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    • World War. Turkey. 1919-07-19

    • Northwest history; World War 1; Turkey; post-war; Mehmet Talaat Bey of Turkey; Ismail Enver Pasha of Turkey; Ahmed Djemal of Turkey; Turkish government; Turkish political leaders; photographs; portraits ;
    • A Turkish courtmartial investigating the conduct of the Turkish government during the war has condemned to death Enver Pasha, shown at the left; Talaat Bey, upper right, and Djemal Pasha, lower right, leaders of the Turkish government during the...
    • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-07-12

    • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Germany; German delegation; Versailles suburb, Paris, France; photographs ;
    • The German delegates to the peace conference must keep on their own side of the fence. The aforesaid fence is a picket one erected on the boundary between Versailles, Paris suburb, and Paris itself, to indicate the boundary and prevent the Germans...
    • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-05-10

    • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Palace of Versailles, France; Paris, France; photographs ;
    • Above is shown the famous palace at Versailles in which the peace treaty is expected to be signed. The lower picture shows the grand conference room of the palace. The pact ending the world war probably will be known as the treaty of Versailles.
    • World War. Training camps. 1918-01-20

    • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; American soldiers; training camps; movies; motion pictures ;
    • The "movies" are to be used on a mammoth scale to teach men in the new army how to fight. Captain O. O. Ellis of the Seventeenth infantry has been ordered to take charge of a fully equipped studio in New York and scores of men experienced in the...
    • World War. Submarine warfare. 1917-08-30

    • Northwest history; World War 1; submarine warfare; naval warfare; German u-boats; submarine ships; submarines; Germany; Great Britain; British navy; British ships; underwater mines; minefields; Norway; Norwegian coast; sinkings; sunk ;
    • An increase in the number of British vessels sunk last week by mines or submarines is shown by the weekly admiralty statement issued tonight. Eighteen vessels of more than 1600 tons were sent to the bottom as compared with 15 the previous week, and...
    • World War. Statistics. 1919-03-08

    • Northwest history; World War 1; statistics; Major General Peyton C. March; United States army; American soldiers; death rates; deaths; wounded; missing in action; MIA; prisoners of war; POWs; casualties ;
    • Battle casualties of the American army in France as shown by revised divisional records announced today by General March totaled 240,197. These included killed in action, wounded, missing in action and prisoners. There probably will be some slight...
    • World War. Shipyards building & launching. 1919-06-28

    • Northwest history; World War 1; shipyards; ship building; ship launching; post-war; American Federation of Labor; AFL; USS Afel; United States. Shipping board; Chairman Edward N. Hurley; ceremonies; Samuel Gompers; labor unions ;
    • The shipping board in connection with the launching today at the Hog Island shipyard of the steamship Afel -- the name being the code work for the American Federation of Labor, in honor of which the vessel was christened -- made public telegrams...
    • World War. Selective service draft. 1917-08-30

    • Northwest history; World War 1; selective service; military draft; United States army; American soldiers; patriotism; legislation; draft laws; draft age; universal military training ;
    • The operation of the draft law has shown the absolute practicability of registering our citizens for service -- 9,600,000 of them were registered in one day. But of this number fully 80 per cent of the married men have not hesitated to walk up and...
    • World War. Revolutions. Poland. 1919-08-19

    • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Poland; Polish revolution; post-war; Prime Minister Ignace Paderewski of Poland; elections; photographs; portraits ;
    • Ignace Paderewski, famous pianist, now leading the republic of Poland in its fight for freedom, is cheerful over the outlook for that nation. He points to the union of the people as shown in the results of the recent election and the peaceable...
    • World War. Revolutions. Germany. 1920-04-19

    • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Germany; German revolution; post-war; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; Spartacus League; German army; Belgian army; Belgium; German people; German public; refugees; Homberg, Germany; Rhine river; photographs ;
    • Civilians fled from Ruhr district as German reds advance. Here are shown Belgian troops guarding the bridge over the Rhine at Homberg, searching civilians fleeing in the occupied zone in the face of the advance of the German red armies.
    • World War. Relief. 1920-07-24

    • Northwest history; World War 1; war relief; humanitarian relief; Russian people; Russia; refugees; Vladimir Ilyich Lenin of Russia; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik party; General Anton Ivanovich Denikin of Russia; women; photographs; portraits ;
    • Hundreds of South Russians who were followers of the anti-Bolshevik leader, General Denekin, have fled to Belgrade to escape the wrath of Lenine. Although most these refugees were of the Russian better class, and some of them are titled, they have...
    • World War. Relief. 1918-01-18

    • Northwest history; World War 1; war relief; humanitarian relief; American committee for the French wounded; German army; Germany; France; French people; villages; photographs ;
    • Through the work of the American committee for the French wounded, many homes and farms in northern France formerly under German control, are being rehabilitated. In the above picture from the French official committee on public information, is...
    • World War. Refugees. 1919-05-20

    • Northwest history; World War 1; war refugees; American red cross; war relief; humanitarian relief; Pisa, Italy; Italian people; villages; Venice, Italy; post-war ;
    • A number of views of the up-to-date village, built by the American Red Cross near Pisa, Italy, are shown in Popular Mechanics Magazine. The village has been built to provide homes for artisans and their families who fled from Venice during the war...
    • World War. Red Cross. 1919-10-16

    • Northwest history; World War 1; Red Cross; war relief; wounded; humanitarian relief; United States army; American nurses; front lines; France ;
    • That army nurses who served overseas with the American forces during the war has their share of service and suffering is shown in the final report made by Miss Julia C. Stimson, who headed the army nursing service abroad. Between May 8, 1917, and...
    • World War. Red Cross. 1918-02-20

    • Northwest history; World War 1; Red Cross; war relief; wounded; humanitarian relief; Kathleen Burke of Great Britain; hospitals; Scottish Red Cross; women; nurses; awards; honors; fundraising; photographs; portraits ;
    • Miss Kathleen Burke of the Scottish women's hospitals has arrived in this country on her second visit to raise funds for the Scottish hospitals. Miss Burke is the only woman upon whom King George of England has conferred the honored decoration of...
    • World War. Red Cross. 1917-04-04

    • Northwest history; World War 1; Red Cross; war relief; wounded; humanitarian relief; Mariana Seva de Menocal of Cuba; Cuban Red Cross; women; conferences; photographs; portraits
    • Mme. Mariana Seva de Menocal, wife of the president of Cuba, is president of the Cuban Red Cross. Mme. Menocal, shown above, has issued a call to attend a convention in Havana within a few days and it is expected that over 2500 women will attend.
    • World War. Prisoners. 1918-02-26

    • Northwest history; World War 1; Prisoners; POWs; Prisoners of war; German army; German soldiers; allies; trench warfare; raids; French prison camps; France; photographs ;
    • The result of a trench raid by the allies is shown above. A squad of German prisoners captured by the French during a night attack upon the enemy's trenches are shown being brought into the wire fenced prison camps.
    • World War. Post war United States. 1920-01-03

    • Northwest history; World War 1; post-war; politics; United States navy; Bremerton, Washington State; shipyards; naval ports; USS Pyro; USS Nitro; ships; drydocks ;
    • Above are shown a view of the new dry docks at Bremerton navy years and the Pyro (left) and the Nitro as they appeared in the new construction just before water was let into the dock for the first time. The Pyro and Nitro are two 11,000-ton...
    • World War. Post war United States. 1919-10-17

    • Northwest history; World War 1; post-war; politics; United States army; automobiles; trucks; military supplies; Representative C. F. Reavis of Nebraska; photographs ;
    • Here are shown hundreds of army motor trucks at Camp [...] in "open storage," slowly rotting away. In the lower picture is shown Representative C. F. Reavis, chairman of the house sub-committee looking over machines left in the open. It is charged...

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