The Davenport New Era (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 1917 Page: 2 of 10
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new ERA
IN ALL LANDS
CONCISE REVIEW
OF WEEK'S NEWS
War News.
The British air service still main-
tains supremacy and the big raiding
machines have been doing vast dam-
age. One of the spectacular air inci-
dents occurred recently, when a Brit-
ish plane dispersed two thousand
enemy infantry by turning its machine
guns on the men along one of th« high-
ways.
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After a violent bombardment the
Germans delivered an attack in the
Forest of Apremont. Some detach-
ments of the enemy which succeeded
In gaining a foothold in the French ad-
vanced trench elements were ejected
after spirited fighting. The French
line was fully re-established.
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A German attack early in the morn-
ing in an effort to recapture positions
taken previously by the British near
Iverness Copse was repulsed, the Brit-
ish war office announces. The British
raided the German lines near Cherisy,
penetrating as far as the western out-
skirts of the town.
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Stubborn fighting is in progress on
the northern end of the front in Rus-
sia. A recent official statement says
the Russian troops are fighting with
determination, repelling German as-
saults. Attacks on the Rumanian
front were also beaten back.
+ + +
The news of the Italian victory at
San Gabriele, probably the greatest
feat of the Italian arms thus far in
the war, precedes the latest official re-
port from Rome. San Gabriele's top
was occupied by the Italians, the em-
bassy reports, after the fortified hill
or saddle of Dol and the Gargaro
basin, the main bulk of San Gabriele.
The battle has lasted twenty days.
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Except along the Casemates Plateau
on the Aisne front there has been no
marked activity on the other fighting
fronts. A German attack against the
French positions on the Casemates
Plateau, Paris reports, was repulsed
with heavy losses.
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A statement issued by the Russian
war office says: "In the direction of
Riga our detachments continue to
fight their way forward. In the re-
gion of the coast we have occupied the
village of Kulix. South of the Pakov
Road Lettish battalions after fierce
fighting occupied the village of Pelme,
capturing prisoners and booty.
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A British official communication
says: "After hours of heavy bom
bardment, the enemy raided our posi-
tions east of Bullecourt. He succeed
ed in effecting an entry in our
trenches, but was driven out after
sharp fighting, leaving a number of
dead and prisoners in our hands.
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Washington.
Strikes in Pacific coast shipyards
holding government contracts have
assumed such serious pAjportions that
Chairman Hurley of the federal ship-
ping board announced that he was con-
sidering going to San Francisco in an
attempt to settle the trouble
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Destruction of the American Con-
sular Agency at Dunkirk, France, by
a German bomb September 7 was re-
ported recently to the State Depart-
ment. The consular agent, Benjamin
Morel, was uninjured and the archives
of the consulate were saved.
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By n presidential proclamation the
entire sugar industry in the United
States has been placed under the food
administration to he controlled in the
same manner as wheat and fuel
Six Iowa stockmen and a negro
stock handler were killed in a rear-
end collision on the Burlington Rail-
road near Earlvllle, 111. Ten or more
were injured. The men killed and
most of those injured were in two
sleeping cars and a way car attached
to the rear of the stock train. A
freight train plowed through these
three cars.
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Warning that organized labor must
not take advantage of the present
crisis to abuse its powers was sounded
by President Samuel Gpmpers of the
American Federation of Labor the oth-
er day at a meeting of federal em-
ployes' unions in Washington.
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Taking advantage of a heavy rain
storm which visited that section, three
Germans — Carl Hentcheil, Gustav
Hartwig and Paul Niebann—escaped
from the detention camp at Fort Ogle-
thorpe the other night. Hartwig es-
caped from the camp about two weeks
ago but was rearrested.
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Federal agents are seeking the per
sons responsible for ground glass
which has been found in a certain
brand of breakfast food. The investi-
gation was begun after Alfred Meyer,
14 years old. of St. Louis, had been
made ill by the food.
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The navy has become so overcrowd
ed that Secretary Daniels has ruled
that college men may return for this
winter's training, although they will
be called back to actual service next
summer when more ships and stations
will be available.
YPRES OFFENSIVE
AS USUAL, THE HUN GIVES
UP ANOTHER COLLEC-
TION OF TRENCHES
WOMAN SICK
TWO YEARS
Could Do No Work.
Now Strong as a
Man.
BARRAGE FIRE MOST INTENSE
Made Occupation of Defenses Impos-
sible.—General Offensive Re-
newed On Various Sections
of Russian Front.
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Treason to America in the world
war was defined by Elihu Root, and
labor was pledged to fight until world
Toryism had been overthrown, by Sam-
uel Gompers, at a patriotic rally at Chi-
cago staged by the National Security
League.
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One of the reasons of the high cost
of pork is seen In estimates of tho
number of stock hogs in the United
States September 1. They show a de-
crease of 8.2 per cent compared with
the supply a year ago. The number
was 60,218,000 September 1 and a year
ago 65,645,000.
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Southwest.
United States federal prohibition
officers made the biggest booze haul
late the other afternoon when they
raided a "plant" on Sand Creek, four
miles southwest of Bartlesville, Ok.,
and seized 4,250 half pints of whisky
valued at approximately $6,000.
+ 4- +
Moore than 500 carloads of whisky,
champagne and other wines, valued at
$3,500,000, were dumped into the bay
at GuaymaB, Sonora, under the orders
of the state authorities on August 28
last, according to a statement by Ives
G. Lelevier, Mexican consul at Doug-
las, Ariz.
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The much discussed question as to
whether Governor James E. Ferguson
will testify in his own defense before
the senate high court of impeacjj
ment, was finally settled when his
chief counsel announced that the gov-
ernor would be ready to take the stand
soon.
* * *
Packing house employes at Kansas
City won their strike when the pack
ers agreed that their employes might
belong to the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters and Butcher Workmen of North
America or "advocate unionism in ac
cordance with the principles of the
American Federation of Labor." Work
was resumed at ail plants.
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Foreign.
General Kaledines has resigned as
hetman of the Don Cossacks. General
Kaledines' arrest has been sought by
the provisional government .because of
his adherence to the Korniloff revolt,
and instruction to that effect were
sent to the grand council of the Don
Cossacks, sitting at Novo Tcherkisk.
With the British Armies in France.
—The British have launched a heavy !
offensive against the German defenses j
about the Ypres salient along an ex-
tended front which has its center
areund Inverness copse and astride the
Ypres-Menin road, a little southeast
of Hooge.
From the first moment of going over
the top, the assault proceeded with
marked success, especially in the cru-
cial sector between the Ypres-Roulers
railway and Hollebeke, where the Brit-
ish early in the day had forcgd their
way forward over marshy ground andi
through woods filled with machine
guns to a considerable depth, and were
continuing the fierce fight in the neigh-
borhood of the famous Iverness copse,
Nunn's wood and Glencorse weed,
where so much blood has been shed
since the allies began the battle of
Flanders on July 31.
British troops penetrated the Ger-
man positions as far as the Zonnebeke-
Gheluvelt line, Reuter's correspondent
at British headquarters telegraphs.
This represents a gain of one mile.
More than 2,000 prisoners have al-
ready been captured by the British.
At the time the correspondent's re
port was dispatched, the Germans had
launched no counter attacks, lhey
were massing in certain places, how-
ever, where the British guns were
bombarding them.
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German Resistance Desperate.
If the attacking forces maintain the
positions to which they have advanced
in this sector, they will have accom-
plished one of the most remarkable
and most important achievements in
recent months. The German infantry
made the most determined resistance
in their attempt to regain this vital
ground, and their artillery retaliated
heavily against the British big guns.
Five distinct barrages, in fact, were
dropped ah6ad of the men as they be-
gan their journey into this difficult ter-
rain. Tho tremendous curtain of burst-
ing steel did its work well, and the
troops pushed forward rapidly toward
their objectives.
On tjie French front no important
fighting is reported except a German
attack si theast of Cerney, which was
checked by the French fire before the
enemy reached the French lines, and
French attacks near Hill 344 and east
of Samogneu^, which broke down with-
out success, according to the Berlin
war office.
The Russians are determinedly re-
sisting the attacks of the Teutonio
allies on the Riga front. After a
strong infantry attack of the Germans
In the region east of Lemberg, Lett
troops organized a daring counter-
attack which, with the energetic co-
operation of the artillery, drove the
enemy back with heavy losses.
In tho Ocna region on the Rumarb
Ian front, the Germans, by a counter-
attack, forced the Rumanian troops to
abandon positions they had previously
taken from the Teutons. In the ( au-
casus region battles between tho Rus-
sians and Kurds continue in a freez-
ing temperature, with the snow four
feet decu in places.
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Tryon, W. M. The Davenport New Era (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 1917, newspaper, September 27, 1917; Davenport, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109446/m1/2/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.