Identifier: canadassonsgreat00nasm (find matches)
Title: Canada's sons and Great Britain in the world war;
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Nasmith, George Gallie, 1877- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Toronto, The John C. Winston co., limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Canadian Official Photograph Copyright reserved H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES Inspecting a Canadian Machine Gun Battalion on the Valenciennes front. ThePrince is seen talking to a company sergeant-major.
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Germanys Jealousy of Great Britain 41 signs of war. France seemed in her eyes to be decadent; Russiahad not fully recovered from her war with Japan, though she wasmaking wonderful strides in reform and building up a remodelledarmy system. Germany feared the great Slav Empire of Russiaand distrusted the new signs of her awakening to her potentialities. There were also internal reasons in Germany for going to war.The swashbuckling of the army officer and the fear inspired byhim began to pall upon the German civilian. In the town of Zabernin Alsace in 1913 a German Heutenant cut a lame cobbler over thehead with his sword because the cobbler had failed to salute.The officer was sentenced, then acquitted, but the popular indigna-tion which occurred in the Reichstag in consequence thereofresounded throughout Germany and was not lost upon the greatgeneral staff. The taxes for the army and navy were becomingvery onerous and the nation could not be expected to tolerate themindefinitely. Social

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