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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1914
Page
10
French forces in the Argonne fight back with stubborn resistance as British supply lines support the front. Reports describe Austrians as resigned to captivity while German officers receive lenient treatment amid comical confusion and wartime strain.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a series of explosions near a cathedral and surrounding areas. Names, exact locations, and dates are unclear due to transcription errors, but the report centers on multiple bomb incidents affecting a religious site and nearby streets. Authorities investigate possible perpetrators.
In the last 48 hours Japanese aviators attacked and silenced the fort at Wasmogton and prevented German gunboats from harassing allied investing forces. The action marks a bold air effort over the Pacific theater as Allied positions hold against encroaching threats.
An American Army officer reports a church in a war zone with 400 badly wounded soldiers suffering hunger. Red Cross says conditions are frightful beyond description in the Far East with scarce resources and unable to provide full aid.
The article diagrams show shrapnel impact on advancing infantry and high angle bursts to stopper advances. It compares howitzers and field guns from trenches, noting direct versus indirect fire effects on earthworks. A fifth diagram depicts fortifications and cupolas, with tactics from siege guns battering targets and altering defense.
Special Cable from Paris reports Alec Carter a famed gentleman jockey and captain of French dragoons was killed at the head of his regiment in recent fighting. He lay on the field for two days. Carter was born English but naturalized French and rode for W. K. Vanderbilt August Belmont Barney Schreiber and Ar Duryea.
The Hague and London report Germany will keep the Scheldt neutral and not force its use. Negotiations continue on returning Belgian refugees from the Netherlands, with an unspecified number granted permission for return. Military age questions for Belgians crossing into Holland arise amid ongoing arrangements.
London’s Morning Post denounces Winston Churchill first lord of the admiralty for ordering a small marine expedition to Antwerp. It argues British losses were understated and that a large force should have been sent or Belgian surrender allowed without bombardment, condemning actions that cost lives and hindered Belgian retreat.
A Washington cable reports Austrians in a near front line village showing willingness to surrender. From Ort 13-A, a wounded cossack details Austrian troops deploying makeshift white flags and signaling to be taken as prisoners as a crowd of disarmed soldiers bear improvised apologies fashioned from handkerchiefs, carts, shirts, and underclothing. The scene underscores the troops desire to surrender rather than continue fighting.
The Russian government arranged measures to secure connections with America Vladivostok and the Siberian Highway as the Baltic Sea closes to navigation and the White Sea nears freezing. The volunteer fleet will move to Cha Far Last to operate between Vladivostok and the U S port, ensuring imports from the United States receive special low import duties.
An American recruit recounts life in the French Foreign Legion after arrivals in Toulouse. He describes notable U S volunteers such as William Thaw and Charles Sweeney, their pasts, the legion’s strict no retreat rule, diverse backgrounds, rough training, and readiness to fight Germans on the front.
A bombing damaged the rectory attached to St Alphonsus Church injuring a worker and smashing windows along Dougal Street. Police cordoned off the area as detectives pursued those suspected of vowing vengeance on the rector and priests after arrests.
The Frankfurter Zeitung reports Austrian forces are fighting cholera with large scale inoculation. Twenty thousand packages of cholera serum arrive from Vienna and whole regiments are lined up for treatment. A field hospital leads the effort under Dr Buffon who studied cholera during the Balkan war. Immunity from inoculation takes about three months.
A Athens dispatch reports 1300 Greeks have been expelled by Turkish forces from Eregli on the Sea of Marmara, three miles west of Constantinople, said to be for fortification needs. Officials in Constantinople hold talks with representatives of the powers over replacing abrogated capitulations.
Cardinal Gasparri, born outside Rome in Ise2, chosen by the Pope to fill the secretary of state post after Cardinal Ferrata's death. Proclaimed a cardinal in 1907, he is renowned among canonists and author of the Decade Canon Law, with prior service as secretary of state for extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs.
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