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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1917
Page
10
The Moewe, German auxiliary cruiser, has returned to a home port from a second Atlantic cruise, announced by the German admiralty. It lured two steamships and five sailing vessels totaling 123,100 tons gross, including the Voltaire, Hallbjoerg, and Mount Temple.
Washington reports from London that the steamer Maryland is posted as missing by Lloyds. The Philadelphia owners say the vessel likely was the ship that sent distress calls during a December storm about 100 miles east of New York. coast guard cutters searched the area but found only flotsam.
FRENCH FRONT IN FRANCE. German retreat between Roye and Ham leaves villages and towns in ashes and desolation. The 12th Army Corps' scorched earth policy, mined junctions, destroyed farms, and deportations have stripped the region. Refugees rely on American relief as French authorities prepare aid, while towns recount mass graves and towers blown apart.
Reports from official agencies describe German resistance and French gains near Somme Aisne and Tergnier. Russian front actions show German advances east of Lida with over 200 Russians captured, while Berlin and Petrograd report renewed activity and a held Meuse line near Verdun.
London report from March 2 states Frits Mannschott, one of Germany’s leading aviators, was killed in an air fight on the western front according to a Berlin despatch via the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at The Hague.
A peace rally at Bray Hall Newton Centre faced near disruption as hecklers shouted about Lusitania Belgium and Armenia. Manley O Hudson of Missouri University challenged headlines while Rev A J Muste of Newtonville and Grant Allison of Harvard spoke.
Paris dispatch reports hard fighting between French and German forces near St Quentin with German attempts to seize the east bank of the St Quentin Canal repelled. Engagements also noted west of La Fere and south of the Oise, with French detachments crossing the Ablette River and heavy artillery exchanges along the Aisne. Germans reportedly pillaged evacuated zones as retreating German commandant von Fleck took furnishings from Ham.
Policemen initially suspected firearms held to temples as Miss Stanton and Miss Spalding died after two shots in a Congress Street cafe. Miss Spalding left a note to her mother describing a pact to die together and urging burial side by side. The note mentioned a meeting in a better world and included a small sum of money and a request to notify a Cincinnati contact. Both women, teaching and pupil at local Boston schools, were well dressed and privately observed before the fatal shots.
A fragment states a girl left notes behind and sent word to Miss Spalding’s father in Newton, indicating a personal message or possible family linkage amid unspecified circumstances.
Miss Stanton formerly of Garland School and now at Dana Hall in Wellesley disappeared with friend Peggy Spalding after leaving Newton home the night before. Police note she came from a wealthy Cincinnati family and had recently transferred. her parents were killed in an auto crash. Friends recall a sunny, sociable student active in drama church and a new dancing class.
The upcoming Sunday Post marks Colonel Corn’s latest escapade as a major feature in the Fun and Feature section. Readers are invited to follow this bold journey with promised intrigue and fresh exploits.
Police hold in background a woman eye witness to the Feb 21 killing of Ordway F. Hall, manager of the Atlantic and Pacific tea store on Washington Street Dorchester. Another woman seen near the scene is also being kept out of sight by authorities.
Inspector Morrissey and Sergeant Murphy traveled to Philadelphia to identify Frank Smith alias Tommy Ryan as a Boston bandit suspect held for shooting and robbing a Federal Reserve messenger of 20000 dollars on March 16. They plan to present new evidence to the grand jury and pursue ties to Edward Foley’s Feb 17 store murder.
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