Charleroi Battle Across Three Days Devastates City
The Charleroi fight sees ten hours of ebb and flow with five shifts of capture and loss. French and British troops push German forces back, Charleroi and surrounding villages burn, civilians die, and the line shifts along the Sambre as heavy losses mount. A German counterattack recaptures Charleroi, then the French regroup and retake as heavy artillery hammers the town. Descriptions from a returning observer detail brutal combat, burning houses, and surrendered German officers amid the chaos.
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Franklin P. Merrick
International News Service
Paris
Charleroi
France
War Office
Marchiennes
Monceau, Chatelet
Landelies
Sambre
Maubeuge
Avesnes
Rocroi
Mezieres
Courtrai
Turcos
Germans Drag Guns Over Their Own Dead
London. A Daily Mail correspondent describes wounded French in Vichy hospitals after Vosges battles. A wounded artilleryman recalls the Germans firing from trenches while artillery pounded them. as Germans fell, fresh troops hauled their comrades across the earthworks to move the guns, creating a human bridge.
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London
Daily Mail
Vosges
Vichy
Ami
Prisoners of War Ration Scale Reported
The military authorities approved a daily ration for prisoners of war including one pound of bread three quarters of a pound of blocul one pound of preserved meat three ounces of cheese five eighths of an ounce of tea one quarter of a pound of jam three ounces of sugar one half of an ounce of salt and one twentieth of an ounce of condensed.
Gunnera Made Stone Deaf in Belgian War News
London report from a Times medical correspondent returning from Belgium states it is morally certain that all Mace lies in the wounded and affected by the war.
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Gunnera
London
The
Times
Belgium
All Mace Ie
Work with God The Purpose and Power of Life
A sermon-like meditation argues we are God-sent with a divine task. It urges aligning daily work with God's plan, citing a bedridden elder whose quiet faith inspired a former skeptic to become a gospel preacher, showing true work may come after apparent failure.
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God
Samson
Temple
Neas
Light of the World and Church Redemptive Power
The text asserts that the church gains redemptive power from its sacrifice and asks whether fundamental laws are seen. It presents a theological claim about sacred sacrifice shaping church authority and moral law.
Goodyear Tires Offer Prewar Pricing Despite War
Goodyear tires, built with extra fine rubber, are sold at June prices amid war. The company explains price adjustments due to rubber market shocks in August and now maintains prewar rates by sourcing rubber from London Singapore and Para. Field staff in Colombo Singapore and Para coordinate early purchases to ensure steady supply and favorable pricing for dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Singapore
Colombo
Para
Airships and submarines in warfare face test in coming conflict
The piece argues airships and submarines are the new wasps of war whose limited effectiveness remains to be proven. It surveys progress in aeroplanes wireless telegraphy and submarine types, noting the uncertain moral and physical impact of submarines and the vulnerability of submerged crews.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Conaway
Europe
Atlantic
France
Waste Land Made Fertile Near Nile Delta Project
An 1912 irrigation and drainage system under Lord Kitchener transformed 800 acres of wasteland at Biala into fertile land near the Egyptian delta. The program, costing about $50 per acre, aimed to reclaim 1,500,000 acres of salt-washed soil, with cotton now grown successfully on the reclaimed tract.
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Egypt
Biala
Ing
Lord Kitchener
Feillahean
Counting Up Fines
Fragmentary note reports traffic enforcement, fines assessed by police in a city. The garbled text references a motorcycle cop and a claim about not letting fines fall, implying a discussion of penalties or enforcement outcomes.
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Sks
Fereux
Erquelinnes
Goodyear
Cape
Goodyears
Joop
SYEAR
United States
Austria
Italy
Acre
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