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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1920
Page
1
Soldiers burn the Irish city of Gore in a reported reprisal. The attack destroys the business center and public buildings, causing millions in damage. Residents flee in fear as lawless forces terrorize the area. Casualties are feared with many dead among ruins.
Cork Ireland endured a massive blaze citywide after an ambush on troops at Pillow's Cross. Civilians vanished from homes as fires, hazardous devices, and explosions followed, destroying City Hall Carnegie Library and Corn Exchange with losses estimated at 10 to 15 million dollars.
The article portrays David Lloyd George as Britain’s pivotal leader amid crises from Ireland to labor unrest. It notes relentless opposition and acclaim as he confronts France Russia and domestic politics while marching into Parliament amid a divided cabinet and public scrutiny.
In Cumberland Maine three youths and a young woman drowned when a motor truck returning from a dance skidded on an icy road and plunged into a brook. Victims were Lawrence Ross and his sister Philena Ross both of Cumberland and Wilford Leighton of West Falmouth. The trio left the dance shortly before midnight and were not seen again until the overturned truck was recovered from the brook three feet deep with the bodies beneath.
Two Somerville girls were killed and another girl with a man were seriously injured when a car containing six other passengers crashed into a tree and a water hydrant at Jabez Corners on Sandwich Street near Plymouth center.
A high powered car carries a party of 10 speeding toward Plymouth. Continued on Page 11 Sth Column.
Four armoured cars left Udine and three reached the palace of Gabriele D Annunzio in Fiurre marking the first break in the regular Italian army.
President Lowell of Harvard born in 1856 is highlighted alongside a great storm that swept the Eastern U S with winds near 60 miles per hour. The sequence includes Wilton’s 1918 arrival at Brest France and the first American troops crossing the Rhine into Germany in 1918.
Weather across New England shows increasing clouds with rain possible Monday night or Tuesday and little temperature change. Winds shift northeast to east. offshore areas expect overcast skies as disturbances move from the Missouri valley toward the East.
Expect fairly ordinary weather through this afternoon with possible snow or rain. Temperatures not much cooler than yesterday, making conditions similar to the prior day.
Yesterday values show morning 8 a.m. 36 37 degrees and 3 p.m. 86 degrees. Evening readings 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. around 87 and 39 degrees with midafternoon high. Average temperature yesterday listed as 88. The report compares to the prior year.
Firefighters battled a blaze stretching along St Patrick Street from Cook Street to Maylor Street. The inferno extended across blocks, triggering alarms and prompting evacuations as crews worked to contain the flames.
Captain Franz von Rintelen, long an arch conspirator against the allies, has shifted from super spy to a shrewd commercial propagandist after his sentence was commuted to Atlanta by President Wilson on November 24.
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