The story of Europe and the nations at war; a graphic narrative of the nations involved in the great war, their history and former wars, their rulers and leaders, their armies and navies, their resources, the reasons for conflict and the issues at stake . o3 ^ Z-, ^ ^ =s a o ^ 5 tn » ^ «» c3 03 Q tH oj E -tJ IS- CO .3 tJ O 4) ^ 03. ALL EUROPE PLUNGED INTO WAR 17 without money enough to buy a meal. One tomist said: Ihad to give a Milwaukee doctor, who had a letter of credit for $2,500,money today to get shaved. London hotels showed much consider-ation for the needs of travelers without ready ca


The story of Europe and the nations at war; a graphic narrative of the nations involved in the great war, their history and former wars, their rulers and leaders, their armies and navies, their resources, the reasons for conflict and the issues at stake . o3 ^ Z-, ^ ^ =s a o ^ 5 tn » ^ «» c3 03 Q tH oj E -tJ IS- CO .3 tJ O 4) ^ 03. ALL EUROPE PLUNGED INTO WAR 17 without money enough to buy a meal. One tomist said: Ihad to give a Milwaukee doctor, who had a letter of credit for $2,500,money today to get shaved. London hotels showed much consider-ation for the needs of travelers without ready cash, but on thecontinent there were many such who were refused hotel accom-modation. As for those who reached New York or other American ports,many had fled in such haste as to leave their baggage of the poorer travelers had exhausted their scanty storesof cash in the effort to escape from Europe and reached port utterlypenniless. The case was one that called for immediate and adequatesolution and the governmental and moneyed interests on this sidedid their utmost to cope with the situation. Vessels of Americanregister were too few to carry the host applying for transportation,and it was finally decided to charter foreign vessels for this purposeand thus hasten the work of moving the multitude of appealingtomi


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