The Allies land troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. This should go well.
Although Italy has not yet declared war, Austria is moving troops into position, just in case, evacuating towns near the border, blowing up houses and cutting down trees to create a clear line of fire, etc.
The New York Legislature passes a bill for pensions for (some) widowed mothers, by a vote of 129-8 in the Assembly despite the impassioned plea of Majority Leader Harold Hinman (R-Alliteration) that this was “a move to encourage and increase poverty, rather than to remedy it. It is an entering wedge for bills to pension old people, women who have lost their husbands and every one else who hasn’t a big income. It will encourage loafing and tend to make in the State an aristocracy because it creates a privileged class.”
At least two dozen US citizens have been killed in the war (serving in Canadian units).
Headline of the Day -100:
Not as interesting a story as the headline makes it sound.
Stonewall Jackson’s widow dies.
Headline of the Day -100:
A steamer carrying relief supplies for Belgium, not an actual country of elves, and I have never been more disappointed.
Patrick Cockburn on the invasion of Gallipoli
ReplyDeletePrime Minister Tony Blair’s departure coincided almost to the day with the centenary of the moment on 18 March 1915 when an Anglo-French fleet entered the Dardanelles with the purpose of fighting its way through to Istanbul. As First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill was a prime advocate of the plan which failed disastrously when Turkish mines and guns sank three battleships and seriously damaged three others. Shortly afterwards he supported the landing of ground troops on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25 April, which ended in total defeat eight months later, after a quarter of a million British and French troops had been killed or wounded, along with a similar number of Turkish soldiers.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/23/how-tony-blair-helped-open-the-door-for-isis/