General Survey of the War A Week of Verdun Battles
Daily war report outlines German advances and repulses near Verdun from Tuesday to Saturday. French gains near Dead Man's Hill contested. Austrian pressure around Asiago and Arsiero persists. Greek and Italian actions noted amid Balkan events. British naval losses reported with contested German casualties.
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Cumiere
Dead Man's Hill
Verdun
Lve
Paris
Asiago
Arsiero
Italan Trentino Line
Geneva
Athens
Demir-Hissar
Cumieres
Teutons
Meuse
Berlin
London
Arsiero-Asiago
Deuaumont
Posina
Petrograd
Asia Minor
Used Wife as Horse and Other Local News Highlights
Divorce granted to Mrs. Annie Kyttle of Sweet Valley after she and her daughters were forced to draw plows and wagons. Marriage to Martin Kyttle dated July 23, 1895. Also reports livestock losses from weed poison along the Lancaster and Quarryville rail line, a missing post office clerk, green yellow yellows blight in Blue Ridge orchards, a fatal stove polish explosion in Peckville, May revenue records for York district, county birth and death stats, and a Hazleton infant death as a gutter discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Kyttle
Sweet Valley
Wilkes-Barre
Martin Kyttle
Kyttle
Verdun and North Sea Battles Report From War Office
The war office reports grim progress as German troops capture grim and other officers near Verdun while driving toward Vaux. German forces claim success and 350 unwounded men taken prisoner. The British navy proclaims a North Sea victory with several German ships sunk. Further fighting north of Verdun and near Ypres yields mixed results amid ongoing German advances.
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Grim
War Office
Verdun
Vaux
North Sea
Berlin
Caillette Wood
Damloup
Ypres
Flanders
Meuse
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Denmark
Zillebeke
Vrres
Tel
John Langrey
Lancaster County
Lancaster and
Quarryville
Hagers Town
Wm. Benchoff
Postoffice
Stamips
Blue Ridge Mountain
Mary Roman
Peckville
York
Ninth Internal District
York County
First Baptist Church
Hazleton
Prowell
Frederick Street
Hanover
Penn’a
S. & H. Green
Sperry & Hutchinson Co
S. & H. Books
J J. W. Gitt CO
Hanover, Penn
L.&m
Ks“Real
Abraham Roth
Abbottstown, PA
Charles Hoadt
Salppeoeburg
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