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...Allies, having sunk their differences by compromise, called upon M. Louis Barthou, Chairman of the Reparations Commissions, to invite the U. S. Government to send experts to sit on each of the two commissions of inquiry. M. Barthou wrote to Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. observer on the Reparations Commission, giving him further information required by U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes...
...that the subject be approached in an attitude unbiased by the terrible manner in which Germany used submarines in the late was, for at that time there were no international laws restricting their operations. A. Meisling '25, delegate from Denmark, protested. He cited the large number of Danish ships sunk by submarines despite the fact that Denmark was natural. Meisling was for restricting them. G. F. Jentsch SG., delegate from Germany, claimed that submarines were no more dangerous to non-combatants than other weapons of war. S. Dabbus 1G., delegate from Turkey, gave a very interesting sidelight into the view...
...first time the New York theatre has sunk to depths of indecency which must be characterized as alien...
...hurling them like matches hundreds of yards away. Telephone cables were laid low, most of the business signboards were smashed to splinters or blown away, many houses were unroofed. In the harbor the typhoon lashed the waters into a white fury. Many ships, including a British submarine, were sunk and many more driven ashore more or less damaged...
...William Joynson-Hicks, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, informed the House of Commons that bullion to the amount of ?3,817,232 had been salvaged from the steamship Laurentic, sunk by a German mine off the northwest coast of Ireland on Jan. 23, 1917. The Laurentic lies in 138 feet of water...