Word: port
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first move would be to save the military stores at Vladivostok, for at this port vast amounts of munitions and other war necessities which were intended for Russia have been accumulating. In all probability the Japs will do no more than push a comparatively short distance into Siberia, possibly to a point just north of Manchuria, and there set up a line of defences as a barrier against any eastward movement on the part of Germany. With the absolute lack of any stability in Russia and the consequent difficulty of moving troops, it would be physically impossible for forces...
...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 of Russia, the abandonment of claims to Spitzbergen and seeking a conference through which it can juggle Norway...
After over three years of inactivity and only nominal participation in the war, Japan proposes a plan of co-operation with the Allies in a seizure of Russian supplies in Eastern Siberia about the sea-port of Vladivostok. Anger and disappointment in the Bolshevik attitude, and the seriousness of their complete collapse before the advancing Germans point to the immediate acceptance of the proposal. Yet from a broad point of view the desirability of such action is much to be doubted...
Among the 56 Y. M. C. A. secretaries who sailed recently for France from an Atlantic port, two University graduates were included. They constitute a part of the army of Red Triangle workers going to Europe almost daily to help the Y. M. C. A. meet the needs of the war. More than 600 have already gone and more will follow until the Association is able to look out for every American soldier wherever he may be stationed...
...regular turn in the submarine watch,--two on and six off,--I can assure you very sincerely that the transports take no end of precautions to evade the 'fish,' as commanders call them. In thirteen days we sighted France, going slowly up a tiny river into a small port, just as dusk settled. Some women were waving American flags on the porches, or rather the door-steps of their tiny white houses, and I felt thrills leaping from my heart to my head that I shall never forget. The spirit of France, her sacrifices and hardships, her maltreatment and loyal...