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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1918
Page
2
Four ice cream cone factories were ordered closed in Malden yesterday by the Board of Health for alleged failure to comply with health and sanitary laws.
Oregon farmer Mrs. D. M. Alers reports health recovery after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She, who raises 600 chickens annually on a rural farm, credits the remedy with restoring energy and enabling her to perform daily tasks and farming duties. The advertisement emphasizes letters from women nationwide praising the product.
Allied and French forces launched a counter attack to retake Kemmel Hill after German forces surrounded the position. The hill, six miles southwest of Ypres, overlooks the Ypres salient as German advances press along the Wytschaete Bailleul Meteren line and toward La Clytte and the Ypres Comines Canal.
Field Marshal Haig’s official communique says Germans have captured Kemmel mountain and village and Dranoutre. North of the Lys the battle rages fiercely along the front from Dranoutre to the Ypres Comines canal.
Dublin April 26. Diarmid Lynch Sinn Fein food controller who just finished two months' imprisonment for seizing and slaughtering pigs in Ireland will be deported. He is American and will be placed on an America bound ship. He played a prominent part in the 1918 rebellion and was sentenced to 10 years penal servitude but later released.
A call urges readers to support Liberty bonds with a weekly dollar pledge, equating civic duty with military responsibility and urging immediate purchase to defeat Prussia.
Massachusetts again shines as eight locals win Carnegie bronze medals for rescuing drowning bathers and stranded swimmers. Names include Joseph W. Kaufman of Roxbury and Samuel J. Conover of Worcester, with numerous youths recognized for brave acts on lakes and rivers in 1916–1917.
Berlin reports heavy losses for enemy counter attacks south of Villers-Bretonneux and near Mont Kemmel. Official war office statement says von Arnim’s army achieved a complete success capturing the key height, while French and British defenders at Wyrschate and Dranoutre were forced from their positions.
Paris dispatch reports counter attacks from Villers Bretonneux to south of the Luce retaking large areas lost yesterday. German forces resisted fiercely as our troops reclaimed Hangard and parts of the village, with ongoing combats and artillery fire along the Luce river and Hartmannsweiler Kopf.
Washington April 26. Lord Reading and T P O Connor met to discuss Irish conscription problems. O Connor urged leaving the question of raising Irish armies to an Irish parliament to be created under the home rule act.
Nearly 15 000 men of the 76th Division passed in review before Major-General Harry F. Hodges at Camp Devens on the main parade field. The units moved with perfect precision as they joined the new national army from civilian life.
Shortly after noon a second parade at the camp showed 1800 Massachusetts men summoned by the latest draft call. They were registered, examined, and sent to barracks, with Lt. C. H. Martin directing clerks. Boston supplied 1140 men to Depot Brigade units as 190 more are due tomorrow. Base Hospital Unit No. 7, led by Major John Dowling, begins training immediately with 36 officers, 200 enlisted, and 100 nurses from Boston City Hospital School.
General Radcliffe outlines a prolonged war of endurance with General Foch commanding allied reserves in France. He notes German efforts around Lys, Givenchy, Merville, and Kemmel Hill, with Allied gains near Givenchy and Robecq, and a renewed German push toward Amiens and Villers Bretonneux. He predicts a larger offensive between Arras and Amiens to separate British and French forces.
Casualty list reports 75 names from units recruited in Rhode Island and Connecticut with 9 killed in action 5 died of wounds 3 died of disease 35 wounded severely and 25 wounded slightly Seven officers listed as severely or slightly wounded include Captain Henry H Worthington and Lieutenants Orland C Brown Edward M Freeman John J Hyde and Harry F Kelly The 102d Infantry suffered heavy losses with many listed from Meriden Conn including Alfred P Kivlin Charles Smith Robert P Barrett Henry B Gallagher Michael O Reilly and others previously reported missing now wounded in action
A casualty list names multiple servicemen from New England states. Among those listed are Sergeant William R. Knapp of St. Johnsbury Vermont with the 102d Machine Gun Battery and Private Charles G. French of Worcester Massachusetts with Battery E 102d Field Artillery, plus several others from Connecticut Maine Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The names include ranks from private to lieutenant and detail their company assignments within the 101st 102d and 104th regiments and attached engineers and battalions.
The April 26 casualty roll lists 75 names with nine killed in action five died of wounds three died of disease 33 wounded and two slightly wounded Includes Sergeants Corbin Knapp Himes Ada Ruskin and Lieutenants Freeman Hyde and Kirk among others and notes many private and corporal ranks plus a few cooks and a mechanic.
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