Thursday, December 31, 1914. Ottoman disaster, T. S. Eliot being a snot.

The 1914 Christmas Truce, which was now over, hit the newspapers.

Ottoman forces retreating from Sarikamish bogged down in the woods outside the city. Their numbers had started out at 12,000 and were now 2,500.

Reduced from 12,000 to 2,500 soldiers and a handful of guns, the remaining units fled and freed major routes into Sarikamish for Russians to resupply.

The French retook ground lost the prior day at Champagne.

T. S. Eliot, in a letter to Conrad Aiken from Merton College, Oxford, wrote: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."

University towns were apparently much different then.  FWIW, I like university towns.

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Monday, December 28, 1914. Ottoman advance slows.

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Sunday, January 17, 1915. Messing around in Arabia.

 Ottoman stragglers were rounded up by the Russians at Sarikamish.

The Arab houses of Āl Rashīd and Āl Saʻūd fought the Battle of Jarrab north of Al Majma'ah. Āl Rashīd prevailed.  Pre war civil servant and wartime British military advisor William Shakespear, a close friend of Ibn Saud, was killed, resulting in diminished British influence over the House of Saud.

African American radical Lucy Parsons led an unemployed march of 10,000 workers in Chicago.  The event would result in a program for the unemployed.

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Saturday, January 16, 1915. Cape Evans.

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Sunday, January 3, 1915. Coney Island.

 

Ottoman troops were driven out to the Choruk Valley, while also attacking Russian forcdes elsewhere to take pressure off their forces at Sarikamish.

Cardinal Mercier of Belgium was arrested by the Germans for is pastoral letter "Patriotism and Endurance", in which condemned German atrocities, and extorts Belgians to stay Belgian.

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Friday, January 1, 1915. Mexican land reform.

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Monday, December 28, 1914. Ottoman advance slows.

The Ottoman advance at Sarikamish slowed due to exhaustion.

The first Sherlock Holmes film, A Study in Scarlet, was released with American actors Francis Ford and John Ford, the famous director, appearing as Holmes and Watson. Francis Ford directed.  

It is a missing film.

Last edition:

December 26, 1914. Boxing Day.

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