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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1918
Page
7
The steamship City of Athens was rammed and sunk by a French cruiser off the Delaware coast early yesterday morning. L Collins of Ocean Steamship Co said the ship carried nine lifeboats for 242, with 135 aboard and 69 lost.
Mr Collins released updated figures for the City of Athens disaster. 87 passengers and 32 crew were killed, 33 passengers and the same number of crew were rescued by boats from the French warship. Independent inquiries opened. testimonies taken from Captain Forward and others aboard the liner and from French naval officers aboard the cruiser. The French attache said the collision toppled the cruiser foremast and that the forward bow of the liner was crushed, killing all in that section.
Seven people, four women, were arrested in Milford by Chief Marshal J J Monteith on suspicion of circulating The Kingdom News alleged to be German propaganda. Women include Nashua residents widow of former Mayor Charles H Burke and his daughter Mrs Tena B Welldon. Men are Fred E Davis George K Boutelle and George Anderson. The group awaits instructions from U S District Attorney Brown.
A letter page features readers asking about campaign hat materials, the Portuguese army in Europe, light travel time to Alpha Centauri, land purchases by Salem settlers, Grand Canyon depth, and a Boston to Portland auto trip with a suggested halfway stop at Newburyport.
Old theatre-goer notes Ellen Terry is still alive at last accounts. He adds Labrador is not part of Canada but a Newfoundland dependency. He states the governor general of Canada earns ten thousand pounds annually.
The message rallies Americans to back a last issue after the previous loan was oversubscribed. It urges public support and national fund-raising zeal in response to foreign financial pressure.
Advertisement touts easy access from Washington Street to Hanover and Portland streets for Wolf's My Clothier. It claims best values in Boston with Tremont and Boylston street styles at lower prices.
Samuel Gompers president of the AFL was welcomed by prominent business men at the Boston City Club as he urged that all must make sacrifices to win the war and that everyone should buy Liberty bonds to the last dollar.
Labor leader Samuel Gompers spoke to a crowd introduced by Henry B. Endicott praising justice in industry. He called for no strikes or lockouts during the war, equal pay for equal work, eight hour days, and postwar conservatism of gains as autocracy and militarism face destruction.
Readers reply to the Observant Citizen column recalling astonishing infant weights and growth. Letters from Mrs Bridgton Maine and Mrs A M Bishop Somerville share childhood birth weights and rapid development. A New Bedford note recounts a two and a quarter pound birth swelling to over ten pounds by April.
Samuel Gompers expressed a pledge to share all he has with the nation urging citizens to buy bonds. The appeal echoes wartime sacrifice and strengthens support for government financing.
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