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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1915
Page
7
Frontline dispatch from France describes Canadian troops in trenches near Athens and in Belgium, their calm after shelling, daily sniper threats, and eagerness for a major offensive. Officers praise discipline, ingenuity, and steady morale as they endure night patrols and constant danger.
A formal demand was published informing Ambassador Page that accounts of Belidan refugees facing danger from German troops must be examined quickly. The government asserts there is no basis for the statements in question and requests clarification from the American envoy.
Two defendants, Cy Pars Mares and Serge Petrisuda, were convicted in November of aiding a secret war planning effort. Mares received seven years in prison and a fine. Petrisuda was sentenced to eight years with possible months and a 7,000 currency fine for selling information to unnamed parties.
Fragmentary report notes Russian forces seizing a German seaport and pushing toward Memel and the Baltic coast. Text indicates German defenses near the Prussian region and a redeployment of troops toward the Vistula area, with unclear details and damaged phrasing.
The Russian squadron neared the northern Bosphorus provoking panic in Constantinople. Allied plans to land troops at the Dardanelles stirred further unrest as negotiations continued with the American embassy to avert bombardment of the European side of Constantinople.
Petrograd demands three for one in retaliation as Berlin admits new invasion. Russian papers urge eye for an eye policy to burn three villages or estates for every enemy building razed. Reports say Slav forces raid East Prussia, reaching Memel outskirts and skirmishing with German troops along the border.
Theodore Lank, Francis Rudd, and Max Dorshi of Troop F Fifth U.S. Cavalry were acquitted in Denver district court on charges of conspiracy to conceal money stolen from the post office at Walsenburg Colorado. The March trial concluded with the verdict Thursday, ending the case against the three soldiers.
New York March 19 official Sudan Times issues say no uprisings by dervishes in Khartum Nubia as Berlin reported. February Sudan Times cites Sheikh Sidi Ahmed denying baseless reports and pledging friendship to Keypt government. Des Moines report by Rev D S Oyler says no uprisings by Egyptian Sudan dervishes as of December 27 and denies death of Hawley near Fashoda.
Presidents of all the chambers of commerce in France will meet Monday to map plans for regaining markets once dominated by Germany. David Mennet of the Paris Chamber says trade is recovering and that a major commercial victory awaits in expanding access to those markets.
Delhi dispatch notes Sir Reginald Craddock calling for special military powers to curb lawlessness amid Hindu Muslim clashes. He blames Punjab looting on economic tensions and race, cites terrorism abroad, earlier Canada entry riots, and February Bengal regiment mutiny en route to Egypt.
Bangor March 19 Wener Horn charged with illegal interstate transportation of explosives for the attempt to wreck the International Bridge at Vanceboro will be taken to Boston for trial this term. Federal Commissioner Charles H Reid ruled the indictment warrant provided sufficient evidence to hold Horn and denied the defense motion to release him as a beligerent acted in war.
Thieves broke into a mall car near Naples carrying 225 bags of mail from the United States en route to Germany Austria and Turkey. They opened hundreds of registered letters mostly in Greek or Ha shemian and left scattered American bank notes on the car floor.
London reports the British Admiralty believes the German cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk near the West Indies early November. Recovered crew allegedly reached Germany in December aboard the steamer Klo Grande. Conflicting tales place crew on Rio Negro and Swinemunde, with earlier claims of explosion or storm wreck.
Special to The Washington Post March 19 reports a threatened Canada wide boycott of American made goods due to perceived unfriendly U S policy in blockade talks with Great Britain. A British Columbia merchant claims many Canadian traders distrust Americans despite some reassurance from U S exporters.
The British cruiser Amethyst attempted to sever the telegraph line between Killis and Chanak in the Dardanelles. She succeeded in cutting the cable but was spotted during a perilous return, dodging forts and taking heavy damage. A March 17 Admiralty report cites 23 killed, 19 severely wounded, and 18 slightly hurt.
London reports a casualties list dated March 16 shows 3 officers killed or died of wounds and 123 wounded or missing, raising officer casualties since March 10 to 196 killed or dead from wounds and 316 wounded or missing, totaling 511. Ottawa notes Canadian expeditionary force adds Lieut Hromiey among wounded, next of kin Lady Bromley, with thirteen noncommissioned officers and privates on the casualty list.
A New York dispatch reports a sharp drop in war risk insurance by the Treasury Bureau from about 65.0 million dollars to 15.6 million as fears of danger in the German war zone and British orders in council chill American shipping. Officials cite fluctuating business yet see fear of European water risks as the main cause affecting exports.
Captain Omdal of the Norwegian steamer Hla reported that on March 13, while between Sagua la Grande and Nuevitas, a French cruiser stopped the ship and boarded it. After papers were inspected, the vessel was allowed to proceed.
New York urgent report shows Richard Madden Gustave Cook and Richard Stegler convicted of conspiracy to obtain a false American passport for a German naval reservist. Stegler arraigned and pled guilty, receiving sixty days. Madden and Cook sentenced to ten months each. A photo studio worker’s suspicions led to arrests, naming a German connection and government rep.
Robert Walton Goelet gave a birthday dinner and dance at his 651 Fifth Avenue residence with invited guests attending. S. Montgomery Roosevelt also hosted a dinner that evening at the Vanderbilt. The decorations featured a sunken garden backed by mirrors and wis taria vines with colored electric bulbs.
Special to The Washington Post reports that Count Sergei Witte, former Russian prime minister, was not killed by natural causes but strangled by government-connected individuals due to his peace advocacy. The report claims Witte visited Berlin incognito about four months earlier to discuss terms with Germany.
Through London March, a poem mocking Emperor William led to punishments. First Lieutenant Alfred Humbert of the Thirty-First Regiment of French rifles, held as a war prisoner at Strassburg fortress, received six months in prison. Humbert’s wife, wife of the hospital chief surgeon treating him, was sentenced to one month for unfriendly utterances toward Germany.
The printers and publishers association at 150 Nassau street proposes a new New York daily eight with absolute impartiality and neutrality toward the war. Led by Dr Hugo Schweitzer Emil Kipper Henry Weismann and Max Stoehr the plan calls for 2 million capital stock and a large circulation while promising fair play and peace. The prospectus names a literary board including Dr Thomas Hall former representative Bartholdt and other prominent city figures.
London dispatch reports the Morning Post published a letter from a high German official calling for starving English prisoners rather than exchanging them. The letter asserts England’s ruin and accuses England of cruelty, urging neutral powers to see Germans “starving slowly” while prisoners in England die without food. It portrays a bitter anti English sentiment and declares Germans will not feed or exchange prisoners, appealing to public anger and wartime tensions.
garbled text references various nations and phrases about prisoners, the Kaiser, discourse, weapons, and a call for a discussion of paths and food. context unclear, many fragments and errors.
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