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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1917
Page
6
Under new regulations every registrant for selective service is returned to original status. All exemptions and discharges before December 15 are revoked. Registrants must know their order number and June 5 registration. Failure to comply is a misdemeanor with up to one year imprisonment and possible immediate induction.
Three hundred people killed in a French munition ship explosion near Halifax piers. The north end of the city is in flames and destroyed. Dozens of hospitals report being overwhelmed as casualties flood the streets.
Many injured are left untreated as a large ammunition ship is rammed by a liner near the piers. An explosion follows, shaking the earth for more than 60 miles. Citizens demand accountability from those responsible for allowing such a deadly machine near a densely populated city area.
London reports sixteen British merchant ships over 1600 tons sunk by mines or submarines in the past week, plus one under 1600 tons and four fishing ships. An Italian ship over 1500 tons also lost. The London Times notes U boat menace as details cite the Apapa torpedoing with 160 passengers, with deaths from lifeboat losses and shell hits.
Mens shoes from 1.98 and childrens school shoes from 1.48 are offered during the November clearance sale at Burrier-Maier Co.
Dispatches describe resumed fighting on the Macedonian front with Bulgarians active in reconnaissance. Bulgarian airmen are shot down by English aviators French anti-aircraft guns and machine guns while the front stretches from the Struma to the Vajusa mouth. Bulgarian patrols are captured by the French who overlook the Vardar valley near Monastir as British planes bomb Bulgarian rear areas.
At the Herman Sons Lodge No 41 regular meeting on Sunday officers for the coming year were elected led by Robt Penniger as president and Aug Burgdorf as vice president Fr Louden as secretary and Wm Bierschwale as treasurer Hy Kordzik Jr as executive committee A transfer of E Enderlin and Max T Henke was approved and they were admitted to membership Installations will be in January with a luncheon arranged by John Ostrand row Aug Burgdorf and Carl L Ransleben.
Mr and Mrs A W Moursund and Misses Henrikka Moursund Zu la Mae Hill and Ada Peden traveled to Willow City on Thursday to establish a local Red Cross branch. Dr and Mrs Victor Keidel and Miss Mattie Lambert went to San Antonio on Monday for several days of business.
For sale gobblers three fifty and hens two dollars each if taken promptly. Address 12 Mrs Chester Dickey Camp Verde Kerr County Texas for good fresh groceries lands prompt delivery call phone 268 Boo.
The War Department released thirteen American casualties from the trenches in France, with two dead, seven severely wounded and four slightly wounded. Names include Corporal Virgil Winebrenner and Private John Volfe, among others, with locations and family details. The list covers November 12 to 17 training in France and notes these were infantry, not Cambrai frontline fighters.
London reports on December 5 that German forces renewed pressure on the Northern Italian front but could not break through between the Piave and Brenta. The main push shifted to the Asiago front with aims to cut the Udine-Verona railway. A heavy battle rages. Rome says Italian troops held their own though some local withdrawals occurred.
An explosion at the T N T plant of Aetna Chemical Company in Heidelberg near Pittsburg Pa mortally wounds eight men, leaves two missing and injures over twenty five, many seriously, late today. details on the blast and aftermath follow.
A blast at a plant caused about 250000 in damage and shattered windows across a two mile radius. All fatalities and injuries were plant employees. The explosion occurred in the drying department of a 48000 gallon tank boiling trinitrotoluol. Prompt aid from Grace Lyons saved lives and hospitals were summoned as bodies of workers were identified.
At Atlantic Port on December 5 two American aviators lost their bearings during a submarine search mission in European waters were found 650 miles off the Irish coast by a returning steamship. The ship supplied provisions and a new compass and the flyers resumed their return to their station.
President Wilson delivered a decisive message to Congress urging immediate war against Austria Hungary. He described the dual monarchy as a German vassal and an enemy of the United States, arguing Bulgaria and Turkey could follow if they remain allied with Germany. The speech drew loud applause from lawmakers, ambassadors, justices, Cabinet members, and the public.
London December 5 A British retreat from part of the salient General Byng drove into German lines before Cambrai in his tank drive was foreshadowed today by General F B Maurice Director of Military Operations at the War Office In a frank public statement he said the enemy has to
Paris reports say inter allied conference with United States yielded consensus on shared war aims and unity. A supreme inter allied naval committee was decided upon while the inter allied general staff trails a concrete military program aimed at unified action.
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