World's War Events $v Volume 3: Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
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World's War Events $v Volume 3: Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
World War, 1914-1918
_Petrolite_, sunk, II, 282
Piave, Italians stand on, III, 99-100
Picardy, Battle of, III, 153-169;
fighting in Lens-Arras sector, III, 167;
French extend to join British at the Oise. III, 163;
German infantry advances, III, 162;
Germans bring divisions from Russia, III, 156;
Germans checked at Villers-Bretonneux, III, 164;
Germans take Albert, II, 164;
Germans take Messines Ridge, III, 167-168;
German objectives in the North, III, 168;
Montdidier falls, III, 164;
number of German divisions, III, 162;
opens, III, 153;
plan to drive through Amiens, III, 162;
Vimy and Notre Dame de Lorette, III, 166;
why attack was made here, III, 159-162
Plec Line, taken, III, 77
Plunkett, Rear Admiral, commands railway battery, III, 285-286
Poland, refugees from, II, 115
_President Lincoln_, torpedoed, III, 290-296
Press, German opinion misled, I, 23-24;
public opinion on peaceful settlement I, 15;
Serajevo tragedy, I, 10;
warning in New York papers, I, 284
Prince Heinrich Hill, I, 208-211
Pringle, Captain, commands destroyers at Queenstown, III, 276
Proclamation of War, II, 238-243
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Radio, Bordeaux station, III, 285
Radoslavov, Premier of Bulgaria, resigns, III, 178
Railways, Balkan, II, 179;
Berlin to Bagdad, I, 129;
British and Belgian routes in Africa, III, 44;
in Africa, III, 43-44;
in Asia Minor, II, 179
Ramscapelle, destruction of, I, 117-118;
recaptured, I, 103
Rawlinson, General, commands Fourth Army at the Somme, II, 75;
commended by Haig, II, 83
Read, Major General, commands Second Corps, III, 251
Red Cross, establishes hospital bases, II, 341
Refugees, I, 46; II, 114-123
Regular Army, II, 318
Relief ships, attacks on, II, 292
Retreat of Allies, I, 62-72
Rheims, capture of, I, 82
Robertson, General, cited, I, 72
Rodgers, Rear Admiral, commands Division Six, III, 276
Rodman, Rear Admiral, commands Battleship Division Nine, III, 278
Roubaix, France, under German rule, II, 159
Rovuma River, III, 37
Rumania, Allied plan for operation in, II, 133;
army well drilled, II, 140;
danger in entering war, II, 124;
failure of defense in Dobrudia, II, 134
Rumania, King of, a Hohenzollern, II, 126;
personality, II, 126-127;
views, II, 127-131
Rumanians, withdraw from Transylvania, II, 134
Russia, American troops in, III, 268;
declares war on Austria, I, 21-23;
defends Serbia, I, 14;
desires control of Constantinople, I, 126-127;
general mobilization, I, 38;
interests in Persia, II, 175-176;
likely to defend Serbia, I, 14;
partial mobilisation, I, 24-25;
receives ultimatum, I, 34-35;
revolution in, II, 258-270
Russian Army, effect of collapse on Italian situation, III, 74
Russian Campaign, 1916, II, 68;
in Caucasia, II, 183-186
Russian Refugees, children emaciated, II, 115;
in freight train in Moscow, II, 114-116;
number of, II, 116-117
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