Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great mass of the German army is concentrated on the western front. There remain but a few divisions in Roumania, only one in Palestine, and none whatever in Mesopotamia or on the Italian front. The war must be decided in the west, where great armies are drawn up. We have resigned ourselves to a long and bitter struggle. It is through the long process of attrition, of wearing Germany out by sheer destruction of numbers, that the final victory is to be won. Serious as the events of the immediate past have been, they afford no basis for despondency. When...
...heels of the Italian and Russian flascos comes the report from the Near East of the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. The loss of the leader of the British forces in Mesopotamia is a blow which will be felt on two continents: in Europe, where his repeated successes against the Turks were the one bright ray of hope amid a policy of bungling; and in Asia, where his name and fame were the admiration, if not the idol, of the natives...
General Maude turned Mesopotamia from a war theatre of disappointments and disasters to one of great possibilities. Where so many British commanders failed, he made good. Heavy is the sudden loss of one who many believed would be England's second Kitchener...
...Balkans." It also includes eight lectues: 1. The Near East before the Great War. 2. The Near East in the Great War. 3. The Danube to the Egean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus. 4. The Baghdad Railway in the War. 5. The Dardanelles. 6. Saloniki. 7. Constantinople. 8. Mesopotamia. The Future of the Balkans. This last series will be held on Wednesdays and Saturdays at five o'clock in the afternoon, beginning Wednesday, December 5, and omitting Christmas week...
Messrs. Roger Amory 10 and R. P. Danner '13 write respectively on "Enthusiasm in Flying" and "Harvard Men Help Tommy in Mesopotamia." Though Mr. Amory gives us a satisfactory treatise, it is marred by occasional crudities in composition. It fails to arouse live interest in the reader. Mr. Danner does better, though he too is occasionally careless in his writing. Also, why does he call it "Harvard Men--"? There is absolutely no mention of a University organization or even of individual Harvard men. However, despite the article's shortcomings it is full of genuine interest and holds the attention...