Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
^r- ^-^ ■^««^: f^-^ Plate 16. THE BALLOON SHED. Around and about, all over the plain, the birds and bugs lieat rest, their wings making zvonderful lines against the sky,ivonderfid colours on the grass. Then they stir and hum, andskim over the ground, and roar, and rise into the air, and sailazuay, and only the huge empty shed remains, and the longbox on a lorry zvhich, too, is leaving, with the sign on it: Mesopotamia via Cardiff^ zvhither another air machine isbeing shipped. It
Text Appearing After Image:
CHAPTER CLXIII. DECLINE AND FALL OF THE COALITION GOVERNMENT: JUNE, 1915, TO DECEMBER, 1916. Chaeacter axd History of the Coalition—Its Early Achievements—Finance and Thrift—Food Problems—Control of Wheat Supply—Promise of a Food Controller—Munitions and Labour—^The Clyde and South Wales—Size of the Cabinet—A War Com-sottee—Conscription—Ireland—Mr. Hughess Tour—^The Paris Economic Conference—The Parliamentary Register—Reform of the General Staff—Air Policy—Pensions—The Urgent Problem of Man-Power-—Admiralty Changes—^The Crisis—Mr. Lloyd GeorgeActs—^The History of Seven Days—Mr. Asquith Resigns—Mr. Lloyd George PrimeMinister—^The Xew Government—Mr. Lloyd George and Peace Talk—^The NewPolicies. IX earlier chapter.-! an account has Vjeeugiven of the circum-stanoes which ledup to the formation in May-June, 1915,of a Coalition Government, of the gradualfailure of voluntary recruiting anrl the adop-tion in Great Britain of compulsory mil

Note About Images