Tuesday, September 28, 1915. La Matanza of Ebenezer

Texas City, Texas.  September 28, 1915.

Between 15 to 30 ethnic Mexicans were murdered by the Texas Rangers at the Alamo (La Matanza of Ebenezer).   An entire series of murders of Hispanics occured in this era based upon guilt by ethnicity.

Field Marshal John French suggested to Gen. Foch that a determined assault at Loos could force a gap in the German line, but Foch demurred.

British and Indian troops defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Es Sinn, taking a strategic point on the Tigris and Euphrates.

J.P. Morgan and the  Anglo French Financial Commission worked out the details on what was, at the time, the largest loan in history.

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Monday, September 27, 1915. Murdered for being Hispanic, Jack Kipling killed in action.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle of Loos, Disaster, Mexican Border War, Oklahoma, Petroleum, Racism, Railroads, Rudyard Kipling, Texas, Texas Rangers, World War One

Monday, September 27, 1915. Murdered for being Hispanic, Jack Kipling killed in action.

Antonio Longoria.

Texas Ranchers Jesus Bazán, 67, and Antonio Longoria, 49, were murdered by Texas Rangers after visiting the Rangers camp to report horses being stolen.

Lt. John Kipling, the son of Rudyard Kipling, was killed in the Battle of Loos  He was 18 years old, but only barely so, and had initially been rejected for service due to his bad eyesight.

Rail cars carrying casinghead gas exploded in Ardmore Oklahoma, causing massive destruction and killing 43 people.

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Sunday, September 26, 1915. Wab.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Army, Battle of Loos, Bears, British Army, Disaster, French Army, German Army, hunting, Mexican Border War, Second Battle of Champagne, Texas, Third Battle of Artois, World War One, Wyoming

Sunday, September 26, 1915. Wab.

The French captured Souchez.  The Germans held in the face of British assaults and inflicted 8,000 casualties on 10,000 meen at Loos.  The French advanced and took 2,000 German pows in the Second Battle of Champagne.

The news of the big offensive hit the U.S. press.

Nobody was accepting responsibility for fighting on the U.S. border.

Wab was taken by a hunter.

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Saturday, September 25, 1915. Large Allied Offensive in France.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Battle of Loos, British Army, Gallipoli, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Marijuana, Second Battle of Champagne, Third Battle of Artois, Weapons, World War One

Saturday, September 25, 1915. Large Allied Offensive in France.

British troops advancing through gas, September 25, 1915.

The French Tenth Army and the BEF launched offensive attacks on the Western Front.  The main focus was a British effort at Loos and Champagne.  The British used gas for the first time in their efforts, and the British New Army, newly recruited volunteers, were committed to action for the first time.

The British also assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt.

Lord Kitchener demanded the redeployment of two British divisions and one French one from Gallipoli to Greece.

Former Princeton football standout Johnny Poe  was killed in action at age 41 while serving in the British Army.

Poe was a restless soul who had served in the National Guard prior to the Spanish American War and hoped to see action in it. He did not, so after briefly working as a cowboy, he joined the Army and served in the Philippine Insurrection.  He subsequently joined the Marine Corps in hopes of seeing action in Panama, but did not.  He was briefly a soldier of fortune in Central America thereafter.

The Ogden Standard posed a question.

The Casper paper warned that U.S. troops might cross into Mexico.

Last edition:

Friday, September 24, 1915. More border violence, Zapata advances, Bulgaria mobilizes, Tragedy at the Fair.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Bulgaria, Central Powers, Disaster, Emiliano Zapata, Greece, Mexican Border War, Mexican Revolution, Mexico (Veracruz), Sedicionistas, Texas, Texas (Brownsville), World War One