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can, Atlanta, Ga. :
VOL. 11. NO. 47.
Chief Orders All Policemen to
Make Cases Against Any Or
ganizations Which Dispense
Malt Liquor in Any Manner.
Lanford Is Told to Detail Two of
His Detectives in an Especial
Effort to Make It a Dry Day for
Clubmen Throughout Atlanta.
Chief Beavers has gone after locker
clubs in the effort to break up the
selling or dispensing of Mgquor on Sun
day In any such places keeping open
on that day.
Saturday afternoon the Chief is
sued an order that all members of the
police force should make cases against
any club or clubs dispensing lquor
»n Sunday in any manner whatso
aver.
By way of pointing his policy, he
also sent a letter to Newport Lan
tord, Chief of Detectives, asking him
to detall two men especially to look
after such cases, and Inclosing a copy
of the new order.
Following are the letter and the or
der as issued by the Chief:
Chief Beavers’ Letter.
The following is a copy of an or
der issued to the members of the
force, and in this connection I want
you to detail two of your men to
jook after ‘these places on Sundays
and make cases against anyone dis
posing of intoxicating liquors on
Sundays:
“The members of the force will
pay special attention to al locker
clubs and other places in the city
keeping open on Sundays, and make
cases where it is found intoxicating
liquors are being sold or disposed of
in any way, whether for cash or ex
‘changed for tickets of any manner.
Must Report to Captain.
“Any member of the force know
ing or suspecting such places keep
ing open, and unable to get suffi
eient evidence to warrant a case be
ing made, will be required to report
same to his ecaptain, who will in
turn make a written report of same
to the Chief of Police. The Chief
of Detectives, captains and ser
geants will see that this order is
strictly complied with and break up
the disposing of intoxicants In the
city on Sunday.”
No warning was given the clubs or
anyone alse, so far as is known, con
cerning the radical and {ar-reaching
order of the Chief. The order is
sveeping in its purport, and includes
evervthing in the way of clubs in the
city, from the Capital City and the
Atianta Athletic Club: on down to the
humblest locker club irn town.
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Held at Trial for
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Murder in Swamp
PALATKA, FLA., Feb. 27.--The
preliminary hearing of Clyde Stover,
a negro, charged with the murder of
Alonzo G. and Horace S. Gardner, of
Springfield, Mass, in Ocklawaha
River swamps while touring Florida
early in January, was held before
County Judge E. E. Haskell In this
city to-day. Evidence in the case
was practically that submitted at t‘ael
Coroner’s inquest. The prisoner
waived examination and was held
without bail to appear at the spring
term of Circuit Court, which meetis
in April. Fully 500 persons thronged
the courtroom and grounds. It was
a quiet, orderly crowd, and there was
little excitement. Stover now lls in
Putnam County jail and did not ap
pear in court.
.
John D.’s Gift, Lost
12 Years, Is Found
TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 27.—John
D. Rockefeller's gifts to public funds are
not often put away and forgotten, but
that is what happened here twelve
vears ago, and the gift has just been
resurrected. At that time Mr. Rocke
teller gave SIOO toward a pension fund
for firemen’s widows, which was just
about to be wound up because of a lack
of money.
Chief Martin deposited the money and
torgot all about it. A few days ago he
came across an old bankbook in the attic
and found the SIOO entry in it. The
ohief promptly turned it over to the fire
departinent, and as a result an attempt
will be made to reorganize the fund if
?um lmb.crlytlonl can be obtained.
AT ST i i
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Investigator Moore Declares Na
tion Would Be Helpless in War
Because of Its Unprepared
ness—‘Armed Citizenry' Myth.
Would Take Year to Install Facto
ries to Make Machines for
Turning Out War Equipment.
Powder Plants Are Ample.
By ARTHUR MOORE.
(Military Expert and Investigator.)
That “citizenry]' President Wilson
spoke of as the proper guarantee of
our security was an “ARMED citi
zgenry.” Yet Mr. Wilson, the com
mander-in-chief of our army and
navy, knew when he coined that
phrase his predecessors had left him
no way to make our citizenry an
armed body, and knew equally well
his administration had done nothing
to change that.dangerous fact.
Even though he has not permitted
the professional military men whose
knowledge he has at hig disposal to
teil us the tmu has been told
the truth him: nowing It, he has
done nothing but emit another phrase.
Not Enough Big Guns.
Our stores of war materials would
be our first resort in the nation’s need.
It has been told us again and again
by men that know the truth that the
great cannons of our coast defenses
are pitifully too few. It has been told
to us that our fleld artillery is even
more scant, and that ammunition for
both types of cannons is insufficient
for a week of hot fighting.
The most essential weapon for any
sort of fighting, the rifle of the sol
dier, is, however, where we are most
of all short of our simplest needs.
It is doubtful if there are half a
million Krag and new Springfield ri
fles combined in the whole United
States.
The average man naturally might
conclude that after the extensive
preparation to fill foreign orders for
all types of artillery and ammunition
our American factories would be ready
to supply our own needs.
Would Take Year to Equip.
But here is the most dangerous mis.
‘uke that an American could make.
For every bit of this preparation to
‘manufacture foreign guns and muni
tions will HAVE TO BE REPEATED
before our manufacturers could BE
GIN to make war machines for our
own use.
It would probabiy take a year to fit
up for the manufacture of any con
siderable quantities of war machines
of our Government standard types.
At the end of a year the capacity of
the private concerns may be doubled,
but only for production of foreign
standard arms. While if nothing is‘
done with our arsenals, which ALONE
produce our Government Springfields, |
the capacity for that arm will be just ‘
the same as it is to-day. |
Of fleld cannons of adequate range‘
and efficiency we can not produce a
thousand in a yvear under any condi
tiong at all possible of attainment.
For powder we are well off now, be.
cause of the quantities in process of
manufacture for foreign governments,
But ordinarily we could not secure a
powder supply short of five or six
months,
Ths present Administration is not
responsible for the condition. Mr.
Wilson is only responsible for the
falsely confronting phrase.
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Man Is Crushed in
.
Bargain Counterßush
TPRENTON, N. J., Feb. 27.—Five hun
dred women tried to get into an install
ment house here, where a special sale
was in progress under a new owner.
They crushed Lawrence Clark, a spe
cial officer, so badly he had to be car
ried away. The attending physician be
lieves Clark is injured internally.
The special officer was standing near
the door and was almost pushed through
a large plate glass window.
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Tolstoi’s Grandson
Now Kept in Chains
PARIS. Feéb. 27.—Count Michael
Tolstoi, grandson of the writer, who is
a prisoner of war in Bohemia, escaped
with two companions, sought refuge in
a Bohemian village and was recaptured.
The three now are confined in a fortress
in chains. . !
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Colquilt Pleads for a Great U. S. Navy
Wants a Real Merchant Marine, Too
DARDANELLES SHELLING IS LESSON FOR AMERICA
That New York and other American coast
cities would be helpless under a bombardment
from warships of a nation at war with the United
States because the range of our coast defense guns
is not as great as that of modern battleships has
been brought out before the House subcommittee
on fortifications at Washington. General Weaver,
commander of the coast artillery, admitted that
such an attack would be extremely likely in case
of war and that the American guns could not reply.
Honors Planned for
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Reconstruction Hero
Memorial To Be Erected to South
Carolina Man Killed in Famous
Riots in 1876, -
AUGUSTA, Feb. 21.-—Governor
Manning, of South Carolina, has
signed a bill passed by the Legisla
ture appropriating S4OO to erect a
monument to McKie Meriwether, (he
young South Carolinan killed in the
Hamburg riot, across the river from
Augusta, in 1876, provided a simllar
amount is raised by the McKie Mer
iwether Memorial Association.
The ladies of this association have
raised a large portion of the S4OO, and
within a few months a marble tablet
or shaft will be placed in the principal
street of North Augusta, 8 C., In hon.
or of the young man who gave up his
lite when the negroes and whites had
trouble in the final days of reconstruc
tion. ’
Merwiether was the only white man
to lose his life. A negro military com
pany was barricaded In a two-story
brick house, when Meriwether and
some other young men were recon
noitering and got too close. Meri
wether fell dead from a volley of
shots. A large number of negroes
were killed before the riot was
quelled.
Albany Has School
.
For Workingmen
ALBANY, Feb. 37.—Albany has a
school for men who have passed the
school age, but are handicapped be
cause of the lack of common school
education.
Walter Mallard, himself a working
man, conceived the idea. A room over
a store was obtained, tables were in
stalled, seats provided and a black
board put in. The question of sup
plying a teacher was solved by ob
taining the services of Professor 8. H.
de Jarnette, of course, gratis, and the
men were then invited to come on.
The proposition has taken with a
flash, and on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings you can see a dozen or more
men poring over their books. School
discipline is demanded, much to the
delight of the pupils, and rapid strides
are being made. The grades of the
school run all the way from simple
[nrnhmenc to some of the higher
branches.of mathematics.
N. C. House Speaker,
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~Auto Victim, Dead
RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 27.—Emmett
R. Wooten, of Kinston, Speaker of
the House of Representatives, died
at a local hospital this afternoon from
pneumonia, following serious injuries.
February 18, when an automobile in
‘which he was riding, overtutned.
Willlam T. Aycock, engrossing clerk
of the Senate, was killed outright.
Speaker Wooten was 36 years old.
He is survived by his widow and two
children. The pastors of the cily
had been requested by a joint resolu
tion to offer prayers Sunday for his
recovery.
Child Labor Bills Set Aside.
RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 27—By a
vote of 29 to 8 the Senate this aft
ernoon Kkilled Senator Nash's substi
tute for Senator Weaver's child labor
bill, and then laid the original bill
on the table. Vigorous speeches were
made for and against the substitute.
.
Georgian Offered to
Cure Mme. Bernhardt
(W —
BRUNSWICK, Feb. 27.—Believing
he could cure necrogis of the bone, &
disease with which Sarah Bernhardt
suffered, and save her leg, Dr. J. J.
Hendley, a local dentist, went to the
expense of $5.27 in sending a cable
gram to the noted actress. Mme.
RBernhardt evidently received the tele
gram too late, for her leg was ampu
tated.
THE ARGUMENT:
Former Governor of Texas Says England Has
Made Conditions Like Those of 1812
NEW YORK, Feb. 27— Vigorous protests against the alleged
misuse of the American flag by England and the advocaey of a
navy sufficiently strong to insist upon America’s sovereignty on
the seas were features of a largely attended mass meeting under
the auspices of the ‘‘ For America League’’ at the Hippodrome.
Reference to Secretary Bryan as ‘‘The Prince of Peace’" was
greeted repeatedly with hisses and jeers. Resolutions were adopt
ed demanding that Great Britain be held aceountable forthe vio
lation of international ethies equally with Germany for the loss of
Ameriean lives on ships in British waters. j
CITES BRITISH GOLD AND GREED.
““We have always had to eontend against British ‘gold and
greed,”’ declared ex-Governor 0. B. Colquitt, of Texas. ““Condi
tions confronting us now are not much different from those of
1812. Then, as now, England controlled the seas; she has written
the law of the seas; they have been drawn to suit her interests.
‘When we talk of ‘precedents’ we are merely referring to what the
country has laid down in her interests as the law, because she is
mistress of the seas.
““No nation should be conceded the right to stop the free
transit of impartial commerce. For this reason the navy of the
United States should be inereased until it is second to none.
“Our laws should be changed so as to encourage a merchant
marine, ample to carry our commerce to all parts of the world.
But what a spectacle our nation presents in humbly bowing its
proud and free people before the commereial will of Great Britain !
That country threatens to withdraw its millions they have loaned
in America if we do not continue ‘to do her bidding on the high
seas and let us destroy or use our commerce at her pleasure.
DECREASE SHIPMENT OF ARMS.
It would be a gracious and just thing to do if Congress would
pass an act forbidding the shipment of arms to any of the bellig
erent nations. The ‘Prince of Peace’ wouid undoubtedly smile
with approval upon such an aect. If foodstuffs can’t be sent to
noncombatants, then we should at leas trefuse to ship the instru
ments of death from our shores to increase the widowhood and
orphange of Europe.”’ : .
‘T Gotcha,’ Poli
otcha, Policeman
Tells Senator Lewis
Slang Answer Given Correct Speech
of Statesman Who Recovers
Lady's Handkerchief.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—-Senator<‘
James Hamilton Lewis picked up a
dainty embroidered handkerchief
dropped by a woman just outside the
White House. He walted some time
for her to return to reclaim her prop
erty, but she falled to come back. |
Finally Senator Lewis draped it on
a bush just at the White House gate.
He called the policeman’s attention, |
saying: |
“Perhaps the dear lady will relurn!
and discover it hanging there, and I‘
beg of you to watch for her and at
once ease her mind.”
“I gotcha,” replied the policeman.
Free(%by Blease, Sent
COLUMBIA, 8. C., Feb. 27.—" Have
you ever been pardoned or paroled by
Governor 3lease?’ was the substance
of a question put by Judge Sease, hold
ing court at Charleston, to William
Freeman, convicted on two counts,
housebreaking and larceny. ‘
Freeman answered he had recelvedl
clemency of some description, but he
did not remember “‘exactly -whether he
was pardoned or paroled.”
Thereupon the judge increased from
three years to six years the term the
prisoner must serve for his latest
crimes.
“You will not get pardoned this time,”
said the judge.
SHUTS BAR, GOES TO REVIVAL.
EVANS CITY, PA., Feb. 27.—Evans
City had a religlous revival conducted
by the Rev. A. H. Griffin. All of the
business houses closed during she ser
vice on Mothers’ Dzy, and one hotel
man, C. H. Miller, closed his bar and
attended the meeting.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1915
LONDON, Feb. 27.—The Franco-British fleet
which bombarded the Dardanelles forts Friday
and Saturday, a week ago, escaped all damage
from the guns of the Turkish forts because they
delivered their attacks at long range. The forts
replied, but their shells fell far short of their tar
gets because they were out of range, while the war
ships did terrible havoe in the fortifications. The
admiralty announces that five forts were silenced
because of their helplessness. .
Millionaire for Da
Now Seeking a V%ife
Butch McDevitt Would Wed Girl Who
Will Think Him Great as
He Belleves.
WILKESBARRE, Feb. 27.—-John
"putch" McDevitt, “millionaire for a
day,” is in the market for a wife, He
believes the prettiest girls come from
New England, and has offered him
self exclusively to girls of that sec
tion, providing they don’t bother him
with church questionsg, club affairs and
pink tea parties.
“Butch” says his wife must be will
ing to allow him to keep his own hours
and do pretty much as he pleases. He
agrees to keep her fashionably dress
ed. btu denies her poodle dogs, fancy
cats and parrots.
John wants his wife to absorb his
ideas of his greatness, and to regard
him as one whose life will be recorded
in history.
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One in 7 Marriages
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In Chicago Failure
CHICAGO, Feb., 37.—For every six
marriage licenses in Chicago during 1914
there was a divorce, a separate main
tenance or an annulment suit filed, ac
cording to County Clerk Robert M.
Sweltzer's figures, just made publie.
A total of 5,366 suits were filed dur
ing the year, as compared with 33,897
marriage licenses issued.
Dealers Made to Eat
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Poisoned Ices; 35 Die
AUSTIN, TEXAS, Feb. 22.—A Mex
ico City dispatch says:
“The death of several Constitutional
{st soldiers, caused by eating poisoned
jce cream. led to the arrest of 84 ice
creamn veuders in 4he ¢ity. All were
lmado to ea' their oww wares, with the
result that 59 of themn died of poison
ok : : -
THE PROOF:
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st. Louis ‘Jim Crow
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Jitney Bus Barred
Police Judge Releases Six Negroes
Who Were Arrested at In
stance of Chauffeur.
ST. LOUIS, Fed 27 —"“JNtney*
bus drivers can not draw the ocolor
line. This ruling was handed down
by Judge Hogan in Police Ceurt in
the case of John J. Hickey, chauffear,
who had six negroes arrested when
they refused to get out of us.
Judge Hogan held the “fitney’ bus
is a public conveyance, and as |
was no evidence that the negroes had
conspired to ralse trouble he dis
missed them.
Ten minuies after leaving oourt
Hickey knocked down a man, and as
he was driving away from the hos«
lmw to which he took the man he
struck another automobile and dam
aged it -
Mrs, Nellie M. Read. wife of a one
time railroad conductor who is now
an invalid, has started as a “jitney”
bue ‘driver and made $6.35 the first
\d"
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@Girl Gets $4,000 for
Pretty, Rosy Cheek
COLUMBIA, 8. C., Feb, 27.—There is
a young woman here who regards her
rosy cheeks as being very valuable.
This really would be true, in a mone
tary sense, could all the epidermis of
her face be charged for at the rate the
Columbia Railway, Gas and Electric
Company was forced to pay for about
three squaie inches of that complexion,
which was removed when she was
thrown from a moving street car.
The Supreme Court agreed that this
cuticle was not worth all of SIO,OOO, for
which amount suit was entered by Miss
Clyde Yarborough. The high court did
hold, however, that she was due $4,000
for this loss, the rosiest part of one
cheek.
British Cotton Ship
%o Brave War fius
0 brave yvar ne‘}
BRUNSWICK, Feb. 27.—8howing a!
fine disregard for the threats of the
Germans to sink all vessels within tha%
recently declared war zone about the |
British Isles, the British steamer Den‘
of Ewnie, one of the blg ships now at‘
the Southern terminals completing a
cargo of cotton, will sail to-day or
to-morrow for Liverpool. |
The Den of F:v‘vn!e will be the first |
vessel to get away from Brunswick
direct for a port to reach which It
will prove necessary to penectrate to
the very center of the war zone. ‘
Cornell Students to
Have Military Course
ave Military Course
ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 22.—A two‘
year#®’ course of military drilling will be
required of Cornell students after the
new hall now being erected by the sute‘
on the Cornell campus is completed.
This has been decided by the faculty,
which has made such a recommendation
to the trustees. Under the Morrill land
grant act Cornell is required to conduct
military drill. Since 1902 only freshmen
have been required to take the military
course.
1t is probable that two regiments of
1,000 men each will be formed by Lieu
tenant H. T. !&ull. U, 8. A, at present
detailed to Cornell.
Missing Heir Found
g |
After 4-Year Search
ORANGEBURG, 8. C., Feb, 27—
After a seemingly fruitless search for
four years, Mrs. Maggle Walton has
at last been located, and within a few
Edays will recelve her portion of an es
tate which was settled up in this
county in 1911. From place to place
the search has been carried on, until
practically the entire country has
been covered. A few days ago the
much-sought heir was located at
Brewton, Ala. !
HURL SHOT;
!
Allied Fleet Penetrates the Darda
nelles to a Point Fourteen Miles
From the Entrance Despite
Feeble Resistance by the Forts.
Three Trains Ready to Take Turk
ish Government Into Asia Mi
nor—lnvaders Still Face Many
Miles of Hostile Fortifications.
PARIS, Feb. 27—-The Anglo-
French flest has peneterted the Dar
danelles to a point opposite the ruins
of Dardanus, fourteen miles from the
entrance, according to a dispatch to
The Matin. The forts made a fecble
effort to drive off the ships but failed.
Three trains are heing held under
steam In Constantinople to convey the
Sultan and members of the govern
ment into Asia Minor.
30 Ships Hurl Shells
LONDON, Feb. 27-—Berious dam
age has been inflicted upon the inte
rior Turkish forts guapding the Dar
daneiles by the international fleets of
French and British warships, accord
ing to advices to-day from Athens and
;M
Thirty big men-of-war are hurling
a tornado of shells against the Turk
ish works, and so terrific is the can
nonade that the thunder of the guns
can be heard at the Island of Tene
dos, 30 miles south of the western
lemnnco of the waterway. i
In his oMelal reports to the British
Admiralty, Vice Admiral Sackville H.
Carden reports that the allied flest
has made steady progress in its at
tacks upon the forts, and that the
works of reducing them is proceeding
in a satisfactory manner
Mines Are Swept Up.
The fact that a French cruiser has
been able to enter the mines shows
that the forts guarding the western
entrance have been rendered practi
cally helpless. The chief forts were
Kum Kale, Helles Burnu, Yen Shehr
and Sedd-el-Bahr. They were
equipped with heavy Krupp guns, but
many of their cannon were out
ranged by the armaments on the fleet.
Even if it is true that the forts on
both the European and Asiatic sides
of the Dardanelles entrance were si
lenced and the fleet is able to enter
the waterway, it is still a distance of
46 miles from the Sea of Marmora.‘
and it is still 100 miles from the Sea
of Marmora to Constantinople. The
entire waterway is lined with fortl|
and thick with floating and sub
merged mines. Before the shipl|
could approach Constantinople It
would be necessary to clear the sea
of mines.
| Forts Along Dardanelies.
~ Both sides of the Dardanelles are
defended by new fortifications, which
were built at the direction of the Ger
man army engineers. There is a con
tinuous line of these works at the'
narrowest polnt of the waterway,
where the Dardanelles is only a mile
wide.
Warsaw Is Safe, l
.
Writes U. 8. Officer
By GRANVILLE FORTESCUE.
(War Correspondent, Who Was Mili
tary Aide to President Roosevelt.)
SOCHACZEF, POLAND, Feb, 37— |
Sochaczef is the skeleton of a town.
The rafters and wreckage of Its
houses stick up from the ground like
a carrion-picked carcass in the desert. '
The town has been battered beyondl
all recognition by the German slege
guns. !
With Soochaczef as your center,
taking a mile radius, measure north |
along the Bzura River to the east,
and then to the south on the same
river, and you will have a sogment
pockmarked with shell holes—not
alone two-feet excavations, made by
small shells, but enormous pits that
mark where the 12-inch projectiles of
‘the great cannons have exploded. One
of these excavations was directly in
i the center of a road and big enough to
‘bury an elephant in. I took a pho
tograph, with two officers standing
one above the other, and yet not
reaching its rim.
The town shows the frightful rav.
ages produced by these giant shells.
Houses have literally been disin
'te;rated when these cones of explo
sives have touched them. A whole
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Wants, & -Comice
Be Sure You Ge! Them Al
Prime Object, That of Preventing
Means of Livelihood Reaching
Besieged, Is Overlooked, As=
serts Famous Military Expert.
Finds Four Reasons That Might
Explain the Imperfect Block
ade, but He Declares They
Show No Consistent Policy.
By HILAIRE BELLOC, =R
Foremost Military Writer in Europs.
The essentials of a siege are that
the operations of the besieged sored
are confined to a restricted area by
the action of the besieging forces; 80
that it is the object of the besleged t 0
force thelr way out and of the bes
siegers both to prevent the %
ifruu torcing their way out, and grads
ually to contract the area withip
which the besieged are restricted im
their operation. .
Subject to this definition, the press
ent phase of the war may be AcolU
rately described as the siege upon &n
enormous scule of the Germanic pow
ers.
A conditlon commonly but not necs
essarily accompanying a siege is that
called the blockade. The essential of
a blockade is that you prevent the
means of livelihood from reaching the
besleged, and also, of course, but as &
secondary matter, the opportunity
through munitigns of continuing their
resistance In arms. *
| You may have a siege without &
blockade, as when an armed force is
110 restricted that it can not break out -
and yet still possesses avenues of sup
ply, or is permitted some forms n{'é
supply for political, religious or m‘g
reasons by the beslegers. But you
could hardly have a blockade without
i: slege, because no armed force
'would permit itself to be starved if it
'were able to cut its way out. o
~ True Siege; Imperfect Blockade. ’%
Now, the present siege of the Ger
manies is remarkable for the fact
that it is a true siege accompanied
by a very imperfect blockade. The
German and Austrian armies have
tried very hard indeed to force their
‘way out through the lines that come
tain them in France and Belgium and
‘Alsace, to master Serbla and get
a way out in that fashion, to break
through the Russian lines in the east.
They have hitherto failed in all these
attempts. But In the blockade which
should accompany such measures the
beslegers have shown no consistent
military policy. & i
I do not say that the besiegers have
not shown a consistent moral or po- .
litlcal policy; 1 only say that thev
have shown no consistent military
policy.
1t yvou desire to reduce your enemy
by blockade you prevent his getting
anything whatsoever of which he
stands in need. The Romans in front
of Jerusalem, for instance, or the Ger
mans in front of Paris, In 1870, did
not say, “We will prevent arms get
ting through, but we will allow food,"”
or, “We will prevent the food for svi=-
diers going In, but we will allow food
for civilians.” If they had adopted
such a policy they might just as well
not have had a blockade at all. ~
Germany Would Stop Food. :
If the German Empire had the luck
to cripple the British fleet it would
establish a blockade with these
islands. It would allow nothing to go
through, for its aim would be the re
duction of the blockaded party. A
If you do net prevent everything
vou possibly can prevent from go
ing into the blockaded area, then your
blockade is imperfect and will almost
certainly fail. You may have excel
lent moral, religious or political rea
sons for thus -running the risk of los
ing the war; but you have no military
reason. As a military operation, to
allow cotton, let us say, to go into
‘Germany, and to forbid copper, is
'meaningless. What vou are fighting
is the whole nation with all its re
sources, economic and social and m-\ ;
asmuch do you increase the chances
of the enemy's winning and of your
losing, and by so much do you kill fl;fi%
wound your own wealth and prmg
the duration of hostilities. Gl
Can Be No Two Opinions,
It is a matter upon which there
can be no two opinions, and one upon
which it is singular enough that thers
should be any confusion of thought.