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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
5
Halifax Nova Scotia survivors recount a massive explosion after the Belgian relief ship Tomas collided with the French Mont Blanc. Thousands dead or injured, fires roar through the harbor area, and Dartmouth suffers ruin as guards patrol streets and mass relief begins.
A Halifax disaster report describes widespread destruction from a massive blast. The explosion devastates banking districts, government offices, rail terminals, and the Citadel Hill area, leaving Richmond wiped out and many killed or injured.
Reports describe hundreds killed and many more crushed by collapsing buildings as shockwaves raged through the city. Hospitals overflowed while ambulance crews and volunteers, including locals and countryside helpers, rushed to aid the dying and wounded without Canadian soldiers present. The permanent garrison assisted in restoring order and救ing the injured.
Seven killed and 21 injured in a London air raid as about 25 German planes attacked. Two raiders were brought down, crews of three captured. Fires followed bombs but were controlled. British statements note multiple naval air strikes on German targets. Berlin reports raids on several British towns in return.
Charles White, boxing instructor at Camp Grant in Rockford Illinois, has been transferred to Camp Custer in Battle Creek Michigan to serve as official boxing instructor there. Camp Grant had two instructors while Camp Custer had none.
Italian forces report heavy fighting on the Asiago plateau as Austro-German troops push along a ten mile front. Rome claims eleven thousand Italians captured and more than sixty guns taken, with hand to hand combat and battlefield reinforcements described.
Spinal meningitis confines more than 1,500 sailors at the Great Lakes station in Illinois. Barracks A B and C are sealed off at the rear of the camp though only six men are infected, raising fear of wider contamination.
Berlin reports a ten day ceasefire on the Russian front starting noon today. Brest-Litovsk talks yield evasive German Austrian Turkish Bulgarian stance. Russians present all front armistice plan. Germans refuse broader participation.
Washington reports 18 American railway engineers engaged with British forces near Cambrai suffered casualties. Twelve were severely wounded and one slightly. The noncombatant unit, unarmed, took up improvised arms to resist a German counterattack before being evacuated.
Henry W. Dutsch reportedly a Denver man was seized by a mob after alleged pro German remarks. He was stripped tarred and feathered then dressed and placed on a Denver bound train guarded by Kaiser to be handed to federal authorities.
London quotes an Austrian report on a Romanian armistice proposal, with a British official declaring the statement false and without truth, labeling it shameful. The remark emphasizes the denial and hostility toward negotiations.
President Wilson receives a bronze medal from France to mark the United States entering the war. The medal is presented by Jean Jusser and a French official in Washington.
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