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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1916
Page
2
Lansing demands a formal explanation from Austria after the Persia sank, continuing coverage from the first page. The inquiry follows the liner being sent to the bottom with mounting international tension and calls for accountability.
Secretary Lansing seeks explanations from Austria over the Persia torpedoing near Crete with about 850 aboard. President Wilson plans cabinet briefing as U S officials consider immediate actions in submarine warfare. Consuls in Cairo and Alexandria report no warning and rapid sinking. named passengers and potential losses are noted.
Congress reassembles amid an international crisis sparked by the sinking of the British steamer Persia with American lives lost. Senators and representatives fear consequences of U S Austria tensions and may pursue inquiries into British interference with neutral commerce and Lusitania destruction. Senator Stone plans talks with Secretary Lansing before a Wednesday committee session.
The British steam ship Glengyle was sunk in the Mediterranean on Sunday while en route from Shanghai to London. About 120 passengers and crew were aboard. all but three Europeans and seven Chinese were landed. No Americans were believed aboard.
London dispatch reports the great Russian offensive in Bukowina continues with conflicting accounts. Vienna says attacks are repulsed while Petrograd claims Russian forces advance along the line from the Pripet River to the Roumanian border.
A Vermont mother writes that her five day old baby suffered widespread red pimples and scales for six weeks. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the infant’s body cleared and the child became well. The note is dated July 1 1915 and invites free samples by mail.
Secretary Lansing indicated that the United States will probably take no action regarding the Japanese liner Yasuka Maru torpedoed in the Mediterranean. The statement came as tensions rose over the incident and diplomatic options were weighed.
The State Department said France ordered immediate release of Germans removed from American ships by the cruiser Descartes. The men will be turned over to the American consul at Fort de France, Martinique, for detention. Four ships were seized near Porto Rico with German and Austrian crew members removed.
Consul Garrels at Alexandria released a dispatch via Secretary Lansing noting that W. J. Leigh, the only presumed American aboard the Yasuka Maru, had not substantiated a claim to American citizenship. Leigh, born in China to American parents, was not proven to be an American citizen.
The war ministry reports active artillery and bomb exchanges on the Dardanelles near Seddul Bahr with a cruiser and monitor forced to retreat. A Turkish hydroplane dropped bombs on the enemy camp, and Turkish batteries damaged enemy works. On the Persian front two Russian guns were captured north of Hamadan and 180 Russians were wounded in another engagement.
Berlin dispatch records an Austro Hungarian war notice dated January 3 detailing bitter fighting on the Bessarabian front. The Toporoutz district front held, three officers and 850 soldiers were captured, and Russian probes at Erezh and Styr River were repulsed. A Montenegrin detachment near Mojkovac on the Tara River was routed.
Athens reports the Greek Chamber of Deputies will convene January 17 with King Constantine to open the session. The prefect of Saloniki transmitted an address of welcome to King Peter of Serbia, noting the Serbian monarchan visit may ease Greece Entente ties as newspapers urge cooperation.
War dispatches report France orders the release of men taken off American ships by a French cruiser. An explosion in a German mine near La Bassee disrupts trenches as French troops come under rifle fire while retreating. French batteries inflict damage in Belgium and force German columns to disperse in the Argonne. Hartmanns-Weilerkopf region bombardment drives French back along a 220 yard front. Russian forces press a major offensive in Bukowina with claimed advances along the line.
The war office statement notes a large mine explosion north of the La Bassee Betune road with complete success. A fighting trench and enemy lines were blown up and survivors were repelled by rifle and machine gun fire. It cites a surprise attack on a wide front and reports casualties from a New Year’s Day shelling of Lutterbach.
The British government vessel St Oswald is reported sunk in the Mediterranean. It had not been heard from since October 18 when it arrived at Mudros Island from Alexandria.
The Austro Germans rush troops to endangered Balkan territory while Balkan forces are recalled to Bukowina. Romania's potential alliance shift looms as a major outcome of the Russian campaign. Front lines across France and the Dardanelles hold with ongoing artillery, mining, and sapping, and Greece presses responses to entente actions around Saloniki.
The Ford peace expedition received German permission to travel by special train via Berlin and Copenhagen to The Hague. American passport restrictions remain strict and travelers must seal themselves inside the train and abandon papers cameras and valuables. The group plans to disband at The Hague January 12 with many members returning from Rotterdam.
Jiji Shimpo reports a Japanese squadron including Kasuga Tokiwa and Chitose will sail for the Suez Canal to protect shipping after the sinking of two Japanese steamers in the Mediterranean. The move signals government action to safeguard interests abroad.
The delayed French statement details heavy bombardments in Belgium and Argonne. Artillery and trench mortars hit German groups, two depots were blown, and fires started. Meuse region blockhouses destroyed. Nancy saw shells fall. Belgian notes mention routine artillery activity with no notable incidents.
A Cairo dispatch reports jewels of the Maharajah of Kapurthala valued at 4.9 million dollars lost on the steamer Persia. The Maharajah planned to join at Port Said while his suite remained aboard. The Geelong liner was sunk near the Mediterranean. all passengers were saved.
Paris January 3 Aeroplanes served as ambulances for the first time in the French Balkan mission retreat from Serbia. At Prisrend a number of sick persons could not be carried on stretchers, so Colonel Fournier arranged for the gravest cases to be airlifted by six planes to Scutari, while the mission continued.
A Montenegrin official statement received in Paris reports that on January 1 enemy forces attacked Goduivo, were repulsed after a day of fighting with appreciable losses, and notes artillery and infantry actions on other fronts.
Advertising copy claims Hood's Sarsaparilla strengthens weak kidneys and lifts overall energy, urging readers to buy today to avoid backache, despair, and borrowed trouble.
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