Dr Leyds Seeks Peace Aims To End War At Front
From The Standard via The Tribune special reports Butler’s actions near the Cotenso engagement on December 15 as Long’s batteries fought under heavy fire within 800 yards of the river. Ammunition exhausted, casualties rose, with Devonshire reinforcements. Boers trench lines at Magersfontein stretch twelve miles forming a crescent toward Lon Methven. Leyds meets M Delonése seeking peace services, French minister asks time for consideration.
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Front Frontline News Spoils Conspiracy and Casualty Notes
London dispatch reports War Office casualty list of seven killed and fourteen wounded from General White’s forces near Ladysmith. Observers infer fighting and logistical strain, with additional deaths from enteric fever. Methuen’s split battalions hint at Modder River plans. Roberts may soon command Natal operations.
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Delagoa Bay door ajar amid imperial war talks
The piece reports on strategic tensions over Delagoa Bay and British policy toward the Transvaal, noting Churchill’s reported arrival at the port and British military funding shifts as volunteers surge and units organize, with further updates on Buller’s movements and Boer incursions in Cape Colony.
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Needs of the Army and Roosevelt's Washington visit
Secretary Root releases the Inspector General's report on army needs drawn from the Spanish war. It discusses mobilization, regimental organization, and the burden on Regulars, urging stronger reserves, better training, and consistent prewar preparation. Roosevelt spends the day consulting National Guard leaders and planning a potential successor for Adjutant General Avery.
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Forty Children Drown in Ice Accident on River Lys
Brussels reports that over forty schoolchildren perished when a frozen river at Frelinghem near the frontier broke during a holiday playtime. Thirty-six bodies were recovered. many families in the town grieved as rescuers continued searches for the missing amid a climate of shock.
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Tragic Parochial School Fire Kills Eleven Children
Eleven girls aged nine to eleven die after a gas jet ignites a dress during a Saint Francis parochial school rehearsal in Quincy. Teachers Father Nicholas and Professor Frank Mushold are burned trying to help. The blaze spreads rapidly through cotton and lace costumes, with only a few escaping as the fire ends within ten minutes on December 22.
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Wage Boost At Carnegie Mills Affects 15000 Men
Pittsburgh December 2 Special The Carnegie Steel Company posts notices at Duquesne Edgar Thomson and other works announcing January 1 wage increases. Common labor rises to 160 a day and other day and tonnage labor rise in proportion with exceptions for tonnage scales and new subdepartments. The package totals a 7.14 percent advance, bringing the overall increase since the last general scale to 9.7 percent. About fifteen thousand men are affected.
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