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Sunday American anywhere In the South notity
Circulation Manager Hearst's Sunday Amer).
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.
(hies Deavers has gone after locker
lut n the effort to break up the
selling or dispensing of l{guor on Sun
dav in any such places keeping open
yn that day
Saturday afternoon the Chief is
sued an order that all members of the
police force should make cases against
wny c¢lub or clubs dispensing liquor
on Sunday In any manner whatso
ever
By wayv of pointing his policy, he
also sent a letter to Newport Lan
ford, Chief of Detectives, asking him
to detail 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
vou to detall two of your men to
look after these places on Sundays
and malke cases against anyone dis
bosing of intoxicating Hquors on
Sundays:
“The members of the force will
pay special attention to all locker
clubs and other places in the city
keeping open on Sundays, and make
cases where it 1s found intoxicating
liquors are being sold or disposed of
in anv way, whether for cash or ex
~hanged 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
cient evidence to warrant a case be
ing made, will be required to report
.ame to his captain, who will in
turn make a written report of same
to the Chlef 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
eity on Sunday.” i
No warning was given the clubs or
anvone else, so far as is known, con
cerning the radical and far-reaching
order of the Chief The order is
<.eeping in its purport, and Includes
everything in the wuy of clubs in the
city, from the Capital City and the
Atianta Atldetic Clubs on down to the
humblest locker club in 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 Ocklawahl
River swamps while touring Florida
early in January, was held before
County Judge E. E. Hasl€ell in this |
¢ity to-day. Evidence in the nase{
was practically that submitted at the
Coroner's inquest. The prisoner
waived examination and was held
without bail to appear at the.spring
term of Circuit Court, which meets
{n April. Fully 500 persons thronged
the courtroom and grounds. It was
a quiet, orderly crowd, and there was
little excitement. Stover now Is in
Putnam County jail and did not ap—‘
pear in court.
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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
years ago, and the gift has just beon]
resurrected. At that time Mr. Rnrko-l
feller gave SIOO toward a pension fund
for firemen's widows, which was Jusl‘
about to be wound up because of a lack |
of money. i
Chief Martin deposited the money and |
forgot all about it. A few days ago he |
came across an old bankbook in the attic,
and fouazd the SIOO entry in it. The|
chief promptly turned it over to the lirP'
departmeant, and as a result an attmnptl
will be made (o reorganize the fund if
mther subscriptions can be obtained.
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.
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By ARTHUR MOORE.
(Military Expert and Investigator.)
That “citizenry” «President Wlilson
spoke of as the proper guarantee of
our security was an “ARMED citi
zenry.” Yet Mr. Wilson, the com
mander-in-chief of our army and
navy, knew when he colned that
phrase his predecessors had left him
no way to make our citizenty 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 his disposal to
tell us the truth, he has been told
the truth himself. Knowing 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 field 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 gny
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 halfca
miliion Krag and new Springflield ri
fles combined in the whole United
States.
The average man naturally might
conclude that after the extensive
preparation to fill foreion orders ‘or
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
take that an American could make.
For every bit of this preparation to
manufacture foreign guns ard muni
tions will HAVE TO BE REPEATED
before our manufacturers could BE
GIN to make war machines for our
own use.
It would probably 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 foreizn
standard arms. While if nothing is
done with our arsenals, which ALONE
produce our Government Springfields,
the capacity for that arm will be just
ftlm same as it is to-day.
. Of field cannons of adequate range
!zmd efficiency we can not produce a
‘thousand in a year.-under any condi
‘tions at all possibla of attainment.
For powder we are well off now, be- |
cause of the quantities in process of
manufacture for foreign governments. i
But ordinarily we could not secure a}
powder supply short of five or slx‘
months.
The 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
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Bargain Counterßush l
TRE#NTON, N. J., Feb. 27.—Five hun
dred women tried to get into an install
ment house here, where a speciul ~.flel
was in progress under a new owner.
They crushed Lawrence Clark, a spe
cial officer, so badly he had to be gar
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. . z
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Now Kept in Chains
PARIS,. Feb. 27.—Count Michael l
folstoi, 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 coniined in a xul"rkssl
is chains.
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Colquitt 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 artillerv, 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. 27.—~Governor
Manning, of South Carolina, has
signed a bill passed by the lLegisla
ture appropriating S4OO to erect a
'munnmvm to McKie Meriwether, ‘he
young South Carolinan killed i{n the
Hamburg riot, across the river from
Augusta, in 1876, provided a similar
amount is raised by the McKie Mer
iwether Memorial Assoclation.
The ladies of this assoclation 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
life 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 nagro military com
pany was barricaded In“a two-story
2ri<~k 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
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For Workingmen
ALBANY, Feb. 27.—Albany has a
school for men who have passed the
school age, but are handicapped be
cause of the lack of eommon 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 3. 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 vou 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
arithmetic to some of the higher
branches of mathematics.
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. 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, overturned.
William 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 city
had been requested by a joint resolu
tion to offer prayers Sunday for his
recovery. 5
Child Labor Bills Set Aside.
RALEIGH, N. C., Feb, 27—By a
vote of 29 to 8 the Senate this aft
ernoon killed Senator Nash’s substi
tute for Senator Weaver's child labor
bill, and then Jaid thes original bill
on the table. Vigorous speeches were
made for and against the substitute.
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Georgian Offered to
Cure Mme. Bernhardt
BRUNSWICK, Feb 27.—Believing
he could cure necrosis of the bone, a
disease with which Sarah Bernhardt
suifered, and save h leg. - Dp. J.. 3,
Hendley, a locai der&;i. went to the
expense of $5.27 in sending a cable
gram to the noted actiress. Mme.
Bernhardt evidently received the tele
gram too late, for her leg was ampu
tated. {
*ok ok ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1915,
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 advocacy 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 Seeretary Bryan as *‘The Prince of Peace’’ was
greeted repeatedly with hisses and jeers. Resolutions were adopt
ed demanding that Great Britain be held accountable forthe vio
lation of international ethies equally with Germany for the loss of
American lives on ships in British waters.
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 segs: they have been drawn to suit her interests.
When we talk of ‘precoden\ts‘ we are merely referring to what the
country has laid down in her interests ag 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 commeree 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.
““Tt 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’ would undoubtedly smile
with approval upon such an act. 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 imerease the widowhood and
orphange of Europe.””
‘T Gotcha,’ Poli :
otcha,” Foliceman
' Lew!
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Tells Senator Lewis
Slang Answer Given Correct Speech
of Statesman Who Recovers
Lady’s Handkerchief,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-—Senator
James Hamilton Lewis picked up a
dainty embroidered handkerchief
dropped by a woman just outside the
White House. He walited some time
for her to return to reclaim her prop
erty, but she failed 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 return
and discover it hanging there, and I
beg of you to watch for her and at
once ease her mind.” "y
“1 gotcha,” replied the policemnan.
Freed by Blease, Sent
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Back for Longer Term
COLUMBIA, 8. C., Feb. 27.—'Have
you ever been pardoned or paroled by
Governor Blease?’ 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. s
Freeman answered he had received
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,
“vou will not get pardoned this time,”
said the judge.
SHUTS BAR, GOES TO REVIVAL.
EVANS CITY, PA., Feb. 27.—Evans
City had a religious revival conducted
by the Rev. A. H. Griffin. All of the
buciness houses closed during the ser
vice on Mothers’ Dayv. and one hotel
man, C. H. Miller, closed his bar and
attended the meeting.
LONDON, Feb. 27.——The Franco-British fleet
whieh 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
sets becanse they were out of range, while the war
ships did terrible havoe in the fortifications. The
admiralty announeces that five forts were silenced
because of their helplessness.
Millionaire for D
lonalire lor vay
Now Seeking a Wife
Butch McDevltt Would Wed Girl Who
Will Think Him Great as
He Believes.
WILKESBARRE, Feb. 27.—John
“Butch” 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 questions, 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
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In Chicago Failure
CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—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 public.
A total of 5,356 suits were flled dur
ing the year, as compared with 33,897
marriage licenses issued.
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Poisoned Ices; 35 Die
AUSTIN, TEXAS, Feb. 22.—A Mex
ico City dispatch says:
“The death of several Constitutional
ist soldiers, caused by eating poisoned
jce cream. led to the arrest of 84 ice
cream V¢ ders in the city. All were
made 10 ¢ul their own wares, with the
result thai 35 of them died of poison
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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.
BT. LOUIS, Febd 27 —“Jitney®
bus drivers can not draw the color
line. This ruling was handed down
by Judge Hogan in Pollice Court in
the case of John J. Hickey, chauffeur,
who had six negroes arrested when
they. refused %o get out:of his bus,
Judge Hogan held the “fitney” bus
i{s a public conveyance, and as there
was no evidence that the negroes had
conspired to raise trouble he dis
miissed them.
Ten minutes after leaving oourt
Hickey knocked down a man, and as
he was driving away from the hos.
pital 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”
bus driver and made $6.35 the first
day.
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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 checks 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 square 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 §IO,OOO, for
whieh 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
To Brave War Zone
BRUNSWICK, Feb. 27.—Showing a
fine disregard for the threats of the
Germans to sink all vessels within the
recently declared war zone about the
British Isles, the British steamer Den
of Bwnie, one of the big ships now at
the Southern terminals completing a
cargo of cotton, will sail to-day or
to-morrow for Liverpool.
The Den of Ewnie will be the first
vessel to get away from Brunswick
direct for a port to reach which it
will prove necessary to penelrate to
the very center of the war zone,
Cornell Students to
Have Military Course
ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 221.—-A two
years’' course of military drilling will be
required of Cornell students after the
new hall now being erected by the State
on the Cornell campus {8 completed.
This has been decided by the faculty,
which has made such a recommendation
to the trustees. Under the Morriil 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 Ideu
tenant H, T. Bull, U, 8. A., at present
detailed to Cornell. ;
Missing Heir Found
After 4-Year Search
ORANGEBURG, S. C., Feb. 27.—
After a seemingly frultless search for
four years, Mrs. Maggie Walton has
at last been lorated, and within a few
days will receive 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 nas
been covered. A few days ago the
much-sought heir was located at
Brewton, Ala. i
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Allied Fleet Penetrates the Darda
" nalles to a Point Fourteen Miles
~ From the Entrance Despite
Feeble Resistance by the Forts.
Three Trains Ready tc Take Turk
ish Government Into Asia Mi
nor—lnvaders Still Face Many
Miles of Mostile Fortifications.
PARIS, Feb. 27.~The Anglo-
French fleet 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 feeble
effort to drive off the ships, but failed.
Three trains are being 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.—Serious dam
age has been inflicted upon the inte
rior Turkish forts guarding the Dar
danelles by the international fleets of
French and British warships, accord
ing to advices to-day from Athens and
Tenedos.
. Thirty big men-of-war are hurling
la tornado of shells against the Turk
ish works, and se terrifie is the can
nonade that the thunder of the guns
’van be hea. ]l at the Island of Tene
dos, 30 miles south of the western
len:rahca of the waterway.
In his officlal reports to the British
‘Adm:rul(_\', Vice Admiral Sackville H
‘Carden reports that ‘the ailied fleet
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 forte 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.
Kven 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
45 miles from the Sea of Marmora,
and it is still 100 miles from the Sea
of Marmora to Constantinople. The
entire waterway lis lined with forts
and thick with floating and sub
merged mines. Before the ships
could approach Constantinople it
would be necessary to ciear the sea
of mines. ’
Forts Along Dardanelles.
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 point of the waterway,
where the Dardanelles is only a mile
wide.
Warsaw Is Safe,
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Writes U. 8. Officer
By GRANVILLE FORTESCUE.
(War Correspondent, Who Was Mili
tary Aide to President Roosevelt.)
SOCHACZEYF, POLAND, Feb. 27.—
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 beyond
all recognition by the German siege
guns.
With Sochaczef as yvour 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
amall shells, but enormous pits that
mark where the 12-inch projectiles of
the great cannons have exploded. One
of these excavations was directly in
the center of a road and big enough to
bury an elephant in. 1 took a pho
tograph, with two officers standing
one above the other, and yet not
reaching its rim.
The town shows the frightful raw.
ages produced by these giant sheills.
Houses have literally been disin
tegrated when these cones of explo
sives have touched them. A whole
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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,
Foremost Military Writer in Europe.
The essentlals of a slege are that
the operations of the besieged foroe
are confined to a restricted area by
the action of the besleging forces; so
that it is the object of ihe besleged to
force their way out and of the be
siegers both to prevent the besieged
from forcing their way out, and grad
ually to contract the area within
which the besieged are restricted In
thelr operation.
Subject to this definition, the pres
ent phase of the war may be accu
rately described as the siege upon an
enormous scale of the Germanic pow
ers.
A condition commonly but not nec
essarlly accompanying a slege is that
called the blockade. The essential of
a blockade is that you prevent the
means of livelihood from reaching the
besieged, and also, of course, but as 38
secondary matter, the opportunity
through munitions of continuing their
| resistance in arms,
‘ You may have a siege without a
blockade, as when an armed force is
|so restricted that it can not break out
and yet stlll possesses avenues of sup
imy, or is permitted some forms of
Is:xxvr»!x' for political, religious or other
reasons by the beslegers. But you
could hardly have a blockade without
ja siege, becayse no armed force
'would permit itself to be starved if it
'were able to cut its way out.
| True Siege; Imperfect Blockade.
Now, the present siege of the Ger
manies is remarkable for the fact
that it is a/true siege accompaniedy
by a very imperfect blockade. The
German and Austrian armies have
tried very hard indeed to force their
way out through the lines that con
tain them in France and Belgium and
Alsace, to master Serbla and get
a wayv out in that fashion, to break
through the Rlisfll&n lines in the east.
They have hitherto falled in all these
attempts. But in the blockade which
should accompany such measures the
besiegers have shown no consistent
military policy.
[ do not say that thu besiegers have
not shown a consistent moral or po
litical policy; 1 only say that they
have shown no consistent military
policy
If you desire to reduce your enemy
by blockade you prevent his getting
anyvthing whatsoever of which he
stands in need. The Romans in front
of Jerusalem, for instance, or the Qer
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 sol
dlers going in, but we will allow food
for civians.” 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 Gierman 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.
If you do not prevent everything
you 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 wag; but you have no military
reason. As a mlilitary operation, to
allow cotton, let us say, to go Into
Germany, and to forbid copper, I 8
meaningless. What vou are fighting
is the whole nation with all its re
sources, economic and social, and In
asmuch do vou increase the chances
of the enemy’'s winning and of your
losing, and by so much:do you kill and
wound vour own wealth and prolong
the duration of hostilities.
Ca» Be No Two Opinions. §
It .s a matter upon which there
can be no two opinions, and one upon
wh ch it is singular enough that there
shculd be any confusion of thought.
There age four chuses, and, fer