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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1915
Page
9
British Pacific fleet occupied Herbertshohe on the Bismarck archipelago core area, with Bougainville and Solomon islands under German control. Reports state Bougainville held since 1899. island nearly 140 miles long and strategically significant amid ongoing Pacific theater moves.
A 1914 overview notes global upheaval and retrenchment yielding to optimism as business eyes North American strength. It urges persistent effort, strong publicity, and confident campaigns to seize opportunities in 1915, highlighting wartime shifts, growth in agriculture, and new markets for war supplies.
The report notes postponed offensive plans and heavier losses for the Allies as they press against German defenses in the west. La Bassée remains a key obstacle with strong earthworks and two German corps, while Russia sustains pressure in the east. British commentators warn of a widening continental crisis involving Greece Italy Romania and Portugal as Austria-Hungary faces unrest and Germany grows aggressive in Africa and the Channel. The Dunkirk raid triggers German retaliation fears and British resolve to strike back.
Scarborough England a letter from a popular YorkshIRE Light Infantry officer describes the impact of an 8 inch German shell. He recalls the silent lift of a house before the explosion the pink dust and a towering spray of debris. He notes the jagged shell fragments and the limited damage to trenches but great destruction to buildings and farm walls.
A cable from Theodore Roosevelt as honorary chairman of the American Peace Committee to Sir Grey notes a good will gesture from the British centenary committee. It expresses mutual reciprocation and views nine decades of Anglo American peace as a hopeful sign for global harmony and the anniversary of a treaty.
A small but thickly populated district beyond the Moscows gates in Petrograd is being rapidly aided by the Anglo Finnish Salvation Army unit stationed in Helsingfors. Workers go house to house daily providing food aid, caring for children and the sick, assisting in home labor, and transporting youngsters to the Army nursery. A new American line inspired nursery and sewing cook school operates nearby. The Petrograd city relief committee has allocated two hundred roubles monthly for soldiers families.
Photographs by D H Armstrong and Marus M Marshall show remains from a cannibal feast in the Marquesas Islands near Tahiti. They arrived aboard the Moana from Papeete, reporting victims taken in tribal warfare. Tahiti gendarmes arrested ringleaders, who were sentenced in New Caledonia.
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