Dan ish West Indies treaty signed in New York
Acting Secretary Polk announced the Denmark treaty for 25 million dollars to purchase the Danish West Indies was signed in New York by Secretary Lansing and Minister Brun and should be promptly ratified by the Senate. The islands offer a strategic naval base and coaling station, with Charlotte Amalie harbor improved by canal work, making the purchase valuable to the United States.
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Polk
United States
Danish West Indies
Denmark
New York
Lansing
Constantin Brun
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Charlotte Amelie
Tropics
Brun
Senate
Wilson on War and Peace And Public Opinion
President Wilson argues the United States should not seek more territory and must weigh national honor against sacrifices. He believes most Americans want peace compatible with honor and that public opinion in homes, trains, shops, and farms should guide decisions. The piece notes popular desire for peace and outlines broader wartime strategic language from allied governments.
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Wilson
United States
Mexico
White House
Thomas F. Logan
Leslie
Turkey seeks peace on humiliating terms say reports
A high authority says Turkey desires to quit the war and make peace on the most humiliating terms. Britain cannot accept alone due to allied pledges, while Turkey appears worn out and near collapse. The Ottoman government faces losses, Turkish troops in Bulgarian pay refuse to fight, and financial strain deepens.
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Turkey
Imts
Great Britain
London
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Constantinople
Austria
Noted Confederate Woman Sallie Tompkins Dead
On July 26, Captain Sallie Louisa Tompkins died at about eighty three in Richmond Virginia. She lived for years in the Home for Confederate Women and was known as a loyal supporter of the Confederate cause during the Civil War.
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Sallie
Southland
Sallie Louisa Tompkins
Richmond
Britain States Terms On Food Pass To Occupied Territory
Walter Hines Page, the American ambassador, reports a British foreign office letter proposing to settle the importation of food into territory held by the Germans. The proposal asks Germany and Austria Hungary to reserve food solely for civilian populations in occupied areas.
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Britain
Walter Hines Page
State Department
Washington
Foreign Office
Life in German Hotels Amid War Scarcity
A traveler's account of life in wartime Germany notes crowded hotels with wounded officers and Iron Crosses, bread and meat shortages, scarce fats, limited oils, eggs plentiful but boiled, and high food prices. Two thirds of Berlin butcher shops closed due to supply issues while the government seeks to ration and conserve resources.
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Les Grands Hotels
Germany
Teutons
Great
Berlin
Government Promises Action On Food Shortages
Riley Scott notes that cereals fruits and vegetables may be plentiful while meats dairy and imported staples remain tight. He credits a well organized far seeing government with doing all it can to solve the problem.
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Kovernment
Riley Scott
Leslie
Capture of Erzingan Drives Turkeys to Break
The capture of Erzingan signals near completion of Russian occupation of Turkish Armenia and gains control of fertile valleys and a route via Trebizond. Turkish forces estimated around 350,000 stood at risk as Russians pressed an Erzingan offensive after Galician advances drew Turkish troops from the Balkans. Colonel Shumsky calls the defeat a blow that cripples Turkish defense, with only partial divisions available to shore up lines.
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Erzingan
Armenia
Russia
Trebizond
Black Sea
Mush
Hizerum
Balkans
Sivas
Shumsky
Bourse Gazette
Ottoman Empire
British East Africa Vast Colony With Rubber and Cloves
The article surveys British East Africa detailing its vast size of 978,599 square miles and 7.246 million people, Mombasa as a major city, Nairobi as capital, and the sparsity of Europeans. It notes rubber and sisal cultivation, crops along rivers, highland crops, black wattle industry, and cloves yielding one third of world supply, with limited mineral resources and yearly exports around 15.9 million dollars versus imports of 21.6 million dollars.
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British Africa
Africa
Europe
Great Britain
South African Union
Egypt
British East Africa
East African
Uganda
Zanzibar
Pemba
Mombasa
Nairobi
Zibar
W. B. Aughiabaugh
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