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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 27, 1914
Page
1
The Saratoga billiard rooms host a lively snooker tournament with Genial Gus Hamlin keeping players comfortable. New standings shocks arrive as Buster Smith and partner topple last week’s leaders, while some veterans fall and others exit.
The article praises the Canadian forces landing at Salisbury Plain noting their thorough mobilization with engineers, signal units, ammunition depots, field hospitals and 34 chaplains. It highlights high morale and rugged, self-made officers, with half the troops born in Canada and a mix of Scottish Irish Welsh and French Canadians. The force is described as ready and capable to strike for their country.
A Geneva despatch reports Belfort hosted a parade for British airmen Commander Babbington and Flight Lieutenant Lippe who took part in the Friedrichshafen raid and were awarded the Legion of Honor. A banquet for the officers followed as the ceremony highlighted France’s premier merit order founded in 1802 by Napoleon.
Telegraphic items report typhoid sweeping Barcelona Spain. British naval department lists 7243 killed wounded and missing to Nov 25. Montreal men offer to equip a gun battery for war service. Dominion talks on civil servant naturalization. Lloyd George overworked and Crothers cites 31009 unemployed West Canada.
Refugees report firing from inner-line fortifications near Przemysl as German Austrian garrison battles. Austrians retreat after heavy losses, with 6,000 prisoners cited. French war office notes Indian troops recaptured trenches at La Bassee and near Verdun while detaching Indians retook trenches in Flanders and seized German officers and men.
North Battleford Sask Nov 25 John Albert Comerford a well known farmer five miles north of the city was badly kicked by a horse on Monday and died last evening from injuries. By coincidence his twin brother died earlier from injuries from a horse kick.
The Corriere de la Sera reports cholera breaking out among the garrison at a large Austrian fort. Cracow and Przemysl have been attacked with heavy artillery, worsening conditions in the region.
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener told the House of Lords that Russians defeated Germans with heavy losses, British hold ground 30 miles east of the Suez, and Indian troops arrived to halt the German push on Calais. He praised Belgian, French, and Belgian resistance and noted Turkish intervention and Russian advances.
Reports from Petrograd and Warsaw describe a decisive German defeat west of Jadz in Russian Poland. Up to 50 000 prisoners and wounded evacuated by 48 trains. Russians claim German failure at Wielun allowed Russian flanking. London reports many German POWs, including Prussian Guard, with wounded freezing without clothing.
Amsterdam reports a Budapest telegram says Russian troops entered Ung Hungary have been driven back and now retreating to the frontier after heavy losses. The note says stronger action targets smaller Russian forces in Zemplin while Ung and Zemplin lie about 40 miles south of the Carpathians as Russians press south.
Petrograd reports say the German army is conducting a broad retreat along the Vistula and Warthe fronts. The withdrawal is described as retreating in places resembling a rout with ammunition and stores abandoned, while a German detachment near Lodz reportedly planned a coup in fake Russian uniforms but was spotted by Russian officers.
The Army Messenger reports Russians captured Emperor William's carriage at Czestochowa along with the Emperor's blue coat. It notes continued German attacks north of Lodz failing to break Russian lines while the Austro German army bets everything on the battle. On Galicia front the Russian offensive grows more energetic, narrowing the enemy's chances.
The Ontario and Quebec governments were asked to designate timber areas to employ prisoners of war cutting wood. Nearly 2000 horses have been purchased in Northern Ontario for war purposes since hostilities began.
The Institute of Civil Engineers in Great Britain voted to strike the Kaiser's name from an honorary list but observers doubt the rationale and note the man was by trade a butcher.
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