THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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What America was concerned about a hundred years ago. A cartoon that put in all the headlines. That Arabic was a British ship that was in the business of delivering war supplies to England. It was sunk on a voyage back to the US and there were less than 50 US citizens on board. A few of them perished. The to do was about the sub sank the ship with no fair warning. And later the sub was reported sunk in turn.

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HOLD THE PRESSES! Maybe the Arabic wasn't sunk by a German sub. Maybe it was a mine. The papers were full of it a hundred years ago in the US.

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But then... the rest of the story:

On 19 August 1915 U-24 sank the Arabic, outward bound for the USA, 50 mi (80 km) south of Kinsale. Arabic was zigzagging at the time, and the commander of U-24 said that he thought she was trying to ram his submarine. He fired a single torpedo which struck the liner aft, and she sank within 10 minutes, killing 44 passengers and crew, 3 of whom were American. On 22 August US President Wilson's press officer issued a statement to the effect that the White House staff was speculating on what to do if the Arabic investigation indicated that there had been a deliberate German attack. If true, there was speculation that the US would sever relations with Germany

But it did lead to a new orders to submarines by the Kaiser. They had to give warning to ships obviously carrying passengers...at least for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arabic_(1902)

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The Wizard of Menlo Park takes a look into his crystal ball a hundred years ago. This was only months after Wilson named him to an advisory board to the Navy on preparedness.

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General John J. Pershing. The General that would lead the American Expeditionary force into the 1st World War had some bad news a hundred years ago today. He was in command of troops at El Paso Texas at the time.

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Headline a hundred years ago. Wasn't a good day for the British according to this newspaper in bold type or in the lesser story. Not only were they spending men in the war but the Pound Sterling was getting weaker against the dollar. However... now days one English pound is exchanged for $1.54 in US currency.

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This time a hundred years ago various people were trying to drum up some military preparedness with some camps of instruction for young business men and college students. One nationally promoted camp brought a number of important people of the day and Teddy made war like speeches to encourage them. But meanwhile one famous industrialist had a different slant on things. Later he organized a peace expedition to Europe.

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Britain hits upon new idea to get more men in uniform. The Nag them until they can't take it any more plan.

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The costs mount up fighting the Turks. Notice how they take note of the officer dead and wounded as different from the enlisted men.

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What's the alphabet behind his name stand for?

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-9/ And what does the last sentence mean?

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K.C.V.O. - Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

K.C.B. - Knight Commander of the Bath

D.S.O. - Distinguished Service Order


A private for 10 years.....ouch, even I did better than that............

The last sentence probably is missing something, should be Sandhurst.
Maybe they are clever and cunning linguists.......