Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Wednesday, February 3, 1915. Ottoman's held up.

Clara Dolores Lopp sitting in front of a shipment of cigarettes and cigars she arranged to have shipped to soldiers fighting in Europe.  World War One would increase the use of cigarettes enormously which resulted in a marked increase in lung cancer by the 1930s.

The British kept the Ottomans from crossing the Suez Canal.

The Germans started a second siege on Osowiec Fortress.

Co conspirators in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand,  Veljko Čubrilović, Danilo Ilić and Miško Jovanović were executed by hanging.

John Chilembwe was spotted by a police patrol and shot dead near Mulanje, Malawi.

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Tuesday, February 2, 1915. Reinforcements.

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