by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent

The front page of The Daily Capital Journal had these headlines regarding the war:

MEDICATED COTTON FOR HOSPITAL USE SENT BY AMERICANS
Whole Country Joins In Relief of German and Austrian Wounded
1049 MAIL SACKS; 7599 BIG PACKAGES
Steamer Carries Gift From Sympathetic Americans at Peace With the World

New York, Dec. 4. – The Holland-American liner Sommelsdyk sailed from here . . . with 26,000 pounds of medicated cotton for wounded soldiers in German and Austrian hospitals. It was all sent by parcel post and it was in response to a suggestion by Correspondent William G. Shepherd of the United Press, who first announced the need for proper dressing for the wounded in Vienna.

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The Sommelsdhyk will land the cargo at Rotterdam n ample time to catch special trains which will carry it everywhere in Austria, Hungary and Germany before Christmas.

ARMIES NOW EQUAL; ALLIES EXPECTED TO TAKE OFFENSIVE
Allies Have 700,000 Troops in Belgium and the Germans 750,000
THE COMING BATTLE MAY PROVE DECISIVE
400,000 More British Troops in Line – Germans May Also Take Offensive

34,000 CANADIANS LANDED IN EGYPT
Claim 33,000 slave Officers Have Been Killed, Wounded or Are Missing