Irish Soldier Recalls German Prison Hell After Mons
M. J. Prendergast, a former Royal Dublin Fusiliers officer, describes his capture near Mons in 1914 and five days of travel without food or drink. He details brutal German treatment at Seine Lager, including lack of medical care for 17 days and no bathing during four months in the camp.
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Chicago
M. J. Prendergast
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Mons
Btrenx
Germany
Red Cross
Seine Lager Bei
Paderborn
The Goal A Vision of Brotherhood Anthem Poem
Katherine Lee Bates The Vigilantes writes of a vision not to be lost where love healing music bridge discords and light reveals foes as friends. Youth find courage and faith in the quest for brotherhood and the Prince of Peace as war drums fade to hopeful singing.
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Katherine Lee Bates
The
Vigilantes
Escape From a Camp Torture and Transfer to Switzerland
A survivor recalls brutal methods at a camp including two poles for tying prisoners then starving them with shadow soup for 48 hours. He describes constant rope suspension, forced long runs in wooden sabots, and transfers from Senne to Limberg with inoculation that spread bronchitis and tuberculosis. He was later deemed near death and exchanged to Switzerland.
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Limberg
Switzerland
Memphis Boy Gets Medal From King George
Horace M. Emery of Memphis Tennessee has been decorated by King George of England for distinguished war service. He was wounded at the Somme and sent to a London hospital where he has recovered. After regaining health he was summoned to the king’s palace, where the monarch shook his hand and pinned the medal on Emery’s coat.
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Memphis
Tenn
Horace M. Emery
George
England
Somme
London
Emery
King’s Palace
Eimery
India
Africa
Great Britain
Ireland
Earl of Derby
France
Lord Bertie
Viscount Milner
J. Austen Chamberlain
David Henderson
Air Council
Trenchard
F. H. Sykes
Struma
Batum
Constantinople
Lake van
Seli
Germany
Flanders
Bailleul
Wulverghem
Wytschaete
Teutons
Messines
Bolo Pasha
Vincennes
Sergeant Nettie McPherson Sparks Enlistment Rush
In Chicago Sergeant Nettie McPherson leads a British recruiting drive at local posts. Her Gordon Highlanders attire and pipe playing ignite enthusiasm as men rush to enlist, with McPherson described as the only US recruiting officer for Britain.
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United States
Chicago
Nettie McPherson
Gordon Highlanders
Nettie
Sergeant McPherson
What Will You Name Your War Garden
Winifred Black urges children to name their back yard plots after soldiers and heroes. The piece champions patriotic gardening for Uncle Sam, blending personal memory with calls to hard work and letters from the front. It invites every child to pick a fitting garden name like Sam Brown and to write home about their progress.
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Winifred Black
Department of the Interior
United States
Garden Army
Little Sister
Big Brother
Russia
Uncle Sam
Sam Brown
France
Soldier bars dog from boy owner’s side at 400 mile distance
A soldier at Camp Lee refused to permit a common yellow dog owned by Hugh McQuain of Indian Fork to stay by the boy’s side. The dog vanished for three weeks then a letter arrived saying the dog turned up at Camp Lee nearly 400 miles away. Also noted, fifteen women now comprise the St. Louis police department.
World News Briefs From Across The South And Europe
From Albany reports on local option votes 17 against saloon 16 in favour. Secretary McAdoo declares will not stop the war. British and French lines hold. American engineers build field railways in France. Austria Hungary faces crisis. U S ships sunk. espionage and propaganda fears rise.
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Albany
N. Y
McAdoo
Globe, Brig
Berlin
Department of the Southeast
United States Army
Southeastern Department
Charleston
S. C
Springfield
Alsace-Lorraine
Louis Aubert
French High Commission
France
Washington
Congress
Emerson
Ohio
Luis de Shelly
Marquis Gonzales
United States District Attorney
New York City
Atlanta
Collinsville
Okla
Ill
Council of Defense
Carey
Austria- Hungary
Switzerland
Budapest
Austria
A. A. Raven
J. W. Elwell & Co
Navy Department
Tokio
Japan
Vladivostok
Russia
Hazebrouck
Ypres
Foch
White House
Europe
German Drive Against Americans Fails In Flanders Front
Berlin claims a major push against American lines near Leidsprey was checked after heavy combat. American and French troops repelled waves of German attacks despite superior numbers, retaking villages and terrain as both sides suffered heavy losses.
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Berlin
Leidheprey
Leidsprey
Southern California Quake Ruins Cities Heme and San Jacinto
A major earthquake hit southern California causing widespread destruction from Hemet to San Jacinto and Santa Monica. One man, Frank E. Darnell, died in Santa Monica and a woman was hurt by falling from a second story window in San Jacinto. Several others injured. three miners trapped in a Hemet magnesite mine tunnel were believed to be safe and would be rescued by morning.
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Los Angeles
Cal
California
Arizona
Utah
Heme
San Jacinto
Riverside
Frank E. Darnell
Santa Monica
Hemet
Savael
Long Range Shelling Kills and Injures in Paris
Paris suffers ongoing bombardment with long range shells after March events. Reported totals show 118 killed and 230 injured, with earlier shelling from January 27, 1871 causing additional casualties.
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Paris
American ships 65 and Japanese steamer plan
Negotiations between the American ambassador to Japan and the Japanese government concluded. Sixty six steamers in a 514000 ton fleet will be delivered to the United States for war use. Deliveries are scheduled from April to June 1919.
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Tokio
Roland
Morris
Amerbassador
Japan
Sore
Han O”ays
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Warwicks
M. J. Pendergast
Brotherhood
King of Great Britain
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St. Louis
New Zealand Tunnelling Company
the News OF the South
Southland
Baron Burian
Baron Burton
Fuel Administration
Lorraine
No Man's Land
Railroad Administration
War Department
Department of Commerce
Shipping Board
Senate Military Committee
Army
Navy
Fort McPherson
Channel
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson
Frederick P. Kepple
Columbia University
Senate
Italy
Belgium
Portugal
la Bassee Canal
Mig
Amer
German High Command
Americay
Jaim
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