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It helped to find at least a temporary adjustment in 1914; in the future also it may contribute, in this as in many other ways, to ensure that a fair consideration is given to both sides of the thorny question of inter-racial relationship. General Smuts, May 22, 1917.
In 1917 its membership reached 91,371,434, with 110 affiliated national unions, representing virtually every element of American industry excepting the railway brotherhoods and a dissenting group of electrical workers. The foundation of this vast organization was the interest of particular trades rather than the interests of labor in general.
I do not know whether it is an effect of the war or not, but during 1917, even more than during 1916, American magazines have been almost absolutely devoid of humor. Save for Irvin S. Cobb, on whom the mantle of Mark Twain has surely fallen, and for Seumas O'Brien, whom Mr. Dooley must envy, I have found American fiction to be sufficiently solemn and imperturbable.
But in my opinion the once vast, heaving, wonderful beds of kelp along the Clemente and Catalina shores have been cut too deeply. They will die. Some of my predictions made in 1917 were verified in 1918. A few scattered schools of albacore appeared in the channel in July. But these were soon caught or chased away by the market boats.
The first and second named ships were returning to the United States in ballast; hence their destruction could not be justified on the ground that they were carrying freight for the Allies. The City of Memphis was first shelled and then torpedoed off the Irish coast on March 17, 1917. Her crew of fifty-seven escaped in five boats and were picked up by a steamer.
The same source claims that from the beginning of the war up to August 1, 1917, or during a period of practically three years, 751 people were killed and 2,007 injured in England as a result of German air raids, of which there were officially recorded eighteen in 1915, twenty-two in 1916, and eleven in the first seven months of 1917.
The same report told of a 150 mile raid into Germany with eight other French Machines when a patrol of twelve German planes were attacked and three of them sent down in flames, while all the nine French machines returned safely. Sector at the Front, Oct. 12, 1917. It's blowing terrifically, wind and rain. You can't imagine how I picture you people at home, warm, happy and safe.
On May 14, 1917, on the Julian front from Tolmino to the sea the destructive fire of the Italian artillery, directed against strong Austrian positions, reached great intensity and was vigorously answered by numerous Austrian batteries of all calibers.
The assaults were all repulsed by the French, and at no point were the Germans enabled to gain even a temporary footing. In the evening of July 18, 1917, the Germans attacked the French lines south of St. Quentin over a front of about half a mile. They succeeded in penetrating the first line, and held it for a brief period, when they were driven out.
House, by three different routes to Berlin, on the assumption that it was impossible for us to abide by our former resolve: CIPHER WIRELESS TELEGRAM "Washington, 27th January, 1917. "After having had very important conference request most urgently postponement till my next two messages received. Suggest reply by wireless." "Washington, 26th January, 1917.
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