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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1917
Page
7
A Berlin newspaper reports the Imperial Chancellor will present another peace offer in an address to the Reichstag, with no details revealed. May Day unrest visible with munition strikes rumored in Rhine provinces and Essen. Krupp works isolated, news hard to verify.
Providence May 1 at the New England States Veteran Firemen's League spring meeting Roxbury Veterans Association invited the league to hold its annual hand engine muster in Boston the third week in August and the invitation was unanimously accepted.
Official reports describe heavy German losses as two strong counter attacks north of Moronvilliers in Champagne were repulsed by French forces. Bulgarian counter attack near Lake Doiran repulsed. Twenty two Entente aircraft shot down by Germans, three by anti aircraft guns. British raid north of Ypres captures a few German prisoners. St Quentin under fire as Cathedral hit five times. French storming attack between Presnes and Auberive repulsed by Germans.
The Ballarat troopship of 11 120 gross tons was torpedoed by a German submarine on April 25 while carrying Australian troops to England. All troops were saved. destroyers and trawlers rescued them as the ship settled by the stern. Nurses and medical staff remained aboard to aid patients.
The American schooner Woodward Abrahams of 744 tons was sunk by a German submarine off New York with nine crew members saved. It had departed Jacksonville on February 28 after loading at Pensacola and was built in 1881 at Waldoboro Maine.
The Uruguayan steamship Gorizia was sunk without warning by a German submarine off London on May 1. The crew, including American Captain George T. Rex and officers W. J. Smith and C. F. Williams, were rescued. The ship had recently shifted from American to Uruguayan registry, with Canadian and English engineers aboard.
A Berlin regional Socialist group resolution urges liberal constitutional expansion to speed peace talks. The plan seeks equal suffrage and responsible ministries for the empire and the federated states. The message is reported from Amsterdam via Reuter’s Telegram Company.
Seized with faintness John W. Leahon docket clerk in the office of Francis A. Campbell fell in the Suffolk County Superior Civil Court building yesterday afternoon. He was found unconscious by fellow employees and taken to Relief Hospital in serious condition.
The Light vessel will be moved 300 yards east from Pollock Rip Clue Nantucket Sound to reduce collisions as Mariners approve the change. Joseph M Shea named general agent for freight and passenger departments of Canada Steamship Lines Boston office handling traffic for R and O Navigation Great Lakes Northern Navigation Bermuda West Indies services.
May 1 report from The Hague says in the Rhine provinces more than half the munition workers struck today. Essen, home of the Krupp works, is cut off to prevent information leakage as strikes spread to small towns near the Dutch frontier.
London May 1 Prime Minister Lloyd George's plan to speak on the Irish settlement is delayed due to unforeseen circumstances. Chancellor Bonar Law told the House of Commons the statement will be scheduled before the end of the week, with a firm date to follow next week.
The Vermont Supreme Court denied George Warner's appeal in the 1914 killing of his wife's father and mother, upholding a murder conviction and death sentence to be carried out in early July 1919.
George left London tonight for France to join allied efforts. The move signals a diplomatic and military pivot as British leadership travels to the continent.
Coastal update from South Boston Fish Pier notes eight arrivals including the steam trawler Breaker with a large catch and 22,500 pounds of scrod. Wholesalers’ prices list haddock 5-8c, cod 4-8c, pollock 5-5.5c. Mackerel sales hit Atlantic City record at $1 each. Victor consignment wholesale 20c/lb. Vessel traffic rises as six more Gloucester ships depart for mackerel abundance. Morey schooner launched around May 9 in Maine by Cobb-Butler for Rogers & Webb.
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