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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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ckade conditions set upby the allied and associated powers are to remainunchanged, and all German merchant ships found atsea are to remain liable to capture. XXVII. All naval aircraft are to be concentratedand immobilized in German bases to be specified bythe Allies and the United States of America. ■4^ % L i 4 i * f ■ - ft ■ ■ » A big 16-inch howitzer.The U. S. proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md., are the largest in the world, and all the big Americanguns are tried out there. Photo shows a 16-inch howitzer, Model E, mounted on a railroad car. Thisgun has an oil and spring recoil mechanism with a maximum length of recoil of 48 inches. It may be firedoff from a specially laid emplacement in the road bed, upon which it is rigidly fastened, by means ofwhich a maximum elevation of 65° may be obtained. Mounted on railroad car, the gun and mountingweigh 300,000 pounds. The projectile fired weighs about 1,650 pounds at a range of approximately 24,000yards. AMERICAS PART IN THE WAR 303
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304 THE PEOPLES WAE BOOK XXVIII. In evacuating the Belgian coasts andports, Germany shall abandon all merchant ships,tugs, lighters, cranes and all other harbor materials,all materials for inland navigation, all aircraft andall materials and stores, all arms and armamentsand all stores and apparatus of all kinds. XXIX. Ail Black Sea ports are to be evacuatedby Germany: all Russian war vessels of all descrip-tions seized by Germany in the Black Sea are to behanded over to the Allies and the United States ofAmerica; all neutral merchant vessels seized are tobe released; all warlike and other materials of allkinds seized in those pons are to be returned andGerman materials as specified in Clause Twenty-eightare to be abandoned. XXX. All merchant vessels in German handsbelonging to the allied and associated powers are tobe restored in ports to be specified by the Allies andthe United States of America without reciprocity. XXXI. No destruction of ships or of materialsto be permitted before

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