Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — Thrilling Week-Ends. [ARTICLE]

Thrilling Week-Ends.

41 Is curious 4 o reea 11 - liovw many thrilling Saturdays and Sundays there have been during the war. It was on .. Sunday that "Genuanv committed her first definite act of war. On a Sunday the London Times published its telegram about the retreat from Mons, which created so painful a feeling in that country. The .crucial day of the second battle of Ypres, when the Germans nearly broke through with the help of gas. was a Saturday. It was on a Saturday that the earlier dispatches regarding the battle ,pf Jutland created so unfortunate an impression. and it was on a Saturday in March this year that we began to realize the grim possibilities of the German offensive of that month.