Private Frank Sovicki, 338407, Company C, Fourth Infantry, of 318 East Central St., Shenandoah, PA., first Amer to escape from a German prison camp. Escaped to Switzerland, October 11, 1918.
1. Allied forces take Niis, Serbia.
2. The flu spreads in Wyoming:
The state was now reporting 2,000 cases of the Spanish Flu.
3. The German Navy proposed converting merchant ships into aircraft carriers.
While conceptually a perfectly valid idea, as the British, who had an aircraft carrier had already demonstrated, this was a rather odd idea for the German Navy, which had used its surface ships very little in the war, and which now was sitting on a revolutionary powder keg within its ranks, to suggest. It indeed suggests a certain level of delusion.
4. Liberty loan campaigns were still going on in the US in spite of the risk of their spreading the flu. Indeed, such gatherings were contributing to it.
3. The German Navy proposed converting merchant ships into aircraft carriers.
While conceptually a perfectly valid idea, as the British, who had an aircraft carrier had already demonstrated, this was a rather odd idea for the German Navy, which had used its surface ships very little in the war, and which now was sitting on a revolutionary powder keg within its ranks, to suggest. It indeed suggests a certain level of delusion.
4. Liberty loan campaigns were still going on in the US in spite of the risk of their spreading the flu. Indeed, such gatherings were contributing to it.
4th Liberty Loan parade, St. Helena Training Station. October 11, 1918.
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