Aviator Lost in Raid Over German Fleet
London reports seven British naval aviators in the Plingt on a Christmas Day attack against the German naval base at Casnaaven. Six returned. Commander Hewlett is feared lost after his aircraft was found wrecked near Helioaland. The raid triggered a battle with Zeppelins and submarines, with German claims of damaging destroyers while British accounts say the ships avoided subs and the planes were sunk or saved.
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London
ght
Briis
Plingt
Casnaaven
reventh
Hewlett
Helioland
atta hing
bret
Hy rapil
Busy on War Munitions Bethlehem Plant Expands
Bethlehem Steel plans massive improvements at the South Bethlehem plant from a 25 million dollar fund. Money spent at 750 thousand monthly but paused by market downturn during the European war. Other sites see heavy work, including shrapnel contracts with England. In Lehigh plant furnace C rebuilt. to blast when needed. Whitman sworn in as New York governor. Queen Helena gives birth to daughter. couple now has five children.
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Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem
G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel company
Europe
England
Lehigh
Bombard Metz From The Air In Dramatic Raid
Paris dispatch reports French aeroplanes dropping bombs on Metz fortress hangars a barracks and a railroad station as retaliation for the Nancy Zeppelin attack. The raid crossed the Moselle and engaged German fighters with no reported French casualties.
French and German Artillery Duel Reports From Front
In Champagne our artillery and infantry repulsed a German counter attack after a heavy bombardment near Perthes. Our forces bombarded a ravine and repelled attacks east of St Mittel near Lebois Brule. Dirigible bombs hit Nancy as planes bombed Frescat Metz stations and Saint Privas barracks. Upper France troops advanced on Cernsy heights while repelling multiple German assaults. In Flanders nothing major occurred with French counterattacks succeeding at Albert and Meurissons Verdun Argonne Meuse actions repelled. In upper Alsace French attacks east of Thann failed after a strong counter strike.
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La Bolagelle
eneuy
Puissaic
Hauts de Meuse
Callone trench
St. Die
North sea
Lys
Oise
Aisne
Champagne
Perthes
gonne
Hubert
Meuse
Mokelle
St. Mittel
Lebois Brule
Nancy
Frescat
Metz
Saint Privas
upper Flance
Cernsy
Flanders
Albert
Boisselie
Meurissons
Argonnes
Verdun
Alsace
Thann-Dammerkirch
Thann
President Wilson Spends 58th Birthday Quietly at White House
President Wilson marked his fifty-eighth birthday in Washington with family presence and messages from across the nation and abroad. He had a light schedule including a legislative program conference with Majority Leader Underwood and a Sunday school pupils’ delegation from New Jersey, with only minimal callers planned. In Atlanta guards and police hunted two federal prison escapees, Hiram Lepper and Tom Daley, who fled from the penitentiary's tuberculosis camp by climbing a wall with a makeshift ladder.
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Mr. Wilson
White House
Washington
Wison
United States
Underwood
New Jersey
Atlanta
Hiram Lepper
Baltimore
tna Tom Daley
Germans In Big Flank Attack Threatens Warsaw Front
Petrograd reports alarm as East Prussian forces push toward the rear of the Russian army defending Warsaw. Russians fall back from the frontier. Miawa reoccupied on the strategic rail line toward Warsaw. Germans regroup after failure on the Vistula front, shifting weight to the Plika and Police to breach the Polish capital. Russian Galicia reinforcements drive Austrians from Jaslo and Krosno, boosting pressure on Przemysl.
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Warsaw
Petrograd
Maea
Vistula
East Prussia
East Prussian
Poland
Hrura
Bsura
Pilica
agaime t
Zxera
Sochbaczew
Brura
Plika
Tomaszow
Przemysl
Galicia
Jaslo
Krosno
Dunajec
Train Wreck Kills 400 in Poland Collision
Warsaw dispatch reports four hundred dead and five hundred wounded after a collision between troop and hospital trains at Kaliss Poland. The trains ran at full speed and over twenty cars were wrecked. An official investigation found a last minute switch change. station master and switchmen were arrested.
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Poland
Warsaw
Kaliss
Prussia
Germany
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