Sunday, February 22, 2015
Today -100: February 22, 1915: Of curtailed sandwiches, sunk ships, lynchings, jewels, and bluffs
Headline of the Day -100: “Ask German Children to Curtail Sandwich.” For the war effort, they are supposed to eat only one slice of bread.
The US steamer Evelyn strikes a mine in the North Sea and sinks, with no loss of life but considerable loss of cotton, which it was bringing to Bremen. It is not currently known whose mine it was and I don’t think it ever will be. (Correction: one dead - frozen to death - and 13 missing, it will be reported tomorrow).
Austrian torpedo boats and airplanes bomb two fishing boats clearly flying the flag of neutral-for-now Italy.
A possible train robber who got into a gun fight with cops, killing one, is lynched in Pleasant Hill, Missouri. He is white, as was not the custom.
King George of England arranges a £50,000 loan for the Queen of the Belgians, putting her jewels (which were sent to the UK before the Germans occupied Antwerp) up as collateral, although it’s not quite clear which of the jewels are legally hers and which belong to Belgium.
The Berlin police ban afternoon teas in hotels, cafés etc if they are accompanied by music, recitations, or lectures. No one knows why.
A posse led by a US marshal fights Piute Indians near Bluff, Utah.
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Half a sandwich is better than no bread.
ReplyDeleteI'm intruiged by the concept of a torpedo boat bombing anything - bit of a fish out of water as it were.