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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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uld soon undertake and which might astound theworld. The exploit probably produced a more profoundimpression on the English people than any other event ofthe war up to that time. Stories of English people, withfamiliar English names, dwelling in an every-day Englishtown that was like hundreds of other towns, now torn to piecesby shrapnel, their homes burned, their women folk struck downin the streets, and their babies buried in burning wreckage,were declared to be taking hold of the imagination ofpeople as no tales of atrocity, fire, and sword in Belgium;as no shiploads of wounded soldiers and starving refugees,had been able to approach. Nearly a year afterward a German naval officer insistedthat before the cruisers had fired a shot the Moltke gota 6-inch shell from the forts, which struck the battle-cruiserand tore away officers cabins in a lightly protected portion T In an interview with Karl H. von Wiegand, correspondent of the UnitedPress, as published in The World (New Yorlc). 54
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