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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1914
Page
7
London reports discuss a controversial shell named Turpinite claimed to petrify all life within 400 square yards. Observers doubted wide use, warning it would be deployed only in desperate circumstances with allied consent.
The article details M Turpin's explosive turpinite and its deadly potential, experiments at Chalons Mailly and Paris, and a witness account of animal casualties. It also reports Rothschild of Edmond Rothschild in Bordeaux condemning German atrocities and commenting on American money markets and wartime economic effects.
A Reuters despatch from Antwerp reports German bombardment of Malines resumed. Residents fled from rebuilt homes as heavy firing also echoed toward Hofstade on September 27.
Donald Harper offered 1000 francs to the French American committee as a prize for the best work on the return of Alsace Lorraine to France, modeled after Alphonse Daudet’s La Derniere Classe.
Four bombs struck Paris as a German aeroplane passed over the city. A man and his daughter were killed near Avenue du Trocadero, and a child crippled. Bombs damaged houses and the American embassy area while cattle were killed at Auteuil race course. A U.S. ambassador and Spanish envoy noted the events as crowds fled for shelter.
Tokyo reports a 14 hour fight near Tsingtau ending with a Japanese victory. Casualties listed: three killed and 12 wounded for Japan. German gunboats bombarded positions as Japanese planes reconnoitered.
German Zeppelin dropped many bombs over Warsaw Hill at 5 AM killing three soldiers. Airship was hit as it fled toward Novo Georgiewsk where fortress guns brought it down.
King George and Queen Mary motor from Aldershot to Farnboro Hill to view wounded officers inside the former Empress Eugenie residence. Earlier they visited injured at Connaught hospital, continuing a day of wartime relief and royal support.
The French embassy released a communique denying any French post of observation on Rheims Cathedral. General Joffre's telegram states the Fifth Army occupied Rheims until September 18 and the Ninth relieved it, both denying any post on the cathedral and noting the bombardment began on the 19th at p.m.
Berlin dispatch reports total German casualties to date at 104 589 with 10 527 added in the latest official tally. The figures cover dead, wounded and missing as announced through London.
Amsterdam reports Cologne Gazette complaints over Netherlands freeing survivors from British cruisers Hogue Cressy and Aboukir. It argues no Geneva or Hague basis supports the release and says rescued sailors should have been kept from further war participation.
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