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Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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were brought on the evening of thesame day. The British took every precau-tion to guard against treachery, and anadequate force of ships was present, be- sides sea planes, observation balloons andan airship. The twenty German subma-rines were accompanied by two Geraiandestroyers, the Tibania and the Sierra Zen-tana, which were assigned to take the sub-marine crews back to Germany after thesurrender. All the submarines were on the surfacewith their hatches open and their crewsstanding on deck. The largest carried two5.9 inch guns; twenty-three officers andmen were counted on her deck. The craftwas estimated to be nearly 300 feet inlength. Its numlier had been painted out.Each German submarine commander atthe transfer was required to sign a dec-laration to the effect that his vessel wasin running order; that its periscope was in-tact ; that its torpedoes were unloaded and
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German prisoners.These prisoners were taken by Americans on the first day of the assault on the St. Mihiel salient. 401 402 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK that its torpedo heads were safe. Ordershad been issued forbidding any demon-stration and these instructions were obeyedto the letter. There was complete silenceas the submarines surrendered and as thecrews were transferred. In the presence of Sir Eric Geddes, firstlord of the Admiralty, twenty-eight moreGerman U boats surrendered November24. This was the most imposing flotilla ofits kind to haul down the German flag. Itincluded several very large submarines andfour of the cruiser type, one being nearly350 feet in length. The noted cruiser submarine Deutsch-land U-153 was among the number. It car-ried two American officers who had beenrescued from the American army cargoship Ticonderoga, torpedoed on September30, 1918. The officers were taken to Kielby the Deutsehland, which was returningfrom a three months cruise in Americanwaters, and were

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