Catalan Chronicle, 16 September, 1903








*GM reiterates game timetable!*




*Tsar appoints Beavis and Butthead as telegraph operators in the Winter Palace!*


*Kaiser launches new cookbook onto the world!*





Welcome to the sixteenth edition of your indigestible Catalan Chronicle!


First of all thanks for your patience in waiting for this delayed adjudication. The deadline arrived for this move last week, and I was missing three sets of orders. Not good. Anyway, a couple of you were querying why I've been delaying the deadline like this given that I did make it abundantly plain to you all that this game was due to be played to tight deadlines, so I've resolved not to delay the deadline again like that unless one of you asks me for an extension. If that makes the game a bit odd to play, so be it. A second NMR from you and I will replace you in the game.


With that in mind, let's try and get back onto schedule. Mondays should be spring moves, Tuesdays summer retreats, Thursdays Autumn moves, and Fridays winter adjustments. From next week, that is how we will play. So, I'm going to ask you for your Winter adjustments for 2000GMT tomorrow, Tuesday 9 July, and I will publish press for you on Wednesday 10 July 2000GMT, ready for Spring 04 which will be 2000GMT Monday 15 July. And back to our usual publishing schedule.


Here's the latest news of army and fleet movements around us:

Austria:
A Budapest Supports A Serbia - Rumania

A Serbia - Rumania
A Vienna - Trieste (*Fails*)

England:
F English Channel Supports F North Atlantic Ocean - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
F Liverpool - Irish Sea (*Fails*)
F North Atlantic Ocean - Mid-Atlantic Ocean

F Norway Supports F Denmark - Sweden
A Picardy - Brest (*Fails*)
F St Petersburg(nc), no move received

France:
F Brest Hold
F Irish Sea - Mid-Atlantic Ocean (*Fails*)
A Marseilles Hold
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Western Mediterranean

A Paris Supports F Brest

Germany:
A Berlin - Prussia
A Burgundy - Gascony
F Denmark - Sweden
A Kiel - Munich
A Ruhr - Burgundy

Italy:
F Adriatic Sea Supports A Venice - Trieste
F Albania Supports A Venice - Trieste

F Greece Hold
A Tyrolia Supports A Venice - Trieste
A Venice - Trieste

Russia:
A Armenia Supports F Black Sea - Ankara
F Black Sea - Ankara
A Bulgaria - Constantinople (*Fails*)
A Galicia - Silesia

F Gulf of Bothnia - Baltic Sea

Turkey:
F Aegean Sea Hold
F Ankara Hold (*Disbanded*)
A Constantinople Hold

There are no retreats, so we're straight into Winter 03:


Austria:   Supp  4 Unit  3 Build  0
England:   Supp  6 Unit  6 Build  0
France:    Supp  5 Unit  5 Build  0
Germany:   Supp  6 Unit  5 Build  1
Italy:     Supp  6 Unit  5 Build  1
Russia:    Supp  5 Unit  5 Build  0

Turkey:    Supp  2 Unit  2 Build  0

And now we have some press, hot off the telegraph wires, straight from our Barcelona newsdesk!


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Russia to Austria:  Sorry, Sil - Gal was supposed to help Rum.

Russia to Austria & Italy:  Seriously.  AIR.  Stop the madness!  Anyone?  GE will call the shots if we don't unite.

Russia to GE:  If my southern friends can't unite, please consider me
the third leg of your stool.  I'll finish off T and occupy the corner.
 Heh Heh... stool.

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Der Kaiser smacks his lips at the menu of frog legsDer Kaiser raises an eyebrow at the monstrous notion of endgames in year 1903
Der Kaiser's Munich army plans on patting Italian soldiers on their green little headsDer
Kaiser feels that he inspires trust in his colleague by letting him
enjoy waffles in exchange for meatballs, perhaps he will trade crepes
for those waffles?
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This concludes our latest edition of the Catalan Chronicle,
we
hope you've enjoyed reading it. Please do send in your news stories,
thoughts, dreams, ambitions, and reviews, however mendacious, for us all
to enjoy.

I'm looking for a build from each of Germany and Italy, and any press that you might want to publish in the Winter 03 adjudication, by 2000GMT tomorrow (just under 24 hours from now).


There will be one more press deadline on Wednesday 10 July 2000GMT before the Spring 04 moves, due 2000GMT Monday 15 July.


Jerome (Editor)