Race for Paris: German Aisne Advance Seen as Drive to City
Paris reports a German push on the Aisne sector develops into a race for Paris and a race of effectives. The March 21 offensive aimed to seize Amiens and channel ports but failed to yield quick results. The French halted the Paris drive. eight days of fighting left the German movement split into battles with terrain favorable to France near Ourcq, Villers-Cotteret, and Cocherel, bounded by rivers Ourcq and Savieres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Aisne
The
Marne
Amiens
Ourca
Villers-Cotteret
Cocherel
Ourcq
Savieres
Germans Celebrate Advance Rumors Reach Rhineland
A Times correspondent reports that celebrations over the German advance were limited and laced with drinking. Bread rations have collapsed to four pounds per person in Mulheim, and crowds fear strikes while the military suppresses unrest. Greeks deserting to Germany now work on railways.
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London
British Admiralty
Wireless Press
Rhineland
Times
The
Hague
Europe
Mulheim
Germany
Turks Seize All Draft Animals in Palestine
London reports Turkish forces took all draught animals in Palestine. May 14 sale of mules by British authorities drew keen bidding. Captured animals proved unsuitable for army use, yet locals invested savings in livestock, signaling security under the new order and reflecting latent wealth in the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Palestine
Reuter
Lincoln Lookalike Film Star Benjamin C Chapin Dies
Benjamin Ches ter Chapin, a moving picture actor famed for his Abraham Lincoln resemblance, died Sunday in a Liberty New York sanitarium. The death was announced in New York today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
New York
Benjamin Chester Chapin
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty
N. Y
Refugees From Aisne And Marne Pour Into Paris
Paris reports a steady influx of refugees from Aisne and Marne including the village Limity Sur Ourcq. Red Cross trucks supply food and shelter at St Sulpice while roadside canteens refresh troops and refugees. Families bring clocks umbrellas mattresses relics and live animals as canal barge travelers face shellfire and two drowned babies are recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Aisne
Marne
Limity-Sur-Ourcq
Red Cross
St. Sulpice
Greeks Win Biggest Success In Macedonia
A Reuters dispatch from Saloniki reports the Greek attack at Sika De Legan as the largest Macedonian front victory since 1916, with 1712 prisoners counted by Friday. The Greeks seized first and second lines, outflanking the third, and halted several Bulgarian counterattacks with heavy barrage fire improving the allied position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sika de Legan
Monastir
Reuter
Saloniki
German Women Register on June Seventeenth
The imperial proclamation requires all German subjects over 14 to register on June 17. In the city registration is at police headquarters while county residents register at the post office. The prior notice of June 5 was erroneous and caused confusion.
Allies Check German Forces Everywhere in Major France Fight
Allied forces press German lines from the Ourcq and Oise to the forest of Villers Cotterets. Faverolles on the forest edge retaken after fierce fighting where French valor opposed superior numbers. Choisy hill changes hands five times before a Verdun hero battalion storms it. A cavalry corps marches 160 miles to join the battle and inflict heavy German losses.
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France
Ourcq
Oise
Villers
Cotterets
Faverolles
Choisy Hill
Aisne
Choisy-Au-Bac
Douamont
Verdun
Foreclosure sale of personal property at Greenfield Lake
By power of sale under a chattel mortgage recorded in New Hanover NC mortgagee Foote will auction cash sale on Friday June 28 1918 at noon at the Wilmington courthouse door. The items include ten steel Mullen Towboats seven Michigan towboats two Old Town Canoes 16 feet Dixie gasoline launch with all oars and fixtures. Viewing at Greenfield Lake. Greenfield Park Development Company. 6-4-2u¢
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J. H. Johnson
J. P. Cresley
New Hanover County
North Carolina
Wilmington
N. C
Foote
Ipis Reenfield
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Channel
Aisne and
Macedonia
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Postal Telegraph
N. Fourth St
W. GC. A
W. M. Harris
S. Fifth St
Overlake Pavilion
Greenfield
W. J. Kirkham
Carolina Beach
New Hanover Transit Co
P. O
C. D. Gilbert
Market St
DU Pont Company
Hopewell, Virginia
Uncle Sam
NEW Liberty Shipbuilding
Carolina Building and Loan Association
Princess
Carolina
L. W. Moore
E. T. Taylor
Motte Business College
A. M. Blake
C. J. Hamilton
Mazer
Philadelphia
Greystone Inn
A. W. Pate
American Bank
Gordon
Schoss, Bear and Davis Co
South Second
Apple Queen City Cycle Co
Market Street
Wilder
Princess Street
He Motte Business College
Dispatch Office
Wacott Ginger Ale
Hershey
Hooten's
Welch’s
Froduce and Moise. Co
Peterson & Rulfs
Sunbeam Club
Academy of Music
Yates’ Book Store
May’s Delicatessen
N. Front St
Underwood
Washington
J. C. Leonard
Civil Service Examiner
Kends Bldg
Internationaleeth Co
West 42Nd Street
International Teeth Co
Dispatch
Coe Mfg. Co
Southern Sign Shop
J. M. Satchwell
Court House
Maotts Business College
S. 5Th St
Porto Rico
C. H. Bornemann
W. W. H. Care Dispatch
Chas. Finkelstein
Front St
Foltz and
Kendrix
Buckeye Oil & Paint Co
Cleveland
Vineberg
Masonic Temple
Virginia
Wilmington, N. C
W. B. Thorpe & CO
Her
Himan’s
Jarman & Futrelle
Lippincott Standard Soda
Samuel Bear Sr
North Front Street
Y. M. C. A. War Secretaries
W. B. Cooper & Co
American Bank & Trust Co
the Peoples Savings Pany
Compan
Compsnor
C. L. Dickinson
Agt
Orton Hotel Bldg
Citizens Bank, Corner Second and
Princess Sts
Inter Wr
Wade Vere
Lesher Whitman & Co, Inc
Broadway
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