20 Oct 1916
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
1
An institution promotes youth thrift by opening savings accounts for children and adults alike. The message urges early start to secure long term benefits and shield against poverty in old age. The bank welcomes systematic savers and urges parents to begin with their children.
London reports Greece grants concessions to appease Allies as Lambros seeks calm amid mobs. French marines arrest fifteen in Athens while troops and police, under an entente officer, tighten control. Separately Cunard liner Alaunia sinks after hitting a mine in the English Channel. 243 passengers and most crew rescued, ship carried war freight bound for London.
Washington reports no official Greek appeal for U S aid against allied advances in Greece. An Anglo French fleet bombarded Orfano Heights and Draima Kavala rail line, with repeated Bulgarian infantry assaults on the Macedonian front and Serbian recapture of Brod. Debran sector attack repulsed.
Paris reports American aviator William Thaw is alive and well and will attend the funeral of Sergeant Norman Prince, killed raiding German territory. A New Haven dispatch had earlier said Thaw was killed.
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