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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1916
Page
2
Front dispatches report an unusual lull along the Verdun line with no infantry or heavy bombardment for 24 hours signaling a potential final German assault on the fortress. While Le Mort Homme remains comparatively quiet, shelling continues in the Woevre and around Douaumont and Dagmoup as French counter fires.
Berlin reports two French assaults on Dead Man's Height were unsuccessful. British mine blasts south of Loos also failed. In Champagne and between the Meuse and Moselle, artillery duels continue with a fresh 27th German division repelling the first attack and halting the second. Eastern and Balkan fronts remain unchanged.
London March 17. Walter C. Runciman says women have substituted for men in metal, leather, and miscellaneous trades totaling about 363,000. Many work in government, commercial firms, and farm labor, with 200,000 more needed on southern farms. Women handle motor production and two inch howitzer shell manufacture, proving capable in skilled machinery work.
Paris dispatch states today saw only intermittent bombardments around Verdun with no infantry attacks. German efforts near Mort Homme and Vaux were repulsed by French artillery and machine-gun fire. Belgian lines reported usual bombardments as Allied and German positions exchanged fire across the front.
A limited raid west of Pont-a-Mouson pressed a salient at Mort Mare. It enabled the capture of enemy prisoners and inflicted some losses on the opposing force. The remainder of the front was described as calm.
Turkish forces report a British withdrawal following defeat near Felahie on March 8. Turkish vanguard advances reached Zenzir height as they pursued the enemy March 10 11. British losses include 19 prisoners, five officers, one machine gun, arms, and ammunition.
Wireless dispatch from Berlin dated March 17 reports: Austro-Hungarian patrol clashes on Stripa front. west of Tarnopol troops seized an ensign, 67 soldiers, one machine gun and four mine throwers. Isonzo front: Italian attacks stopped, Austro-Hungarian positions held firm.
The German memorandum and its appendices notifying neutral nations that armed merchant ships from warring nations would be treated as war vessels were released by the State Department. The documents include 15 cases of ships firing on submarines, sometimes without provocation, and copies of shipmaster instructions found on a captured British ship. The British version differs from the German text, and the State Department will compare them with current instructions.
London reports a British official statement from March 17 noting considerable artillery action south and northeast of Taos and shelling by both sides southeast of Ypres during the campaign in Belgium and France.
The Dutch steamer Tubantia was torpedoed and sunk six feet below the waterline on the starboard side. Bolivian minister to Germany Dr Luis Salinas Vega survived with losses including personal property valued at 60000 dollars. Four lives were lost, including two stokers.
Lord Robert Cecil told an Associated Press rep he believes the Tubantia was torpedoed though no official report supports that conclusion. He noted Britain detained the ship for contraband and warned Germans target neutral tonnage while blockade relations improve with neutrals and Sweden. Negotiations for Danish agreements progress and parcel post releases are hoped.
The Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government dissolved and an incorporated successor formed at a 3 Joy Street dinner attended by 200 with 100 turned away. The event raised over 1600 dollars as Edward Keating of Colorado urged universal suffrage and noted persistent state opposition.
Three British airmen Lieutenants John Stone Beaumont and Laidlaw were killed in accidents during trial flights. Johnstone and Beaumont perished on the east coast of Scotland while Laidlaw died at Hendon Aerodrome.
Russian war department bulletin from Petrograd via London reports violent artillery duels near Dalsen Island and Dvinsk, grenades east of Ponievesch railway, plus a Caucasus advance with 19 Turkish officers including two majors, and over 250 soldiers captured with four regimental flags.
At Wollaston, a four story home for elderly sailors suffered a rapid blaze. Memory Neill, 14, a nurse girl, saved Whitelaw and a bedridden man while J F Darrantee rigged a hydrant hose. About 20 residents were evacuated and no lives were reported lost.
A suicide note from Addie accuses a man of causing her death in a furnished room, detailing a manipulative relationship and threats of haunting if not punished. An empty chloroform vial and an unsealed letter were found beside the body, with relatives in Vermont arranging for the burial.
Chevalier Dominic D Alessando of New York, president of the International Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers of America, arrived in Boston yesterday and presided over a Quincy House executive board meeting. The board sessions will continue today and into early next week with officers W W Cordell Cincinnati A D Andvres Chicago F A Hopkins Portland Vincent De Falco New York H Lilly Indianapolis and A Persson Albany in attendance.
Firemen battled for over an hour at the basement fire in a stone building at 7 Mercantile Street occupied by Wilson and Miller produce dealers. Flames spread to the basement of 67 Commercial Street home to the Maine Egg Company. Cause unknown.
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