Central Powers Press on Front in Romania and Moldavia
A broad war report describes Central Powers forces advancing on the Russo Romanian front in Transylvania and Moldavia near the Danube. German armies under Gerok and Falkenhayn push ahead while the Danube army holds position near Braila.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Sayville
Teutonic
War Office
Rumania
Danube
Verdun
London
Oituz Pass
Braila
Moldavian
von Gerck
von Falkenhayn
Rimnik
Nov Kosch
Gerok
Falkenhayn
Braili
Moldavia
Anil
Sereth
Wallachia
Somme
Petrograd
Teuton
Rimnik-Sarata
Russian War Office
Bordestchi
Zalesti
Peace demonstrations sweep Austria Hungary amid food misery
Daily posters pleading for peace parade Vienna and other cities as December crisis reports rise. Government seeks to dispel the nightmare weighing on the people. In London Canadians in England are told no more Royal Flying Corps commissions at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Austria-Hungary
Exchange Telegraph
Geneva
Bec
Daily News
Vienna
Czernin
England
Royal Flying Corps
Local Casualties Report From Cablegram Receipt
A garbled cablegram notes that Mr Geo Freeman and others, including A Rreeting and Bellamy of the Typographical Union, were conveyed information about a dangerous situation near Brigade Willey Camp Surrey and a secretary named Bellamy. Further details are unreadable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo
Freeman
Son
Pie
Dangerously
Willey ‘Camp Surrey
Bellamy
Yentera Pte
Aikins Urges Leasehold Reform in Lands Controversy
Winnipeg dispatch reports Lieut Gov Sir James Aikins lashed illegitimate land exploitation at a banquet by the Travellers Sales Managers and Credit Men's Association. He said 100 million acres granted to homesteaders soldiers railways and private firms sees only one third cultivated and proposed adopting New Zealand style public lands leasehold as remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Jaamey Aikens
Travellers
Credit Men's Association
Sir James
Windson's Bay Company
Leutenant
New Zealand
National Service Week Urges Canadian Duty in New Year
Canada enters National Service Week urging all ages 16 to 65 to fill government cards. Citizens, families, teachers, and workers are called to ready the nation, with the Prince of Wales motto I serve as guiding ethos for a stronger, better country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Times
Montreal Locomotive Company, Limited
United
Canada
Prince of ‘Wales
Derry
Foyle
Youths in Schleswig to be Called for Frontline Fitness
According to Ribe Stifts Tidende, youths of Schleswig who have completed seventeen years will be summoned for physical examinations in January. A short training will follow, and those found fit will be sent to the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ribe Stifts Tidende
Itds
Schleswig
Havel
New Year Prayer Urges Belgian Relief and War Hope
A New Year sermon blends reminiscence of 1916 with a call for immediate aid to famine-stricken Belgium and war-torn Europe. The speaker urges Alberta readers to donate abundantly, linking mercy to spiritual duty and future judgment.
The President Sends Another Note to Belligerents
Berlin reports that President Wilson sent a second explanatory note to the Central Powers and Entente nations, not presented yet. The delay follows a German reply viewed as misinterpreting Wilson's aims, amid press perception in both camps of unfriendly intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
London
Wilson
Two Men Fined After Boarding House Stay in Dunmore
J Taylor and Tony George Barnes stayed three weeks at a Dunmore boarding house then fled without paying the bill. They were rounded up by Mounted Police and brought before Capt Parker at the R.N.W.M. Police office. Each man was fined two dollars plus costs or in default weeks of imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Taylor
Tony George Barnes
Dunmore
Capt Parker
Maude Reviews The War Handy December 30 1916
Maude reviews the war, insisting upon the Germans’ superiority. He cites three avenues via noting the past year and asserts a definite ABC perspective on events.
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Teutons
Near East
Trict
Ottawa
Duke of Devonshire
Ottawa Soldiers' Aid Commissione
Royal Flying Cours
Ssi
James Aikins
National Service Week
Library Board
Glasgow
Creeche
Belgium
Poland
Serbia
J. W. Morrow
Patriach
Adam
I. Simonds
Cardinal Mercier
Diblon
Gerard
Alberta
Edmonton
Europe
Gilbert Parker
Thackery
Nerys
Attila
America
Australia
John Bull
France
Balgiaos
United States
Belgian
S,worton
Temple
GOL. F
Maude
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