[1]The use of gas, as already pointed out, had been forced on the British by its adoption by the Germans. Ultimately the methods invented by British chemists and physicists outgassed the Germans.[2]Portugal was drawn into the war on the side of the Allies on 19th March, 1916, when Germany declared war on her, ostensibly because she had requisitioned German merchant ships lying in her harbours, but in reality because an invasion of Mozambique was then becoming necessary to Germany's hard-pressed troops in East Africa.[3]Japan afterwards assisted the Allies with war supplies—particularly with heavy guns to Russia before the Bolshevik betrayal—subsequently helping to stem the tide of Bolshevism in the Far East, besides contributing with her ships to the defeat of the German submarine campaign in the Mediterranean.
[1]The use of gas, as already pointed out, had been forced on the British by its adoption by the Germans. Ultimately the methods invented by British chemists and physicists outgassed the Germans.
[2]Portugal was drawn into the war on the side of the Allies on 19th March, 1916, when Germany declared war on her, ostensibly because she had requisitioned German merchant ships lying in her harbours, but in reality because an invasion of Mozambique was then becoming necessary to Germany's hard-pressed troops in East Africa.
[3]Japan afterwards assisted the Allies with war supplies—particularly with heavy guns to Russia before the Bolshevik betrayal—subsequently helping to stem the tide of Bolshevism in the Far East, besides contributing with her ships to the defeat of the German submarine campaign in the Mediterranean.