The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . of a port and set up between herand the sea the artificial State of Albania. This was notthe least of a long series of unjustifiable aggressions by theDual Monarchy which had ended in the criminal ultimatumof 1914 and the World War. It was a long cry from 1914to 1918, but it was now Serbia and Italy that controlled theAdriatic coasts, and it was Austria and Hungary that wereleft without ports. Unless Trieste were made a free portfor goods to and from Vi
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . of a port and set up between herand the sea the artificial State of Albania. This was notthe least of a long series of unjustifiable aggressions by theDual Monarchy which had ended in the criminal ultimatumof 1914 and the World War. It was a long cry from 1914to 1918, but it was now Serbia and Italy that controlled theAdriatic coasts, and it was Austria and Hungary that wereleft without ports. Unless Trieste were made a free portfor goods to and from Vienna, the new South GermanState, which might emerge from the wreckage of CentralEurope, would be economically helpless. Similarly, if Hun-garians were cut off from Fiume, they would become land-locked and at the mercy of their neighbors. Principal Sources: The Military Expert of The TimeSj William in The Tribune, The Evening Post, Austin West dispatches to TheTimes, The Times, The Sun, New York ; Associated Press dispatches; TheEvening Sun (New York). 150 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES ANDON THE SEA Part ITHE WAE IX THE COLONIES 151. GEN. LOUIS BOTHA A former Boer general who, accepting defeat in the Boer War, had risen in South Africa to office as Premier. After the World War broke out Botha supprest a rebellion and then conquered German Southwest Africa 152 THE COLONIES THAT GERMANY HAD WHEN the war broke out Germany had several largeand several small colonies in different parts of theworld. In Africa she had German East Africa, GermanSouthwest Africa, Kamerun, and Togoland; in the Pacific,German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, one of theSolomon Islands, and the Caroline, Ladrone, Pellew, andMarshall Islands; further east in the Pacific, the SamoanIslands, at least the chief portion of them, and in China,on a long lease, Kiaochow. Altogether in Asia, Africa, andOceania, she owned colonial possessions and spheres of in-fluence—the latter being areas where she had s
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