The Little Book of the WarHoughton Mifflin Company, 1918 - 144 страница |
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... buildings have been erected , and in contrast with them there are , high up on a hill overlooking the city , picturesque ruins of the stone walls of a castle seven centuries or more old . One beautiful June day in 1914 , a gentleman and ...
... buildings have been erected , and in contrast with them there are , high up on a hill overlooking the city , picturesque ruins of the stone walls of a castle seven centuries or more old . One beautiful June day in 1914 , a gentleman and ...
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... , the push toward the East , for trade , agriculture , and colonization . She had al- ready , as has been said , secured the right to build a railway from the Bosphorus to Bagdad , and had built ΙΟ THE LITTLE BOOK OF THE WAR.
... , the push toward the East , for trade , agriculture , and colonization . She had al- ready , as has been said , secured the right to build a railway from the Bosphorus to Bagdad , and had built ΙΟ THE LITTLE BOOK OF THE WAR.
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... build a railroad to Bagdad , which should open the way for Germany in the East ; and this she had already obtained ; sec- ond , she wanted Turkey , when " the day " should arrive , to be a well - trained and obedient military ally . On ...
... build a railroad to Bagdad , which should open the way for Germany in the East ; and this she had already obtained ; sec- ond , she wanted Turkey , when " the day " should arrive , to be a well - trained and obedient military ally . On ...
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... building or another , but just as quickly ; and in a few minutes the civilian had become a soldier all ready to march to battle . England , however , had never introduced com- pulsory service . Her troops were made up of men who had ...
... building or another , but just as quickly ; and in a few minutes the civilian had become a soldier all ready to march to battle . England , however , had never introduced com- pulsory service . Her troops were made up of men who had ...
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... building dummy dread- naughts of wood , which lay idly in the harbors while the real dreadnaughts were serenely acting as con- voy for transports . Barbed wire has proved a better defense than stone walls . These can be easily shattered ...
... building dummy dread- naughts of wood , which lay idly in the harbors while the real dreadnaughts were serenely acting as con- voy for transports . Barbed wire has proved a better defense than stone walls . These can be easily shattered ...
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Allies American ammunition Armenia army attack Austria Austria-Hungary Bagdad Balkan battle Beersheba Belgian Belgium Belgrade Black Sea Bolsheviki bombs boys brought Bulgaria Bundesrat called camps Canal captured carry Central Powers commander Constantinople course Czar Czechs Dardanelles declared drive East enemy enemy's England English Erzerum Europe fighting fire forces France French friends Galicia German troops Germany Germany's Government Grand Duke hands held hospitals hour hundred Hungary Italian Front Italy Japan Kaiser Kiao-chau King Kitchener's land large numbers machine guns Marne miles military Minister Montenegro months Mountains munitions nations navy neutral North Sea Paris peace planned promptly Przemysl railroads ready Red Cross Reichstag Riga Rumania Russia sent Serbia shells ships soldiers strait struggle submarine surrender taken territory thousands tion took town treaty Turkey Turkish Turks Ukraine United Venizelos Verdun vessel victory warfare Western Front wire wireless Ypres
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Страница 132 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine...
Страница 89 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be, in fact, nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States...
Страница 132 - ... sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
Страница 133 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Страница 133 - Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea ; and the relations of the several Balkan States to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines .of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan States should be entered into.
Страница 133 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
Страница 133 - Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality...
Страница 132 - Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
Страница 34 - Be invariably courteous, considerate and kind. Never do anything likely to injure or destroy property, and always look upon looting as a disgraceful act. You are sure to meet with a welcome and to be trusted ; your conduct must justify that welcome and that trust. Your duty cannot be done unless your health is sound. So keep constantly on your guard against any excesses.
Страница 132 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.