The Tigress of North Africa and the Ingenious Escape
Don Luis Perenna recounts a desert ordeal in which he survived a Moorish ambush by leveraging swift counteractions and a daring escape. He describes a captured years earlier in the Foreign Legion, his release by subduing the band with calculated moves, and his claim of foreign influence and strategic cunning guiding his fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monsieur le President
Valenglay
Don Luis
Arsene Lupin
Florence Levasseur
Florence Lévasseur
Coume
Valengiev
Florence
Monsieur le President du Consetig
Po- Nive
M. Desmaliou
Don Suix
Monsieur le Prefect
la Police
Enis
Laake
North West Africa
Monsieur le Prefect de Police
Foreign Legion
Morocco
Monsieur le Prefect de
Versailles
Nantes
Saint- Nazaire
Don Luis Perenna
France
Don Luis Gayly
Blazac
Aveene Emperor of Mauretania Chapter XVIII
Excerpt describes a dramatic scene with Aveene, Emperor of Mauretania, and Don Lois evaded, as a sly smile plays on his lips. The fragment suggests intrigue and courtly tension within the imperial setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aveene
Mauretania
Don Lois
Seed corn saving urged after 1917 lessons
A wartime style urged farmers to harvest and store seed corn to cover two years. It cautions that frost and poor crops threaten seed supplies and notes the 1917 experience with imported seed and the cost of seed campaigns. It recommends attic storage and drying for long survival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fc. Holden
U. S. Department of Agriculture
The Russian Iscariots and the American Secret Service
A Philadelphia reader lauds American secret service success in exposing the Berlin Lenin Trotzky conspiracy. The piece argues Lenin and Trotsky betrayed Russia, and compares their treason to Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold, warning of centuries of oppression for 180 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelph
American Secret Service
Lyoff
Milikoff
Lenine
Trotsky
American
Secret Service
Proofa
Committee On Public Information
Laenine An Trotzky
Judas Iscariot
Benedict Arnold
Laniie
Trotaky
Uberty
Siberian
Italian Treasury Revenue Rises With 1917–18 Increase
Rome reports the finance minister’s statement showing Italy’s total revenue for the year ended June 30 1918 at 4,361,910,000 liras, up from 4 3 476 652 000 in 1916 and 85,000,000 above 1917. The year’s income exceeds 1914–15 neutral year by about 2 50. The report details special taxes and receipts from movie theaters, jewelry, perfumes, and restaurants, noting motors and concessions lagged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Stefani
Ligmens Co Ve
Mort
Acthet Pasar Fae SS
Owever
Italian Flyers Win First Night Combat Over Brandenburg Sky
In Italy during wartime darkness, Italian flyers engaged enemy planes under a full moon. A squadron pursued the Brandenburg attackers at high altitude, breaking their formation and forcing a retreat as one Italian pilot fired and downed a foe.
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Tenta
Italy
Mall
Francesco Baracca
Baracca
Brandenburg Ly
Ahasi Pn
Aliac
Bro
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Maurice Leblanc
Iportune
Legion
Atlas Range
Perrow
Monsieur le
Aia
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