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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1916
Page
12
Italian officials and former cabinet member debate the seizure of Venice’s palace by Austria. The piece recalls protests, air raids, and Vatican territory issues as Italy weighs the pope’s stance and potential war consequences.
Madrid reports King Alfonso a tireless worker for peace is pressing Allied powers to study and consider the current German proposal in ongoing diplomacy efforts.
From Aschaffenburg hospital a Bavarian corporal once mute after Somme shelling suddenly spoke during a panic night. He later recalled dreaming he was back in the trenches, shouting for aid as enemies closed in, then woke to find doctors and nurses around him.
Berlin reports a dispatch from the North German Gazette detailing a czarist order found with a captured Russian captain. It directs reserve battalion commanders to impose punishment by knout on shirkers and deserters with twenty five lashes for slow call to arms and three consecutive days of knouting for desertion or escape. It also calls for whipping privates who refuse to obey or threaten officers.
Miss Ida M. Tarbell noted writer is named by President Wilson to one of five Tariff Commission posts. She declines to comment until official announcement.
Berlin reports three German submarines returning from the Murman Kola region after seven weeks in the Arctic. They sank about forty ships despite fogs storms and aurora boresalis while facing compass failures. Captured crews varied from panicked to compliant as they were towed or transferred to munition ships for Archangel voyage.
London December 23 The Marchioness of Donegal resumes social prominence with Lady Drogheda as they showcase aeronautical pictures at Knoedler Galleries to raise funds for Allied relief work. Pictures largely shot by Lady Drogheda from her own plane are described by army officers as holding military value.
Vienna reports documentary proof that the murdered Austrian Prime Minister Count Stuergkh was married despite posing as a bachelor. The Budapest Abendblatt says he courted Miss Hermine Fuchs of Graz, with her mother, during a Riviera retreat in 1892, and the secret marriage had been an open secret among contemporaries.
Captain William S. Simms of the U S N told the House Naval Affairs Committee that battle cruisers are crucial for any effective naval warfare. He warned that without them a strong enemy fleet could overwhelm American naval power and commerce and hinder defense of the Panama Canal despite fortifications.
From Volhynia December 23 reports detail the persistent Russian effort to reach Kovel despite enormous casualties. The front between Zaturcy and Zubilno remains impassable due to piled corpses and flooded trenches, as Brusiloff sustains attacks with heavy artillery and repeated assaults.
Dr Alfred Lohmann president of Deutsche Ocean Rederei, builder of the Deutschland, was decorated with the great gold state medal by the Bremen senate in solemn session marking Deutschlands second safe return from the United States.
Survivors describe rapid capture and destruction of two steamers. Among the wreckage many Black crew members were found and some claimed American nationality. authorities question whether they were free or enslaved, highlighting the complex status of captured mariners.
Berlin reports the second non smoking day netted over 250000 in twenty four hours. In Breslau alone more than 12000 was raised. The fund buys tobacco and cigars for soldiers in the field for Christmas.
A group of British Boy Scouts from Southampton Liverpool and Gravesend aboard the Britannic helped after the torpedo strike. Thirteen year old Pope stayed at his post and collected items after the blast. Scout Perman from Southampton operated the lift while Victor Mackenzie sounded whistles. Percy Dickson lowered to lifeboats with a rope. The boys aged twelve to sixteen later visited Athens and were praised by the British minister.
John Callahan once worked as a Bowery bartender and bouncer in New York. He spent years as a derelict and drunkard before being saved by a rescue mission. Now at Tombs Prison he serves as chaplain and leads the Hedley Rescue Mission helping others like him.
The Asiatic question expands in the Pacific as Hawaii shows mixed labor patterns. Fiji hosts 90,000 native Fijians and 45,000 Hindus brought for sugar plantations, with rising Hindu and Chinese/Javanese labor. Japanese and Chinese influx raises concerns over Australian policy and strategic control of Pacific island markets.
The article argues that wealth from Singapore Batavia and Honolulu is held by Asiatic capitalists and that Papeete is controlled by Chinese and Japanese interests. It predicts a rapid spread of Chinese and Japanese commerce into Ecuador Peru and other South American nations. Intermarriage and settlement are seen as creating a new race to be considered by major powers.
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