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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1917
Page
2
Allied warnings deter Bolshevik armistice moves as Lenine and Trotzky face internal divisions. Italian front steady with French and British reinforcements. Italian troops hold the Piave and push back invaders while British Byng's forces defend Cambrai fronts and French German duels continue near Verdun.
A Petrograd dispatch dated November 21 warns front commanders report exhaustion of supplies and hungry hordes threatening population centers. Copenhagen teletype adds similar notes of deteriorating conditions amid the war.
Dispatches claim Volka Narodny reports the northern front facing hunger among troops. Soldiers allegedly desert daily, die in trenches from cold and hunger, with mutinies breaking out along several sections of the line as the nation nears a bloody civil war.
Reports from Italian front dispatch describe Franco British infantry with artillery and supply trains arriving near the battle line after an eight day march. French reinforcements appeared in force with cyclists engineers and long ranks of troops. British generals and staff rode forward as both armies showed ready rigor and cohesion.
Italian forces repulsed heavy Austro German attacks between the Brenta and Piave rivers. Monte Pertica and Monte Rosa Alpini battalion held positions as the 56th division stamped out assaults, taking prisoners and mounting counterattacks along the left center and right sectors.
The American minister at Athens presented his credentials to King Alexander and an autograph letter from President Wilson congratulating the new king on his accession. The Athens despatch is dated Saturday.
A signal training camp will open on January 5 with 350 enlisted men from various camps. The three month course will lead to commissions for qualified students and immediate active duty assignment. Surplus trainees will be placed as rooms allow. The camp welcomes army and signal corps personnel.
The fifth grade at Rumford School in Wo burn closed yesterday morning due to cold. About 50 pupils were sent home.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best remedy learned from experience to treat scrofula and humors causing eczema boils and eruptions. It claims forty years of tested use and urges readers to obtain a bottle from the local drugstore and keep it on hand.
The War Office reported violent artillery actions in Belgium and north of the Chemin des Dames. On the Meuse right bank French batteries dispersed enemy concentrations north of yesterday’s captured positions and the fighting remained very spirited in this sector.
Russian forces in Turkish Armenia repelled a strong Turkish column attack near the coast in the Gunishkhane region. The war office says Russian aviators conducted several successful operations and notes additional fraternization incidents on the front.
Colonel Howze urges draft age men in New England to enlist in the Coast Artillery before December 16 1917 noting limited voluntary enlistment after that date. He declares this week should be banner week for Coast Artillery enlistments.
Boston women launch campaign to sell tickets for a benefit concert at the Boston Hippodrome Sunday night in support of the 101st Regiment. J. J. Phalen leads the effort with the 101st Association members aiding, and star performers from B. F. Keith's, Boston Theatre, Tremont, Hollis, Colonial, Wilbur, and Shubert theatres pledging their services.
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