Saturday, June 26, 1915. Burn. Destroy. Kill.

Venezuelan soldier of fortune Rafael de Nogales Méndez, serving with the Ottoman Empire, met with Mehmed Reshid, Governor of the Diyarbekir province, and learned the governor had received telegraphs directly from Interior Minister Talaat Pasha with orders to "Burn-Destroy-Kill" all Armenians in the area.

Georgia Governor John M. Slaton and his wife Sarah Frances Grant left the state under escort of the National Guard after a mob angered by his decision to commute Leo Frank's sentence to life imprisonment threatened them at their home in Atlanta.

Last edition;

Thursday, June 24, 1915. Advancing on Mexico City.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Constitutionalist Army, Conventionists, Emiliano Zapata

Tuesday, June 15, 1915. Killing the Armenians of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.

The Turks hung  twenty activists with the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party in the Sultan Beyazıt Square of Constantinople.

The victims included Armenian leaders Paramaz, Aram Achekbashian, and Kegham Vanigian.

The party still exists.

British and Canadian forces captured the front line northwest of La Bassée, France but were then pushed back by German grenades and a shortage of ammunition.

French aircraft raided Baden and Karlsruhe, Germany.

Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia died at age 56 of ill health, his condition having worsened due to World War One due to the stress of having close family members in the army.  After his death his diaries revealed that he had been a tormented homosexual.

Last edition:

Sunday, June 13, 1915. Fighting in what became Poland, and is now part of Ukraine. There's a reason for Grape Nuts.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Austro Hungarian Army, British Army, Central Powers, Equine Transportation, Germany, Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pancho Villa, Poland, Venustiano Carranza, World War One

Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin.

 

Capuchin Friar Blessed Leonard Melki was murdered along with other Christians, including Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants, by Ottoman troops at Mardin.

Included in the murdered was Blessed Ignace Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin.

The French advanced 550 yards at Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

British and French forces took control of all garrisons around Garua, German Cameroon.

Last edition:

Wednesday, June 10, 1925. Creation of the United Church of Canada.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Canada, Catholic, Christianity, Protestant, religion

Wednesday, June 2, 1915. Wilson: 'Form a Government'.

President Wilson was growing irritated at the inability of Mexico to form a government.

The French commenced a pre attack three day barrage on German defenses around Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

Armenians began a month long resistance against the Ottoman Empire due to the genocide  using a fort in the Giresun Province of Turkey.  The uprising was sparked by news that the genocide was coming their way.

Ceylon's Governor Robert Chalmers declared martial law in the colony to arrest violence between Muslims and Buddhists.

Last edition:

Tuesday, June 1, 1915. Przemyśl.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, German Army, Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, Imperial Russian Army, World War One

Friday, May 28, 1915.

The French failed to capture, Andres, Pas-de-Calais.

New Zealand troops captured a ridge overlooking ANZAC Cove.

Riots broke out between Sinhalese and Muslims in Kandy, British Ceylon.

Armenian actor Yenovk Shahen, age 34, was murdered in the Armenian Genocide.

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Thursday, May 27, 1915. Armenians.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Ottoman Empire, World War One

Thursday, May 27, 1915. Armenians.

The General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire passed the Tehcir Law authorizing the deportation of the entire Armenian population.

Armenian resistance against the Ottoman Empire began to organize in Urfa.

Last edition:

Tuesday, May 25, 1915. Twenty One Demands.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle of Festubert, British Army, China, Japan, John Redmond, United Kingdom, World War One

Monday, September 11, 1922. The Turkish Massacre of Smyrna's Armenians.

Turkish troops massacred Armenian residents of Smyrna Province.  It was a systematic murder of that city's ancient Armenian population.  Ultimately the Turks would set on fire the Armenian quarter of the city and end its eons old Armenian heritage.

Allied troops landed at Canakkale to set up a neutral zone between Greece and Turkey.

Seeing a split of the Communist Party in Russia coming, Lenin proposed that Trotsky become Lenin's Sovnarkom deputy.  Trotsky declined.

Herman Silverman, right, in his effort to hike around the world.  He was a bantamweight fighter who was doing the same in order to get into condition, and as part of the fulfillment of a wager.  Note the Montana Peak style hat.

Curtiss had a glider out.

The USGS was out again with their cameras in the Glen Canyon area.

Maidenhair Canyon. A beautiful side canyon which enters the Colorado from the west at a point below San Juan River.

Maidenhair Canyon enters the Colorado from the west at a point two miles below San Juan River.

Oak Creek dam site on the Colorado River, seven miles below San Juan River. Left abutment wall.

Monday, May 24, 1915. "Crime against humanity"

The Allied powers accused the Ottoman Empire of a "crime against humanity" for ethnicide of the Armenians.

It was the first time the term had been used.

Last edition:

Sunday, May 23, 1915. Italy declares war on Austro Hungaria.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Arab Revolt, Austro Hungaria, Austro Hungarian Navy, Faisal bin Hussein, Italy, Kingdom of Hejaz, Ottoman Empire, World War One

Monday, May 17, 1915. Van abandoned.

Ottoman forces abandoned Van.

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Sunday, May 16, 1915. Armenian casualties.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenian Genocide, Central Powers, Defense of Van, German Luftwaffe, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, Royal Navy, Turkey

Sunday, May 16, 1915. Armenian casualties.

The Central Powers established bridgeheads over the San.

Ottoman soldiers killed 6,000 Armenians by artillery fire while covering the evacuation of Turkish women and children from Van.

The Royal Naval Air Service intercepted two Zeppelins, badly damaging one.

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Saturday, May 15, 1915. Night attack.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Art, Battle of Festubert, British Army, Fortunino Matania, Indian Army, Singapore Mutiny, World War One

Friday, April 30, 1915. Events on either side of Turkey.

The Royal Navy Division landed at Gallipoli.

15,000 Armenian refugees were allowed into Van on the thesis that it would strain the city's food supply.

Last edition:

Thursday, April 29, 1915. Things in Africa and Arabia.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, British Empire, German Empire, German Kriegsmarine, Italian Army, Italian Empire, Italy, Libya, World War One

Saturday, April 24, 1915. The beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide began with the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople.

It's always easiest for the oppressor to remove those whom they'd like to repress. . . 

The Germans launched a gas attack on Canadian positions at St. Julien, which allowed them to take the village.

The RMS Lusitania arrived in New York City coincident with the German embassy in Washington D.C. issuing a public warning that the waters around Great Britain being a war zone and that ships flying a British flag would be considered targets.

Last edition:

Thursday, April 22, 1915. Gas!

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Canadian Army, French Army, German Army, technology, Technology is ruining everything, The Second Battle of Ypres, Weapons, World War One

Thursday, February 25, 1915. The Cottonwood Bluff War.

Lorenzo Creel, Colonel Michie, General Scott, Marshal Nebeker, Old Polk, Jeff Posey, Chief Posey, Tse-ne-gat, A.B. Apperson.

Paiutes and Utes exchanged gunfire with a  posse at Cottonwood Bluff, Utah.  The battle arose when a posse came to arrest Ute Tse-ne-gat who had been accused of murdering a Hispanic shepherd.  Paiutes made the accusation.

The arrest went immediately wrong and both Piautes and Utes resisted.  The war would be negotiated to a peaceful end by Gen. Hugh L. Scott.  Tse-ne-gat was tried in Denver, and found innocent of the charges. Tse-ne-gat died, age 39, of tuberculosis eleven years after the trial. Ute and Paiute chiefs, Polk and Posey, who participated in the war, went to the Ute Reservation in Colorado but found themselves unwelcome there, which is not surprising to those familiar with Ute history.  The returned to a subsistence lifestyle and combined it with cattle rustling.  A second armed outbreak would result in 1923.

The Royal Navy continued bombarding Ottoman seaforts in the Dardanelles.

The Ottomas removed ethnic Armenians from their armed forces.

Last edition:

Wednesday, February 24, 1915. Stuck.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Exploration, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Tuesday, April 13, 1909. The Aadna Massacre.

The Adna Massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which would kill over 20,000 people, commenced.  Ottoman troops would participate in it.

Armenian orphans from the massacre.

On the same day, a rebellion broke out in the Ottoman Empire after newspaper editor Hassan Fehmi Effendi was assassinated. The rebels forced the resignation of democratically elected Prime Minister, Grand Vizier Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, and killed the Minister of Justice. Tewfik Pasha.

The revolution was backed by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who sought to regain the absolute power.  It wouldn't go well for him.

What would become the University of North Carolina was photographed.

State Normal School, #1, Greensboro, N.C., April 13, 1909.

State Normal School, #2, Greensboro, N.C., April 13, 1909.

Last prior edition:

Monday, April 12, 1909. Doc Powers falls ill.

1900s, 1909, baseball, Health, Medicine, Personalities