A Who's Who Of Europe's War Leaders And Joffre
A detailed sketch of war leaders across Europe focusing on General Joseph Joffre the youngest French generalissimo and the senior figures commanding French British Russian and Austrian German forces. The piece profiles personalities including Admiral Boue de la Peyrere Sir John Jellicoe Field Marshal Kitchener Sir John French General Sukomlinov Grand Duke Nicholas and Archduke Frederick with notes on ranks roles and reputations.
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Europe
F. Cunliffe-Owen
New York Sun
France
England
Austria
Russia
Germany
Joseph Joffre
Joffre
Boue de la Peyrere
United States
Jamestown
Admiralty Staff
Marine
Admiral Courbet
Sir John French
Sir John
Navy
Lord Kitchener
Cronje
Kitchener
Sukomlinov
Nicholas Nicholasovitch
St. Petersburg
War Department
Sukomlinoff
Kiev
Nicholas Nicholaievitch
German War Department
Berlin
Archduke Frederick
Francis Joseph
Spain
Duchy of Teschen
Archduke Albert
Custozza
Archduke Leopold Salvator
Archduke Eugene
Teutonic Order
Landwehr
Hungary
Conrad von Hoetzendorf
von Moltke
Pledge to Poles a Master Stroke
A historical article outlines Russia promisingPoles loyal to the Slav cause favorable treatment and potential autonomy if war with Germany or Austria breaks out. It traces Polish policy shifts from Prussia´s 1772 annexation, Vienna accords, to intensified Germanization from 1885 onward including bans on Polish in schools and public meetings by 1908.
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Russia
Poland
Russian
Germany
Europe
Austria
Francis Joseph
Prussia
Baron von Stein
Posen
Prussian Landtag
Bismarck
Amazon Army of 150000 Englishwomen Planned
Lady Cook launches a campaign to raise 150000 Englishwomen trained and armed like regular soldiers within three months. She envisions khaki uniforms and knee length skirts and says willing to die on the battlefield to defend homes. She suggests Queen Anne of Portugal and Mrs. Pankhurst as potential generals.
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Lady Cook
Cook
Queen Anne Ne
Portugal
Mrs. Pankhurst
Relic of Indian Mythology Totem Pole Gift to Railway Official
A totem pole heirloom from Chief Koyakuk of the Haida tribe was installed at the Great Northern office in New York. The pole, tied to four Alaska tribes and their symbols, narrates ancestral floods and displacement, linking families through shared totemic symbols across distant origins.
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Great Northern Railway
Broadway
New York
Lounsbery
Koyakuk
Lackshkeak
Alaska
War and Murder in Uniform A Critical View
A Detroit Free Press poem condemns war's glamour and patriotism as deceit. It contrasts the lure of battle with the cost of lives lost to selfish motives, urging an end to senseless killing and questioning glorified notions of sacrifice.
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Detroit
Carranza Leads Mexican Revolt to Restore Constitutional Rule
Review of the 1913 to 1914 Mexican revolt begun after Madero's death, led by Venustiano Carranza. Highlights include Huerta's rise, defeats at Durango and Zacatecas, Vera Cruz, Tampico, San Luis Potosi, Guadalajara, and the fall of Mexico City as Carranza presses to power with Carbajal resigning.
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Mexico
Venustiano Carranza
Francisco Carbajal
Carranza
Madero
Felix Diaz
Maderos
Mexico City
Victoriano Huerta
Huerta
Suarez
Sonora
Washington
United States
Empaleme
Guaymas
Constitutionalists
Durango
Vera Cruz
Tampico
Zacatecas
San Luis Potosi
Guadalajara
Carbajal
Bloody Fields of Haelen Die At Grim Battlefield Trench
Brussels dispatch describes Diest Haelen ground where 1,200 Germans lie buried in a three mile battleground. Peasants turn soil as harvest hopes fade amid graves of Belgians and horses. Germans show bent lances while Belgian bamboo weapons prove tougher in combat.
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Brussels
London Daily News
Diest
Haelen
Humane war and the future of battlefield medicine
Army surgeons quoted by the New York Tribune say modern methods will keep cripples to a minimum and disease deaths down. Advancements in bullets, velocity, and surgical care reduce fatal wounds, with vaccination and clean water fighting camp diseases like typhoid and dysentery.
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United States Army
New York Tribune
Aliens Not Bound to Military Service in U S
Secretary Bryan clarifies that naturalized citizens and foreign residents are not party to treaties forcing return for military service. No mechanism exists to compel service while they reside in the United States. Canadian volunteers must obtain written consent of their wives to join active service.
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Bryan
United States
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Paris
Formosa
Tonkin
West Africa
Bonnier
Timbuktu
Central Africa
Madagascar
Marquis de Castelnau
Napoleon III
Sedan
Pau
Froeschviller
Hubert Lyautey
Morocco
Mediterranean
China
Jellicoe
Sir John Jellicoe
Admiralty
Alexandria
Tel-el-Kebir
Peking
Earl Kitchener of Khartum
Sudan
Omdurman
India
Egypt
Atlantic
Utser
Julius
Helmuth von Moltke
General von Hoetzendorf
Grand Duke
Nicholas
General Helmuth von Moltke
Czar
Great Britain
Belgium
Montenegro
Servia
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