January: MajorBoucher's team reaches Franceville and Port-Gentil and recover the armament. Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin get sick and are treated by Albert Schweitzer. During their stay there, the French authority expels Schweitzer from the territory. While Indy pondered that the bureaucracy of the war is wrong, Pernod informs them that the weapons were needed back in France and that they were to escort them back.[12]
February
Kaiser Wilhelm II announces the German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.[6]
The British releases a telegram intercepted on its way from Germany to the German ambassador in Mexico, telling him to promise German support in a war between Mexico and the US.[13]
Having joined the Belgian Intelligence Corps, Indy decides to join the French Secret Service and using the techniques learned, forges two transfer papers. Remy is transferred to Belgium and Indy is temporarily assigned to the 124th Squadron as a reconnaissance photographer, flying with Hobey Baker. He also takes a photograph of Manfred von Richthofen's defeat by Charles Nungesser.[14]
Indy's assignment is over and Nungesser drives Indy to Paris. He is sent to Hannover in order to persuade Anthony Fokker to defect to the French. Failing to do so, he follows him up to Ahlhorn Naval Base where he witnesses the arrival of the Pohl Giant Triplane which is eventually destroyed.[14]
Indy is sent to Barcelona to assist in convincing Spain to join the Allies against Germany. The espionage team’s attempts to create a scandal leading to a diplomatic incident ends inconclusively. Indy works briefly undercover as a scimitar-wielding extra in the Russian ballet’s touring version of Scheherazade.[23]
July 31: Third Battle of Ypres. Major British attacks are countered.[6]
August: in Prague, Indy is told to wait in a specific apartment for a phone call that may change the course of the war. When the apartment’s phone is stolen, Indy goes through a three-day bureaucratic nightmare to get another phone installed. He gets the phone hooked up just in time for the important call, which just tells him to go to another apartment in Berlin and have a phone installed.[25]
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