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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1915
Page
7
Allied troops landed on both sides of the Dardanelles under favorable conditions and captured prisoners amid French efforts at Kum Kaleh. Berlin reports say British attacks near Ypres failed with heavy German losses while Belgians and French recaptured towns in the Lys area.
Official dispatch reports artillery exchanges near Ossowetz Poland and in the Carpathians on April 25. Austrian forces reportedly surrendered a complete battalion near Stry, while German and Austrian air targets were bombed and two aircraft damaged or captured near Sanski.
Paris April 27 The War Office communications claim progress north of Ypres with prisoners and captured materiel including bomb throwers and machine guns. German attacks on the Les Eparges St Remy front were repulsed and an officer cites nearly 1000 killed. At Hartmannsweiler Kopf the summit was retaken and the troops advanced 200 metres down the eastern slopes.
Official reports describe French troops occupying Kum Kaleh on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles, advances north of Ypres with prisoners and war material, Meuse sector gains, Hartmannsweiler Kopf recaptured, Belgian efforts near Dixmude with poison bombs, Lizerne recaptured, and Gallipoli landings with heavy Turkish fortifications repelling a fleet approach.
Constantinople reports enemy attempted landings at four Gallipoli points including Tekeburun Kumkaleh and Sighiiders. Turkish forces claim success with repelling assaults and capturing English and Australian soldiers while suffering insignificant losses. 400 enemy killed 200 captured. A Moslem unit desertion to Turkish side noted.
A Belgian official report from April 26, released in London, says Belgian infantry repelled three German attacks south of Dixmude after the Germans used asphyxiating gases. It notes German artillery activity and Belgian artillery counterfire aiding the French, with Lizernes change of hands earlier in the day.
Field Marshal Sir John French publishes a front dispatch noting repulsed German attacks northeast of Ypres, Allied progress near St Julien, and Het Sas retaken. The communiqué also cites successful bombing of stations and junctions at Tourcoing Roubaix Ingelmunsters Staden Langemarck Thielt and Roulers. Hank and His Animal Friends feature teased for the next Sunday Post.
Ottawa April 27 five officers killed one reported killed two wounded and missing and 22 wounded are listed by Major General Hughes minister of militia who received the list from the Canadian record office in London by private cable Captain Clark Kennedy of Montreal once reported killed is now reported alive and well
No confirmation yet from Berlin on a thousand Canadians captured. Current tally lists 130 plus officers killed or missing across multiple battalions and brigades with names including Major G. W. Bennett Peterboro Ontario Captain W. Lockhart Gordon Toronto and Lieutenant H. F. MacDonald with addresses not given. Some previously listed casualties are later reported alive and well.
It was announced tonight that the summer quarters of the Russian embassy would be located in Newport this season as they were last year.
The United States asked Turkey to protect Armenian Christians after reported massacres and threats. Secretary Bryan cabled Ambassador Morganthau in Constantinople through Ambassador Bakhmeteff to urge steps preventing further religious outrages.
Ambassador Bakhameteff delivered a despatch from Etchmiadzin pleading for U S relief. Secretary Bryan said the Armenian appeal via the Russian envoy is the first official notice of Armenians massacres and urged inquiries by the Turkish government with Turkish representations. Despatches from Tiflis report atrocities in Turkey as Kurdish forces move into Armenia.
Bridgeport April 27 Coroner J J Phelan orders an investigation into the death of Arthur Hearn Cowl to determine if it was death by own action or involuntary homicide. He will wait for Miss Emily Dunbar Wheeler to recover from grief before proceeding.
Dr. W B Cogswell medical examiner says Arthur Cowl died in Stratford from a self inflicted act amid nervousness and melancholia. The case involves Miss Wheeler and a ribbon attached to a revolver. experts doubt the trigger was pulled by the ribbon and note the weapon could not fire that way.
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