Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...comment of Premier Clemenceau's paper, L'Homme Libre, is doubtless M. Clemenceau's own, and it goes to the heart of the terrible matter on the Marne. It was impossible to defend the north, the coast, and Paris with equal strength. The coast, for the most essential strategic reasons of the Alliance, had to be defended at all costs. The result was that the thinly held line of the Alone was broken through by a German force which outnumbered the British and French on that line...
Lieutenant Franklin T. Ingraham '14, U. S. A., C. A. C., last week died of pneumonia in this country just after the completion of his training course and after his being commissioned provisional second lieutenant in the U. S. Coast Artillery. He was to have been detached to the coast defences of Chesapeake Bay, Fortress Monroe...
...weeks than in the whole previous period of the war, finally forcing out of office a cabinet at Madrid which was doing its best to remain neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching out almost to the Pole, demanding...
...121st Infantry, U. S. A. William Hague '04, died of pneumonia in France, January, 1918, while a lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers, A. E. F. Wainwright Merrill uC '16, died from wounds received in action in France, November 6, 1917. Phillips W. Page '09, drowned off coast of England, December 17, 1917, while an ensign in the U. S. N. R. F. Henry B. Palmer '10, died of pneumonia, November 13, 1917, while in the French Aviation Service. Philip C. Starr '14, killed in action, February, 1918, while a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers of the British Army
...Emergency Hospital Unit has been established by Massachusetts to meet all necessities for hospital work arising from sources within the state such as fires, explosions and wrecks, or other maritime accidents taking place off the coast. The personnel of the unit is under the direct charge of Lieutenant Colonel Harold Giddings, U. S. M. R. C., who has been responsible for the erection of the up-to-date hospital within the drill hall of the Commonwealth Armory...