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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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three women andfive children on board, three men were wounded. On July 22 word came that the giant White Star linerJusticia had been torpedoed and sunk. The Justicia wasformerly the Dutch steamer Statendam, taken over by theBritish Governmenton the stocks at Belfast, when nearingcompletion. She was of 32,120 tons gross. Four hundred ofthe crew of the Justicia (were landed at an Irish port. Theliner was sunk after a twenty-four-hour fight with sub-marines. The first torpedo struck the engine-room and theship stopt. Several other torpedoes were fired, but onlytwo of the missiles were effective. Not even the heavy score made by C-boats in sinking theJusticia could do away with the fact of German submarinefailure as a whole. The Z7-boats that had appeared offthe New Jersey and Massachusetts coasts could be inter-preted only as a sign of irritation in consciousness of de-feat. The world had witnessed one long series of gross Ger-man miscalculations which would much sooner have effected 384
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-^ a O i ^ O « S S = bo 9, ft^-s O 30I— rt 1-4 380 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA Germanys ruin except for one or two facts concerning whichthe German war-makers apparently did not make miscalcu-lations—their own technical skill in making war, and morethan that, the infinite patience of the German people withtheir military masters. They miscalculated as to Belgium;they miscalculated as to Great Britain; they miscalculatedas to the soul of France; they miscalculated the /7-boat waras to what that could do, and they miscalculated as toAmerica. In the end the record became more complete, foreven the infinite devotion, submissiveness, and credulity ofthe German people at last turned out a miscalculation, andthe military caste was face to face with a revolution. By the end of August, 1918, it was clear that the sub-m:.rine situation had permanently changed. The barriererected against it in the English Channel had become soformidable that activities came to an end. Operations fr

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