Nelson's History of the War, Volume 20T. Nelson, 1917 |
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Africa and Asia airmen Aisne Allies Arras artillery assault August battalions bombardment British advance British attack British success campaign captured carried Carso cess command Corps crest defence destroyer divisions Dobruja east Eastern enemy enemy's Farm Fifth Army fighting took place final objectives Flanders forces France French advance French success Further British gained German German attacks German counter-attacks German success Government ground Halicz Hamlets heavy Hill Hollebeke Houthulst infantry Italian Julien July June Kerenski Kornilov Langemarck Lens machine guns Menin Road Messines miles Moronvilliers Naval Operations October offensive Passchendaele peace Petrograd Polygon Wood position Pozières prisoners Reichstag ridge Riga Rumanian Russian success Salient Second Army Sept Sereth Somme Southern Front Stokhod strong points submarine sunk taken Territorials Thiepval tion trench raids troops Vauxaillon Veldhoek Verdun victory village weather Western Front whole Wytschaete Ypres-Comines Canal Yser Zeebrugge Zillebeke Zonnebeke
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Pagina 241 - I am much indebted to the devotion and work of the consulting surgeons and physicians and to the auxiliary services of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The nursing services, several of whose members have unfortunately lost their lives from hostile air raids, have, as always, devoted themselves with untiring care and zeal to their work of mercy. The excellent organization and administrative work of the medical services as a whole have given me entire satisfaction.
Pagina 133 - ... power by way of peace upon the plan proposed by His Holiness the Pope would, so far as we can see, involve a recuperation of its strength and a renewal of its policy; would make it necessary to create a permanent hostile combination of nations against the German people, who are its instruments; and would result in abandoning the new-born Russia to the intrigue, the manifold subtle interference, and the certain counter-revolution which would be attempted by all the malign influences to which the...
Pagina 9 - I know that it will be said by many, that I might have been more pleasing to the reader, if I had written the story of mine own times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another. To this I answer, that whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Pagina 133 - ... carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established practices and long-cherished principles of international action and honor; which chose its own time for the war; delivered its blow fiercely and suddenly; stopped at no barrier either of law or of mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of blood — not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of innocent women and children also and of the helpless poor; and now stands balked but not defeated,...
Pagina 89 - The low-lying, clayey soil, torn by shells and sodden by rain, turned to a succession of vast muddy pools. The valleys of the choked and overflowing streams were speedily transformed into long stretches of bog, impassable except by a few well-defined tracks, which became marks for the enemy's artillery. To leave these tracks was to risk death by drowning, and in the course of the subsequent fighting on several occasions both men and pack animals were lost in this way.
Pagina 249 - His Holiness in substance proposes that we return to the status quo ante bellum, and that then there can be a general condonation, disarmament, and a concert of nations based upon an acceptance of the principle of arbitration ; that by a similar concert freedom of the seas be established ; and that the territorial claims of France and Italy, the perplexing problems of the Balkan States, and the restitution of Poland be left to such conciliatory adjustments as may be possible in the new temper of...
Pagina 133 - To deal with such a power by way of peace upon the plan proposed by His Holiness the Pope would, so far as we can see, involve a recuperation of its strength and a renewal of its policy; would make it necessary to create a permanent hostile combination of nations against the German people, who are its instruments; and would result in abandoning the new-born Russia to the intrigue...
Pagina 252 - We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting. Without such guarantees treaties of settlement, agreements for disarmament, covenants to set up arbitration in the place of force, territorial adjustments, reconstitutions of small nations, if made with the German Government,...
Pagina 89 - ... leave these tracks was to risk death by drowning, and in the course of the subsequent fighting on several occasions both men and pack animals were lost in this way. In these conditions operations of any magnitude became impossible, and the resumption of our offensive was necessarily postponed until a period of fine weather should allow the ground to recover. As had been the case in the Arras battle, this unavoidable delay in the development of our offensive was of the greatest service to the...
Pagina 251 - The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world, to every people to whom the truth has been permitted to come. They do not need to be stated again. We seek no material advantage of any kind. We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired...