Evacuation Day Parade Through Lille Ends In Mass Kisses
British reporters recount a dramatic Lille evacuation as bridges blew at dawn and Germans left. A crowd surrounded a British car with kissing mobs, banners, and dancing civilians. Paris papers note a French mayor’s son, Mile. Berthe Dubeuts, and Belgian tailor M. Vanderzeele guiding the way amid adulation and chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lille
Kommandantur J
Préfecture of Police
Charles Delasolle, Jr
Dunkirk
Champs de Mars
Petit Parisien
le Matin
Paris
Armentieres
Mellett
Port
Te Postos
Miu
Place de la Republique
Port Des Postes
Mallett
Buxon U Em
Mile
Berthe' Dubeuts
France
Berthe
Rue Des Postes
M. Auguste Vanderzeele
London
M. Vonderzeele
M. Fernand Handaus
General Electric Company
Schenectady
N. Y
M. Handaus
Camp Wheeler Soldiers Plan Immense Farm Project
Arrangements are under way to provide a 40 acre farm for Camp Wheeler in Macon Georgia next spring. A 100 acre tilled farm last summer was a success. Soldiers initially used army tents but now enjoy a large dining hall with a beamed ceiling and rough hewn chairs and tables resembling an early colonial home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keeley
Macon
Camp Wheeler
National Museum to Display War Relics Collection
The National Museum in Washington plans a major war relic collection to illustrate military and naval activities of all nations involved. It will feature decorations, badges, insignia, equipment, air and naval gear, mementos, maps, and photographs, with support from the war and navy departments and private donors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. G
United States National Museum
United States
Army
Navy
Military
Naval Service
Museum
War
Amer
Five Trips to France Yet No Sight of the Country
George H. Delrry, a YMCA war work secretary in the transport service, has made five trips to France with ten voyages through war zones yet never set foot in the country. He remains hopeful about future excursions despite the perilous sea crossings.
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San Francisco
France
George HH
Delrry
Deltry
Transport Service
Hungry Sailors Find Real Haven During Rest in Brittany
London reports American Red Cross volunteers in Brittany provided food shelter and warmth to sick and exhausted sailors heading home. Barracks were built around trees, with bunks, canteen, and blue-aproned workers serving hot chocolate coffee and sandwiches. One sailor spoke of six brothers in service and his pledge to buy Liberty bonds instead of selling the farm he cared for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
United
Staton
Ley
Navy
Army
Red Cross
New York
Dress suit for prisoner front line dispatch missive anecdote
A fragment recalls a British airman who, with torn clothes, reached No Man's Land to deliver a Turkish commander's note requesting a dress suit for a British lieutenant captured and dining with them that night. The anecdote highlights quirky wartime exchanges across No Man's Land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
No Man's Land
Gets Fifteen Ducks Every Time by Geode and Ten Limits
A fragment suggests a phrase about ducks and limits tied to geode and ten. The readable text hints at a quirky or metaphorical headline rather than a clear news item. No identifiable people, places, or organizations are established in the fragment.
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Mademoiselle
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Garland
Paranet
Aeade Rave
Prue Twee
Srinanes Tert
Tino
Firth
Brest
President Wilson
National Museum
Islayhouse
Islay
Scotland
Jessie McLelhin
Mary Cunningham
Catherine McGregor
Mary Armour
John McDougall
Bours Bonne Les Balag
Bellingham
Wash
Kaiger
Dona=Dee
Sty Brothere
Brittany
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