Curious intruders and brick-wall guards at Whitehall
An English journalist notes the tight security and frequent bizarre attempts to see high officials at Whitehall. Visitors press through guards to reach Lord Kitchener, Lloyd George, or Sir Edward Grey, with one man claiming to expose a plan to rout the Germans. A clerk at the Home Office guides a lunatic visitor outside, while anecdotes recount unauthorized entries amid Cabinet meetings and Downing Street.
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Whitehall
Lord Kitchener
Black Forest
Kitchener
Buckingham Palace
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Tunatic
McKenna
House of Commons
Edward Grey
All America
England
Palace Yard
Lloyd-George
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United States
London
Sharp Brussels wit irks German occupiers in wartime notes
The Frankfurter Zeitung reports Brussels residents mock the invaders with sharp humor. Children chant bocheke while saluting hearses and garbage wagons, feigning the governor rides inside. Brussels patriots supposedly obey orders yet keep wits keen against the occupation.
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Brussels
Frankfurter Zeitung
Scottish Pasha Theme Echoes of a Drummer Boy’s Fate
A Western Weekly piece speculates descendants of a Scottish drummer boy captured by the Turks at Rosetta Egypt in 1807. Though the army perished, the boy survived, becoming a Turkish Pasha in Jeddah Asia Minor. He outwardly followed Islam, kept a Bible, and inscribed on the flyleaf his Scottish origin and Christ as salvation.
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Scoteman
Rosetta
Egypt
Jeddah
Asia Minor
France Admits Debt to British War Effort
An officer of the French general staff in London says French officers find no fault with their English allies though some French are growling. He notes French aims to train new troops in depth before deployment and praises the discipline and readiness of English-trained fronts and reserves, while the British War Office guards reserve figures to maintain strategic surprise.
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French
Marshal French
England
War Office
Fragment of hand grenade removed from heart in unique operation
At the Paris Academy of Medicine Professor Armaingaud describes extracting a fragment of hand grenade from a Parisian sergeant's heart after four and a half months lodged there. Dr Maurice Beaussenat performed the challenging operation, the heart beating throughout and the patient recovering a month later. Boxing grows in popularity among British soldiers with regimental entertainments and tournaments. Parsees dispose of dead at towers of silence, later interred in wells with generations of dust.
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Paris Academy of Medicine
Armaingaud
Bordeaux
Argonne
Maurice Beaussenat
Receipts and Expenditures Report for Cumberland General Hospital
To the Board of Directors of the Cumberland General Hospital this submits the receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending March dist 1917. Ih D. Pickard secretary certified correct F A McCarthy D R Hunter auditors.
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The
D. Pickard
F. A. McCarthy
R. Hunter
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