The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources- American, British, French, German, and others (1919) (14804822203)

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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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shelled. The measure of risk attached tothis work was shown by the heavy losses sustained by theFranco-British flotilla, the submarines SapJiir, Mariotta,Joule and Turquoise being sunk or captured during theyear. On February 21 another Allied submarine passedthrough the Dardanelles to the Bosporus and torpedoed atug and six transports laden with munitions. Its presencecaused something like a panic in Constantinople. The featof a former British submarine which passed under a chainof mines in the Dardanelles and torpedoed a Turkisli warshipearly in 1915, was thus repeated a year later. The Bosporusis harder to negotiate than the Dardanelles. If only aflotilla of British submarine boats could have made theirway into the Black Sea, they could have repeated on a largescale the work done by the British in the Baltic. For opera-tions in eastern Asia IMinor the Turks were largely de-pendent on sea transport. The story of how the E-1 inFebruary entered the Sea of Marmora and operating for 304
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SIR JOHN (AFTERWAKDS VISCOUNT) JELLICOE Comniandor of the British navy from the outbrealc of the war to its close SUBMARINES AND WAR-ZONE DECREES twenty-four days sank twenty-three ships, shelled two rail-way trains, and did other damage, was told in a letterwritten by a young officer who was on board her, underCochrane, the commander. He said: We broke all previous records. Cochrane was absolutely splen-did. We went around the Sea of Marmora, leaving a trail of sunkand burning ships. We were the first submarine in history to bom-bard a place on shore under fire. I think we were under fire aboutthree times a day on an average, and penetrated into all sorts ofplaces and destroyed shipping. We even shelled a railway anddestroyed two troop-trains. Altogether we sunk one gun-boat,five steamers (one of 3,000 tons) and seventeen large sailing-ships,and hit two trains, one railway embankment and a few villagesthat fired on us and got it in the neck for doing so. We alsodived up to Constantin