East Africa the only remaining German colony
The article reviews German East Africa as the last German colony in the region, detailing British and Indian forces, German strength, and strategic aims. It notes British plans under Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, German troop numbers, Lake Victoria bases, and reports on Syria Turkish concentrations and Dutch shipping routes.
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Westminster Gate
East Alnes
German East Africa
India
Germany
Wiltes
East Africa
Aney
British East Africa
Uganda
Vanga
Bukoba
Lake Victoria Nyanza
Horace South Jorrien
Bote
Jam
Poan Ie
Smith-Dorrie
Barrison
Syria
Jerusalem
Jaffa
Trussemar
England
German East Iica
Madagascar
Great Britain
United States Annual Agricultural Report Highlights Meat and Livestock Push
The report urges expanding meat animal production and diversifying farmlands through live stock and prominent pig and poultry clubs with thousands of youth members. It notes large losses from animal diseases and a dire potash shortage hindering fertilizer use while detailing four domestic mineral sources and 1914 crop outputs and values surpassing prior years.
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Ijlese
Pacific Coast
Utah
United States
Searles Lake
California
Protest Over Mount Edith Cavell Renaming Plan
Canadians oppose renaming Mount Edith near Banff to honor nurse Edith Cavell. They argue the original Mount Robson idea faced historical objections, and authorities may drop both proposals to find another way to memorialize Miss Edith Cavell.
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Edith
Banff
Edith Cavell
Belgium
Mount Robson
Canadian Rockies
Geographic Board
Edith Ca
Colony Farm at Essen dale A Model Provincial Farm
The Colony Farm near New Westminster is owned by the province and run as part of the hospital for the mentally defective. Dr J T Melway oversees both hospital and farm with expert agriculturists under him. The farm employs asylum labor and features Holstein Friesian stock and Clydesdales, with well kept buildings, silos, and a new eight stall barn linked to grazing fields.
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British Columbia
Colony Farm
Essendale
New Westminster
J. T. Melway
C. &. Doherty
Doherty
Fraser Valley
Asylum
J.T.B
Montreal
Wireless Wonders and Global Ship Station Network
The article notes about 7,000 wireless ship stations worldwide needing over 15,000 licensed operators. It also mentions more than 1,000 land stations supported by a workforce of 3,200 men to manage onshore operations.
German fears and Britain's resolve shape 1915 mood
An Italian Secolo correspondent after four months in Germany reports widespread unease and a shared fear of prolonged war. Germans doubt victory, dread a 1917 stalemate, and cite British perseverance and blockade as decisive pressures. Casualty lists show 150,000 monthly losses, draining industry and labor pools.
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Milas Seccio
Taimous Scadci
Germany
England
G Rmany
Calais
Egypt
Secolo
Climate and Cultivation and the Canadian Northwest
Sir Charles P. Lucas argues in his British association address that removing trees makes climates hotter or colder and drier or moister depending on vegetation. The Canadian Northwest is cited, where broken land loses snow but retains moisture, aiding agricultural improvement and northward wheat belt expansion aided by rail lines.
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British Association
Charles P. Lucas
Canadian Northwest
Lord Strathcona
Canadian Pacific Railway
Prussian Casualties Rise Beyond Two Million
The Rotter damsche Courant lists 65,340 killed wounded or missing in casualty entries 380 to 389, totaling 2,244,248 Prussian losses. This figure excludes names on 237 Bavarian 310 Württembergian 233 Saxon and naval and Turkish lists.
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Rotterdamsche Courant
Hay Export Ban Shocks Canadian Timoth y Market
An order-in-council bars Canadian timothy hay exports to the United States and Allied nations except Britain and its allies. Prices surge with contracts at about $19 a ton, doubled to $20 in some cases, as demand shifts to Ontario Quebec and Atlantic provinces for war needs. Government studies explore Western grasses and Eastern clover. impact hinges on price policy and wartime use.
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Great Britain
United States
Quebec
Canada
Ontario
Maritime Provinces
Department of Agriculture
W. H. Dwyer
Ottawa
Boston
New York
Sea sledge boat aids rescuers by fast flat craft
The U S Navy has adopted a new sea sledge rescue boat invented by a Boston engineer and dubbed the motor car of the sea. Its flat bottom design reduces pounding at high speed and pushes spray under the hull. The craft turns quickly, stops in three lengths, carries a heavy load, and requires less effort to operate than a motor car.
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United States Navy Department
Boston
Langer
Where France Leads World
The New York Press notes France leads globally in investing and thrift. It argues French savers hold vast, highly liquid securities and enjoy strong financial confidence, driven by universal saving habits and disciplined living within income.
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France
New York Press
Wonderful growth of Saloniki one of the lessons of the war
The article notes dramatic population shifts in Saloniki as Allied troops land. Greek claims over vast territories contrast with rapidly rising refugees from Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria. The city swells from 160 000 to nearly a million, straining water, bread, and housing as troops and civilians converge.
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Saloniki
GiseFict
Balkans
Littoral
Aegean
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Albania
Serbia
Uskub
Roumena
Bulgaria
Turkey
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Kirk-Nilisseh
Adrianople
Constantinople
Greece
Rotterdam
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Une Ib
Rick Wuere
Luis
Salonika
Sulonikhi
Monastir
Marseilles
London
Hudson Bay Route book highlights preface comparison
A. H. De Tre maudan’s The Hudson Bay Route, published by J. M. Dent and Sons, argues the Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait compare latitude wise with the Gulf of Bothnia. The preface notes differences in freezing: Hudson Bay never freezes, Gulf of Bothnia does, suggesting potential commercial viability per Toronto News.
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Hudson Bay Railway
A. H. de Tremaudan
Pas
J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd
Gulf
Hudson Strait
Aland Islands
Petrograd
Port Nelson
Gulf of Bothnia
Hudson Bay
Bothnia
Toronto News
Walking Keeps Body Healthy and Youthful Through Exercise
The article extols walking as the best full body exercise, aiding weight control and muscle elasticity. It notes walking improves circulation, supports health, and helps prevent aging, urging daily activity as a proven medical fact endorsed by physicians.
Prohibition of Liquor in Officers Mess Across Dominion
The militia council moves to abolish liquor in all officers messes throughout the Dominion. Although sales were banned in cantons, officers were allowed to drink. From now on officers and enlisted men share the same policy on intoxicants.
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Militia Council
Dominion
Five Miles for a Bath in Belgium Troops Describe Ablutions
A Belgian cottage near Our Camp provides winter supplies and baths for British troops. The writer notes a long walk to a large schoolroom turned bathhouse with about 50 Scottish soldiers, many in kilts, using tubs filled with cold artesian water scented like sheep dip.
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Belgium
French flag color bands standardized in equal thirds
The 1792 tricolor flag later standardized by the National Assembly to three equal vertical bands blue white red. Optical illusion made blue appear wider, so a later rule set blue thirty white thirty five red thirty seven parts in one hundred to ensure true equality.
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National Assembly
Immigration figures show subdued Groose Isle intake
Officials at Groose Isle report 27 667 people examined entering Canada this period, down 74 076 from last year. The data highlight a sharp decline in immigration processing and a shift in border control activity.
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Groose Isle
Canada
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United States Annual Agricultural Report
Britain
American Presse Association
Dardaneliea
the Bay
Critish
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