It
is believed that this second boat was likewise sunk. Five other steamers
full of cargoes lying in the same port were seriously damaged. A
steamship belonging to the Russian volunteer fleet was also sunk, and
five petroleum depots were destroyed. In Odessa and Sebastopol the
Russians from the shore opened fire against our fleet."
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FAMOUS BRITISH GENERALS
General Smith-Dorrien, British Corps Commander in the famous retreat
from Mons; Generals Plumer, Rawlinson and Byng, Commanders on the
Western Front; General Birdwood, Commander of the Australian-New
Zealand troops at Gallipoli.
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FAMOUS FRENCH GENERALS
Marshal Petain, Commander-in-Chief of the French armies in the West;
Generals Mangin, Gouraud and Humbert, Army Commanders in the West;
Generals Gallieni, Commander of Paris, who sent forward an army in
taxicabs to save the day at the First Battle of the Marne.
The Sultan at once declared war against Russia, England and France, and
issued a proclamation to his troops, declaring that he had called them
to arms to resist aggression and that "the very existence of our Empire
and of three hundred million Moslems whom I have summoned by sacred
Fetwa to a supreme struggle, depend on your victory.
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