Twenty-Five Years Ago

Northern Advocate, 13 May 1940, Page 4

Twenty-Five Years Ago

l The segregation and internment f of ail aliens on a comprehensive l scale was engaging The careful | consideration of the British Govf ernment. | Territorial concessions, that were | said to he satisfactory to the Italf ian Cabinet were reported to have | been made by Austria. f Renewal of the bombardment f of the Bosphorus by the Russian | Fleet resulted in the destruction f of a modern fort. | The Goeben attempted to interi vene, but fled when struck by a j Russian shell. | In the Gallipoli campaign, Ali lied troops made an appreciable I advance and repulsed every ati tack made by the Turks. f Special tribute to the valuable | service of the Anzacs was paid by • Earl Crewe, who said they had | fulfilled a most valuable function i in confining a powerful enemy f force towards the narrow neck of | the peninsula. i Between the towns of Gallipoli | and Maidos a desperate battle was i being fought. The Queen Eiizaf beth was assisting by shelling the | Turkish reinforcements. I Speaking at Philadelphia, Pre- ? sident Wilson pleaded for the ? ivelding of the foreign blood i which made up the American na- • lion, and said that America would : not fight, because “peace had exi erled its healing influence on the f whole world.” | The general impression in the • United States was that the Presi- " dent was fixed in his attitude of || neutrality, and that he hoped by " diplomatic delay to wear down || the public indignation over the II Lusitaniu incident. The only action that he was ex- | pected to take was to demand , German guarantees against a re--1 petition of similar outrages.