Tag Archive for prisoners of war

RUSSIAN ARMY IN FULL RETREAT

Discontent Spreading Among Russian Soldiers; Germans Seize More Than 1.4 Million Prisoners. Outbreak of Typhus Special to The Great War Project (15-17 August) Just as Turkish troops are inflicting great losses on the British and Allied forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula in northwest Turkey, Germany is busy making great gains against the Russians on the…

THE U.S. LEANS TOWARD THE ALLIES

Col. House in London Lends Support to Britain. British Hold the Line at Suez. Special to The Great War Project (11-14 February) Colonel Edward House, the closest adviser to Woodrow Wilson, the American president, arrives in London on February 6. He sails on an American-flagged ship called the Lusitania . The passage is uneventful, but…