Bolivia's City of Silence in Santa Cruz De La Sierra
A travel sketch by Harry A. Franck describes Santa Cruz De La Sierra as a quiet tropical Bolivian city at 1,500 feet, with 19,000 residents including 11,000 women, lacking modern industry but boasting ice, maize grinding, and lumber sawmills. Mail from January 7 reached New York on March 11. New Year's in the British Navy is marked by 16 bells at midnight with the youngest officer striking the bell and the youngest boy echoing by hammering the anvil.
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Bolivia
New York
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Harry A. Franck
Promoting Liberty Bonds as Future Loyal Patriot Message
A persuasive exhortation urges parents to give children an interest in the future through Liberty Bonds. It argues bonds symbolize fathers’ planning sacrifice and investment, making sons proud during America’s day of need and proving themselves true American patriots.
Fighting resumes in gritigal sector amid German gains
Reports from the front say heavy fighting resumes along the western salient with German gains near Hamel and the Luce Avre triangle. Germans moving heavy guns and new divisions despite rain and logistics hampered by mined roads and reorganizing shattered units.
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Picardy
Amiens
Hamel
Luce Anad Avre
Teutons
Avyette
Arras
London
Moreuill
Oise
Menin Road
Passchendaele
Ypres
Nine Billion Dollar Yearly War Cost Report
Washington reports that the United States spends about nine billion dollars annually on war. More than half funds go to allied loans, over a third to army and military establishments, one tenth to the navy, and one fifteenth to shipbuilding. Taxation covers only about one sixth. the rest comes from Liberty bonds and indebtedness certificates. British costs remain higher and official estimates were previously larger. Slow shipbuilding and delayed war supplies explain the expense gap.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Von Kuehlmann to Deliver Important Speech
At a conference at German headquarters officials discuss Count Czernin and the plan for Dr. Richard von Kühlmann to make an important speech at his earliest opportunity. The gathering included the emperor, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, and General von DudenDorff. Czernin is expected in Berlin and at the head- quarters.
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Amsterdam
von Hindenburg
General von Dudendorff
Richard F. von Kuehlmann
Count Czernin
von Kuehlmann
Berlin
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Liberty Bond
Welborne Furniture Company
America
Mimi
Moffit Furnishing CO
Gritigal Sector
Erzerwin
von Kuehlmann Soqoon
Eli
Tians
C.C. Muse & CO
France
Home Banking Company
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