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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1917
Page
6
General Korniloff, commander of the Petrograd garrison, resigned today citing an impossible position created by multiple organizations trying to control the troops. He told an interviewer that others should take responsibility.
The resignation followed the executive committee of soldiers and workers demanding Korniloff's orders be presented for its indorsement. Korniloff will lead a front army, having once commanded the Petrograd district and helped place the former Empress Alexandra under arrest. He warned Petrograd of a German attack and ordered defense reorganizations. The council then urged garrisons around Petrograd not to send troops without a written request.
M. Skobeleff of the council of workmen's and soldiers' delegates said in Petrograd that the war might end by an agreement between German and Russian democracies. The group opposes a separate peace but plans to negotiate with German democracy through the international socialist conference.
Reports from London say the Zeebrugge raid on the Belgian coast by British warships destroyed two submarine sheds at the German base. Sixty three killed and over one hundred injured or hospitalized in the attack.
The British Admiralty states a heavy bombardment of Zeebrugge was carried out by Royal Navy forces with Royal Naval Air Service help including over 15 aerial combats and four enemy planes destroyed. One Allied aircraft landed in Dutch territory and was interned. The German admiralty reports foggy conditions allowing shelling from a distance with no loss of life, minor damage, and two enemy planes shot down.
Adolph von Batocki, head of Germany’s Food Regulation Board, has asked permission to resign after sharp Reichstag criticism of food supply policy. A Berlin telegram says retirement is temporarily on hold, but resignation is expected soon, a blow to conservative party leaders.
Official reports say German forces attacked French lines along the Champagne front north of Rheims south of Craonne and near Maisons-de-Champagne and were repulsed. At Roeux on Saturday the British broke German lines but elsewhere suffered heavy losses and delays.
A seven hour blaze at Wilhelmshaven imperial wharves heavily damaged the submarine building department. The district was sealed to the public as Wilhelmshaven, a major North Sea naval base in Hanover, housed eight large drydocks, two 35 000 ton floating docks, five floating docks and four pontoon docks for torpedo boats.
Stockholm advices report King Gustav of Sweden had a minor operation on Sunday in Stockholm. The king will be confined to bed for a few days as he recovers.
Five Russian officers and one private died when a large Russian aircraft they were aboard crashed near Monaster zyska northeast of Stanislau in Galicia from about 9000 feet. The Russian War Department issued the statement today.
British forces report gains in the Hindenburg line east of Bullecourt with most of the village in Allied hands and German counterattacks repulsed. North of the Scarpe, troops secured western Roeux and Greenland Hill, while air combat yielded five German planes downed.
Berlin reports German chancellor Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg left the capital for Vienna via Amsterdam and London to meet with Austro Hungarian foreign minister Count Ottokar Czernin von Chowdenitz on May 13.
Recruitment at the Marine Corps and Navy stations cooled as steam heat failed at 22 Tremont Row and 146 Tremont Street. Enlistments paused until heat returned, with May weather uncertain, though Boston units sent a batch to Fort Slocum on carry-over requests.
Brookline’s Knights of the Mystic Garland adopted an official coat of arms at Lyceum Hall. The heraldic piece symbolizes the society’s religious and patriotic aims with Celtic border designs and was created by Daniel J. Dwyer of Boston who spoke on heraldry’s origin and value.
Thirty persons en route to a Lowell weddingwere hurled from a large sight seeing vehicle after it struck a telephone pole near Oak Grove Cemetery Medford yesterday afternoon Four were injured and treated at Winchester police station before returning home
James Morrison of 8% Perkins avenue Somerville awakes to find his wife dead beside him after she had recently returned from Massachusetts General Hospital where she was treated for a serious malady. A physician summoned to the scene stated she had died several hours earlier.
Cardinal O Connell addressed nearly 2000 delegates at the ninth annual meeting of the archdiocesan Catholic Federation in Roxbury. He urged unwavering support for the war as a defense of right, warned against hypocrisy, and praised patriotism, democracy, and religious unity, ending with a pledge to continue federation work and list of officers elected for the year.
The Manchester blaze claimed four lives including Homer Godbeault aged 48 who was burned beyond recognition. Firefighters battled the flames as investigators sought the cause of the deadly incident.
A four story brick structure housing four merchants on the street floor, offices above, and over 50 lodgers mostly women, burned after 1 a.m. The fire blocked the rear escape, ledgers were lowered from the front, and police and firefighters rescued occupants. John Shaw died in mid air. Jennie Moffitt perished in her room. four alarms and extensive destruction followed, with merchants including Ideal Millinery, Elite Co, Ragus Tea & Coffee, and Xanthaky Brothers ice cream all destroyed.
Madame Rita Fornia of the Metropolitan Opera Company sang in Boston after news of Madame Leginska’s illness. Ellis secured Fornia for six pop concerts this week with a revised program featuring works by Strauss Verdi Saint-Saens Handel Hahn Massenet and others.
An incident left John injured yesterday afternoon while working on the steamship Perth berthed at Clyde Street Pier in Tast Boston. Details remain sparse as the investigation continues.
Rothwell of 1 percent Summer street lost balance while standing over hold and fell eighty feet sustaining fractures to both bones of the right leg. He was taken to East Boston Lif Hospital with a bad shaking wave.
Ern Seidel, 48, a prominent German resident of town, hanged himself in a woodshed behind his home at 10 p.m. amid ongoing concerns over Germany's submarine policy drawing the United States into war.
A total of 3045 dollars was raised in an hour yesterday at the First Parish in Quincy to aid the National War Work Council of the YMCA United States. The drive aims to raise 5000 dollars in Quincy for welfare work at army camps.
Mrs Mary Geary aged 6 years died suddenly yesterday in her room on the fourth floor of 71 Second Street. Death was due to natural causes.
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