THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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Russian men who were of military age but were exempt had to pay a tax.

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And so the plot thickens. The US , up to a hundred years ago today, was selling arms, food, submarines and anything else to both sides , although mainly to the Allies. Both sides attempted to interdict arms and ammo shipments and other things useful in war. There was the flag issue with the British ships , particularly of Cunard passenger ships flying the American flag in waters nearing England that caused a little ruffle in the US. The international commerce heat was turned up by the Germans against supplies getting to Britain and then, a hundred years ago today, turned up more by the British in turn. No more food, nor anything else, for mainland Europe from the US to be allowed by the British ... the US do gooder campaigns to feed and cloth the starving people of war torn Belgium got a crimp in it. And... looks like...more dramatically.... the trade merchants in the US found the holes in their pockets getting larger as well. The US draws closer to recognizing that being neutral is a loosing game in a world war.

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Say....what? I got a feeling freedom of speech and Je suis Charlie wasn't part of the argument before the court marshal passed sentence.

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A hundred years ago today. The Lusitania and that flag business is still in the news.

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And elsewhere a hundred years ago there was an explosion in a DuPont munition plant. The US neutrality was not being called into question by the news.


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Clarence W . Barron , the founder of the Wall Street Journal and leading Wall Street journalist of the time made a speech a hundred years ago about banking and what he thought about learning from the Europeans. He also had an idea about how the US fit into the war that was playing havoc with banking. His crystal ball was obviously as clouded as modern day Wall Street factotum's today.

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They thought this was news. Thirty years later and there could have been the same headline.....only it wasn't a battleship but the city.

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French make official report of the war up until now. The story reads like a description of an extended, but well calculated, retreat. It ends suddenly with a statement about how all the troops were now in place for a great attack. And... most of the problem was the British on the retreat movements not moving in step with the French. And, truthfully, it was admitted that some French leaders made serious mistakes and had been relieved and replaced and so now... everything was looking rosy.



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