St Edmundsbury Local History St Edmundsbury in the early Twentieth Century. In January 1. 91. This was meant to apply to women as well as men. At some point during the First World War a prisoner of war camp was set up at Chevington Grove in that village. Prisoners were marched along lanes to work on the farms, played football on Saturday afternoons and had their choirs and services on Sundays. Since the Battle of Jutland in May, 1. Royal Navy had bottled up the German surface fleet, and the naval blockade of Germany was unchallenged. Without imports into Germany, the civilian population was suffering malnutrition and even starvation as home agricultural production was still being left to the marketplace. Grain was fed to cattle instead of being used for bread, and the high price of meat led to slaughtering of stock rather than breeding from them. Military rations were also being reduced and the German army could only defend its existing positions, with no hope of an offensive. Luckily for Germany, the Russian Revolution began in February, 1. However, the German High Command was desperate to find a new initiative. Since October, 1. Germany had resumed submarine attacks on shipping to Britain, but had operated on a system known as the Cruiser Rules. Merchant ships of neutral nations on the High Seas were stopped and seached for any materials that might aid the Allied war effort. If found, the crews were told to take to the lifeboats and the offending ship was sunk. In January, at a conference chaired by the Kaiser, it was decided that unrestricted U Boat warfare was almost a last card in the German war effort. Some 1. 00 new U Boats had been built during 1. America, which was still neutral at this time. Thus, 1st February 1. Germans announced that unrestricted submarine warfare on merchant shipping would begin immediately. The USA broke off diplomatic relations with Germany on February 3rd, but President Wilson would take no further action for the moment. 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The 5. 4th Division, of which the 15 Suffolks were part were moved to take the ridge called Sheik Abbas to support an attack on Turkish held Palestine, at Gaza. They came under fire on March 2. In March the government completed its take over of the coal mines. The taking over of badly cultivated farms was reported to the West Suffolk War Agricultural Committee. The committee also launched a crusade against rabbits, sparrows and rats etc. According to the website, www. Brandonat. War. co. Thursday, 2. 9th March, 1. Messrs Norbury Smith and Co., of London, offered for sale the Brandon Hall estate, which comprised about 2,3. The lots included several farms, homesteads, and small holdings. In addition to the Hall, a Tudor residence, and 3. The Hall Farm and residences, comprising about 8. Mr E Mail, Downham Market, at 1,0. The rabbit warren of about 3. Mr C Nichol Murphy, of Streatham. The Poultry and game farm of about 7. Mr H. E. Bennett, of Tonbridge, for 5. The remaining lots went for lesser amounts, and many did not reach their reserve. During March the German U Boats had sunk nearly 6. April, 1. 91. 7. Having swallowed the loss of the Lusitania in 1. President Wilson suffered another nine sinkings before Congress agreed to declare war on Germany on April 6th 1. Even then, it had taken the evidence of the so called Zimmerman telegram to be the final straw. This was a coded message sent in January, 1. President of Mexico via the German Ambassador in Mexico City, by the German Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmerman. It proposed that if Mexico declared war on the USA, then Germany would allow it to reclaim its lost American lands from the 1. Texas. Admiralty code breakers had intercepted and decoded the message, and eventually found a way to leak its contents to the American Embassy in London. In France the Battles of Arras took place during early April, followed by late April and early May, 1. On Easter Sunday 1. Chaplain of the 2nd Battalion Suffolks celebrated. Communion in the Chalk Caves at Arras. The next day the battalion was. German stronghold called the Harp. On April 9th the 1. Scarpe. At 5. 3. 0 a. German system of trenches. They managed to achieve their objectives but a. On the 1. 0th April the 7th battalion took part in a successful attack. Scarpe. On 2. 8th April the battalion took. Arleux an attack delivered on an eight mile front. British and Canadian troops. All the officers, except the Colonel, were. What was left of the 7th battalion was organised into. May. On April 1. 1th, at very short notice and without preparation, the 2nd battalion. Guemappe. Casualties amounted to 1. Thus the battalions undisputed. April 9th was followed. Zero hour on April 2. British troops. attacking on a front of about nine miles. The 4th Battalion Suffolks with two. Sensee valley. Ground was won, but by 3pm. Their casualties. Guemappe on April 2. On April 2. 8th the 1. Brigades attack. Roeux, which formed part of the battle. Arleux. During this battle the 1. On June 1. 2th the 2nd battalion took over trenches near Monchy le Preux. Infantry Hill. On June 1. Within ten minutes. Hook trench had been captured, and an hour later the remainder of the. British hands. The casualties in the battalion between June 1. In April the United States declaration of war on Germany boosted the morale of both civilians and troops. In Bury war shrines were dedicated in the cathedral. On Good Friday there was a gas explosion in a house at Broad Street in Haverhill. The British and the Canadians attacked Vimy Ridge in April and the Canadians took the ridge. The French were less fortunate and lost 9. Chemin des Dames. Their morale devastated, many French soldiers preferred mutiny to continuing with further attacks. In Egypt, a second attack on Sheik Abbas was launched on April 1. Suffolks, the 15th Norfolks and the 14th Norfolks. 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The one small improvement is that Samsung has upped the Note 8s RAM from 4. GB to 6. GB, which is nice nod to the Galaxy Notes traditional fan base of power users. However, on a day to day basis, its an improvement that isnt always that noticeable despite benchmarks that put the Note 8 a tiny bit ahead of its smaller siblings. That means the decision really hedges on Samsungs signature S Pen stylus and the companys first ever dual camera module. Now Ill be the first person to say that after years of improvements to mobile operating systems, weve gotten to a point where UIs are properly designed for touch based navigation. Across both i. OS and Android, theres never a time when youre screaming out for a mouse or something more precise. Which, for me, softens the allure of a stylus. But after over a week using the Note 8, the S Pen is starting to win me over. Theres just so much you can do, whether its jotting down notes without even unlocking the phone, or using the new full sentence translation feature to make up for my shoddy Mandarin reading comprehension. But strangely, the best part about the S Pen is the multiple methods it has for goofing off by making your own homegrown gifs. Option one is to whip out the S Pen, hit Smart Select and put a rectangle over any video you can see on the screen. Boom. gif made. Option two, the Live Messages feature, is new for 2. Live Messages lets you make animated drawings on a background color of your choosing or even on top of pictures youve taken. Its a virtual meme making machine, and a joyful addition to a phone thats so often seen in the hands of no fun allowed corporate execs. But thats still only answering half the question of why you should get a Note 8 over the cheaper S8. The other part of the equation are Samsungs new dual rear cams, which pairs the S8 and S8 Plus camera with a second 1. 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