The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, British, French, German, and Others, Svazek 10Francis Whiting Halsey Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1920 This collection is a general military and diplomatic history of the First World War, from June 1914 to May 1920. Military affairs are the foremost issue, with political and diplomatic events relevant to the war intertwined. The work includes short biographies of important military leaders. |
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Strana 14
... face of the earth . It is an island only one - fifth of a square mile in area , equipped with probably $ 10,000,000 worth of long - range guns , and was believed to be capable of sending to the bottom of the sea any hostile fleet ...
... face of the earth . It is an island only one - fifth of a square mile in area , equipped with probably $ 10,000,000 worth of long - range guns , and was believed to be capable of sending to the bottom of the sea any hostile fleet ...
Strana 23
... face of great odds , appeared thus far on the side of her adversaries . Owing to the superior range of the guns on the Scharn- horst and Gneisenau , the Germans had been able to open fire when six miles away . As the ships closed and ...
... face of great odds , appeared thus far on the side of her adversaries . Owing to the superior range of the guns on the Scharn- horst and Gneisenau , the Germans had been able to open fire when six miles away . As the ships closed and ...
Strana 67
... warfare seamen have to face perils that were unknown to their predecessors. THE BLOWING UP OF THE " QUEEN MARY " THE " LION , " IN THE CENTER AS HIT. 67 WARSHIP BATTLES AND RAIDS ON COMMERCE THE BLOWING UP OF THE "QUEEN MARY"
... warfare seamen have to face perils that were unknown to their predecessors. THE BLOWING UP OF THE " QUEEN MARY " THE " LION , " IN THE CENTER AS HIT. 67 WARSHIP BATTLES AND RAIDS ON COMMERCE THE BLOWING UP OF THE "QUEEN MARY"
Strana 68
... face perils that were unknown to their predecessors . In the old wars , ships were more often captured than sunk . According to a Portsmouth correspondent , 10 the manner in which the Warspite fought the German battle - fleet , when she ...
... face perils that were unknown to their predecessors . In the old wars , ships were more often captured than sunk . According to a Portsmouth correspondent , 10 the manner in which the Warspite fought the German battle - fleet , when she ...
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... faces Galicia , with headquarters at Kief . Of army centers , Warsaw was the most important . There Brusiloff had an opportunity to think in terms of armies , rather than corps , and to handle considerable bodies of troops . He had two ...
... faces Galicia , with headquarters at Kief . Of army centers , Warsaw was the most important . There Brusiloff had an opportunity to think in terms of armies , rather than corps , and to handle considerable bodies of troops . He had two ...
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Strana 404 - Should any Member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13 or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other Members of the League, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations...
Strana 400 - In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another...
Strana 324 - The evacuation of all Russian territory, and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy, and assure her of a 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...
Strana 404 - The members of the League agree, further, that they will mutual!}' support one another in the financial and economic measures which are taken under this article, in order to minimize the loss and inconvenience resulting from the above measures, and that they will mutually support one another in resisting any special measures aimed at one of their number by the covenant-breaking State...
Strana 325 - 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...
Strana 414 - The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
Strana 324 - ... without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among" the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired. 8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done...
Strana 407 - ... to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League. In this connection, the special necessities of the regions devastated during the war of 1914-1918 shall be borne in mind; (f) will endeavor to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease.
Strana 400 - The council may deal at its meetings with any matter within the sphere of action of the league or affecting the peace of the world.
Strana 407 - Amendments to this Covenant will take effect when ratified by the Members of the League whose representatives compose the Council and by a majority of the Members of the League whose Representatives compose the Assembly. No such amendment shall bind any Member of the League which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a Member of the League.