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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
3
The Boston school committee will cooperate with the provost marshal general and the Committee on Public Safety in war work. At a board meeting at Mason Street rooms last night it noted that schools will render clerical assistance to the selective service registration boards.
Provost Marshal General H Crowder requests teachers to volunteer outside school hours for registration boards. School committee appeals to teachers and pupils to cooperate in war work and may excuse students for clerical duties at registration rooms. Supervisors of farm service may be released May June September 1918. Elementary and high school heads may work with Boy Scouts to organize patrols and troops, requiring teacher membership on troop committees. A petition from hundreds of pupils at English High Latin High West Roxbury High urged rifle instruction for future service. considered by the committee.
London dispatch reports high naval officials say Germany has mounted a large submarine offensive but it has failed on sea and land. They credit increased Allied counter measures and rising ship production in England and America with forcing U boats to be sunk faster than they are built, predicting dwindling German fleets.
General Pershing names two engineers wounded in action on December 10. Private Einar C C Bryn of Brooklyn is severely wounded, son of Harold Bryn. Private Isidore Kanner of New York City is slightly wounded, son of Morris Kanner. Believed wounded in Cambrai operations.
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