PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR1918 |
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action advance Aisne Allies American Antwerp arms artillery attack Austria-Hungary Austrian BATTLE CRUISERS battleships began Belgian Belgium boats bombardment Britain British campaign capture command Commerce with Germany corps Czar Dardanelles Date of entering declared defense destroyers dreadnoughts East Prussia Emden enemy enemy's England field fighting fire Flanders flank fleet force fortress France French Galicia German army Gorizia Greatest exports heavy held Hindenburg infantry invaders Italian Italy Kaiser Kluck land loss machine guns March Marne menace ment military months munitions Namur nation naval navy neutral North Sea officers Paris passed peace Petrograd ports pre-dreadnoughts President prisoners Przemysl raids Reason for entering reënforcements Republic retreat Rheims River Russian seemed Serbia shells ships sian soldiers squadron square miles submarine taken territory Teutonic tion torpedo town troops Turkish Turks Underwood & Underwood United Verdun victory Warsaw western front wounded Ypres
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Страница 280 - We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed...
Страница 280 - Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggression, carried, it may be, from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of courts or behind carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning all the nation's affairs.
Страница 283 - President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Страница 267 - The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
Страница 275 - Congress to ask that authority be given me to use any means that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and our people in the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the high seas.
Страница 283 - Government has committed repeated acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Страница 275 - ... that they will indeed pay no regard to the ancient friendship between their people and our own or to the solemn obligations which have been exchanged between them and destroy American ships and take the lives of American citizens in the wilful prosecution of the ruthless naval programme they have announced their intention to adopt. Only actual overt acts on their part can make me believe it even now.
Страница 11 - The whole world sprang to arms. On the head of Frederic is all the blood which was shed in a war which raged during many years and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men. fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped...
Страница 270 - Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether.
Страница 11 - We are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law. Our troops have occupied Luxemburg and perhaps are already on Belgian soil. Gentlemen, that is contrary to the dictates of international law. It is true that the French Government has declared...