Iowa News Highlights From Western Iowa Briefs
A compilation from western Iowa recalls events across many towns. Red Cross sales totaled 2350 dollars with a 630 dollar fund, a Des Moines brick plant fire caused 75000 dollars loss, and five horses perished at a Gilman livery barn blaze. Mitchellville mayor suggests a wartime hoist and pipe campaign, Sibley library dedication, and a Davenport hotel room tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadena
Red Cross
Shackelford
Des Moines
P. Sloan
Gilman
Albert Carson
Mitchellville
Kaiser
Atink der Kaiser
Sibley
H. S. Emmert
Winnipeg
Colfax
Hopkinton
Dubuque High School
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Charles F. Pye
Waukon
Pye
Miles Consolidated School
Bellevue
Iowa State College
Ernest Ericcson
Fraser
Eleanore Moore Hospital
Boone
F. W. Hacke
Tower City
Fred
Carl H. Schlapp
Davenport
Ed Grote
George
Katie Stallings
Near Doon
Grote
Elwood
Clinton County
Maquoketa
United States
Fanny Hupp
Bronx City
Andrew Hupp
Priests Used as Shields in German Belgian Invasion Reports
A collection of testimony and Cardinal Mercier statements describes German use of civilians, including priests and women, as screens during the 1914 Belgian campaign. Incidents cited include a parish priest forced to walk at the front near Hougaerde, killings, loot, and harsh reprisals. The piece references Mercier’s Appeal to Truth and relates American witnesses’ horror of the German advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Mercier
Belgium
Committee On Public Information
Whitlock
Secretary of States
Hougaerde
Gette
Autgaerden
Hugh Gibson
Our Legation
Legation
Termonde
Lebbeke
Dinant
Liege
Gessman
Monsignor Ruitten
M. Kleyer
Burgo
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Will
Saturday Evening Post
Nalions
Hermany
Gonventions
The
Hague
Mylines
Puers
Bey
Hostiges
Mercier Mays
World War Notes and Draft Talks Across Fronts
A mosaic of war items reports peacetime offers, conscription moves, and naval incidents. Pershing reports Lieut. Samuel Miller slightly wounded as British forces integrate with American troops. Civil strife in Petrograd prompts a state of siege amid looting and political shifts in Russia. Canada returns to a unionist government with Borden winning 228 seats. Laurier defeated. A Louisville train wreck kills 67 and injures 50. Coal shortages idle about 10 percent of U.S. steel capacity. two major plants suspend output. Submarine losses and rescues, naval inquiries, and production drives for U S ships dominate the dispatches. Conscription surveys press for a new draft around February 18.
British casualties reported for week ending December 18
London reported 17 076 casualties overall with 831 killed or died of wounds among officers and men and 1 088 wounded or missing among officers. The Rome wire office said the enemy suffered heavy losses as Italian defenses repelled new Piave Vecchia crossings and 9 000 prisoners were taken to Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bass
Brestia
Rome
Piave Vecchia
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Iowa News
Newton
Washington High School
West Waterloo High
Wilton Red Cross Society
Sioux City
Italy
Albert Kruger
Newhall
Cedar Rapids
Lyon County
Marie Uden
Matlock
J. H. Latta
Logan
W. W. Latta
Otto Frederick
Rock Island
Frederick
Ottumwa
German Bank of Carroll
Teuton
Carroll County State Bank
Misa Rosa
Fay R. Letts
Letts
Lloyd
Camden
Dalhart
Tex
Carl Johnson
Grundy Center
E. H. Knock
Mr. Johnson
O’brien
Sac City
Sae City
Humboldt
Frank Gobeh
Goteh
Lone Tree
Farmers’ Co-Operative Union
Orin Chabot
West Township
Red Oak
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Ames
Iowa
Brand Whitlock
U.S
Teutonic War News
Kiiger
France
von Luxburg
Pershing
War Department
Washington
Samuel Miller
Reserve Corps
Ben
Miller
Lakeville
Pinang
National Army
Wilson
Jacob Jones
Amsterdam
Kaledines
Petrograd
Russia
Don
Exécutive Council of Workmen's and Soldiers
Robert Borden
Wilfrid Laurier
Louisville & Nashville
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Bardstown
Louisville
Springfield
Shepherdsville
Youngstown
Wvas
Summit State Bank
Summit
Corn Products Company
Eo A
Daniels
A. B. Montgomery
Tapot
United States ‘Government
Charles
R. Page
United States i Shipping Board
Atlantic
D. Oahetelet
Moret
Ceipping Board
Cated
Charles A. Pies
Chicago
Hir
War’ Department
Wa Council
Goethals
Pansma Canal
Sharpe
Nate
Teutong
Heany
Iipaten
Reslange Tele ‘Graph Company
Haperatda, Swovien Reps
Dati Berweey
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