Catalan Chronicle, 18 March, 1904








*GM's titty lip spurs players to action!*




*Italians storm Vienna!*


*Secret telegraph line suspected underneath the Norwegian Sea!*


*Red faces at German army HQ as orders mix-up!*




Welcome to the eighteenth edition of your inscrutable Catalan Chronicle!


I've never seen players respond so quickly to a threat to being replaced from the game. Thanks everyone for getting your moves in. I'm going to attempt to get us back onto the one-game-year-per-week schedule that I promised you at the start of the game, let's see how that goes...


Here's the moves:

Austria:
A Budapest Supports A Rumania - Serbia
A Rumania - Serbia
A Vienna Supports A Budapest (*Dislodged*)

England:
F English Channel - Brest (*Fails*)
F Liverpool - Irish Sea

F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Spain(sc) (*Bounce*)
F Norway Hold
A Picardy Supports F English Channel - Brest
F St Petersburg(nc) - Barents Sea

France:
F Brest Hold
F Irish Sea - North Atlantic Ocean
A Marseilles - Spain (*Bounce*)

A Paris Supports F Brest
F Western Mediterranean - Tunis

Germany:
A Berlin Hold
A Burgundy Supports A Picardy - Paris (*Void*)
A Gascony Supports A Picardy - Paris (*Void*)
A Munich Supports A Berlin

A Prussia - Livonia (*Bounce*)
F Sweden - Denmark

Italy:
F Adriatic Sea - Trieste
F Albania Supports F Adriatic Sea - Trieste
F Greece, no move received
A Trieste - Vienna
A Tyrolia Supports A Trieste - Vienna

A Venice - Piedmont

Russia:
F Ankara - Constantinople
A Armenia - Smyrna (*Fails*)
F Baltic Sea - Livonia (*Bounce*)
A Bulgaria Supports F Ankara - Constantinople
A Silesia - Warsaw

Turkey:

F Aegean Sea Supports A Constantinople - Smyrna
A Constantinople - Smyrna

One retreat is due. Austrian A Vienna can retreat to Bohemia or Galicia.




The deadline for the retreat, and for any press you would like to send before the autumn moves, is tomorrow 2000GMT - that's Wednesday 17 July.


And here is your Spring press:

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Russia to Austria: You couldn't even build with that extra SC.  It wasn't a matter of survival.
Russia to England:  Thanks for your secret email.  Yes, I do think it is time to stab Germany.

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Yo!  France, lets me gives you some adsvice.  Youse happens to be at
a....shall I says a fork in da road.  Ifs youse tink dat taking Tunis
der would be a good idear wellll youse needs to retink dat plan.  here
is a deal for ya...No I won't says it is a deal dat you can't refuse.
 But stay outta my land and I may send some help youse way against dem
Germans.  Set foot on my lands and den...fagetaboutit!  Youse get me?

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This concludes our latest edition of the Catalan Chronicle,
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Your next deadline is Summer 04, retreat and press on Wednesday 17 July 2000GMT. Autumn 04 moves will be due
2000GMT Thursday 18 July.




Jerome (Editor)