Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of the Bol-sheviki under Lenine and Trotzky. The Bolshe-viki proclaimed the following program: first, offerof immediate Democratic peace; second, handingover of the large estates to the peasants; third,transfer of all authority to the Council of Work-men and Soldiers Delegates; fourth, an honestconvocation of a constituent assembly. Kerenskyescaped from Petrograd and placed himself at thehead of an Army but was defeated. The powerof Kerensky collapsed and he disappeared fromthe scene. The Bolsheviki proclaimed the peas-ants the owners of the lands and published anumber of secret treaties and diploin,atic lettersof the earlier governments. On December 15,1917, a truce was signed with Germany. Thetreaty was ratified March 16, 1918, at Moscow.On February 10th. Russia had formerly with-drawn, though its Bolsheviki leaders refused atthat time, to sign a treaty with the Germans. Rus-sia proper under the German treatise of 1918was stripped of all ports and provinces on the WAR CHRONOLOGY 425
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Big Shell on the Champs Elyssees Palace, It is 520, the biggest shell ever made. 426 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK Baltic retaining only a frontage on the back endof the Gulf of Finland and she lost all her fron-tage on the Black Sea retaining only the shore ofthe Caspian. Sabotage—This is a French word used to de-scribe willful and underhanded destruction ofmachinery, etc., by workmen. The United StatesGovernment alleges it is a method of industrialwarfare used by some leaders of the IndustrialWorkers of the World. Alleged telegraphic ex-changes between the German foreign offlce andCount von Bernstorlt in January, 1916, said vonBernstorfT was under orders to permit Sabotagein the United States. One telegram read Gen-eral staff desires energetic action in regard toproposed destruction of Canadian Pacific Railwayat several points. A second telegram read Inthe United States Sabotage can be carried out inevery kind of factory for supplying ammunitionsof war. Railway embankments and bridges must

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