Identifier: literarydigesthi01hals (find matches)
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
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s for the lack of coal which closed factories and wouldpresently shut down municipal lighting-plants. Cities wouldsoon be dark at night, and with a police force depleted ofits best men, the apache and the hooligan, insensible topatriotism, would swarm forth in the darkness to theirwork. Other branches of human activity were pulsating withhectic life. Every railroad line was working to its fullcapacity. The first wave of young reservists had alreadypassed, but long troop-trains still coiled along valley^,, orground across plains, for barracks were beginning to fillwith Landwehr—second reservists brushing up their half-forgotten military duties and making ready to support fieldarmies that would melt away beneath the wastage of war.Before long, should the tide set strongly against one orother combatant, still other troop-trains would traverse the i« Adapted from parts of an article by Col. George Harvey in The NorthAmerican Review for October, 1914 ; several paragraphs being used. 152
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CAMPBELL GRAY. GEORGE V,King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Emperor of India CAUSES OF THE GREATER CONFLICT endangered lands—trains filled with grizzled Landsturmanswering tlieir countrys call last. Troop-trains were only one of the components of the vastmasses of rolling-stock which overflowed every railway yardand siding. The fighting millions at the front had notonly to be reinforced, but to be fed, supplied, and muni-tioned. Countless freight-trains of box-cars were filled withfoodstuffs and equipment, cattle-cars with cavalry remounts,flat-cars piled high with bulky tarpaulined artillery. Asone neared hostile frontiers, wagon roads vied with railwaysin feverish life. Broad, beautiful European highways werejammed with a swift-flowing human tide—endless infantrymarching to right and left, cavalry, gun-batteries, andtraction-engine trains clattering and grumbling along themiddle of the road, bywa3^s choked with grain-carts and withherds of cattle for feeding armies. Thousands

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