the Senate
Viscount Ishii led the Japanese mission welcomed by the Senate in a ceremony led by Senator Saulsbury. Ishii spoke of friendship and shared resolve against militarism, asserting Japan fights Germany not for self gain but to uphold justice. The event featured strong applause and mutual pledges amid wartime solidarity.
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Senate
Srulsbury
Marshall
Ishii
Japan
Germany
Salem
Viscount Ishii
Saulsbury
Washington, D. C
Viscount Ishi
Delaware
Marshal
United States
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