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Hitherto, no seaplane has flown for more than 15 hours at a time. Yet, this summer, U. S. navy fliers propose to go from San Diego to Honolulu, something over 2,000 miles-at least 20 hours-in a single hop. And Frenchmen propose to capture the Raymond Orteig prize of $25,000 for a continuous Paris-New York flight...
France. The German offer was received in Paris with expected skepticism. "Of what use," said Frenchmen, "will another scrap of paper be?" At the same time, Le Marechal Foch presented his report to the Council of Ambassadors (see Page 9). The Marshal tacitly admitted that, if Germany wished to arm, the Inter-Allied Military Commission could not stop her; hence it appeared to him that a defensive alliance with England-long a topic in London and Paris-seemed the logical way to provide for lasting security. This was an admission that the control machinery, set up after the Versailles Treaty...
...Wilhelm II offer condolences?" and quotes the Prague Tageblatt as saying: "One would think that Emperor Wilhelm would today somehow feel himself still connected with the fate of the German people and would join in the mourning when that Nation is overtaken by a loss for which Frenchmen and Englishmen express their sympathy. The Governments of Paris and London have condoled, but the German at Doom remains silent...
...that he was a U. S. doughboy, a Senegalese rifleman. It has also been stated before that he was a German, but never proved. Suffice it to say that the decomposed body under the stone slabs of the driveway of the Arc de Triomphe is, to the minds of Frenchmen, a Frenchman and a Frenchman who gave his life that other Frenchmen might live in the liberty for which they fought...
...Turkish territories. They revolted, Practically the same offer was made to the people of Mesopotamia--what have they now? Almost 100,000 British in their country. We pity them. The same thing happened to the Syrians. Instead of the promised liberty and so forth, they have a host of Frenchmen. It is Lloyd George's imperialistic policies that are responsible for much of the blood that was shed. It was he who was the great massacrer...