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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1917
Page
15
Field Marshal Haig’s morning dispatch from Flanders notes hostile recon parties trying to approach lines near Polderhoek wood north of the Menin road were driven off with prisoners and killed. Belgian troops blew up German shelters north of Dixmude during the night of Nov 13 14, and a raid north of Bixschoote was repulsed.
Advertisement features Miss I. Brown of 308 Columbus Street Boston praising Vitalitas. She says stomach disorder and rheumatism worsened before using the product and credits Vitalitas with significant improvement.
W. S. Warren, aged 87, reports long kidney and stomach troubles improved after a friend bought Vitalitas. He says his ailments forgotten and he feels ten years younger.
It claims to purify and tone the body improving rheumatism digestion nerves liver and kidney issues without alcohol or drugs. The ad directs readers to Woodward's Drug Store at 102 Tremont Street to obtain Vitalitas.
Mrs Jennie Moyer of Lima Ohio credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash with restoring her health after a displacement. She endorses the remedy to other women and offers personal letters for guidance. The piece also quotes officials urging swift action to end strikes delaying government wartime production, stressing the impact on soldiers and national duty, with MIT aviation expert Prof Breed noting 600 candidates for army flight training.
Brigadier General John A. Johnston warned that soldiers lives are in danger due to strikes on government work. United States District Attorney Thomas J. Boynton vowed to use legal means to squelch violators of the Buffalo orders at a City Club address.
British forces report control of the Beersheba Damascus railway junction near El Mansurah and Na Aneh as Allenby advances. Turks suffer heavy losses with 1500 prisoners taken, 20 machine guns and four artillery pieces captured, and 400 buried at Katrah.
Italian forces in the Piave region defend positions from Feltre to the Adriatic as Austro-German numbers press on the Asiago plateau and beyond. In Russia, reports vary from flames in Petrograd to coalition talks in Moscow, while Western Front calm persists.
Ottawa reports October wastage in the Canadian expeditionary forces reached 3648, exceeding overseas recruitments by 1898. Discharges in Canada totaled 1017, returns for discharge 1565, and overseas casualties 1066, while overseas recruits numbered 1750 with 1094 of them from the United States.
The article notes Georges Clemenceau’s campaign against German propaganda and his age of 76. It discusses the fear that a “tiger” figure could become premier, facing Socialist hostility over his drastic labor policies, and recalls Clemenceau’s history of cabinet resignations and sharp journalism with L Homme Enchaine.
General Pershing updates losses from the Nov 3 trench raid. Three killed, 11 wounded, 11 missing or captured. New names added to wounded include Mc Laughlin and Grigsby. others listed with hometowns. Missing or captured additions include Grimsley and Decker. Langham corrected to Laughman.
Berlin says German troops in Northern Italy are advancing southward from Fonzaso and Feltre. The official communication notes fighting contact with the enemy in the mountains while reporting no new developments along the lower Piave River.
Former Mayor John I Fitzgerald charges the administration with excluding aliens from the draft and argues 40 000 British subjects and 160 000 other aliens would be on the firing line if drafted He cites promises of a second draft and asks Crowder for a public statement to clarify the policy in wartime.
The Algonquin Club last evening elected General Charles H. Taylor as president with Washington B. Thomas and others as officers. Annual reports show a prosperous year with a full slate of executives and committee members.
German press notes a pacifist tilt after New York mayoral race. Kreuz Zeitung says Mitchel defeat benefits Germany as pro war stance fades. Vorwaerts Germania cite Judge Hylan win as lack of war zeal and a moral rebuke to Wilson and the war party.
Federal reserve banks reported to the Treasury that it would take days to tabulate payments of the 18 per cent Liberty Loan instalment received today. Officials predicted that hundreds of millions more than due were paid in by subscribers paying in full. Treasury redeemed three hundred million dollars of certificates of indebtedness from Liberty Loan proceeds.
In a House of Commons speech Henry Forster said since July 1, 1916 British forces captured 101,534 German prisoners and 519 guns on the Western Front. They also took 30,197 Turkish prisoners and 186 guns, with about 128 square miles of territory in British hands, and total war fronts prisoners reaching 166,000 and guns 800.
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