Heroic Belgians Defied Germans in Wartime Rescue Efforts
A World War I tale recounts Belgians smuggling 1,000 fighters to Holland to join the Belgian army, led by Adolphe Buyl. Arrests followed in 1915 1916 with executions of Philippe Buucy and Dubois after refusing to betray their leader, amid German claims of breaking the underground network.
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Paris
Belgium
Vermans
Adolphe Buyl
Holland
Buyl
Yser
Phillipe Buucy
Edith Cavell
Baucy
Britain’s War Cost Cited At Bank Meeting
Sir B H Holden, managing director of the London City and Midland Bank, said the war cost Britain about 40,040,000,000 dollars. Of this sum 5,526,000,000 was loaned to allies, while Germany’s war losses totaled 85,700,000 with 2,250,000,000 lent to allies. Debts from German states added to the total.
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London
Great Britain
B. H. Holden
London City and Midland Bank
Germany
General Enough in Harbin Car Encounter
A Japanese officer boarded a special car carrying twenty one American engineers returning from Harbin and pressed for the senior officer. An engineer answered that the occupants were twenty one American officers and identified the senior as General Enough, a name recorded in the Japanese notebook.
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Vladivostok
Har ‘bin
Cure Insomnia by Alphabet
A London writer in a Tonfon paper claims a cure for sleeplessness called Ayzed, using alphabet letters. The method invites you to recall friends whose Christian names begin with each letter and to review your life as sleep comes, with a vision-like fade of worry.
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London
Ton Fon
Van Dyke Funds Prize For Naval Academy Essay
Dr Henry Van Dyke, former chaplain in the war, donates a year of pay to fund a prize for the best patriotic essay by a Naval Academy graduate midshipman. The prize money buys Liberty bonds and a Lacome frame watch engraved for the winner, to be awarded at an academy dress parade. A committee of English, seamanship, engineering, physics, and ordnance experts will choose the winner.
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Annapelis
Flrenry van Dyke
Dugs
Naval Academy
Washington to Study Lignite Use for Fuel and Gas
The Bureau of Mines will investigate lignite deposits to assess their commercial value and feasibility for producing fuel oil gasoline substitutes ammonia solid fuel and gas for power. Texas holds about 23 trillion tons on government land and may cut the state's annual fuel bill by 15 million dollars with full development.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Texas
Plea for French Language as Official International Tongue
The Matin urges adopting French as the official language of the society of nations. It cites French as a long standing diplomatic language and its clarity for shades of meaning, noting its role in the Algeciras and The Hague conferences. It recalls Karistor 1005 where a third text was added to avoid interpretation doubts.
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Paris
Matin
Society of Nations
Algeciras
Hague
Karistor
Chinese Women Work Hard In Factories Report
Miss Theresa Severin of Wellesley spoke to the New York Wellesley Alumnae about Chinese women employed in factories. She cited a Pekin plant with over 2,000 women from 12 to 80 years old, working ten hours daily for small pay, producing uniforms for soldiers. She also described efforts by high ranking Chinese women to prepare leaders for the country’s new democracy.
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New York
Theresa Severin
Wellesley
China
Wellesley Alumnae Association
Pekin
Venerated Violins Bring Wealth to Ailing Widow
Cleveland woman Mars Sorth Maut, 85, clung to two rare violins, a Cremona and a Stradivarius, for twenty five years of poverty. They belonged to her husband John Maul, once with the Cleveland Opera House orchestra and active in Chicago music circles. She preferred scant living to parting with them, though their value ran into thousands.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Mars
Sorth Maut
Lornerl
John Maul
Cleveland Opera House
Chicago Musien
British naval officer honored for gallantry in saving troops
British Lt. Francis W. Craven of the destroyer Mounsey received the Distinguished Service Medal for rescuing about 600 American soldiers from the sinking transport Otranto after a collision off the Irish coast on October 6, 1918. The incident occurred during a storm as Craven maneuvered to bring troops aboard his ship, saving many before the Otranto went down.
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Otranto
Colliion
E. W. Barrett
Birmingham Age-Herald
Leutenant
Irae
Eis W. Craven
Mountay
London
Wilson
Holge
United Kingdom
Iran
Francis W. Craven
Trish
Craven
Wy Navy
Ofling
New York
Ireland
Irish Channel
Liverpool
Davidson
Acroga
Kashmere
Rach
Heelf
Mounsey
Gen. Biddle
Belfrot
Rivet Failure and Hull Damage on the Otranto Destroyers
The account describes damage to destroyers including the Otranto and Kwantoko after a battle near London waters. Hulls bent and rivets failed while riveted heads opened, with observers noting cold hulls and severe strain on the ships. English officers study rivet failures and prepare a report for future destroyer construction.
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London
Otranto
Made In Germany Now Taboo Herd
Americans seek only souvenirs of victory from German goods as German toys vanish from U.S. shelves. The trend follows war-time sentiment and a shift to American made toys with firms expanding from 71 to 165 makers since 1918.
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Germany
U. S
Frederic J. Haskin
Chicago Daily News
Washington
Shane
Burne
Nathan
Giming
Geraldm
U.S
Uited
York
Holand
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