Allies Drive On 150 Mile Front In World War I News
Allied forces push Germans along a 150 mile front from Reims to Ypres with French and American units closing on St Gobain and Ham while Chauny nears threat. Americans advance on the Aisne south of the river as Cambrai push slows. British Haig’s men press toward Armentieres and Lille as artillery shifts hint at German retreat.
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Serny
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Chemin-des-Dames
Vesle
Poets Essential Not Affected By Work or Fight Rules
Boston Sept 6 Registrants writing poetry fiction and advertisements deemed essential work by the provost marshal general's office. Edward Sampson chairman of the local draft board reported several registrants in those classifications and sought a Washington ruling on their status.
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Boston
Edward Sampson
Washington
Baker Orders HT Men From War Bureaus
Secretary Baker orders the chief of each war department bureau to replace by December 31 all draft age men in Class 1 assigned to Washington or war department branches with men disqualified for service. Indispensable incumbents only. deferments allowed for dependency. Bureau chiefs must report counts and certify indispensability.
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Washington, D. C
Baker
War Department
Washington
Adjutant General
Lana
Take Owens sunk by submarine amid foreign waters
The navy reports the American steamer Take Owens, a 2,308 ton army cargo carrier, was sunk by a submarine on September 3. Five civilian crew members are missing, while all naval guards survived with one minor injury. Six crewmen are seriously wounded and six slightly wounded. Names were not released.
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Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Naval Guard
H. W. Lincoln
Siege Law In Berlin To Stifle Gossip
Berlin and the Brandenburg province are under a siege law punishing inventing or circulating untrue rumors that unsettle the public. A notice by General von Linsingen urges restraint on frivolous gossip exaggerating enemy gains and doubting Germany’s economic resistance. Similar decrees have gone into effect in Breslau and other cities.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Brandenburg
Cologna Volks Zeitung
von Linsingen
Germany
Volks Zeitung
Breslau
Philipp Holds Narrow Lead in Badger State Gubernatorial Race
Milwaukee. Wis Sept 6 With 180 precincts still to report Governor Philipp is ahead of Roy P Wilcox of Eau Claire by fewer than a hundred votes in the Republican gubernatorial nomination contest. Of the missing precincts about 120 are favorable to Philipp and 60 to Wilcox. St Joseph Mo Sent 6 Monsignor Christopher Linnenkamp Vicar General of the St Joseph diocese died aged 80. He was born in Paderborn Westphalia Germany and came to the United States in 185? locating at Muscatine Ia.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Philipp
Roy P. Wilcox
Eau Claire
Wilcox
St. Joseph
Christopher Linnenkamp
Newes
Paderborn
Westphalia
Germany
United States
Muscatine
Rail executives back federal contract form for Pagt plan
New York Sept 3 Acceptance by the railroads of the standard contract form proposed by Director General McAdoo was unanimously recommended today by the railway executives advisory committee, representing two railroads with 92 percent of U S mileage.
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New York
McAdoo
Adv ‘Ory Committee
United States
Eastern Ship Output Plan Aligns Yards by Vessel Type
The Emergency Fleet Corporation under Director General Charles M. Schwab and Vice President Charles Picz outlines a policy to have eastern yards build one vessel type each. The plan aims to raise next year’s output by several hundred thousand tons and improve steel distribution, placing eastern yards on par with western facilities.
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Philadelphia
Seni
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Charles M. Schwab
Charles Picz
Mr. Schwab
Dutch Protest Over Sinking Dutch Vessels at Sea
The Dutch minister in Berlin is ordered to protest German submarine attacks within the barred zone and the sinking of seven Dutch fishing vessels on August 24. He will also object to skippers being forced to sign an unknown declaration and seek the return of goods taken from the fishing boats.
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Associated Press
Hague
Berlin
German Retreat Must Go to Frontier Faces New Waterloo
The 1913 dispatch analyzes German retreat toward the Belgian frontier, noting the British advance and the fall of Douai and Cambrai. It foresees the risk to Lille and the Belgian coast, and argues the German lines from Lille to Verdun are highly threatened as Allied pressure widens the front between Verdun and Reims and La Bassée to Dixmude. The piece uses a diagrammatic “swinging hammock” metaphor to illustrate front disruptions caused by Horne and Mangin, with emphasis on the ongoing German retreat and Allied breakthroughs toward Arras.
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LaBassee
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Lens
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Somme
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Mangin
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Auto mobile detachments form to chase Germans on Vesle front
Report from Sept 5 describes American troops organizing three man car units with machine guns to pursue retreating Germans beyond the Vesle and across the Aisne front. More than nine cars operated north of Vesle as German stores and supplies were abandoned or burned, while engineers repaired bridges and troops advanced through ravaged villages and damaged terrain.
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Associated Press
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River Aisne
Vesle
Marne
German blow miles away alters Vesle front
Reuter reports German forces along the Vesle were outmaneuvered by a distant strike up to 100 miles away on the Soissons plateau. The successful blow cleared the Vesle and forced German withdrawals from key positions near Vauxailion and the Ailette, threatening their hold on the Hindenburg line.
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Hindenburg
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Tenny-Lormmy
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Vauxailion
Pont Rouge
Chemin Des Dames
British Official Urges Allies to Pool Resources
Lord Robert Cecil, a British anti secretary of state for foreign affairs, urged in London that all allied resources be pooled. He highlighted coordinating allied needs with allied shipping to create an overwhelming economic power for the alliance.
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Robert Cecil
London
Flo
Morale rise in French front troops praised by church official
Dr Charles S. MacParland, on return from a Western Front tour for the Federal Council of Churches of Christ of America, says the American army in France stands morally higher than civilians due to Red Cross, YMCA, Knights of Columbus and allied agencies aiding soldiers. He delivered messages to American and allied troops and to the French people.
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I'regs
New York
France
Knights of Columbus
Charles S. MacParland
Western Front
Federal Council of Churches of Christ of America
Yank Army Fully Supplied With Airplanes
The Associated Press reports that General Pershing and other France reports indicate the American army now has enough airplanes of all kinds to protect troops. General Marek told the House military committee at the war department that transportation of U S troops in France is better organized, and Colonel Samuel M Fellon reported the situation as eminently satisfactory.
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Kinston, D
Seni
General Pershing
France
Marek
House Military Comnittee
War Department
United States
Samuel M
Fellon
Marchi
Greatest War Revenue Bill Takes Stage in House
The war revenue bill, the largest of its kind, moved to the second stage in the House with only about half the members present. A quorum was finally reached and the bill to raise 24 trillion dollars for the coming year began committee of the whole debate. Majority leader Sparks hailed the measure as epochal, proposing 16 trillion in liberty bonds funded by taxes while claiming no American industry or individual would be crippled. Also noted, Private Tee Gilles of Tulsa died fixing an aircraft propeller at Taliaferro field.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Legislative
Congress
Kitchin
America
House
Senate
Identified Suspect Denied Bombing In Chicago Federal Blast
Michael F. Sullivan says John W. Wilson was positively identified by four witnesses as the man fleeing Adams Street entrance when the blast occurred in the Chicago federal building. Wilson, a former I W W storekeeper, spent Wednesday at the federal building and denies involvement in the explosion that killed four and injured many.
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Chicago
Michael F. Sullivan
John W. Wilson
Chicago Federal
Haywood
Wilson
William D. Haywood
Sullivan
Adams Street
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