China declares war on Germany and Austria.
Pope Benedict issues a peace proposal: no annexations or indemnities; Belgium, Serbia, and Romania to have their sovereignty restored; Germany gets its colonies back; no economic retaliation after the war; a court to arbitrate future disputes; “negotiations” to deal with Alsace-Lorraine, Poland, Balkans, Armenia etc. (the Vatican really wants independence for Catholic countries).
Suffragist picketers at the White House are again attacked. As usual, Navy sailors are prominent.
Headline of the Day -100:
A grand jury indicts 105 people for the East St. Louis race riots. The grand jury reports that the riots were planned and that the “indolent public officials” knew and did nothing.
The Puerto Rican Insular Legislature passes resolutions for independence. (And a referendum for independence passed in June, 2017, so the history of Puerto Rico’s wishes being ignored is a long, proud one).
Attempts to call US soldiers “Sammies” are being resisted by the Sammies.
A new, long-delayed issue of the trench newspaper The Wipers Times (currently going by The B.E.F. Times, is out:
Late News from the Ration Dump.
The Germans are short of shells.
The Pope is raising an army to come and stop the war.
We have the supremacy of the air – ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.
The Germans have no guns.
We are going to dig in, and wait till the Chinese are ready.
The Kaiser has been arrested by Hindenburg, and shot as a spy.
The Germans have no bombs.
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