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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1914
Page
4
Athens reports via Rome on December 7 denies Servian requests for Greece to aid against Austria. Serbian forces have resupplied and resumed offensives, engaging Austrian troops at Logaregontz Rudnik and Arapgelo gas as battles unfold across the front.
A Chinze man near Central Park menagerie threatened to destroy the building and its twenty or more wild animals last night. Lions tigers leopards and pumas and the hippopotamus Caliph II caused a panic as firemen faced clawing injuries through cage bars during the incident.
London reports Allied observers note German advances across central Poland after the Lodz capture. Russian bombardment targets Breslau forts as Vienna fortification work accelerates. Cracow faces two front fire while battles extend along the Warthe and Vistula corridors. Noncombatants flee toward Budapest amid large-scale casualties.
German officer on the battle line communicates with headquarters using field phones. The report notes active coordination under fire as artillery and infantry operations proceed along the front. No further details on unit or location are provided in readable text.
Paris dispatch reports French artillery destroyed a German field fort in Manders and silenced batteries near Verennes in the Champagne and Argonne districts. Berlin confirms German evacuation of Vermelles and notes French attacks in Alsace and slow progress in the Argonne as Franco-British forces push east of the Yser.
Vera Cruz declares martial law with proclamations warning against actions aiding insurrection. Reports from Mexico City cite provisional president Gutierrez’s potential replacement by Dr. Miguel Silva who would call elections for a constitutional president. Zealous claims accuse Obregon forces, Villa, and Carranza allies of violence and covert funding, amid rumors of a broader revolutionary movement planned by Salazar and Campa surging toward Juarez and Chihuahua.
Dec. 7 report states the French government plans to harbor communities on canal boats with heated mains. The new villages would form by a collection of ehbets and be housed on vessels moored along waterways.
In Naco Arizona a mass meeting urged U S Senators Ashurst and Smith Pall of New Mexico and Smith of Michigan to seek legislative relief for the border conflict causing five deaths and forty two wounded on American soil. The town’s citizens called for action amid a torrent of letters from the Mexican side. Farmers warned of potato disease as the Agriculture Department issued advisories to middle Atlantic states and others to ship without government inspection robes.
New York police nabbed osteopath Dr Robert Moore of 53 West 47th Street on a theft charge after decoy bills placed in Tobert W. Goelet’s Fifth Avenue home led detectives to the suspect. Moore, who treated the millionaire for months, was captured when he returned to the house and the marked bills were found on him.
Tokyo reports December 7 that Brigadier Bernardiston, who led British forces at Tsingbio, will leave for Tokyo Saturday and be welcomed as a guest of the nation. A Pekin dispatch notes Captain Wal deck’s push for a German nose alliance, seen as an effort to sow discord between Britain and Japan by influencing British sentiment.
The Hudson County Poultry Association completes plans for its second show at Opera House III in Bayonne New Jersey. The exhibition runs for the rest of the week with one hundred coops reserved for amateur entries and admission free.
The United States collier Jason arrived at Marseilles with gifts for children in warring nations. American consul general M. Guulin and British officer Colonel Jackson welcomed gifts coordinator John Catlin O Laughlin. Gifts filled fifty freight cars as townspeople gathered to cheer.
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