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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
6
London reports reveal twelve Zeppelins attacked the south of England with 80 dead and 110 wounded. In Essex two airships were shot down. one crew killed, the other captured. Metropolitan London suffered heavy fires and property damage with 28 killed and 99 injured.
Dutch mail steamer Prins Hendrik seized by German forces and taken to Zeebrugge faced peril when an entente plane dropped a bomb within twenty feet of the ship during escort to port. One Dutch passenger and two sailors wounded, hull pierced in 28 places, Herbert Hoover narrowly escaped injury.
In Terre Haute Indiana two men a woman and a four year old child were killed when their car hit a passenger train at Liggett Crossing. Mrs Conley injured but likely to recover. The victims were Orla Lang and wife Fred Conley and his son of Charleston Illinois. In Van Wert Ohio a couple Mr and Mrs Jacob Binkley of Hume and two children died when their car was struck by a train. the other two children were seriously injured.
A three story Western Union Telegraph building in Minneapolis burned with origin undetermined. Porter James Taylor is missing and believed trapped in the basement after the blaze.
Wild rioting by strikers disrupted surface car routes on Wednesday. Police chased mobs in plain clothes across Fifty-ninth Forty-second and One Hundred twenty fifth streets. Several cars were wrecked and a score or more rioters were arrested as passengers and bystanders suffered injuries from flying bricks and bottles.
The admiralty announced that an enemy transport loaded with troops was sunk in the Mediterranean on Sunday by a German submarine. An Austro Hungarian naval aeroplane in the southern Adriatic destroyed the French submarine Fonucaul by bombs. The submarine crew of two officers and twenty seven men were rescued and captured by the naval aeroplane and another aircraft.
On the 213th day of the Verdun battle the French renewed engagement north of the Somme and gained several hundred yards of German trenches. The attacks targeted Thiaumont and the eastern Vaux Chapitre woods as French forces pressed the German lines.
Washington reports Brigadier General Bell describes Villa and his band entering Chihuahua City last Saturday. Villa captures ammunition, delivers a balcony speech from the governor's palace, and holds key buildings for hours. The report prompts questions about its impact on the joint U S Mexico commission talks in New London Conn.
French forces north of the Somme near Combles captured reinforced German positions and took 100 prisoners, including three officers. The Franco-British tally since July 1 reaches over 55,800 captives by Sept 18, with French troops accounting for 84,000 of them. Berlin meanwhile reports minor artillery actions with no major developments on the Western Front.
The coastwise steamer Bay State ran ashore a mile west of Two Lights Cape Elizabeth on September 26, with 250 passengers aboard. The crew was rescued by the coastguard, the revenue cutter Ossipee, and three tugs, after abandoning ship as it began to break up. Fourteen men were rescued by breeches buoy.
Insurgents seize Crete island amid raids as a Dutch mail steamer carries passengers through perilous waters. The unnamed attack underscores heightened tensions and the risk to civilian travel in the volatile Mediterranean corridor.
Athens reports thirty thousand insurgents control Crete after taking Canae and Heraclion. Only eleven Cretan bodyguards remained loyal as the garrison largely surrendered. Canea, capital, fell without bloodshed after a surrounding force joined the revolutionists. Kandia had fallen earlier.
The Dutch mail steamer Prinz Hendrik seized by German forces en route from Flushing to London faced grave danger as an entente aircraft bomb fell within twenty feet of the vessel near Zeebrugge. One Dutch passenger and two sailors were wounded. a bystander narrowly avoided injury as the hull suffered twenty three punctures.
London officials report twelve Zeppelins bombed London and southeast England killing thirty and injuring 110. In the metropolitan area twenty eight killed and ninety nine injured. Two new pattern airships were shot down in Essex with crews killed or captured.
Paris reports more than seven hundred soldiers previously stripped of civic rights have been rehabilitated since April 1915 for notable frontline actions.
Secretary Baker announces the president will nominate Brigadier General Pershing, commander of the American expeditionary forces in Mexico, to major general to fill the vacancy caused by Major General Mills death.
London reports rumors that Germany seeks an armistice via Spain or the United States after losses from allied offensives. It is believed King Alfonso remains unresponsive and unlikely to act, while Germany may push President Wilson to begin negotiations to boost his re election prospects.
Public Health Service bulletin estimates nine sick days per worker annually causing $800 million yearly losses. Improved sanitation and safety could save about $400 million, yet health authorities struggle to spark interest in an everyday issue.
A wry dialogue on peace at any price contrasts an optimist’s pledge with a pessimist who asks what if the price is missing. The exchange hints at the tension between idealism and practical costs in pursuing harmony.
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