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Engaged. Baroness Marie von Friedlander-Fuld von Kuhlmann, one of the greatest pre-war German heiresses and divorced wife of the Foreign Minister (von Kuhlmann) who signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, to Erich Goldschmidt-Rothschild, scion of the only remaining German branch of the Rothschild family...
...appears that at the time of the 1918 armistice the Allies forced Germany to hand over $62,158,000 which she had extracted from Russia after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. This sum was deposited in the Bank of France, but Senator Villaine says no trace of this money can be found in the public accounts or in the Government's cash books...
...efficient naval officers and men who, after training them, convoyed and guided them across, and could have done such excellent work in hunting submarines. We built nearly four hundred of these little vessels in 18 months, and we sent 170 to such widely scattered places as Plymouth, Queenstown, Brest, Gibraltar, and Corfu. Several enemy submarines now lie at the bottom of the sea as trophies of their offensive power; and on the day that hostilities ceased, the Allies generally recognized that this tiny vessel, with the 'listening devices' which made it so efficient, represented one of the most satisfactory direct...
...these peppery little chasers; some of their exploits were highly dramatic. To cite but a couple of these: The destroyer Parker, in command of Commander Wilson Brown, with a group of three subchasers, located by means of their listening devices, a submarine away out at sea west of Brest and traced her so successfully that the Parker was able to drop a barrage of sixteen depth bombs around her, injuring her so severely that she was obliged to return to port. This was the famous U-53 which sunk our destroyer, the Jacob Jones, and was so successful in attacking...
...Russia. During these months Mr. Humphries was successively employed by the United States Committee of Public Information, the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Humphries has had exceptional opportunities for observing conditions in Central Russia and Siberia, having been present at the signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty, at the disbanding of the famous Constituent Assembly, and at two of the All-Russian Congresses of Soviets, as well as on other important political occasions...