Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to Dr. Mary Merrit Crawford of Brooklyn, N. Y., for her letters regarding the Paris hospital patients, to the New York Times for the article, "Three Months in the Trenches," by Bert Hall, and for other letters; and to the New York Sun...
"We decorated the wards and halls with holly and mistletoe, which grows in great abundance and richness here in France. We had the tree all lighted by electric bulbs downstairs,...
2. Part 2In some cases they got information from French villagers whom they had bought before they retreated. I saw one such case myself. We were bivouacked in a ruined village, and a lo...
1. Part 1Our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to Dr. Mary Merrit Crawford of Brooklyn, N. Y., for her letters regarding the Paris hospital patients, to the New York Times for the a...
7. Part 7"I had the happiness of speaking to the Kaiser in former years, and he has not altered. Latterly I have met him frequently, and I can only say that he has lost nothing of his fr...
6. Part 6"The Germans also conceal the losses which they sustained in the November fighting, although witnesses state never has a field of battle presented such a sight as on the roads o...
8. Part 8The Germans are suffering intensely from the cold. In every town which they occupied they carried off all the available winter clothing, furs, sheepskins and leather coats. At L...
4. Part 4What naval warfare seems like to the "black squad" imprisoned in the engineroom is described by an engineer of the _Laurel_, who went through the "scrap" off Heligoland. Writing...
5. Part 5"The _Sydney_ then put up a signal to surrender, but as all on deck except three had been killed this was not done. The _Sydney_ accordingly gave her two more broadsides as she...