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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1915
Page
6
Britain will declare all foodstuffs and strategic goods contraband for Germany and its allies. The move aims to starve Germany into capitulation, leveraging the fleets and submarines to cut off supplies while warnings skirt near-term actions by allies and neutral countries.
German war office plans a major western offensive with troops from East Prussia moving to France and Flanders. French advances in Champagne threaten the German center as fighting intensifies along the front with cannons active and German reinforcements rushing to the west.
Paris reports the minister of marine announces the forts guarding the Dardanelles entrance will be demolished and mine dragging operations are now underway in the Straits. The official communication follows.
Reports from the Dardanelles describe resumed long range fire followed by closer bombardment that destroyed four forts. Turkish fortifications at Sedd El Bahr Erthogroi and Orhaniye suffered heavy damage and a French cruiser bombarded the forts briefly. No allied vessel damage confirmed. Constantinople's capture would shift wheat from the Black Sea to France and England, weakening Turkish naval power and altering German cruiser Goeben and Breslau's refuge.
Washington officials would not comment on London dispatches about a blockade of Germany by England. The United States proposes keeping neutral shipment rules for civilian goods, with proof of civilian use, and calls for removing floating mines while allowing coast defense mines. Germany’s promises to end submarine warfare if food reaches civilians are noted, and the split between U S and German plans continues as Allied and Russian fronts show hard fighting and strategic movements across Western and Eastern Europe.
Warren S. Tappen of Cambridge was yesterday appointed private secretary to Congressman Dallinger of the High Massachusetts district. He will assume the duties of that office on Monday.
Official reports say German infantry crossed the Niemen near Sventoyansk was repulsed and heavy siege artillery bombarded Ossowetz. French gains north of Mesnil reached an enemy trench crest while Przasnysz battles favored the Russians. Italian and Austrian actions are noted with mine events in the Dardanelles and Belgian reinforcements heading to Flanders.
In a pastoral letter Cardinal Mercier says a Gelrode parish priest endured veritable martyrdom. The Tablet publishes eye witness Father Verstreken testimony from Antwerp detailing the priest’s death amid Belgium’s wartime turmoil.
The account describes German forces entering Gelrode on August 20, shooting several youths, injuring others, and detaining Father Dergent in Aerschot. After torture and two refusals to renounce his faith and pledge loyalty to Germany, he was executed with rifle shots and his body dumped into the river, found days later.
Admiral von Ingenohl, commander of the German high sea fleet, has been removed from his post and sent from Kiel to Berlin. It is rumored Prince Henry of Prussia will take his place.
Paris reports the French ministry of marine announced the destruction of the torpedo boat destroyer Dague in the Adriatic Sea as of the Feb 26 briefing at 12 10 p m.
The Dargie struck an Austrian mine while escorting a Montenegro bound convoy off Antivari on February 24. Thirty eight crew members disappeared but provisioning and convoy return continued. Dargie, 256 feet, 720 tons, built 1911, 33.1 knots, 51 crew, armed with two 3.9 inch guns, four pounders and four 18 inch torpedo tubes.
Berlin reports an official communique refuting claims of a minor Mazurian defeat. It lists captured Russian generals from the Twenty army corps Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth divisions and other units, noting several officers including the corps commander and brigade commanders.
Russian headquarters reports say German infantry crossed the Niemen near Sventoyansk but was pushed back to the left bank. In Galicia and the Carpathians, Russian forces claim repeated Austrian and German losses, prisoners and matériel. A second note notes major Przasnysz region gains with thousands captured and heavy German retreat.
Federal grand jury opens investigation into alleged customs law and neutrality violations. The steamships Lorenz o Berwind Fram and Sommerstad are accused of carrying supplies from U S ports to German warships in the Atlantic.
The Wessels firm shipped 3977 tons of coal on the Loren zo, captured by a German cruiser in West Indian waters. The Berwind carried 2787 tons and reached Rio Janeiro after a long voyage, while Fram and Sommerstad were held at Philadelphia. A grand jury probes a Hamburg American line plot to aid German warships with coal water and provisions.
Viscount James Bryce, in a forthcoming Daily Chronicle piece, says it is incorrect to claim German names or blood denote pro German sentiment in the United States. He notes American-born children are loyal to the Stars and Stripes and that German-American voters in a few cities pose little pressure against U S loyalties. He also lauds American Red Cross and Relief in Belgium for aiding non combatants.
Bryce contends the United States, as the world’s chief neutral, should avoid taking sides while noting both factions fault the government. He argues Belgian breaches prompted reproves but warns that U S impartiality could be questioned if it adopts an initial anti belligerent stance. He cites law and practice on neutral remonstrance and notes public hostility to big business influence on policy.
The official communique reports cannonading along the entire front with progress north of Mesnil in Champagne. Two trench lines taken, crest reached, and westward gains in a sector north of Mesnil-Les-Hurlus. Belgians retake some trenches. British repulse a German attack and gain ground near La Bassee road. German artillery activity noted. progress also in Bois Brule and Apremont forest with enemy losses.
Vienna reports fierce artillery in the Przedborz sector with heavy fighting near Velovso ridge and the Ondava valley. Across the front north of the Vistula and in East Galicia the line shows relative calm. Russian forces reportedly captured 1240 defenders during assaults in southeast Galicia.
Signor Mosti Trotti, a Radical deputy, collapsed and died at the Verdi Theatre in Milan during a speech urging Italy's intervention in the war. Witnesses said his remarks stirred the crowd before he suddenly pitched forward and died.
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