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Great North Sea Naval Battle 1914 - see under Hospitals, Dr.Duffus.
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Russians in Britain to help - See Hutchinson (DF.) for Aug.1914 dairy account.
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Russians in Britain to help - Dr.T.H.Kirk (RN Correspondence.)
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Russians in Britain to help - Lt.Col.J.D.L.Morris, recollections in DF Correspondence
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Russians in Britain to help - 2nd Lt.Morton (RFC) letter dated 30.8.14
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Zeppelin rumours - see N.A.Tumer-Smith (GS) Diary typescript p75.
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German Landing 7.4.17. - Mrs Phillips letter to son,see Phillips papers (GS)
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Various rumours - Letters written by 2nd Lt.C.Fawcett stationed in Norfolk August - November 1914 contain numerous rumours e.g. Gustav Hamel was really a German spy - A Company ofi Red Indians will be with the Canadians arriving in England - the French could only muster 25,000 men against the German advance in 1914 - a German force of 5,000 will invade England to scare the population. (2nd Lt Fawcett's letters are with the papers of Mrs Morton nee Hotblack held under Morton in RFC Section).
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B.M.Trefusis (DF) Journal p5, Aug/Sept 1st 1914. Russians come from Archangel..."Oceanic" sunk and reputed to have been carrying ammunition for Russians 12.10.14. Prince Louis of Battenburg shut up in the Tower, 15.11.14. English people, including women, in the Tower, Oct.1914. Heard privately that Kitchener visited Paris to have a French general shot - German sympathies and failed to obey orders
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C.P.Heath (GS) letter from his mother 4.9.14 "Have you seen Russian troops in Plymouth?.I hope they go and attack the Germans in the rear".
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G.Mortimer (GS) letter 12 (10.6.16) "The vicar said that he had good reasons for believing that 50% of the German vessels were lying at the bottom of the sea".
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