Horrors of Belgium War Seen by Frontline Correspondent
Edward Price Bell cites F A McKenzie on central Belgium ruins and German terror. He describes burning towns such as Belle and Termonde, looting, and massacres, with civilians fleeing, and notes Belgian resistance and the rise of a unified national spirit amid winter hardship.
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Edward Price Bell
Chicago News
London
Belgium
F. A. McKenzie
London Weekly Times
Besn
McKenzie
Lke
France
McKenele
Germany
Holland
Halgran
Belle
Pines
Ghent
Vilage
Peace Effort Keeps Mexico Quiet Amid Villa Carranza Rift
A pacification commission seeks to avert further clashes between Generals Villa and Carranza in Mexico. A planned conference shift from October 1 to October 5 aims to ensure no northern chief runs for temporary or permanent presidency. Key appointee General Alvaro Obregon becomes a permanent trawche as negotiations continue.
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Mexico City
Venustinna Carranza
Praneteco Villa
Constitutionaliisti
Fernando Celesias Calderon
Curran 24
Carranza
Villa
Alvaro Obregon
Tx Men
Iturbide
Col
Ernesto Santoe Toy
Jeans Trujillo
Guillermo Garcia Aragon
Ramon Y. Sosa
Eduardo Hay
Andres Saucedo
Luly San
German Schoolboys at Front Reported by Bordeaux Dispatch
London dispatch asserts boys under eighteen are fighting in German ranks. A fifteen year old pupil said all students over fifteen had been mobilized into various regiments. one wounded boy aged fifteen told the correspondent.
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Front
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Bordeaux
Youre
Oine Monthe
Death Threats Cited Against Newspaper Sellers in Brunn
A military governor in Brunn says the German occupation authorities will shoot leaders of any individuals found possessing Belgian or English newspapers. German papers with strong sympathies and some Dutch papers are allowed.
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London
Brunn
Eechange Telegraph
Mexican politics shift as Villa Carranza rift widens
Villa signals not to run for president or vice president of Mexico and asks Carranza to pledge the same while eliminating other revolution leaders as candidates. Calderon poised for provisional presidency as Carranza retirement looms. In Sonora Villa-backed Agua Prieta leadership named with Aureano Gonzales as Chihuahua governor and Jose Maytorena to command.
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Villa
Mexico
Carothers
Carranza
Carranas
Calderon
Funston
Zapate
Vera Cruz
Douglas, Ariz
Sonora
Agua Prietar Iy
Gen. Villa
Aureano Gonzales
Chihuahus
Madero
Jose Maytorena
Col Pellas Callies
Mexico City
Nace
Hill
Maytorena
Agua Prieta
Douglas
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