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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1915
Page
1
News brief reports 100000 Chinese troops around Peking prepare defense against a potential Japanese attack. Yuan Shi Kai's palace area tightened security and civilian precautions issued to guard leadership as rumors of a Chinese ultimatum and possible coup aftermath circulate.
London dispatch reports Tokyo cabinet in special session decides to issue an ultimatum to China with a brief time limit for compliance to Japan's demands. The move signals heightened tensions as Tokyo seeks swift action.
In Westbury New York Mrs Howard Townsend Martin and her nephew Bradley Martin filed in the New York Supreme Court for a lunacy commission to examine her husband. The petition says he may die of grief over the loss of his brothers Frederick Townsend Martin who died in March 1914 and Bradiey Martin who died abroad two years earlier. Howard Martin has been in a sanitarium since April at age 62.
German forces drive toward Mitau after cutting Libau to Vilna rail links. Russian resistance falters as German reinforcements reportedly advance rapidly, destroying railways and burning assets in Shavli while the railway via Libau to Mitau becomes the new main axis.
The German general staff reports success in gas operations at Blanders Dacks and captures of Zevecote Zonnebehe West hoek the Volgonous Forest and Non nebesehen. Allied retreat occurred under our batteries northeast of Pres in the Argonne. French attempts to retake the trench north of Four de Varig on May 1 failed.
Theodore Roosevelt testifies again in the New York supreme court with Roosevelts and Platts former secretary detailing letters between Barnes and Platt about printing contracts and politics. Lloyd George Budget in London projects daily war cost at 10.5 million dollars as Britain warns of possible new taxes.
Mary Haynes, 16, of 245 Court Street Brooklyn, won 20006 in a $50 000 damages suit against Cook & Cole dyemakers for a belt shaft incident August 14 1913 in the Brooklyn plant that ripped out four feet of her hair leaving a scarred scalp. Her father received $1 000 for loss of her services. The jury viewed her wigless scalp and heard she may never regrow hair. The shaft was unguarded and the accident occurred while she was moving hair to drink water.
Chicago May 4 Dr Frederick A Cook announced plans to attempt Mount Everest in the Himalayas this summer He will sail from San Francisco with a party of twelve on May 27 and expects to reach Nepal in seven months The expedition aims to reach the highest mountain in the world from northern India and Nepal routes during seven months of travel.
An index page itemizes stories including China wartime stance, Roosevelt testimony, Britain’s deficit, and German affairs. Other entries mention Russian captures, war risks, and political debates as the issue outlines varied national and international topics.
A St Anna liner passenger, who said he would become the American consul at Lyons, leapt into the sea near Naples after leaving New York. The man’s name is reported as Wendelin of New York. Frederic Van Dyne is noted as the American consul at Lyons, having sailed around April 20 to return to duties.
Petrograd reports a 50 to 60 mile front attack in west Galicia from the Nida to the Carpathians. The left wing of the German advance pushed along the Vistula with six dawn assaults, all repulsed. Heavy artillery near Tarnow. Austrian cooperation weaker, possibly delaying a unified plan. The aim is to ease pressure on Hungarian plains from the Russian drive across the Carpathians.
Geneva reports 2000 Austro-Hungarian officers and men surrendering to Russians and Serbians since the start of hostilities without firing a shot. The Tribune de Geneve says these men were fully equipped and capitulated under pressure.
French forces pummeled Altkirch in Upper Alsace on Saturday May 1 with heavy artillery. On Sunday May 2 the cannonade toward Cer may persisted. Details of results remain unavailable.
May 4 obituary notes Adellal Meyers dies at home after being bitten by a pet cat weeks earlier. doctors diagnosed hydrophobia. Husband Charles Meyers recalls a dog bit the cat before the attack. Baltimore area transit ads list trains hourly to Camden Station and streetcar routes.
May 4 dispatches say a large Austro German army has concentrated before Cracow for three weeks with a planned new offensive. Anglo Hungarian troops moved to the Dunajec front as trains poured eastward from Frankfurt and Berlin. Russian center piercing maneuvers and battles in Galicia and Ypres are noted with mixed claims of progress and caution from observers.
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