Austrians Transform Alps into Natural Fortresses
Chicago photographer Edwin F. Weigle reports from the Austrian Tyrol front along the Italian border. He describes honeycombed tunnels and trenches, dynamic rock blasting, and heavy batteries perched on mountain ledges from Trieste to the Swiss border, where spies, Italian residents, and German-manned guns shape a high mountain war.
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Chicago
Edwin F. Weigle
Chicago Tribune
Tyrolean Alps
Weigle
Riva
Lake Gardo
Belgium
Antwerp
France
Przemysl
Teutons
Galicia
Austrian Tyrol
Peronne
St. Quentin
Vienna
Lemburg
Trieste
Tyrol
Teutonic Army
Switzerland
Alps
Folgari
Rovereto
War dispatch from Tyrol and Trieste shows aerial peril and Italian retreat
The narrative describes Captain von Steinner’s biplane near Trieste forced to land amid grape arbors, the crash into vines, and his uninjured escape. It notes Austrian detachments near Riva killing or capturing Italian patrols, a grim exchange of taunts, and stalemated fronts as Italians press toward Trieste. Weigle travels from Tyrol to Vienna then Berlin and Copenhagen to submit photographs.
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Trieste
Hauptmann
Gugen von Steinner
von Steinner
Riva
Weigle
Tyrol
Vienna
Berlin
Copenhagen
Reception Given to Rev and Mrs Lutz
Parishioners of the Channing Unitarian Church Newton gave a reception yesterday afternoon and evening to the Rev and Mrs Harry Lutz who are soon to leave for a visit to California. The reception was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Alvin R Bailey of Richardson road.
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Channing Unitarian Church
Newton
Harry Lutz
California
Alvin R. Bailey
Richardson Road
Safety device frees twenty lifeboats in one minute on two Massachusetts steamers
A new device by F A Jones on the Metropolitan line steamers Massachusetts and Bunker Hill allows one man to release twenty lifeboats in a minute after order. Demonstrated to a Post photographer, the system uses a steel triangle lashings and rings to snap boats free, saving six minutes and three workers previously required.
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F. A. Jones
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Massachusetts
Bunker Hill
Here
New York
Torch Prank Flames Sufferer In Harbor Accident
Albert Caulfield, 19, is hospitalized at Carney with severe facial and limb burns after a torch explodes while he and friends cruise toward Hough's Neck in the power boat Rosalie. The blaze enveloped him from head to foot as the torch contents scattered.
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Albert Caulfield
Carney Hospital
Rosalie
Hough
Caulfield
Concord Sends Eight Bales of Sewing to France
During the past month the town women who sew weekly sent eight bales of hospital clothing and supplies to French hospitals to aid wounded soldiers. A record 820 articles were shipped and money was also sent.
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Concord
France
Fire Chief Hurt By Falling Timbers In Vermont Shed Fire
Montpelier Vermont August 8 Assistant Fire Chief V S Person of the fire department was seriously hurt when timbers fell during a blaze that damaged the E O Gitchell stone shed. Property loss was about $20000.
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Montpelier
V. S. Person
E. O. Gitchell
End War by Control of Trade
F. W. Wennerberg of Boston College spoke at a Women’s Peace Party meeting on the Common urging international control of trade routes to end war. He said landmark movements arise from such gatherings and decried the glorification of war as intolerable amid Europe’s recent year.
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F. W. Wennerberg
Boston College
Women’s Peace Party
Europe
Women's Peace Party
Restraint, Peace, and a New World Order Echoes
Mrs Glendower Evans presided as she quoted Wilson and Taft on collective security and a pan American conference. The piece argues that military preparedness fuels war, urges the League to Enforce Peace, and envisions a united American republics alliance limiting European aggression and paving a path to world peace.
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Atlantic
League
Wilson
United States
Mexico
Cape Horn
Panama Canal
North
Europe
America
Asia
Africa
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Glendower Evans
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Hartlepool Attack Survivor Weathers House Destruction
Engineer Adamson of the steamer Indian Prince, a Hartlepool resident, barely escaped death when German cruisers attacked Hartlepool last winter. While shaving in his room, he heard firing and shells, and a blast perforated his house roof, wrecking several rooms.
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Adamson
Hartlepool
England
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