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title History. The following articles will also 

 furnish much additional information as to various 

 phases of the struggle : 



Aisne 



Alsace-Lorraine 

 Balkan Wars 

 Belgrade 

 Bernstorff, Johann 



Heinrich, Count 

 Brussels, subhead 



History 



Canada in the war 

 Carrel, Alexis 

 Clemenceau 

 Constantine I 

 Dardanelles 

 Flying Machine 

 Foch, Ferdinand 

 Francis Jospph I 

 Gallipoli 



George, David Lloyd 

 Gerard, James W. 

 Germany 



Hlndcnburg. Paul von 

 Hoover, Herbert C. 

 Joffre. Joseph J. C. 

 Kitchener, Horatio 



Herbert 

 Liege 

 Lille 



Lou vain 



Marne 



Meuse 



Monroe Doctrine 



Namur 



Nicholas II 



Pershlngr. John J. 



Petain. Henri Philippe 



Polncarfi, Raymond 



Red Cross Societies 



Rheims 



Saloniki 



Sims, William S. 



Slavs 



Somme 



Submarine 



Submarine Mine 



Torpedo 



Triple Alliance ' 



Triple Entente 



Venizelos, Eleutherlos 



Verdun 



Versailles, Treaty of 



Volunteers 



William II 



Wilson, Woodrow 



Ypres 



WARRANT, wahr'ant, a legal term for a 

 document issued by a justice of the peace or 

 other qualified officer, and directed to a con- 

 stable or sheriff, authorizing him to perform a 

 certain specified act. Without a warrant the 

 performance of such an act is illegal. 



Bench Warrant. This is a writ granted by a 



t authorizing the proper officer to arrest and 



bring before the court the person named and 



charged with contempt, crime or misdemeanor. 



Search Warrant. This is a writ authorizing 

 the officer named therein to search a house or 

 other premises for goods held contrary to law, 

 such as goods that have been stolen. 



WARRANTY, wahr'anti. See DEED. 



WAR 'REN, JOSEPH 17II-177:. an Ameri- 

 can patriot who lost his life in the Battle of 

 kflf Hill He was called by Webster "the 

 first great martyr in the great cause." Warren 

 was a native of Roxbury, Mass., and was edu- 

 cated at Harvard. When the struggle against 

 British oppression became acute he waa prac- 

 tinng run linn. m Boston. Devoting his voice, 

 his pen nnd I o to the patriot cause, 



he became a leading figure in the events lead- 

 in u to the outbreak of hostilities, and in April. 

 177.".. \ mimously elected president of 



provincial congrew \\lnrh met at Watertown, 

 Mass. It was at Wan ;-st that Paul 



mad In- midnmlit ndr to Lexington 

 on April 18, and to him is due much of the 



honor for the successful outcome of the battle 

 of the following day. 



Warren served as a volunteer under Putnam 

 and Prescott at Bunker Hill, though he had at- 

 tained the rank of second major-general of 

 Massachusetts forces, and was killed in the final 

 charge in that battle. In 1794 the Masonic 

 Lodge of Charlestown erected a monument to 

 his memory on the spot where he fell, and 

 years later this memorial gave place to the 

 present Bunker Hill Monument (see page 998). 



WAR 'REN, OHIO, the county seat of Trum- 

 bull County, situated on the Mahoning River, 

 in the northeastern part of the state, fifty-two 

 miles southeast of Cleveland. The population 

 in 1910 was 11,081; in 1916 it was 13,059 (Fed- 

 eral estimate). Railroads entering the city are 

 the Baltimore & Ohio, the Erie, the Mahoning 

 Valley (electric) and the Pennsylvania. The 

 Public Square, Packard Park, a Federal build- 

 ing, a public library and a hospital are features 

 of note. Iron, steel, boilers, furniture and elec- 

 tric lamps are important articles of manufac- 

 ture. Warren was settled in 1802 and was in- 

 corporated in 1834. 



WAR 'REN, PA., a borough and the county 

 seat of Warren County, situated in the north- 

 western part of the state, nine miles south of 

 the New York State lino, and fifty-six miles 

 northeast of Oil City. It is situated at the 

 junction of the Allegheny River and the Cone- 

 wango Creek, and is on the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road and interurban lines. It is surrounded 

 by a region rich in natural gas and oil, and the 

 petroleum industries are important. There are 

 also large boiler and machine shops. The State 

 Hospital for the Insane is one of three hospi- 

 tals. Warren has a public library, schools and 

 parks? The place was settled in 1780, and was 

 incorporated as a borough in 1832. Popul 

 in 1910, 11,080; in 1916. 14.737 (Federal esti- 

 mate). 



WAR 'SAW, the capital, metropolis and m- 



trlli rtu:d rrlitrr <'f til. blJC of Poland 



(1918). It i> : bank of 



the Viet ' and is about 400 miles di- 



ly cast of Berlin and 625 miles southwest of 

 Petrograd. The western frontier of Poland and 

 the eastern boundary of Germany adjoin, and 

 of Warsaw was therefore exposed to 

 attacks of ihn (i< nnan forces during the War of 

 the Nations. In 1915. when Poland was over- 

 run by Von Ilindrnluirg'* army, the capital was 

 evacuated by the Russians (see POLAND, page 

 4724), and wa under German influence until tho 

 close of the war. 



