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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1915
Page
2
British dispatches describe the northern Prussian wedge into Warsaw as the fiercest combat of the war. Russian defenders hold firm along the Narew and Bug rivers while Austro German forces push toward the Warsaw Vilna railway. French and Italian reports note gains in Alsace with prisoners taken, and German defenses stiffen under heavy bombardment.
Austrian general staff evacuates Gorizia and Italians occupy a village. Germans cross the Narew from south of Ostro lenka toward Pultusk and push toward the Bug. German lines reach Nasielsk Growo amid Russian resistance. French storm German works near La Fontelle and Launois. Italians seize Tefano Cadore and advance in Montenero as Austrians delay on Carso. British mines hit German trenches near Zillebeke Hooge. German submarine actions sink French and British ships and five trawlers. one submarine reportedly sunk.
French war department reports last night’s actions in Artois and along the Aisne Oise fronts with heavy artillery and mining. In the Vosges at Ban-de-Sapt French troops seized German defenses, occupying southern Launois, taking 11 officers and 825 men prisoner and recovering six machine guns.
Berlin reports that the total Russian prisoners of war captured by Germany and Austria Hungary since the war began exceeds 1 500 000 officers and men.
German submarines resumed activity in English waters sinking a French and a British steamer and five British trawlers. One submarine is reported destroyed by bombs and gun fire.
The Danae, bound from Liverpool to Archangel, was sunk off Cape Wrath by two submarines. Crews from Danae and four trawlers Henry Charles Kathleen Activity Prosper were saved. Danae claimed one enemy sub sunk by trawler gun and bombs. Firth of Aberdeen torpedoed with four dead. Grimsby trawler Perseus lost with 19 crew.
The war office reports in Cadore the occupation of Tofana is complete and enemy attacks on Montepiano near Misurina were repulsed. It notes continued forward movement along Luzinica crest in the Montenero area and repeated unsuccessful night assaults on the Msonzo front with heavy enemy losses and several prisoners, including an officer. The July 22 assault aimed to push back our left wing. the plan involved several generals and fresh troops.
Field Marshal French reports actions on July 21 and 28 near Hooge and Zillebeke. British forces repelled a bomb attack, silenced a heavy trench mortar, exploded a mine under a German salient and linked crater to our trenches. The enemy also detonated a mine but caused little damage. One repulsed heavy bomb attack occurred near the Hooge crater yesterday.
Five men died and several others injured after Sunday swimming and boating accidents linked to fine weather. Victims include Henry J. Paris 29 Haverhill Harold F. Tripp 17 Charlestown Joseph Creed 19 Haverhill Julius Stitsek 35 South Boston and James L. Redmond 22 Brockton. Lifesavers aided in the peril.
Newspaper columns attack the American note on German U boat policy. They condemn calls to change sharp rules, defend sinking the Lusitania, and accuse pro British influence of steering U.S. policy. Several papers urge the United States to respect international law as Germany maintains its campaign.
Milan dispatch reports Gorizia evacuated by the Austrian general staff. Some Milan arrivals claim Italian troops occupied Gorizia, according to a Geneva Tribune despatch published yesterday.
Mrs. John Everett and her daughter Ivy Everett of South Paris were killed instantly when their automobile was struck by a Grand Trunk express at Nichols street crossing in South Paris on July 25. Also listed are residents Mrs. W. M. Farmer of Salem and John A. Trent of Beverly.
Mr Everett, driver of the car, was thrown out and escaped with body bruises. His wife and child were in the rear seat.
In Salem on July 2, the car of William M. Farmer of Salem collided with J. J. McGarry of Lynn near Loring Avenue and Essex Street. Farmer’s four occupants were tossed from the wrecked vehicle. Mrs. Farmer went to Salem Hospital in shock. The McGarry car sustained no injuries.
John A. Trent son of Beverly's former mayor sustained cuts to the head and arms when his car skidded on a state highway and overturned. He was taken to Beverly Hospital where wounds were dressed.
A fuse blew on an open car of the Bay State railroad in Chelsea near Broad way last night around 8:30 causing a panic and injuring four women and one man. Two women needed removal to Frost Hospital Chelsea. Injured include Mrs Bessie Feldman Mrs Julia Riley Mrs Rosa Grossman Mrs Ida Grossman and her husband Isaac Grossman. None were seriously hurt.
Robert Wilson 21 son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Wilson of 40 Woodbury street Arlington Heights died at Deaconess Hospital Concord after being unconscious for seven days following a motorcycle accident on Great road Bedford a week ago last night.
German army headquarters reports a broad advance from south of Ostrolenka to Pultusk with the Narew River crossed along the entire front. Southeast of Pultusk troops approach the Bug River while Nasielsk Growo line is reached and Warsaw area villages Stanowghista Jazgarzew taken.
Vienna reports a calm day in the Russian theatre with repulsed feeble attacks near Ivanhorod and a failed Bug River crossing south of Krylov. In the Italian theatre at Gorizia and the Doberdo Plateau, night assaults on borders were repelled with heavy losses and artillery dueling continued.
A Fire Island wireless operator received an S O S at 9 45 pm but could not obtain the ship name or location before the sender’s apparatus failed. The message was relayed by Fire Island and picked up by the Brooklyn Navy Yard then broadcast to distant points.
Official communication from general headquarters reports no major changes in Mitau region. On the Shavli Rossieny roads the enemy advances toward Poneviej with engagements along the Lavenna. In Narew front fierce nighttime attacks on the Pissa near Zrontka caused heavy losses for the enemy. Repulsed crossings between Ostrolenka and Rozan and limited enemy gains on Rozan-Pultusk left bank. On Vistula and Bug fronts counterattacks halted further offensive. Minor actions near Brodword with no sustained fighting elsewhere.
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