Impression sketch
of Doctor Thomas Addis. jpeg. See original image at: http://blogleodraco.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/continuacao-de-biografias-de-autores-2.html
From two American
cities, reactions
Converged over
clash of recruitment;
San Francisco, Thursday 28 October
San Francisco, Thursday 28 October
Happened arrests
of two Englishmen.
Dr Thomas Addis
and Ralph Blair,
Under conviction
of conspiracies -
For their plot to
hire resident men
In the US for
British military service.
Three other
British men; Harry Lane,
Lieutenant Croft
and Clive Lawrence -
Came under
similar charges but were
Found not guilty
of any such crime.
Thursday 28
October 1915, Washington
Saw reactions of
British Ambassador
As surprised, as
these Englishmen set
Out to recruit Englishmen in America.
Their actions
were held in violation
Of an obsolete
statute; a government
Admittance came in contradictions -
If such laws
existed in other nations
To suggest USA at
war, such a statute
Would work against American people -
An appeal would
be sought to gain
Diplomatic governmental solutions.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Recruiting
in America - Englishmen convicted. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 29 October. P.8. Col.6. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11955418/Daily-Telegraph-October-29-1915.html
[Accessed: 29 October 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 29 October 2015).
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