Mothers and families in Britain bear costly war toll
Mary Fury of Loughrea County Galway has ten sons serving in the British army. Five are dead in France, one wounded, one prisoner, one still fighting, and another nursing a shattered arm. Her daughter Mary Cosey in Romford fights with a husband and two brothers-in-law at the front. The piece notes class-wide suffering and predicts conscription effects. Also reports Los Angeles executions of Glenn Witt and Ethlebert Oxnam for the murder of William M Alexander. Witt to die at Folsom, Oxnam at San Quentin.
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London
Mary Fury
Loughrea
County Galway
Ireland
France
Germany
Mary Furys
Mary Caseys
Britain
Dardanelles
Walworth
Trafalgar Street
War Office
Los Angeles
Cal
Glenn Witt
Ethlebert C. Oxnam
William M Alexander
Dallas
Tex
Alexander
Witt
Oxnam
Roth
Wit
Folsom
Xnam
San Quentin
Little Stories of the Big War Highlights Prisoner Air Mail Service
ParisTurkish prisoners on an Agean island receive aeroplane mail service from the French government allowing them to write and receive letters. Amsterdam German commanders aged sixty five to seventy two, Falkenhayn at fifty nine. Geneva Bersaglieri regimental mascot lamb triggers alarm near Monte Nero, revealing an attempted enemy surprise and aiding an Austrian defeat with heavy losses.
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Paris
Agean Sea
Amsterdam
Falkenhayn
Geneva
Monte Nero
Defeat of German Forces Linked to Polish Front
One year ago today Petrograd claimed German troops lured into Russian Poland suffered a great defeat as Gen Rennen kampff reported. Prazemys was near capitulation. British admiralty noted two cruisers violated orders by aiding the first attacked after sinking three enemy ships. The Indian Prince was sunk by Kronprinz Wilhelm off the Brazilian coast. German press accused Belgians of using churches as arsenals.
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Petrograd
Russian
Poland
Rennenkampff
Prazemys
Inquiry on proposed England loan ties to neutrality rules
Irish journalist David O Connors telegram to Secretary McAdoo raises whether an English loan endorsed by the U S would violate neutrality if security is not tangible and whether banks could be forced to close pans and appoint receivers if inspectors report poor security. He notes English loans would be distributed among national banks under U S control and inspectors can intervene.
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McAdoo
David O'Conor
England
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Mr. O'Conor
United States
Government Oversight and Bank Receivership Process
The text explains that banks with tangible security and government-backed loans are allowed to operate, while banks with non tangible security are closed. A government-appointed receiver then runs the bank, and depositors await access to their funds until affairs are settled.
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