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THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE

... THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE. BIRKENHEAD CONST ABLETS EXPERIENCE. PEACE ON EARTH. HOW BRITISH AND GERMANS FRATERNISED. Acting-Corporal F. Edwards, a member the Birkenhead Police Force, who is now France serving with the 3rd Rifle Brigade, a letter, dated Christmas ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1397 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A CHRISTMAS TRUCE,

... A CHRISTMAS TRUCE, i'/tcy are accustomed. You can minister to their happiness by filling up the following order form. News for the Boys from Home! ORDER FORM. Sand *' Western Kail” far weakt, far wjiloh I enclose P.O. value N.B,—The receiver of copy of ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 970 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

A CHRISTMAS TRUCE

... A CHRISTMAS TRUCE. Sergt. Bowden, the Queen’s Westminsters, tells a highly interesting incident the trendies on Christmas Day in a letter which has been received by his wife Hounslow. He says : Even here you can feel the peace of Yule-tide. About 6 p ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 199 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

POPE AND PEACE. HIS HOLINESS NOT DISCOURAGED BY FAILURE OF CHRISTMAS TRUCE

... PEACE. HIS HOLINESS NOT DISCOURAGED BY FAILURE OF CHRISTMAS TRUCE ROME, ThursdaY The Pope received the members of the itiaared College this morning in the Throne Room for the presentation of Christmas greetings. The Pontiff, in reply, thanked the Cardinals ...

A SKETCH OF THE UNOFFICIAL CHRISTMAS TRUCE. An artist’s impression cf an incident described in a soldier's ..

... A SKETCH OF THE UNOFFICIAL CHRISTMAS TRUCE. An artist’s impression cf an incident described in a soldier's letter : “One of our fellows then filled his pockets with fags and got over the trench. The German got over his trench, and, right enough, they ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

REMARKABLE CHRISTMAS STORY A TRUCE PRETWFEN THE TRENCHES

... REMARKABLE CHRISTMAS STORY A TRUCE PRETWFEN THE TRENCHES. A very remarkable story of Christmas in the trenches is related in a letter sent to his wife at Stowmarket by Prvt. William Farrow, of the st Border Regiment. Ile says: “Wo were in the trenches ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: East Anglian Daily Times
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE SOLDIERS’ CHRISTMAS. AN INFORMAL TRUCE. REMARKABLE CHRISTMAS IXCIDENTS ENEMIES’ FRATERNAL CHATS. Letters ..

... SOLDIERS’ CHRISTMAS. AN INFORMAL TRUCE. REMARKABLE CHRISTMAS IXCIDENTS ENEMIES’ FRATERNAL CHATS. Letters from soldiers now received in this country show that by the tacit agreement sort of truce prevailed sorno of tho battlefield in Flanders ...

A Terrible Scourge

... which God has made a condition for the enjoyment of peace. The Cardinals' Christmas Greetings. The Pope received the mombers at the Sacred Collete in Throne Room for the Christmas greetings. Twenty-three Cardmals, Bishops and Prelates, in attendance on ...

CHRISTMAS AT THE VATICAN. His Holiness and the War. TO CONTINUE EVERY EFFORT TO HASTEN PEACE. Cardinals' ..

... CHRISTMAS AT THE VATICAN. His Holiness and the War. TO CONTINUE EVERY EFFORT TO HASTEN PEACE. Cardinals' Sympathetic Greeting. On Christmas Eve Pope Benedict V. it-cooed all the members of the Sacred oilege resident in Rome (with the ‘-xctprinn of Cardinals ...

THE EAST: THE RUSSIAN SUCCESSES

... dropped no bombs on Cuxhaven town. - CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES. ** Eye-Witness '’ tells us of the Christmas fostivities ‘‘ at the front,”’ where over 80 tons of plum-puddings were absorbed by soldiers. The Royal Christmas Cards to each man and the presents ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1915
Newspaper: Wiltshire Telegraph
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 439 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NO 4,553 Church Notes. Items of interest to the county will be welcomed ror this column. Many people will probably

... Vicar of Detling, referring to the .. proposal for a Christmas truce it the war, says: It seems t o have been assumed by the Press that the • first and the only overtures made to gain a Christmas truce were 'made by the Pone. I happen to know that this ...