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Yesterday's post covered in Part 1 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "Danger!! Being the Log of Capt. John Sirius" as it was published in The Evening Star, a daily newspaper in Washington D.C. Today, we continue with the second installment, and will finish the series tomorrow.
England depended largely on imported food brought in by ship. In the story, a small nation used new technology - submarines - to destroy ships bringing in food, resulting in starvation and leading to surrender on that once proud and powerful country.
In 1915, what we now know as World War I was underway in Europe, and the U.S. had not yet joined in the war effort. The Evening Star published the second installment of "Danger!!" on Sunday, March 28, 1915. Headlines on the Star's front page that day spoke of large numbers of casualties and millions of people threatened with starvation and disease.
This was the context in which The Evening Star published "Danger!!"
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~ Continue reading pages 14 and 15 of the
March 28, 1915 edition of The Evening Star.
~ Read the entire document at Project Gutenberg.
~ Listen to an audio recording at Librivox.
All images are from the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Cross posted at Joy of Fishes.
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