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Died: Thomas W. Shaw, 91, London, Ont. He was the last survivor of the Light Brigade, which in 1854 made the famous charge on a Russian battery at Balaklava in the Crimean War. He was wounded in the charge and nursed by Florence Nightingale...
...chance of settling the Turkish question appeared during the Crimean War, and again in 1878, but each time the conservative policy of the British Government, dictated by the fear of Russia's gaining Constantinople, preserved the integrity of the Turkish Empire, and perpetuated the almost absolute slavery of her subject people...
...secret diplomacy are closely interlocked. Secrecy always breeds misunderstandings between individuals, and, so far as diplomatic relations between nations are concerned, we are dealing with individuals: the diplomats. The Crimean War is a salient instance in which England went to war because of the individual distrust of her minister to Russia for the Czar Nicholas...
...Ours" is a war play, and the title refers to a regiment in the Crimean was called "Ours" by its members. The play is a humorous one, however, and does not depict the tragic side of war. E. M. Woolley, Yale 1911, who put on "Troilus and Eresida" for the Yale Dramatic Club last spring is in charge of the production...
...many men was shown to have no relation to the economic question in hand. The employment of too many soldiers is also a great evil, because it prevents these men from being productive laborers and makes them consumers of public money. By the example of the Civil, Boer, Crimean, and Napoleonic Wars, conditions are proved to be at least as bad, if not worse, after a war as during it, disproving the theory that one nation gains commercial advantages by destroying the trade of another...