The Great Events of the Great War: A Comprehensive and Readable Source Record of the World's Great War, Emphasizing the More Important Events, and Presenting These as Complete Narratives in the Actual Words of the Chief Officials and Most Eminent Leaders ... Presenting Documents from Government Archives and Other Authoritative Sources, with Outline Narratives, Indices, Chronologies, and Courses of Reading on Sociological Movements and Individual National Activities, Volumen4Charles Francis Horne, Walter Forward Austin National alumni, 1923 |
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Página xiv
... continued with but little apparent effort in the East , and the way was prepared for the complete breakdown of Russia in the fol- lowing year . Thus an impartial estimate of what this somber year meant to the world might best be summed ...
... continued with but little apparent effort in the East , and the way was prepared for the complete breakdown of Russia in the fol- lowing year . Thus an impartial estimate of what this somber year meant to the world might best be summed ...
Página xiv
... continued with but little apparent effort in the East , and the way was prepared for the complete breakdown of Russia in the fol- lowing year . Thus an impartial estimate of what this somber year meant to the world might best be summed ...
... continued with but little apparent effort in the East , and the way was prepared for the complete breakdown of Russia in the fol- lowing year . Thus an impartial estimate of what this somber year meant to the world might best be summed ...
Página xxii
... continued . On August 9th the city of Gorizia , the center of the Austrian defense , was carried in a great as- sault.2 The Austrians were driven from one steep moun- tain summit after another . In the end , however , their nat- ural ...
... continued . On August 9th the city of Gorizia , the center of the Austrian defense , was carried in a great as- sault.2 The Austrians were driven from one steep moun- tain summit after another . In the end , however , their nat- ural ...
Página xxiii
... continued all through the summer . There was the usual advance at first , before the Germans gathered in sufficient numbers to resist . Then came the old deadlock . Every foot of ground was fought for . A German cartoon of the time ...
... continued all through the summer . There was the usual advance at first , before the Germans gathered in sufficient numbers to resist . Then came the old deadlock . Every foot of ground was fought for . A German cartoon of the time ...
Página xxiv
... continued to exact its heavy toll of lives all through the autumn . But now it was the French who tri umphantly attacked the wearied Teutons . In a series of dashing assaults the French won back almost all the ground they had lost in ...
... continued to exact its heavy toll of lives all through the autumn . But now it was the French who tri umphantly attacked the wearied Teutons . In a series of dashing assaults the French won back almost all the ground they had lost in ...
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Página 116 - In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty: six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare and of its exaltation among the nations.
Página 115 - IRISHMEN and IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Página 101 - But (it added) neutrals can not expect that Germany, forced to fight for her existence, shall, for the sake of neutral interest, restrict the use of an effective weapon if her enemy is permitted to continue to apply at will methods of warfare violating the rules of international law. Such a demand would be incompatible with the character of neutrality, and the German Government is convinced that the Government of the United States does not think of making such a demand, knowing that the Government...
Página 115 - WE DECLARE the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
Página 90 - Government to prosecute relentless and indiscriminate warfare against vessels of commerce by the use of submarines without regard to what the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless...
Página 92 - States might find it possible to hope that the officer who was responsible for that act had wilfully violated his orders or had been criminally negligent in taking none of the precautions they prescribed, and that the ends of justice might be satisfied by imposing upon him an adequate punishment, coupled with a formal disavowal of the act and payment of a suitable indemnity by the Imperial Government. But, though the attack upon the Sussex...
Página 91 - A careful, detailed, and scrupulously | impartial investigation by naval and military officers of the United States has conclusively established the fact that the Sussex was torpedoed without warning or summons | to surrender, and that the torpedo by which she was struck was of German manufacture.
Página 116 - The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens...
Página 116 - Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrage of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
Página 95 - If it is still the purpose of the Imperial Government to prosecute relentless and indiscriminate warfare against vessels of commerce by the use of submarines without regard to what the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue.