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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1917
Page
2
The 15 nations conference opened in the ministry of foreign affairs shortly after 10 oclock this morning with 15 nations represented. The meeting aims at closer unity in war prosecution and coordination of resources.
The French premier presided and welcomed delegates stressing the gravity of their duty. Delegates formed committees as arranged, with Italy first to arrive, followed by Japanese envoys and the American War Mission beginning its session.
Ambassadors Sharpe, Pershing, and Sims met before going to the foreign office as British delegates joined. Crowds watched outside hotels and the ministry though no demonstrations occurred. The supreme war council, representing France Britain the United States and Italy, will convene to handle western front military operations with Colonel House and General Bliss as U S representatives.
Gas kept running from two jets in a 117 Granite Street room caused the deaths of two lodgers and serious poisoning of the landlady and her three infant children who slept in an adjoining room.
Felix Shuluk finds his wife Mrs Felix Shuluk and two lodgers dead from gas poisoning in a third floor tenement. His wife and three infants survive after revived by a local physician. Medical examiner Magrath says the deaths were accidental.
Latest war dispatches report little overall change on fronts while British forces hammer the Cambrai sector. Cambrai town now lies directly under heavy shelling as Allied guns renew pressure.
Corporal Kingdon Gould, at Camp Dix in New Jersey, did not receive a home furlough for Thanksgiving. His fellow soldiers called him a good sport and noted he did not seek a trade of his pass, choosing to stay with his troop.
World War I fronts report intensified artillery. infantry fighting paused in Fontaine Notre Dame Moeuvres SBourlon area. Poelcapelle Becelaere Cheluvelt Arras and Italian front see heavy bombardment with no major infantry action. German office says Italian assaults on Brenta west bank and Monte Tomba failed.
Berlin reports Count George von Hertling, the German chancellor, told the Reichstag he is ready to negotiate peace once the Russian government sends representatives with full powers. He defended Poland Lithuania and Courland self determination and urged unity, praising allies Austria Hungary Turkey and Bulgaria. He warned enemies cannot win by arms alone and defended submarine warfare while pledging to respect constitutional reform within the German framework.
The dispatch notes Berlin will demand Courland and Lithuania as part of its broader plan for a Middle Europe. Pan Germanists long envisioned a Baltic to Mediterranean empire centered on German influence after the Rhine campaign.
A Copenhagen despatch says Sweden’s Petrograd legation has agreed to mediate with Germany at Bolshevik request and offered a truce and peace talks. The move, if confirmed, is seen by the allies as unfriendly amid Sweden’s prior actions during the war.
The ad promotes Musterole a clean white mustard oil ointment claimed to ease neuralgia sore throat bronchitis croup rheumatism and chest colds. It touts rapid relief better than mustard plasters and lists hospital size price 2.50 and a seventy year history of dependable use.
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