The New York Times Current History Volume 19; The European War (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...undersigned consequently, invoking their cruel sufferings and their complete ruin, declare that any peace which does not provide for the punishment of the guilty, and which does not compel the enemy to restore to their former economic power the regions devastated by him, to indemnify the towns, the communes and the Individuals ruined by his exactions, his despoliations and his thefts, would be a shameful sanction of the violation of law and of French downfall. They ask the members of the Government, the Senate, and the Chamber of Deputies, respectfully but energetically, to use all the moral authority given to France by the Imperishable memory of her glorious dead, the heroism of her soldiers, and the ardor for work as well as for war of her whole people, to the end that the Immense Injury suffered by the Invaded departments shall be completely repaired by the enemy, according to the principles of Justice for which we have struggled and suffered, and that the peace treaty shall stipulate In the most precise and formal manner the principles and conditions of full reparation for these injuries. Egyptian Unrest Under British Rule The Insurrection of March, 1919 fTTHE state of unrest in Egypt, leading I to the March insurrection, was explained as due to various causes by Dr. George Samme, Director of the Oriental Correspondence, in an interview with a newspaper representative in Paris. As an immediate cause he cited the refusal of admission to the delegates of the Egyptian Nationalists as participating members of the Peace Conference--a refusal due to a special request made by England. In 1914, he said, Egyptians were Germanophile, believing in the victory of Germany, which would have liberated Egypt from English occupation. During the uncertain period of the w...