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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 29, 1917

Page

6

Big Shake-Up In National Army In Mass Training Move

More than 6000 selected soldiers at Camp Devens will transfer between units next week starting tomorrow. Men will leave their current companies for the depot brigade then move to artillery infantry regiments and other corps as training intensifies. Major Reginald Barlow's 3024 Infantry battalion leads the "actual battle" drills at Hill 76 built from shell holes and trenches, with barbed wire set for maneuvers over the top. A Thanksgiving Day parade in Fall River will feature eight hundred local soldiers marching through Textile City, followed by a noon dismissal and evening reviews with Mayor Kay.

Devens Reginald Barlow 3024 Infantry Army of the United States Fall River National Army Barlow 302D New Bedford Ayer Rovers Kay Boston 308A Artillery Maine New Hampshire 301St Engineers Rhode Island 302D Field Artillery Vermont New England 76Th National Army Division Hill 76 Athletic Bowl No Man’s Land No Man's Land

New England units reshuffle as division trains for Hill 76 assault

Troop movements reshape brigades across New England camps as artillery and infantry units swap identities and personnel. The 302d Infantry trains on Hill 76 with a mock No Man's Land assault guided by French and American officers, featuring trenches, craters, barbed wire and sapling gallows.

Spanish Crisis Grave Grips Madrid Ministers Face upheaval

Madrid dispatches describe a grave ministerial crisis with newspapers predicting the end of the Data ministry and a death blow to the rotating party system. L Accion urges a new solution with new men while La Tribuna calls it the gravest since monarchist restoration, noting Data still has backers.

Madrid L’accion Maura Spain la Tribuna Premier Data

American Soldiers Stage Over Top Raid

Soldiers carry out attack on no man’s land as patrol breaches the enemy line and presses toward barbed wire defences. Continued from front page, report covers ground gained and ensuing firefight.

Must Save Food Says President

Washington October 28 President Wilson urged every home and public eating place in the United States to pledge support to the Food Administration and comply with its requests. The appeal marks family enrolment week to enlist nationwide cooperation in food conservation for the war effort. The President said only this cooperation can achieve the nation’s objectives.

Washington Wilson United States Food Administration

Food Administration Call for Sacrifice and Personal Service

President Woodrow Wilson urges every American to conserve food and reduce waste to support both soldiers and allies. He emphasizes personal sacrifice at home and in public eating places, to free surplus for export and stabilize prices while meeting wartime needs.

United States Food Administration Woodrow Wilson

Soldier Train Crash Kills One at Camp Upton

An empty Long Island passenger train collided with idle freight cars at Camp Upton on October 28, killing one soldier and fatally injuring another while many soldiers gathered to welcome relatives arriving for a Sunday visit. Several others were less seriously hurt in the wreck.

Camp Upton N. Y National Army Long Island

Navy Divers Drowned In Atlantic Barage Incident

Two warrant officers Rudolph Zugehor and Charles Henry Blinn of the deep sea diving unit drowned when a barge overturned in a storm near an Atlantic port. Gunner's Mate Michaels was rescued as a warship launched boats. Zugehor was 23, Blinn 24.

Atlantic United States Navy Rudolph Zugehor B. C. Zugehor Webster N. Y Charles Henry Blinn Minneapolis Michaels Zugehor Blinn

Liberty Loan Oversubscribed as Subscriptions Reach Billions

New York officials report the Liberty Loan allotment of 1.5 billion may be heavily oversubscribed as of early Saturday evening 1 335 705 850 had been received at the Federal Reserve Bank with 894 subscribers filing 34 826 850. J P Morgan Co filed for 25 million more bonds, origin unclear.

New York Federal Reserve District Federal Reserve Bank J. P. Morgan & Co

Nation Must Wait For Loan Totals

The Treasury Department announced that the total subscribed to the second Liberty Loan remains speculative. Several days will pass before subscriptions are fully ascertained, as officials await clearer figures on the nation's total subscribe.

Washington Treasury Department

Merckem Peninsula Captured by Belgians and French

The British official communication reports the capture of the Merckem peninsula near Dixmude by Belgian and French forces with additional prisoners taken. The drive, praised for its bold riverine advance through flooded terrain, included Belgian support at Luyghem and a successful push to seize a five mile by one to two mile strip north of Langewaede to Sevekoten.

London Merckem Peninsula Dixmude Associated Press Belgium Flanders Kippe Merckem Aschhoppe Verbrandesmis Kostermolen Luyghem Luyghem Peninsula Langewaede Sevekoten

New England Tops Liberty Bond Sales Nationwide

New England leads the country in Liberty Bond sales, defeating all other districts and setting a nationwide benchmark for war finance effort.

New England rallies for Liberty Loan push to exceed 500 million

Across New England communities people rushed to subscribe to the Liberty Loan, with Boston alone oversubscribed beyond its 112 715 000 quota. Towns like Dover NH and Norwich CT reported large oversubscriptions while banks stayed open late to handle the rush. Subscriptions by Boy Scouts of Old Orchard ME and Jordan Marsh Company offices boosted totals, as Old Colony Trust Company pledged a half million dollars.

New England Federal Reserve Bank Boston Massachusetts National Life Insurance Company Dover N. H Norwich Conn Wolfboro Litchfield Mass Hartford Bristol Manchester Farmington Plainville Rockwell Essex Middletown Old Orchard Boy Scouts of America C. R. L. Snow Samuel Pelton William Crowley Ralph Battison Franklin Milliken Francis Harper Robert King Richmond Lord William Murphy Earl Jackson Wilbur Stone Walter Cockerville George Lary John Crowley Roy Prince Carleton Stuart Ernest Baker Edward Townsend Leon Milliken W. W. Harmon Jordan Marsh Company Arthur Guy Empey Uncle Sam Old Colony Trust Company Jordan Mersh Company

Italian Line Breaks as Germans Invade Italy

Berlin reports 100000 Italian prisoners and 700 guns in Austro German hands as second and third Italian armies retreat. Rome says left wing broken on Julian front. depots destroyed. Cividale burned as Austro German forces push westward. French cabinet weighs allied aid to Italy.

Berlin Rome Galicia Cividale Italian War Office Julian Italy Berlin War Office Gorizia

Italy’s Isonzo Front Advances Severely With Cividale and Gorizia Falls

Berlin reports Austro German forces reached northern Italy plains and captured Cividale in Friuli nine miles from Udine while Gorizia on the Isonzo was also taken. Italian prisoners exceed 100000 as indicates the new offensive success. Gorizia, 31000 population, had been a focal point in the campaign.

Gorizia Isonzo Cividale Natisone Tolmino Julian Alps Italy Austria

Italian Front Clashes Near Gorizia and Tolmino Stronghold

The Isonzo front runs halfway down the Austro German line between Tolmino and the sea. Heavy fighting occurred in the hills with strong defensive value as Italians press toward Gorizia, a key objective 22 miles northwest of Trieste, Austria’s port at the Adriatic.

Isonzo Tolmino Gorizia Trieste Austra

French Cabinet Deliberates Allied Aid for Italy Front

Paris. The French cabinet met in the evening to decide on allied cooperation for the Italian front with President Poincare presiding. The discussions aimed to coordinate support and strategy among allied powers.

Italy Paris Poincare

Brazil Counts German Residents in Census Plan

Brazil moves toward a general census of its German population with preparation underway and a new requirement that German residents carry identification cards.

Brazil Rio Janeiro

Allied destroyers hit German torpedo boat off Belgian coast

Six British and French torpedo boat destroyers attacked three German destroyers and 17 aircraft off the Belgian coast. Two direct hits forced one German destroyer to retire under land batteries while planes dropped bombs with no damage to allied ships beyond two slightly wounded men.

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