055 Emmeline Pankhurst and the disgrace of the white feather
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Emmeline Pankhurst
It is Sunday 11 July 1915. It is the 55th week after the shooting at Sarajevo.
Austrian airplanes bomb Venice again.
Sir John French tries to persuade French commander-in-chief Joseph Joffre in vain to postpone a new attack until 1916.
A newly formed Third Army of the British, under the command of General Charles Monro, takes over a part of the front between Arras and the Somme from the French.
There is news about skirmishes between British-Belgian and German troops north of Rhodesia.
In Aden on the Arabian peninsula, the Sultan of Lahej dies after being wounded in a Turkish attack.
The Germans suffer heavy losses in their vain attempt to reach the other side of the Flemish river Yser.
In the Argonne the Germans attack again.
Two British warships return to the Rufiji delta in East Africa to finish an earlier job, sinking the German cruiser Königsberg.
German General Max von Gallwitz advances towards the Narew river, a tributary of the Vistula, part of an immense German effort along the front between the Baltic regions and Bukovina.
And ‘the Right to Serve’ is demanded in London by demonstrating women, led by Emmeline Pankhurst.
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