File:Behind the scenes in warring Germany (1915) (14741086776).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,512 × 1,536 pixels, file size: 1.56 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English:

Identifier: behindscenesinwa00foxe (find matches)
Title: Behind the scenes in warring Germany
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Fox, Edward Lyell, b. 1887
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
tillery. And these are code orders of the Belgium army andthe English General Staff knew about them beforewar was declared! And England was unprepared!These books tell me that England was beating the Ger-mans at their own game. Opening one book I saw a table that ran across twoentire pages. This table was filled in the most in-timate details regarding a single village. In one of the road and river reports I read thesewords, Data given by the Belgium government rail-road cabinet on January 1st, 1912. Thus was theEnglish officer assured of its accuracy. These are thefigures that were given for the use of British troops inBelgium. Locomotives 4,233 Coaches 8,001 Baggage cars 2,714 Goods wagons 86,562 Special wagons, (for oil, etc.) 2,418 I think I have quoted enough material from thesewonderful books to show the thoroughness with whichthe British soldiers were ready to fight in Belgium.Now the Germans have shot down many British avia-tors and on one of these men they found a book. It 320
Text Appearing After Image:
IM r I o CJ ^ o u ^ 03 ^ o (—■ V Q s Tc ^ C § w ^ >. c^ ^ i5j ^ S > ^ OJ s ^ f^.^ ^CO ^ o u, f^ O 03 ^ ^ *> < Qs THE SECRET BOOKS OF ENGLAND had the same brown paper cover as the road and riverreports. It was of the same convenient pocket size.It had the same serial letter A for army, and it wasnumbered 1775. I saw this book in the General Staff.It is A report on Belgium south of the line Charle-roi, Namur, Li^ge and Brussels for aviators. I pho-tographed pages 3, 6 and 20 of this book. Page 3which began the information gave some interestinggeneralizations on the whole district. On page 6,dealing with Namur, I read that English aviators weretold that the glaces of Fort dEmine provided unlim-ited open cultivated ground suitable for landing pur-poses. In other words they were advised by the Eng-lish War OflSce that it would be safe to land under thevery guns of this Belgian fort. If they were flying i

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.'
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14741086776/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:behindscenesinwa00foxe
  • bookyear:1915
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Fox__Edward_Lyell__b__1887
  • booksubject:World_War__1914_1918
  • bookpublisher:New_York__McBride__Nast___Company
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:350
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
Flickr posted date
InfoField
28 July 2014
The categories of this image need checking. You can do so here.
  • Please remove redundant categories and try to put this image in the most specific category/categories.
  • You can remove this template by clicking here (or on the first line).



Licensing

[edit]
This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14741086776. It was reviewed on 23 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

23 September 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current07:56, 25 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 07:56, 25 September 20152,512 × 1,536 (1.56 MB)SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs)Bot: Image rotated by 90°
16:54, 23 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 16:54, 23 September 20151,536 × 2,518 (1.54 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': behindscenesinwa00foxe ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fbehindscenesinwa00foxe%2F fin...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Behind_the_scenes_in_warring_Germany_(1915)_(14741086776).jpg&oldid=820238871"