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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1914
Page
9
Report describes swift sinking of the Niger off Deal as crews raced to rescue sailors. Captured by witnesses at North Deal and Ramsgate, the captain was saved as the vessel went down in eight fathoms. Total crew 96 with several survivors hospitalized after first aid.
Violinist Albert Spalding appears in Boston this afternoon at eight in Jordan Hall. The program features Corelli's sonata in D Bach adagio and fugue in G minor Mozart concerto in D and a set of short works including two compositions by Spalding.
A Esquimalt report cites Japanese forces sinking eight ships in Kiaochau Bay during the Tsingtau bombardment, including Jaguar Luths Iitis Cormorant Tiger Taku and Ruchin plus the Austrian Kaiserin Elizabeth. The Elizabeth reportedly sank after her crew exhausted ammunition.
Paris dispatch reports after a war council presided by Kaiser Wilhelm the Crown Prince is named commander in chief of all German and Austrian forces operating against Russia with General Von Hindenburg on the left wing and General Dank on the right.
Beecham's Pills clear the system of impurities and stimulate the liver and bowels to relieve biliousness. Headaches nervousness stomach pains dullness and bitter taste diminish as indigestion is eased and general discomfort ends.
Corporal J J Cunningham writes from the First Irish Guards about home rule delight among troops and heavy combat with Germans. He recounts men advancing under fire, a stretcher line of wounded, and a subaltern dying at the start signal while others suffer severe injuries.
An artilleryman describes an aerial duel over a plain. A German Biplane clashes with a French monoplane amid smoke and flames. The German craft crashes into a clover field and burns, with occupants a captain and a sapper found burned and mangled.
A midshipman recounts the Waldeck-Rousseau steering toward Cattaro in the early hours as three submarines launch torpedoes. An Austrian biplane drops bombs while a destroyer tries to draw fire. the cruiser evades, fires back, and the submarines retreat as dawn breaks. A British officer’s Flanders account follows with a note on modern artillery.
A hare runs the no man’s land between French and German trenches of World War I. Both sides fire at it. A Frenchman wins the game and offers tobacco to the Germans to keep the hare. The Germans accept, and the hare is traded for cigarettes and tobacco.
A Bedfordshire regiment officer writes home detailing a First Division battalion intrenched 70 yards from the Germans. An improvised bull's-eye target was hoisted above the trenches, provoking single shots by German snipers and signaling hits. Both sides cheered as the targets were struck and later a new target was potted, with cheers and songs from both sides.
First Victoria Cross in the present war goes to Sergeant Major White of the Army Service Corps for rescuing a wounded captain at Le Cateau under heavy fire after his unit was driven back by German cavalry. White was wounded in both legs but carried the officer to safety. He previously earned the Distinguished Conduct Medal in South Africa for carrying Lord Roberts’ son from danger after Colenso.
The admiralty reports Captain Von Mueller and Prince Francis Joseph of Hohenzollern as prisoners of war after the Emden engagement off the Cocos Islands. Emden losses are unofficially placed at 200 killed and 30 wounded. survivors receive honors of war.
Bethlehem Steel officials declined to discuss a federal probe and a reported contract for 20 submarines at the Fore River yard in Quincy. President Joseph W. Powell offered no statements on the Quincy operations as workers moved in and out of the plant amid reports of warship building activity.
A fragment states that work was to begin but no authority exists to identify who benefits or for whom the work was intended. The passage reflects ambiguity and lack of formal decision makers.
Antwerp residents were told Germany supplied coal to the Antwerp Gas Works and fuel for the people. Investigators found the coal not yet delivered and flour and grain came from seized Antwerp stocks. The Central Belgian Committee paid Germany for supplies, while salt from Germany is sold at high prices to Belgians.
Advertisement promises instant relief from nasal congestion and catarrh by applying a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm in the nostrils. It claims to relieve headaches, enable breathing, stop discharges, and cure catarrh by morning, urging readers to buy at drug stores.
Yale mourns James B B Donnelly campus police chief for 20 years death yesterday in New Haven Conn services held Battell Chapel with Yale officials including Anson Phelps Stokes Taft and Hadley in attendance undergraduates and senior council bears carried body to Mechanicsville New York for burial telegrams of condolence pour in from Yale graduates nationwide
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