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Because on May 4, 1916, the German Government replied that 'in accordance with the general principles of visit and search and the destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law such vessels, both within and without the area declared a naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives unless the ship attempts to escape or offer resistance...
Compared with this problem, rehabilitation of the wasted area will be a comparatively simple matter, one which will require work rather than an economic solution...
...problems, accompanied by topographic maps of the area to be developed, were given out early in December, and the drawings were submitted on December 20. The competition was open to all students of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, who are taking Landscape Architecture 2 and Landscape Architecture...
...well forested and much in its original state. The present owner wishes to donate to the town a portion of this land, including the spring, as shown on the accompanying topographic map, together with a sufficient sum of money, and he wishes competitive designs for a treatment of the area as a memorial to the founders of the town. It is suggested that the memorial take the form of a sculptural or architectural treatment of the spring with a suitable backing of planting or architecture, all in a setting of planting appropriate to the topo, and the conditions...
...wonder why I am satisfied to be planted so far from the war area. As an answer, remember that all the men we are working with are Territorial who are awaiting their turn to go "up the Gulf," wounded and convalescents who come back with nerves shattered by the "hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from...