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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1915
Page
8
German and British dispatches describe Zeppelin airship raids on the English coast and the raid on Essen. The war office lists allied and German front changes from mid November to January 15, with ten major French and Allied advances and multiple German withdrawals across Flanders and northeastern fronts. The report argues final victory requires patient endurance and continued strength.
Eleanor P Peticolas a Richmond Richmond Washington society woman musician and Prominent family member aged 48 committed death by own action at her home citing ill health and presumed mental imbalance. The incident echoes her 1910 census defiance and subsequent confrontation with officials.
Announcement yesterday lists ten weekly talks on constructive eugenics under YMCA auspices. Lectures will be held every Thursday starting February. admission is free with association tickets. Prominent speakers include Dr Alexander Graham Bell, Dr Elnor Folkmar, Guy W Ollins, Tor Daniel Folkmar, and Mr Popenoe.
Multiple brief notices report deaths and funeral plans in Washington area. Audrey Virgina Breall aged 11 months, Tospha Bohn in Georgetown Hospital aged 63, John F Green of 1416 Q Street Northwest, Henry Wigglesworth the butler of Rear Admiral Amy, Selina D Wilson aged 71, with funeral schedules and interment at Rock Creek and Woodside Cemeteries. Relatives urged to attend services and attendances at St Patrick’s and St Paul’s churches noted.
Paris January 21 An official statement says German losses in recent weeks are over twice as high as the German general staff claimed and that German casualties have been greater than French in all recent actions based on the dead on the field.
The steam ship Coamo arriving from New York reports sighting the German cruiser Karlsruhe off More Island near San Juan before daylight. The Karlsruhe shone a searchlight on the Coamo’s bridge and failed to reply to wireless signals, then vanished into darkness.
American crews aboard two cotton steamers the Greenbrier and Carolyn were detained at Bremen by German authorities amid military precautions linked to prior calls at enemy ports. A consular dispatch said authorities would release the sailors when ships left port, with the Greenbrier having been boarded by a prize crew and redirected to Kirkwall and Leith before departure.
Chairman Flood of the House foreign relations committee said Germany regards U S arms exports to European belligerents as prolonging the war. He cited Berlin’s stance that the United States is within its rights to permit trade in war supplies, despite calls to halt exports.
Advices from the Panamanian legation say five English and Japanese cruisers with coalers and auxiliaries remained off Puerto Pinas Panama for five days. They withdrew and were replaced. detachments ashore collected sand bags from a German, and protest letters to Britain and Japan were reportedly filed or prepared.
Seventeen women nurses in the Russian Red Cross have been killed on the battlefield or died of wounds while on duty. An eyewitness attached to Grand Duke Nicholas reports their conspicuous bravery, citing Mile. Ludmila Alexinsky as the latest victim who died of blood poisoning after a wound received during battle and subsequent operations in Galicia and Rozdwisk.
London confirms British reply to US on Dacia’s cargo and register transfer to Germany. Britain insists belligerent ships cannot escape penalties by changing flags, while easing cotton movement. Galveston reports Dacia waiting at pier with cargo for January voyage and owner awaiting orders.
David Hutzler 71, head of Hutzler & Co, dies of heart trouble at 1861 Eutaw Place Baltimore. Noted civic leader and vice president of the board of trade, he held multiple posts with the National Board of Trade and Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association. Survived by wife Etta J., daughters Mrs Henry Oppenheimer and Mrs Jacob Hollander and Miss Mabel Hutzler, and sons Albert D. and Joel G. Hutzler.
Jan 18 report from Soissons describes eight days of brutal hand to hand fighting on the Aisne plateau. Von Kluck’s veterans crossed the plateau after French gains, driving them from the heights and river bank. The field remains littered with French and German dead as siege guns are moved amid renewed bombardment.
Archangel Russia January 21 The ice breaker Canada sent by the Canadian government to keep Archangel port open late in winter has been disabled Sixteen steamers are frozen and unlikely to be released Archangel remains the only European Russian port kept open for overseas commerce during the war
Batesville Arkansas January 21 Paxton Thomas 38 cashier of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company locked himself in the bank vault and killed himself with a revolver. Relatives found the body after he failed to return home. Officials cite fear of an impending surgical operation as the motive.
Adolph Dietzel, who claims American citizenship and shows a Washington issued passport, was sentenced in Aberdeen police court to two months for traveling through warlike areas in northern Scotland without registration. Dietzel says he was born in Chicago and resides in New York.
The official patents office journal in London lists two Krupp Germany armament applications a gun mounting and a projectile fuse. The disclosures expose secrets of the Essen plant and provoke commentary on possible motives behind the submissions.
Paris dispatch reveals official war office briefing as German attacks near Notre Dame le Loretie and in Champagne are repulsed. French statements claim progress near Beausejour Moronvillers and St Mihiel, with bombardments and trench actions in Hartmann-Wellerkopf region ongoing.
B Bielaski and Anthony Caminetti push stronger treaties and broader laws to curb trafficking of foreign women and girls. Officials from immigration, justice and charitable groups praised cooperation. delegates honored at the White House and an internal dinner in Alexandria.
A refugee formerly in a Turkish post in Syria reports German officers urged Berlin to delay the Egyptian expedition until better organization and equipment. Constantinople reportedly ordered the advance anyway, while experts say current conditions won’t yield more than raiding parties. Khedive Abbas II plans in Bern to consult a jaw wound from a Constantinople assassination attempt.
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