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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
8
Governor Walsh will sign the pure bread bill fostered by Mayor Curley. The signing pen will be given to the mayor. Curley said the measure ensures no plaster or other foreign substance remains in bread manufactured in the state.
The Rev. Dr. William Harman van Allen rector of the Church of the Advent denounced the Lusitania disaster as murder most foul. He described the sinking at a memorial service held yesterday at the church and invoked strong language against Germany.
Rioting crowds in Rome Milan Florence Genoa and Naples demand war as Signor Giolitti faces mob attacks and Germans and Austrians are warned to stay indoors. Prewar demonstrations echo across Italy while Allied forces push on various fronts and the war outlook sharpens globally.
Official dispatches describe French gains north of Arras including trench lines near Angres and Notre Dame de Lorette. Reports mention Neuville St. Vaast captures and heavy German losses, plus a German counterattack in the Wood of Aisilly with around 100 prisoners taken. Russian and Austrian fronts show movement. British attacks near Ypres repulsed. Carency reported captured by French with 600 to 700 German casualties.
Petrograd reports that in Shavli region fighting favored Russians with more than 1000 German prisoners taken and nine machine guns captured. Western Galicia saw reduced fighting as Russians concentrate on the San river line while Austrians evacuate a 94 mile front beyond the Pruth.
David Lloyd George, then chancellor of the exchequer, criticized Irish publicans and distillers as the House of Commons faced an angry crowd during a memorial portrait unveiling for Rev. Hugh Price Hughes at the London Mission.
Washington J A Alderman president of the University of Virginia has been chosen as the second American member of the peace commission under the Russia treaty. The first member Charles R Crane of Chicago has already been announced.
Paris reports ongoing Allied offensive north of Arras despite poor ground conditions. At Angres southeast, forces attacked from both sides of the Aix orlette Souchez road and took a northward trench spanning about one kilometre behind a defended forest and second-line trench. About 40 Germans were killed in the area. More to the south the action continued.
Berlin reports today that British assaults on Ypres failed with heavy losses, French Carency captured with 600 to 700 German casualties, and French reconnaissance captured by Hagenau. It notes a quiet Lorette and Arras front, Russian actions near Przasnysz, and Mackensen’s advance toward Przemysl with Teutonic ally support.
The Daily Mail correspondent at The Hague reports German authorities have closed the Belgian frontier to all foreigners. Several American business men were told they could enter Belgium but could not return, a measure likely intended to maintain secrecy over a large German troop concentration.
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