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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1917
Page
1
The Associated Press notes Americans under artillery pressure in the American sector near France with 50 000 shells fired at U S troops in the initial engagement. Troops and supplies continue to arrive as shelling persists and mud churns from shell impacts.
Despatches from Rome state Italian forces hold the Piave line while Berlin notes no further retreat. Paris Matin and Havas fear Austro German pressure through Lugano valley may turn the front northward with Asiago in peril. Rome and Berlin agree German troops have been pushed back in Asiago but risk of Italian fall back remains if Teutons advance.
Troops loyal to Kerensky seize Tsarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg and dismantle nearby rail lines to delay Bolshevik advances. Rebels push toward Petrograd as Moscow joins the uprising to challenge Bolshevik control.
Reports from Petrograd say Kerensky loyalists march on the capital as fighting continues in the city. Tsarskoe-Selo is reported captured, Moscow Red Guard defeated, and a new All-Russian Committee pledges swift defeat of the Bolsheviks. Kerensky reportedly nears Petrograd.
The weather remains cold and rainy as American infantry face diversions near daylight with machine gun fire on the frontline. French troops on the flank report four Germans cutting barbed wire, all captured by a French patrol. Pershing notes rising troop and supply arrivals and reports no American deaths aboard troop ships to France.
The new Auditorium building in Dayton Ohio housing a theatre and hotel burned early today causing about 100000 dollars in damage. Many hotel guests escaped the blaze in scant attire as flames gutted the structure and the fire origin remained undetermined.
Danvers November 11 Peter K. Nyklist an attendant at the State Hospital was killed and Murray J. Butterwell a hospital farm hand seriously hurt when the car they rode in struck a tree. Driver Joseph J. Hines escaped injury.
Some military critics say Italian defenses may need to be set along the Adige River, a potential strongest northern line. Abandoning much of northern Italy could follow, risking cities like Venice Padua and Verona.
In Fall River on November 11 the school committee ordered 50 teachers removed from service after the city government failed to provide a promised increased appropriation by 10 oclock yesterday. The dispute over a 4300 deficit has prompted a review of the committee’s expenditures as the stalemate continues.
Union mechanics who have not yet joined the walkout will be urged this week to support the Building Trades' Council in strikes at Watertown Arsenal and the Squantum government job to press for open shop adjustments.
The A F of L Building Trades Department convention in Buffalo is weighing action after some trades refused to quit. Local agents are optimistic that nonlocal council members may change stance soon. A meeting of trade agents is set for morning at 386 Harrison Avenue to discuss plans.
Paris dispatch reports the Prince of Wales has traveled to the Italian front and now appears in public as a fellow officer. He has become highly popular with the public and receives ovations when recognized.
Mrs. Martha Waldman arrives home with her baby after a nine month journey from Seattle to Worcester to surprise her husband who has been apart for over three years due to the war. About 50 relatives join at the last stop between Seattle and Boston for the emotional homecoming. The husband welcomes his wife and child as both families greet the young grandson.
A Boston couple married before World War I recounts a honeymoon in Kiev cut short by war. The husband, drafted into the Russian army, escaped to the United States after delays. The traveler notes many deserters later returning home with families bringing sons to enlist.
Secret service agents report foodstuffs and other goods valued at more than 73 million dollars stored in New York City warehouses and not reported to the government under the trading with the enemy act. This is only a portion of assets expected to be uncovered as searches continue.
Secret service men catalogued foodstuffs and metals seized as war assets. Foodstuffs valued at 38 496 742 dollars and metals and textiles at 35 449 028 dollars. Goods tied to Deutschesbank funds. 70 bags of jute traced to German deposits. Reports sent to Hoover Palmer and Baruch with storage locations and collateral details.
In ChicagoJudge Stelk's Court Vernon Hooker was fined 200 for hugging and kissing his wife while mistaking her for Catherine Bell. Mrs Charlotte Hooker testified Catherine Bell wore a red kimono. darkness led to a mistaken embrace and a costly misunderstanding.
King George received Colonel E. M. House head of the American commission to the inter allied conference in Paris in audience at eleven oclock today. House walked from Chesterfield House to the palace a mile with Sir William Wiseman.
The colonel and Mrs House were invited by the King to dine with the Queen and the King tomorrow. The American mission members spent Sunday quietly at their hotel with informal conferences to prepare for work before traveling to Paris. They declined social invitations due to heavy duties.
Frederick Dailey a 19 year old City Hall clerk shot himself after a quarrel with his sweetheart Miss Florence Hines at 26 Houghton Street Somerville. He died later at Somerville City Hospital.
Dispatch says open incidents against Bolsheviks rise in Petrograd as army organizations and commissaries report increasing unrest amid the ongoing revolt.
Horatio Colony, Keene's first mayor, died when his car overturned and toppled into a brook in Goshen New Hampshire. His relatives Miss Helen Blake and Miss Marion Blake and the chauffeur Herbert Burns escaped serious injury. Colony, 82, was a prominent financier and president of the Cheshire mills.
Michael Saunders, a watchman at the Brighton abattoir, found Hugh Gilmore dead inside a refrigerator at the New England Rendering Company. Gilmore, 51, was last seen at 4 PM the previous day. death ruled natural causes by Medical Examiner Magrath. He lived at 458 Western Avenue, Brighton.
Buffalo, November 11. Delegates at the American Federation of Labor annual convention anticipate President Wilson's opening address tomorrow morning. The gathering met tonight to hear news and set the tone for the proceedings.
The President will speak first in the forenoon at the federation convention after an October invitation by the executive council. A military guard of honor will escort him from the train to the hall as more than 450 delegates await his message to labor and the American people. Samuel Gompers characterizes the speech as a message to labor for the nation.
Amsterdam Nov 11 The Hungarian government is reported to have ordered the entire stock of cereals in the country requisitioned. The Budapest despatch notes the nationwide action as government policy.
A historical note recalls Montreal surrender to American forces in 1775 and German forces retreating from the Yser in 1914. It also notes a massacre near the Zapatista frontier reported exactly one year ago in Mexico, marking a somber anniversary.
Washington reports a forecast for New England with fair skies on Monday and Tuesday and little temperature change. Moderate westerly winds are expected across Boston and vicinity.
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