The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war (1919) (14779713874)

Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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fortified cityand is 67 0 miles south of Petrograd and 290 milesnorth of Odessa. The population in 1915 was329,000. It was the cradle of Christianity inRussia. Kieff is the center of the beet sugar andfruit preserving industries. In late days it hasbeen the scene of numerous outbreaks against theJews. Kultur—Includes the whole mass of customs,usages, laws, conventions, institutions, and lan-guage from which the Prussian people derived itsoutlook and in which it expresses the dominantcharacteristic differences distinguishing it fromother peoples. LaFayette Escadrille—This was a body of youngAmerican Aviators who volunteered to aid Francein memory of LaFayettes services to the UnitedStates during the Revolution. It was said thatthey had brought down 30 eiiemy aircraft beforethe United States had yet declared hostilities uponGermany. Upon receiving news of our entry intothe war they were the first to raise the Starsand Stripes on the western front in April, 1917. WAR CYCLOPAEDIA 419
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A 2S0-foot battleship being erected in Union Square, New York City, for a recruiting station. 420 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK Lithuania Republic—Comprises more than oldSamogitia which was on the Baltic border. Lith-uania was overswept by the Germans in 1915 andthey refused to give it up when they made theirtreaties of peace with Russia and Ukrainia.Lithuania has an area of 132,000 square miles.It includes the provinces of Kovno, Vllna, Sulvalli,bordering on Prussia; a part of Russian Polandand parts of Moghilev, Grodno, Minsk, and Vitebskand has an established population of 7,000,000. Lusitania—This was a Cunard Liner, which atabout 2:00 P. M. on May 7th, 1915, on a voyagefrom New York with 1,918 persons on board, wassunk by the German Submarine U-3 9 withoutnotice. This occurred ten miles off Old Head ofKinsale. The boat sunk about twenty-one minutesafter the attack and 1,154 lives were lost includ-ing men, women and children. 114 of these wereAmericans. Germany first claimed the Lusita