Today 30th dec 1914. Although news of the lull in fighting over Christmas had get to reach the columns of the Telegraph it is clear that there was little military news to really write about at the moment, for the big story of the day appears to be a storm over South-East England and the English Channel which caused plenty of damage, as well as interfering with communications from abroad. Both page 6 and page 9 carry several reports of the effects of the weather. The music-hall party entertaining the troops in France, is the closest we get to anything major on the news front from France. Also in today’s paper - The General Post Office reveals that 2,500,000 letters a week were being sent to British troops in the field before Christmas. - An officer recounts how he can see the faces of Germans looking through their trench periscope through field-glasses, German clergy claim “the present war is a punishment from God upon all the peoples who are taking part in it,” a British soldier saves a young woman who threw herself into the Seine in Paris after hearing her soldier lover had been killed. - The USA protests over British interference with her merchant navy, but the New York Sun says it should not be construed as an indication of hostility against Britain. - The authorities order enemy aliens, naturalised aliens and even descendants thereof of leave coastal towns around Tyneside. - The Americans find nothing to criticise in the Isle of Man detention camp which was the scene of a riot. One has to wonder whether had they expressed any criticism it would have been reported. Western Front Dunkirk attacked by German aeroplanes. Eastern Front Poland: Germans fight violent rearguard actions at Bolimov and Inovlodz. Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres British Consul at Hodeida (Red Sea) not yet released by Turks.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:29:54 +0000
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