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...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...
...exacting labors as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He is senior peer of Scotland. She, Ishbel Maria Majoribanks Gordon, is the mother of two sons and one daughter. Her life-has been spent in good works, notably in services for Canadian women. She belongs to many clubs, such as the Onward and Upward Association, the National Health Association of Ireland, Lady Aberdeen has been President of the International Council of Women from 1893 to 1899, and was elected again...
From 1912 onward, his career has been a succession of brilliant advances. In 1913, he succeeded Lord Alverstone as Lord Chief Justice; and at the outbreak of the War, he advised several financial measures, notably the issue of one-pound notes. Three times he was selected as British representative to the U. S.: 1915, as Sir Rufus Isaacs, head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission; 1917, as Viscount Reading, Special Envoy; 1918, as Earl Reading, Special Ambassador...
Died. Dr. Charles Lloyd, 85; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. In 1854, he charged half a league onward with the Light Brigade at Balaklava, in the military bungle immortalized by Alfred Lord Tennyson...
...seeking everywhere to touch the enemy. Following this, came another widespread scouting line of destroyers, followed by the submarines and last by the battleships. Every nerve of the Blue Fleet was straining, straining for a single contact that would tell the tale of where the Black Fleet was coming onward...