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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1915
Page
10
In London, Premier Asquith’s Commons address on Britain’s policy and plans draws Europe’s focus while battlefield fighting rages on several fronts but receives less attention.
Reported Austro-German and Bulgarian forces press toward Nish in Serbia as Serbian lines in the north thin. Observers expect a strategic withdrawal to the mountains to continue until Entente relief arrives.
The article notes British and French landings at Salonika pressuring the south, reports of a Russian contingent near Varna or approaching Bulgaria via Roumania, and few actions on the western front aside from Champagne. In the east, multiple large battles unfold as Germans push toward Riga, Russians strike west of Dvinsk, and clashes rise along the Styr River and Stripa in Galicia. Italian offensives against Austria continue with Vienna claiming limited success.
Berlin reports northeastern advances north and east of Cacak with Cacak secured and Despotovac to Bagrdan line crossed. Bulgarian forces claim hills west of Sladna and Toraja area overrun. On Russian front, Dvinsk fighting continues with heavy losses for Russians. German forces take 600 plus prisoners near Sienkowie and storm Sienskowce. Western front notes only minor artillery actions at Tahure and Meuse-Moselle battles.
The Montenegrin war office dated Paris November 2 reports fighting south of Vishegrad in Bosnia on October 31 with a successful counter attack. It states continued shelling along the front, a capture at Hagara of 100 men including an officer, four guns and one rapid firer, and Austrian losses of about 400 dead or wounded plus ammunition.
On the Dardanelles front there were violent artillery duels. Near Seddul Bahr two enemy cruisers shelled several places ineffectually. Near Burnu our artillery destroyed three enemy mine throwing positions. Our batteries dispersed masses of enemy troops near Mortzll man and Elias Burnu. On the Caucasus front we repulsed two enemy attacks.
King George, en route by ambulance train from France to the coast, ordered Lance Sergeant Oliver Brooks of the Coldstream Guards to be brought to his carriage. Despite weakness from a recent accident, the King pinned Brooks’s Victoria Cross to his tunic while Brooks knelt by the bed.
Reports from Berlin Rome Paris London Nish and Cettinje summarize allied and central power actions. British and French transports near Salonika and near Chaines and Fouquescourt shelling German trenches. Serbian defense holds Penitza Morava river sector while Cacak and Kragujevac areas are reported taken by Germans.
Paris reports a west Lievin cannonade with close fighting near Neuville St Vaast and Meuville. In Chalnes and Wouquescourt artillery hit German trenches and disrupted formations while Argonne mines exploded without damaging Allied works. Belgian lines saw light bombardment around Ryckel Lock and nearby areas.
Serbian official communication from Paris notes heavy enemy attacks Oct. 29 on the right bank of the Penitza and weaker pressure on the Morava. The center saw the foe driven back with great losses after nearing 500 metres of Serbian positions. No major change on the eastern front south of the Morava. Fighting continues toward Pirot and west of Zajecar.
Ambassador Morgenthau cabled from Constantinople that he is in constant contact with Jerusalem and nearby points, reporting that conditions there are quite normal. The State Department has received many inquiries about the situation in the Turkish domain.
Declarations of arrest were nailed to the mainmasts of the American steamer Hocking and the Dutch steamer Hamborn, held at Halifax after capture. Owners have eight days to file their defence on the ownership question before condemnation procedures proceed.
Bees observed in a Penn study seem to track time by meal schedules and landmarks. A hive owner fed on a strict timetable from 7 am to 4 pm and noticed swarms visiting windows only at those meal hours, gradually learning the pattern and yielding to the routine.
A collection of popular omens and superstitions describing nose and eye itching meanings for luck or ill fortune, spider and magpie omens, swallow nesting as a good sign, nails with white marks predicting gifts, and a new shoe on a table foretelling misfortune.
The farmer dispatched a calf to a distant butcher by train but the animal wandered off after being fed by a farm hand. The hand claimed no fault as the calf allegedly ate its way through the planned route, prompting a puzzled farmer.
Nora nine corrects her father as he examines what he calls an elbow after a fall. She explains in a proud tone that her patella is sore and his focus on the elbow is wrong, claiming her elbow is the great sesamoid.
A story of a master posing a motion problem with two trains leaving Boston at 80 and 50 miles per hour. Most students fail to solve it, except Tommy Smart who confidently answers that the second train will collide with the first at the back end of the rear car.
A young girl at a seaside hotel dance provokes a married man's wife with flirtatious behavior. After their fifth waltz, the wife coldly suggests the wife might borrow an old costume, prompting a sharp exchange as the girl reacts with rage.
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