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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1917
Page
6
News report notes continued heavy fighting near Goriza Plava and Vodice as Italian assaults toward Trieste pause for the moment while northern operations resume around the Gulf of Trieste in the Austro Italian theatre.
Italians push on the southeastern slope of Hill 52 while Austrians face setbacks in the Plava sector. Reports claim large prisoner captures on both sides from Tolmine to the sea. Meanwhile British and French fronts show little action and a Dover Castle sinking mars the Mediterranean.
War brief reports Italian forces in the Plava sector pushed the Austro Hungarian line to the valley east of Globna. Since May 14, 23,681 Austro Hungarian prisoners have been taken on the Julian front. French attacks in the Aisne and Champagne regions were repulsed, including a German post north of Vacherauville. Russian Black Sea sailors landed on the Anatolian coast, destroying a Turkish post and burning grain and two ships.
A State Department release lists 74 American POWs in Germany all from merchant ships. Detention camps include Dulman 61, Rastatt 1, Karlsruhe 5, Havelberg 7. New England names: Breen brothers Boston. Durfee couple Boston. Edward McDonald Dracut. Larcome Chelsea. Morgan Pawtucket. Smith South Norwalk.
Jack Dillon of Indianapolis and George Chip of Newcastle Pa drew after 10 slow rounds in Cincinnati as sporting writers at ringside gave a consensus verdict.
Delegation presents two silk flags in Goddard Chapel to 18 Tufts students departing college to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France. The ceremony saw speeches by Dr. Edwin C. Bolles President Bumpus and unit organizer Herbert D. Miller as the number of Tufts men in active service tops 100.
Moscow reports all Russian monks will be sent to the front to serve in the sanitation department. Lay brothers will be recruited as soldiers. Monks have pressed for political rights and shown revolutionary zeal in recent petitions.
Five hundred prisoners petition the government to join the army. 300 are accepted after special examination. In Petrograd a thief is paraded with a placard and tea granted post-ordeal. A Bessarabia clerk is exposed for stealing a horse. a yoke and public display follow. The Kshesinska palace nears return to its rightful owner amid courts and socialist activity. furs valued at 227000 rubles are missing.
Washington officials say any prohibition action would first hit beer as 62,500,000 bushels of barley are used yearly. A Wilson advisory notes whiskey production relies on corn, not barley, and would not majorly affect the food supply. The aim would be to secure alcohol for commerce and war needs, not food conservation.
Joseph F. P. Kennedy, president of the Columbia Trust Company, elected trustee of the Massachusetts Electric Companies to succeed Richard Olney. Kennedy becomes one of the youngest trustees of a major corporation and welcomed a new son with Mrs. Kennedy. Board members include Charles Francis Adams, Charles W. Cotting, Reginald Foster, Galen Stone, Alexander Cochran e, and Gordon Abbott.
London reports official confirmation that the hospital ship Dover Castle was torpedoed and sunk, the armed merchant cruiser Hilary also torpedoed and sunk, and a British destroyer sunk after a collision.
His Majesty's hospital ship Dover Castle was torpedoed without warning at 6 30 in the Mediterranean and sank after a second torpedo strike at 8 30. All patients staff and crew were saved except six missing. Hilary and a torpedo boat destroyer were also torpedoed with casualties noted.
The French steamship Meuse, a 4075 ton freighter with a war cargo, was torpedoed and sunk last Thursday while sailing from New York to Havre. No passengers were aboard. Authorities confirmed the loss today.
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