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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1915
Page
1
A fragmentary report notes President Ford's steady faith during a tense period, with aides and observers citing resilience and public calm. The piece hints at religious or moral language guiding leadership as international strains continue.
News from Christiania, London, and Copenhagen describes Henry Ford leading a peace expedition toward The Hague with aims to halt World War I. Ford outlines a program to gain European support, gather delegations in Stockholm and Copenhagen, and present a unified peace démarche to belligerents and neutrals alike.
Correspondence of the Associated Press from Rome notes Italy now has about 2,000,000 men engaged in the war with another million in reserve and another million in new classes. The Alpine arc from the French frontier to the Adriatic forms Italy's natural bulwark but two points Trentino and Trieste are denting the line, enabling Austria to push south at those points and gain control dating back to Napoleon. The aim is to reclaim those provinces and restore the former frontier as the war continues.
Foreign notes report an immunity appeal linked to Ford and faith amid potential England invasion. A second telegram reaches Vienna. French troops bid farewell. State news lists John H. Longmaid Sr. dead. Other items cover Milwaukee trains, absinthe shipments, coyote warfare, primaries gossip, Montana rail expansions, and local finances including Butte payrolls.
London reports speculation over Russian troops on the Romanian border with a lack of new developments. Observers suggest the force is being withdrawn from the Romanian border, with dispatches claiming moves northward to Bukowina and abandonment of plans to attack Bulgarians in favor of a new offensive elsewhere.
Washington reports the new American note to Austria-Hungary regarding the sinking of the Italian steamship Ancent was sent to Ambassador Penfield for Vienna. Secretary Lansing led the drafting, with secrecy surrounding the process. The note aims to assert neutral rights and principle, not details, and delivery to Vienna is expected by Wednesday night.
Siegfried Paul London, an American citizen, is jailed in Warsaw awaiting trial on espionage charges. Investigators have not finalized the full case details or transmitted charges to the American consulate. London has long served as a hotel hanger-on, commissionaire, and guide in Warsaw.
Spokane December 19 reports by four experts found a crystallization flaw in an eye beam of a lower steel frame caused the 15 foot span Division Street bridge to fail. No excessive load was present and other steel is sound. Pieces will be sent to Seattle and San Francisco for testing. Injured remain serious in a few cases, with coroner delaying inquest pending expert report. Gas and water services to the northeast are nearly restored.
Geneva reports that General Ionesco, commander of the Second Romanian army corps, died by his own hand after an inquiry confirmed suspicions of bribery by a foreign power. The war minister ordered the investigation and two officers conveyed the result before Ionesco's suicide.
Eleven survivors were landed after the Norwegian steamship Nico was damaged in a collision near London. Rescue efforts secured the stranded crew and passengers as authorities investigated the incident.
Saloniki dispatch reports thousands of Serb refugees fleeing toward Albania and Montenegro face extreme cold and starvation. Many perish, wolves may prey, while 750000 gather on Kosovo plain. 280000 join Austro German control, others flee. Ten thousand refugees in Saloniki province receive aid from British relief and American sanitary mission.
Aberdeen Washington December 19 Mrs Frederick W Greene wife of the Aberdeen Episcopal church rector was killed in a street accident and her daughter Elizabeth Greene was seriously injured by a car hearse driven by Joseph Whitesite returning to his undertakers. Both women were walking to church in a 10 mile gale rain with umbrellas and did not see the vehicle approach.
London voices Lord Derby and Ben Tillett at a music hall rally. Derby, recruiting director, refuses to forecast enlistment figures before the prime minister’s statement. He hopes the new year brings a brighter outlook and a quicker victory for the allied forces, expressing optimism about the future.
El Paso dispatch reports a secret conference of U S military and local authorities plus Carranza and Villa representatives. Villa and brother Hipolito seek unharassed border crossing in exchange for immunity to villa leaders, with a new head to be installed and loyalists promised. Security remains tight as Washington weighs the proposal amid ongoing military talks. President Wilson honeymoon plans unfold at Hot Springs with photographers warned off.
Erie Dips of Leesburg Ga reports Sheriff RM Moreland of Lee County died from wounds suffered during a clash with neighbors in Worth County near the line. Unconfirmed rumors say two Negroes have been captured and hanged.
Seriin Dec. 19 Swedish authorities protest Britain over the stoppage of parcel post between Sweden and the United States. Sweden halts all English parcel post in transit, citing removal of sealed sacks from the steamers Hellig Olav and Stockholm. The British Foreign Office reports 103 bags aboard the Hellig Olav contained only rubber signed to a forwarding agent in Sweden.
London December 19 Field Marshal Sir John French issues his order of the day before leaving the army on the western front. He expresses heartfelt sorrow at parting after 16 months of campaign and confidence that the victory is near. He thanks all ranks and recalls those wounded and fallen. Paris December 18 Pieid Marshal French arrives in Paris and will meet President Poincare tomorrow afternoon.
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