Definite Result Of Conflicts Hinted Far Off
Washington dispatches describe three days of continuous fighting in northern France with German efforts to break Allied lines. Paris reports say Germans failed, losing flags, guns and men, while Paris and Berlin dispatches show optimism on progress but no decisive outcome. Cracow is occupied by German troops and German rail traffic to Baltic ports stops as experts weigh a Baltic route to Russia.
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France
Paris
London
Berlin
Cracow
Petrograd
London Morning Post
Secret Committee
Germany
Danzig
Elbing
Stettin
Galicia
Galician
Kalloz
Warsaw
Officials Close to Death In Paris Bombing Near Embassy
A Paris dispatch reports a Taube aircraft dropped a bomb near the American embassy in Paris at 5 Rue de Chaillot, damaging the route near the chancellery. Ambassadors Herrick and Frazer passed the site at 1:30 and 11:10, narrowly missing the blast, while several other bombs struck the Trocadero area as German forces suffer heavy casualties.
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United States
Paris
Taube
Eiffel Tower
Avenue du Trocadero
Rue de Chaillot
Herrick
Arthur H. Frazer
Montese
England Relies on Others for Food Supplies Yet Pays Bill
A fragment from Popular Magazine claims England imports most of its food, paying over 1.95 billion dollars yearly. It cites payments to the United States, India, Denmark, Russia, Australia and others, warning a war could disrupt this system.
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Great Britain
John Bull
India
Denmark
Russia
Australia
Weary Soldiers and Firing Lines Rest in France
London dispatch reports four days of lull along the French front with fine weather and reinforcements relieving veterans. French and British repulse German assaults on the left wing while center troops hold and gain slight Meuse heights. fog in the Woëvre delays operations. On the right wing no change. censorship limits updates from capitals. Russian and Japanese-British actions loom in Poland and Asia.
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France
John French
Meuse
Woevre
Lorraine
Vosges
United States
Paris
Officiel -Ang
UN- Micha Fom
Berlin
Russian Poland
Marne
Aisne
Posen
East Prussia
Far East
Kiao Chow
China
Tsing Tau
Tokio
Garman
French War Office
Rome
Vola
Austria
Horrors of War Seen by Belfield War Correspondent
Edward Price Bell reports from London on F. A. McKenzie of the London Weekly Times recounting Belgian towns under German terror. He describes burning towns, mass destruction in Belle and Termonde, massacre evidence, and women’s outrages, noting German policy of terror and the resilience growing in Belgium amid winter looming.
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Edward Price Bell
Chicago News
London
Belgium
F. A. McKenzie
Weekly Times
McKenzie
France
Mr. McKenzie
Germany
Holland
Belle
Ghent
German Schoolboys in German Ranks Reported by Dispatch
ALondon dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Bordeaux claims German boys under sixteen are fighting in the German ranks. One wounded boy, aged fifteen years and nine months, reportedly said all pupils over fifteen had been mobilized into various regiments.
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London
Exchange Telegraph’ Company
Bordeaux
French Socialists See War For Human Liberty
Unclear fragmentary reading discusses French socialists and liberty during wartime tensions. Mentions Bordeaux and republican themes. Context suggests debate on national independence and antiwar sentiment within socialist circles, but text is severely garbled with missing or inconsistent phrases.
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