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The little book of the war: Kitchener’s Mob
Chapter 3 “Kitchener’s Mob” During the first two months of the war, two new countries joined the Allies besides those that have been named, Japan and Montenegro. Japan had before this made an agreement to stand by England, in the East; but she had also two strong reasons of her own for wishing to have…
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The little book of the war: The Spark that Exploded the Magazine
Chapter 1 The Spark that Exploded the Magazine When the grandfathers of the present school-children were studying geography and came to the map of Europe, they found just north of Greece a broad band of country extending from the Black Sea to the Adriatic which was called Turkey. It was bounded on the north by…