French Hospital Ships Bring Comfort to Balkan Soldiers
Aboard the French hospital ship Charles Roux at Saloniki harbor on November 10, Allied wounded soldiers receive top medical care. French ships Sphinx Dugay Trouin and Canada L were prepared in advance, with surgeons led by Dr. Heitzer. Nurses, Sisters of Charity, and volunteers from the Succor for Wounded Soldiers ensure wards, operating rooms, pharmacy, laboratory, X ray, and sunlit decks for convalescence with views of Mount Athos and Saloniki.
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Associated Press
Charles Roux
Saloniki
Ticko
Canada
Sisters of Charity
Heitzer
Paris
Marseilles
Algiers
Naples
Orient
Kalchis
Acrean
Mt. ‘Athos
Thessaly
Mt. Olympus
Greece
Mt. Ossa
Mt. Pelion
Ramazan
English Agree Shakespeare Greatest Dramatist
London readers voted Shakespeare as the greatest British dramatist with absolute unanimity. Other results named Milton as greatest poet, Bacon philosopher, Gibbon historian, Dickens novelist, Macaulay essayist, Sullivan composer, Turner painter, and Flaxman sculptor.
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London
Shakespeare
Bacon
Gibbon
Dickens
Macaulay
Sullivan
Turner
Flaxman
Southern Railway asks public to report courteous service
The Southern Railway urges employees to be courteous in all public dealings and asks passengers to report examples of courteous service. A memo card printed in cars states the employer will reward successful acts of courtesy and recognize employee efforts.
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Washington, D. C
Southern Railway
Southern Rail Way Company
Reflection on Youth and Innocence in Society
A compact moral musing contrasts nostalgia for youth with scrutiny of innocence, suggesting happiness remembered invites double living between past and present. The piece questions social expectations that men avoid appearing overly naive while pursuing genuine self awareness.
Reading Rooms for Prisoners of War Spreading Across Germany
The wandering libraries funded by American generosity have established eleven reading rooms and recreation halls for prisoners of war in Germany. Each building costs about 6000 marks, with commanders sometimes adding funds for ornament and space. Books are supplied by a dedicated committee. shipments reach trenches and camps, aided by field wagons and dedicated volunteers.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
France
England
Russia
University of Warsaw
Conrad Hoffman
James E. Springer
Fresh Volcanic Outbreaks Reported on Ambrim Island
News from Sydney reports fresh eruptions on Ambrim in the New Hebrides, with October ash clouds darkening Oba and prompting fears of Mount Ambrim. The earlier December 1913 eruption killed about 500 natives and altered the island coast. Officials from the British French commission oversee the islands.
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Associated Press
Sydney
Australia
Ambrim
New Hebrides
A. T. Waters
Oba
Mission House
New Hebrides Islands
Japanese Policy Toward China Formally Outlined
The Japanese embassy issued a formal statement in Washington on December 15 stating Japan advised China to delay changes in government solely to prevent untoward developments in the Far East that could disturb the already complex world situation. It denied reports that Japan was being used by Sun Yat Sen’s activities against a proposed monarchy in China.
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Washington
Japan
China
Far East
Sun Yat-Sen
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Salonia
Balkan
Condi
Women of
French Republic
New York
Terai
Miltoen
Ambrim Island
Rones
Independent Insurance & Investment
O. E. Mendenhall
W. R. Morrow
Wachovia Bank
W. C. Idol
Cashier
Wescott Roberson
Gannon
Fetzer
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