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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
11
The Shondon papers quote Germany's official press saying Count Baroldingen of Potsdam, son of an American mother, earned the Iron Cross by a bold ruse. Wearing an English officer’s raincoat, he moved toward French lines seeking an English speaker and claimed to be an adjutant. He pressed the general for attack timing and directions.
A German attack leveraged intelligence from a covert source. A French general confided details to a disguised officer in a shared overcoat. The count relayed the information to German lines, leading to a successful assault and victory.
A correspondent recalls a poignant hospital scene in which a mother visits her son bandaged and calm. He reveals in a whispered request that two legs and an arm are gone, shattering the woman’s composure as she flees in despair.
A Paris bound convoy carries wounded casualties when a young work girl named Eugenie from Bagnolet marches with zouave troops. Clad in red trousers and a red chechia she carried a rifle and walked 30 miles daily. She was wounded at the Marne and vows to return to the front.
A correspondent reports numerous engagements with the enemy’s horse during a prison escape. All encounters ended favorably, according to the source text fragment.
German cavalry avoided direct engagement with French horse, focusing on supply columns and infantry incursions. They seized a small convoy and captured about a dozen prisoners, who were handed to infantry. A French battery then opened fire, and prisoners escaped with only one guard remaining, who debated vengeance before retreating with his unit.
A Belgian regiment fought near Wetteren as Sunday dawned with heavy machine gun fire. Both sides closed to yards. Hundreds of wounded lay exposed. German fire showed no mercy, ending with a mass surrender that was followed by near annihilation of the trapped German infantry.
An old French peasant recounts single handedly stopping a patrol of Uhlans. Germans forced him to ferry troops across a river near the Oise where a retreating army had destroyed a bridge. He steered the boat into dangerous currents and used a pole to capsize it, drowning the horsemen and cavalry.
A German father in Berlin writes from Torquay about sensational tales in the capital. He notes the grand army’s confidence despite delays, describes fears of destruction in Hondon and Plymouth, high beef prices, and a drastic measure destroying pet dogs to conserve food.
Special Cable reports Berlin and Vienna asserting strong German Austrian offensives in central and southern Poland. Kiev to Cracow lines shift with Warsaw gates near, while Russian forces defend along the Vistula and Przemysl siege continues. Reports of Zeppelin downed near Warsaw and mutinous Austrian commands circulate amid heavy fighting and strategic rail moves.
Washington Oct 14 Robert Lansing acting Secretary of State issued a statement insisting commercial transactions between Europe’s belligerents and U S private citizens do not affect U S neutrality even when arms and ammunition are involved. He said he was prompted by inquiries and complaints showing a widespread belief that American merchants cannot sell war supplies to belligerents without acting unneutral.
A quoted statement notes that a U S citizen may generally sell any article of commerce to a belligerent government or its agents. It emphasizes freedom of sale under customary commerce rules and hints at exceptions or limits not included in the fragment.
Advertisement extols the value of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery in improving health by cleansing the blood and repairing the body after war and hardship. It claims to combat catarrh and skin ailments, boost kidneys and liver, and notes the remedy contains no alcohol or narcotics. Trial boxes offered for 50 cents to Buffalo NY.
Congressman Patrick H. Kelley of Michigan writes to the Republican State committee that he cannot come to Massachusetts to speak in the coming campaign due to a hot campaign back home. He nevertheless offers warm praise for Mr. McCall.
The text argues that international law and treaties do not require neutral governments to prevent sales by their citizens to belligerents. It states that whether the goods are warlike or for army use, such sales do not affect the neutral’s status. Contraband once outside neutral territory is for the enemy to interdict, not the seller’s nation. If the enemy cannot intercept, that is the enemy’s misfortune, not a neutral obligation.
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