THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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Post by Niner » Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:45 pm

A hundred years ago today it was Thursday November 29, 1917.... and the third Thursday of the month: Thanksgiving.

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Post by Niner » Sun Dec 03, 2017 7:08 pm

This war is starting to cost real money in 1917....and not exactly Trump change in 2017.

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Post by Niner » Thu Dec 07, 2017 3:21 pm

In Halifax Nova Scotia there was a big accident. One ship runs into a loaded munitions ship and thousands die from the resulting explosion.

A century afterward it is remembered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/worl ... r-one.html

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Post by Niner » Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:58 pm

In the news today...2017.... Trump is in trouble because he is moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem and Muslims don't like it because it looks like, correctly, that the US isn't neutral in the present religious war and property right dispute. Israel is divided between Jews and "Palestinians" now days from a political point of view, as we all hear regularly. In WWI Britain took Jerusalem from the Turks a hundred years ago today and it was announced in US newspapers. The news then didn't mention any Jews or Palestinians as having any say in who is running things. Just Turks as being dispossessed by the British. Guess we couldn't give it back to the Turks and let them worry about it now days....... since they had it for 673 years previous to WWI they should have some claim. Could we?

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Post by Niner » Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:01 am

Arms chief is grilled by Congress on the machine gun problem. Borrowing them from Mexico and France is embarrassing.

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Post by Niner » Fri Dec 15, 2017 1:49 pm

The guy in the above post that was putting the blame on the Secretary of War could have filled the machine gun need with the Lewis gun. The inventor, an American, was turned down by the general being grilled by the Congressional Committee well before the US entered the war and he had moved to Belgium before the war and then to England where thousands of his design were made and being made in 1917. It was also being made by Savage arms in the US and supplied to Canadian and other troops at that time. The Browning design didn't get to the war until September of 1918 and saw little action. And....according to one report, US Marines arriving in France with Lewis guns had them taken away and were supplied with the sadly unreliable French Chauchat .

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Post by DuncaninFrance » Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:11 pm

Says it all really Robert.........The American military were woefully unprepared for war on the scale of the Great War even though they had been 'supporting' the Allies. Unfortunately the actual moves made toward full involvement seem, from your paper posts, to have been made by poorly informed politicians.........
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Post by Niner » Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:03 am

The purification process begins. The noble do not drink.God would not approve when we are about killing Germans in his name. The 18th amendment gets it's start only prolonged by states ratification until the end of 1919.

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Post by Niner » Tue Dec 19, 2017 1:45 pm

"T'is the season to be jolly". Well, not if it involves booze and you are an officer drinking with enlisted men.

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