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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1915
Page
4
The article describes a tactical push by Russian forces toward a Polish city while Galicia attempts to hold lines. It notes heavy fighting and a continued evacuation order amid strategic maneuvering, with emphasis on defense and retreat efforts on the front.
The Morning Post cites a Budapest report saying Russia, with only 25 percent of troops in the field, expects to regain evacuated Polish territory as ammunition and heavy guns arrive and foes are at full strength, before resuming the campaign against Austria and Germany.
London reports a world’s largest battle forming on the eastern front with about 6,000,000 men fighting along a 900 mile front from Bessarabia to the Gulf of Riga. German forces aim to reach Warsaw and sever Russian Poland from Russia as von Gallwitz and von Buelow lead on multiple fronts.
Paris reports describe a violent cannonade near Souchez with no infantry attack, sixty shells on Arras, and German attempts on the Meuse ridge south of Sonvaux repelled. An aeroplane battle ends with a German plane burned inside enemy lines near Soissons. Quiet otherwise on the front.
A Rome telegraph states two Austrian submarines that left Pola to reconnoiter the Italian coast have not returned. One submarine carried 20 crew and the other 40. Gasoline supplies were sufficient for four days.
The State Department, at Britain’s request, asks the Justice Department to investigate German sympathizers in the United States alleged to back anti British actions. No names will be made public yet as probes proceed and prosecutions may follow. cases include finance for a Windsor Ontario armory plot and other suspected plots against British interests.
The Italian high command reports continued favorable progress on the Cadore front in Falzarego and Ansief valleys. In Carnia Fort Hermann area attacked. Carso plateau siege captured with trenches, armor, and prisoners including 386 officers and six machine guns. Isonzo front renewed with intensified effort.
Italian cruiser squadron led by an Italian commander moved to Cattaro in Dalmatia and opened fire on Austrian fleet forces. They discovered several Austrian battleships sheltering in the harbor and, finding them a threat to their slower ships, withdrew without further engagement.
An official report states that at dawn on July 18 a division of armored cruisers bombarded a railway near Cattar o while retiring they faced enemy submarines. The Giuseppe Garibaldi initially avoided a torpedo strike but was later sunk. The crew remained calm and all were saved.
Vienna reports, via wireless to Sayville, that early today an Austrian submarine torpedoed and sank the Italian armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi south of Ragusa. The ship, 7234 tons, 344 feet, built in 1898, carried 550 men and heavy guns. Ragusa lies on the Adriatic Peninsula northwest of Cattaro.
George Newport of Miami Arizona reports that the Belgian steamship Elisabethville, with him aboard from Dakar to Hull, narrowly escaped a German submarine July 1 off Yarmouth England. The U boat surfaced astern and chased the liner for about thirty minutes but could not launch a torpedo.
A body believed to be Lindon W. Bates Jr of New York, a Lusitania passenger, washed ashore on the Limerick coast. A telegram from Wesley Frost to Newton B. Knox reports the discovery and identifying marks a gold watch and monogrammed cigarette case. Knox will travel to Queenstown to supervise the body.
Paris reports the Greek government has confirmation inhabitants of Aivali on the Gulf of Adramyti in Asia Minor have been ordered to evacuate interior. About 25 000 Greeks in Aivali resist leaving their homes while Athens protests to the Porte.
In the House of Commons Lord Albert Cecil said since March 11 Britain has paid 3 500 000 on cotton cargoes. Two percent shipments have been bought under a deal with American cotton shippers. He noted 49 vessels carrying cotton diverted to UK ports and 11 to other British ports.
Berlin article purports to reveal 1912 Anglo German talks with Viscount Haldane as a key figure. German proposal demanded benevolent British neutrality if war came, while Sir Edward Grey balked to avoid harming relations. Germany then halted negotiations.
An official statement outlines Germany and England debating neutralty terms. England rejects unprovoked attack language and both sides seek to localize conflicts while preserving peace and friendship.
Prime Minister Asquith told the House of Commons that total casualties of the Dardanelles expeditionary force to date amount to 42434. The figure covers naval and military units, with 8084 officer casualties including 1933 killed.
Signor Barzilai, Republican deputy named to the cabinet without portfolio, arrived with Premier Salandra after a front visit. Constituents greeted him with flags and bands as he spoke, saying the war would prove critics wrong and Italy united. Salandra praised army progress and hoped the Isonzo line would fall soon.
Brussels report states General von Bissing orders punishment for Belgians aged 16 to 40 who leave the state to serve in any country at war with Germany. Penalty includes a 2500 dollar fine or up to five years imprisonment, or both.
In Cardiff the coal strike negotiations shift to a cabinet delegation led by David Lloyd George and Walter Runciman, with Arthur Henderson, aiming for a bridge to peace. Miners’ leaders reportedly sent proposals to London for temporary concessions while a munitions court could settle remaining differences.
War brief reports the Italian armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi torpedoed and sunk by an Austrian submarine. Official Austrian and Rome notices note other actions including raids on Bari and Austrian submarines lost, with various Allied and Central power moves and casualty tallies across the front.
A persuasive mid century style advertisement endorses slimming through sparse starch intake and kerin oil capsules. It recommends weekly weigh ins and claims rapid loss of excess fat without harm.
A 1912 Journal of the American Medical Association report cites Van Giesen noting improved sputum clearance and discharge of patients with healed pulmonary tuberculosis under calcium assimilation. The article links results to Eckman’s Alterative, marketed as safe with no habit forming drugs, available via Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
An Austrian aircraft that bombarded Bari was shot at on its return and fell into the sea off Barletta, 33 miles northwest of Bari, the war office announced tonight.
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