Ruhr

For a full discussion of the relation of dysentery to typhus, see Virchow, Kriegstypus und Ruhr.

M. Briand had found it necessary to placate his Chamber by announcing that he intended to occupy the Ruhr on May 1.

The twin cities, Barmen-Eberfeld, in the Ruhr coal-field, form one of the principal centres of cotton manufacture in the world.

Spinola had established his headquarters at Ruhrort, a place where the river Ruhr empties into the Rhine.

The river Ruhr was a wide but desultory stream, easily fordable in many places.