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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1916
Page
9
The State Department will formally inquire of Germany about the punishment given to the submarine commander who torpedoed the channel steamer Sussex. An informal inquiry via Ambassador Gerard drew no reply.
Germany admitted the Sussex attack was mistaken and said the submarine commander was punished and reparations would follow. The notes led to a shift away from illegal submarine methods, with Mr. Gerard probing how the officer responsible was dealt with though no final disposition occurred while waits for real changes continued.
Omitted details show ongoing adjustments to maritime reparations claims. The text notes many cases, including the Lusitania, remain未 fully resolved as war-related damage and liability issues are litigated.
Richard T. Mason a private in H Company Ninth Regiment married Miss Margaret H. Keohane at St Joseph's Church Roxbury. Judge Charles F Perkins of Brookline court issued a dispensation removing the five days delay for the ceremony.
Seventy five yard men at the United Paper Board Company mill in Fairfield Maine walked out demanding two dollars for a nine hour day. They currently earn one dollar seventy five for a twelve hour shift. Company officials sought county help citing threats of violence. The mill employs about 150 workers. Night work continued without interruption.
The Rev. Ambrose M. Griffin will celebrate his first mass at St. Mark's Dorchester tomorrow. A separate report recalls American aviator Chap man’s death in a German air duel and honors for Lt William Thaw Sgt Kiffen Rockwell and Sgt Bert Hall with medals and promotions for the squadron.
Father Griffin son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Griffin of 4 Wrentham street returns after a dozen years to offer his first public mass at his home parish. He is a Servite priest educated in Cork Notre Dame De Pere and St Robert's College renowned as linguist and musician. He will be sermonized by Very Rev Father Burke and depart for missionary work in the far West next week.
Leaders in financial and social circles filled Trinity Church New York for the memorial service honoring Victor Emmanuel Chapman sergeant of the Franco American flying corps killed in action near the German lines in France. French consulate French commission and Foreign Legion comrades attended with Mr and Mrs John Jay Chapman parents of Chapman. The service was led by Rev W B Kinkaid and flowers came from the Chapman home in Barrytown New York.
Corporal Victor Chapman of New York, a Franco American aviator, died on a mercy mission for a wounded comrade Captain Boelke shot him down but Chapman downed two German planes before failing. The semi official statement announced awards and promotions for American aviators Sergeant Clyde Balsley of Antonio Texas was wounded near Verdun and likely crippled for life. He asked for an orange and Chapman, hearing of it, flew to the hospital with a basket of oranges. On his way he spotted black spots in the sky.
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