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2 n TTEATCST'P SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, O.V. SUNDAY. JULY 4. 1915. s HERO FLIGHT OVER PARIS German Aviator and Observer Have Narrow Escape—Former St. Louis Man Is Hero of Hattie of Lodz on the Eastern War Front. lit OLIVER LODGE, the famous scientist, who reviews contemporary war methods for readers of The American. SIR OLIVER LOOGE TELLS Continued From Page 1. great remained, and I loved I'a**is more as a conqueror. Over the bouietopi I swung In Ri« a: «4*clee Little dote In the greets showed me that crowd* were feather ing:. They could not understand how a German could handle the French In vention more skillfully and advanta geously than the French themselves. They bejaran to shoot at. us. It was fine. They were very bad shot*. I felt like dropping a bomb—not to kill Chem, but elm ply to see somethin** blown up. Then from the direction of Juvisy came a French monoplane As tt vai more swift than my biplane, I bad to turn and try to escape My Ba- variai comrade prepared my rifle, arid aeized his pistol. The Frenchman ap proaches oloeer and closer, I attempt ed to reach the protecting clouds at <,000 feet, but my pursuer flew swifter than we, ever nearer and nearer. Sud denly I became aware of a second monoplane only S00 yard* away. It attempt ad to block my path. We had to act I shot at the airman ahead of tie. Then a turn and the major took aim. He shot once, twice, three times. The enemy's machine, which was now next to u* only 100 yard* away, top pled, tilted upward, and then fell to the ground like a atone. But our other pursuer w&i almost on top of us. and shot at u* with pistol*. nose to the *ra*» lever a bullet hit the fuse lage Then impenetrable fog conceal ed tia from the enemy. I could hear the buu of hia motor grow fainter and fainter. Ran Into Shrapnel. When we again emerged from thla gray ocean of cloud* it wa* twilight. But suddenly, before, behind and on ♦he aide®, white ©moke clouds appear ed, bursting ahrapnel Still flying above the enemy's poaltlon. we were directly exposed to their artillery fire. Devil with it! The Are grew worse. I knew' from the little trembles that the machine was getting blow upon blow, but It never entered my mind that those shrapnel balls meant death to me. Something in man remains un moved by logic and knowledge—eape- eialiy when you're in the air. There, of a sudden, a white-yellow fire in front of me The machine reared up. The major seemed to reel to his feet Blood was pouring from his shoulder The covering of the wings was tat tered. The motor buxzed and roared «us before, but the screw was missing A grenade shattered our propeller, but, thank heaven! did no worse. My ma chine began sinking to earth. 1 suc ceeded In gilding, and threw the bi- iplane down into the woods. The branches and tree tops crashed to splinters I struck the steering gear, and then was no longer aware of what went on around me. When I again be came conscious 1 wa* lying next to Major O. on the forest ground, sur rounded by a group of German reserv ists. Recognizing the machine, they bad forced themselves Into the forest in small numbers to save us Major G. bed to be removed to the nearest hos pital. I only received a crushed leg. Tour affectionate son. Started With 1,500 Aeroplanes. Before this war began those who book an interest in military affair* thought of Germany's aerial forces in terms of Zeppelin* It was acknowl edged that Germany had some aero plane*. but publicly she had not done very much with them. On December 1 last year Count von Arnim. of the dying corps, told me that Germany had 1,500 aeroplane*, and that more were being turned out every day. When I remarked my amazement, be smiled and said, "We did not build them all since the war began," Ger many knows how to guard her mili tary secrets well. Just us the 42 centimeter guns were guarded, so was her strength in aeroplanes.' Taube means dove, the sjrotabeJ #f peace. The Taube, an aeroplane of tbs monoplane type, made its appear ance over France. Belgium and Rus sia at the outbreak of the war So that the German soldiers would not dra upon it, there were painted under Its wings two iron crosses in black. In Berlin they began to «Jng a song. “Ich glaube das uber fllgt eln Taube." The Taube Abandoned. A few weeks of the war and the Taube was a sensation Then some of the high-powered French mono planes got after it and the Germans forsook the Tsube. But every newa ps per still report* any German aero plane as a Taube As a matter of fact. Germany has practically given up the Tatibe. ,The machines that nre being used now are the Albatross and Fokkar It was in one of these Albatross machines that I flew over the French lines. A patch of earth. purplish gray, with illimitahlc lines of black trenches stretching away, and every where puffing white smoke coming, going—that was the battlefield as I It below the clouds. Unless one fl‘.en n»i<>ss a »kv he can not understand tliat war or those who wage it. He can not underHtand the craving that comes over one to drop bombs "From sheer joy. mother (wrote the Crown Prtnre h flyer), I nearly went out of my mind » • • just to Hee something blown up” • * * They are not whoiiy xane. these fighters in the sky that is. In their ra»« hinea They suffer from the same disor dered ego that made Bear hey and all our exhibition flyer* think themeelveg stronger than the law of gravity.only with them the ego Ik Intensified to an unbelievable extent by r«r Not only are they defying gravity, but the gune as well. The Story of Phil Wurat. Thli 'eads to rash deed*; It urged Phil Wurat to fly over Laid* under fire of the Russian guns. At Lodz he did more than all the German artll- lerv had been able to do. He threw the < itv Into darkness But bla olory begin* In Kt. Ixmis. Born In Ger many, PhD Wurat had become a citi zen of the United State*—and an aviator 1-ast spring lie went to Ber lin lo aee hi* mother. With a laugh he told her how In the American aviation campe they called him the "Crazy Dutchman." Phil Wurat had his own idea* about boa flying ma chines should be made and loudly he announced them, particularly in St. lamia, where he hud a school. War came in Berlin. Phil Wurat volun teered A* he Raid to me "II was a fine chance to learn all about war plane*. And It would be fun." Now every German aviator has to earn a little yellow and black badge, the emblem of the Flying Corps, it la : harder to win than a second-claea j Iron Cross. He ha* to prove hie fit ness. hi* ability and his bravery He ha* to accompli ah »evere observation test* and bomb dropping. Phil Wurat vva* awarded the badge. He was sent to the front He flew over Rhetms, dropping "bonbons." a.* he call* them He made many valuable report* to General Herrlngen He wa* transferred to the east One day when Htndenburg'* army was advancing on I»dz, the Polish manufacturing city, the staff decided that to plunge the city in darkness would be to create paolr among the IluKRian soldier* and inhabitants. They sent for the crazy Dutchman. Destroy* Light Plant "Destroy the electric light plant at Lodz." were Wurat'a order*. "Jawohl!" Phil Wurat climbed Into hie Alba tross and flew across Poland toward 1 ,odr. The Russian artillery sought to halo him with a crown of bursting shrapnel But Wurn cared more for the Iron Cross; so he kept on. Above Briton Inspired by Kiss of Belgian Girl TAKOKDA. K DAK.. July 8 H. C. Kaltii i.« in receipt of a letter from a friend, R. S Johnston, a ffunner in the British army in France and Belgium, in which some. Interesting sidelights are thrown on the war. % "The French and Belgians," he writes, "are very good to u* When we marched into one place an extremely pretty Kiri rushed up and threw her arm* around my neck and kissed me. I felt like fighting six German* an/1 ten or fifteen Turk*. But when her father came up and pulled off the same stunt, kissing trie on both cheek*, I got real mad ana told him I’d punch him in the Jaw." Spends Kaiser’s Bean Cash Seeing America SAVANNAH. July 3—After Retting rich quick at the outbreak of the Eu ropean war by welling vast eupplies of of beans and grain to the German army, P. Holst Knud Hen. of Copenhagen. Den mark. ha* arrived in Havannahh on a "aeeing America’ tour in an efforr to spend some of his easily earned cash. The visitor state* that he made h sale of bean* ami grata to the Kaiser- amounting to more than $2,<Kkt,OOP He nay* it la rather difficult just now to have a good time in Europe and he de- *ired to spend his coin in a peaceful land. Knudnen will go from here to San Francisco. Wild Horses Sold to Belligerent Nations flew one way and then made a turn to get the velocity of the w r lnd. He took lii* altitude and then made a cal- James Kiorrian. who ju*i ca. the range. RIordan states that representative of several of the warring nation* in Eu dilation in which figured the velocity , roj>« visited »Sunny*ide and interviewed of the wind and the speed of his bomb j rancher* and cowboys. They offered t«. the ground It told him exactly how much allowance he had to make for the wind. Then he circled over the electric plant of Ixxiz. "My first bomb,” he told me, "missed It only hit he workshop The •econd bomb hit the dynamo*. Oh. It wa* fine!" And his eye* si»arkled Iaodz was 1n darkness for nine days, and after the Germans captured it It took them a week to repair the big prices for horse*, and since that time capturing the wild steeds of the desert ha* been a favorite pustime Drink Treating Jail Offense in Britain Statesboro Minister Gets Real Help Tha R«v. J. Powell Telia How Ho Found New Strength to Give to His Labors. The Rev. Jf„ Powell, of Si&tearboso, Ga. t suffered from stomach upubjee ^ eerooaly that they affected hi* work. He struggled on under the handicap as beat he could—hardly realizing, perhaps. Just how much his sickness wa* hurting him One day he learned of MayF* Won derful Remedy. He took the first dose —then decided to take the full treat ment. He wrote: "Since using the six bottles of your wonderful remedy I feefl like another man. It has been quite a wonder to me to know how one could have a stomach disease like mine and live and do the work I did. I just escaped the operating table "Now I can eat what I please, and It doesn’t hurt me, night or day.” Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives permanent results for stomach, liver and inteatlnal ailments. Eat as much end whatever you like. No more dis tress after eating, pressure of gas in thg stomach and around the heart. Get on* bottle of your druggist now and try it on an absolute guarantee if not satisfactory, money will he refunded —Advertisement LONDON, July 2.—The Gazette has issued the text of an order in Council were of the quor Traffic Board," to regulate the *ale and supply of Intoxicating liquor* within prescribed areas. The Liquor Board is empowered to prevent the practice of treating. Per sons guilty of violating orders to this effect may be prosecuted under the De fense of the Realm act, and will be liable to imprisonment for *lx month* or a fine of , * .. « . i 4 m issutHi me tcxi oi an oraer lectric light plant. Twenty times up creating and defining the jxu to March 6 had W urst flown over j "Central Control of Liqu Warsaw and each time he dropped twenty bombs! Three Typ*« of German Bombs. This bomb dropping 1* interesting. The German bomb* are of three dis tinct types. There is a small bomb about the size of a baseball that 1* thrown overboard by hand. The other tw'o bomba are mechanically dropped. One i* for purposes of killing and destruction by explosion, the other la to create Are. The explosive bomb* are shaped much like pears. Over all they are about ten inches." and five lnche* i* their greatest diameter. An aviator never carries more than four. They hang from the floor of the ob server's car. In order to prevent their Jostling against each other and burst ing under the aeroplane, each bomb is held in a peculiar basket like con trivance Suspended from the aero plane are four such ba*kets. When they are empty th«v look like dan gling slats two fett. long. When they are filled with bombs the end of these tenuous slat* of thin steel are caught together by a wire nook and noose. This is connected by a simple lever system up through the floor of the observer’* car to a tiny lever at hia elbow. Each bomb 1* thus held in a wire basket. When the observer 1* ready to Are, he presses a brass lever —of which there are four—the basket is opened, the bomb released and goes bolting down. As it rushes through til* air a little propellerlike fan slow ly unspins, releasing a safety catch so that upon contact the bomb explodes. Observation Main Thing. The inflammable bombs, of which only two are carried In each ma chine. are much larger. I saw oxve tliat wa* fully a foot in dlame.ter. It was a perfect sphere and was painted the gray-green of the army cloth. Like the explosives, these bombs are dropped from the floor of the ob server’s compartment. But the bas ket* arc not closed upon them, only the releasing hook being used. Of ELY, NEV., July 3—Several hun dred head of wiki horses have been captured within the last few week* on ranches in the vicinity of Bunny*!' 1 *. 1 Lodz he made some observation*. He , according to a utatement made here by Means Found for Checking Submarine Raids, He Says, but Guards Details—Development of Engines of Destruction Not Inventions. Chicago Leper Goes To Join Italian Army CHICAGO, July 8.-Highland Park’s distinguished leper. Angelo Lunardi. has gone to Italy, according to the latest ad vices. to fight for his coutnry. Mayor HaxLings say* the report is true "1 have received information.’’ says the mayor, "that some unknown per sons. ostensibly felolw countrymen of Lunardi. assisted him to escape from the Jail here and convoyed him to New York, where he was smuggled a v rd a ship for Italy.” Hallboy of Page Enlists for War LONDON. July 3 —Ambassador Wal ter Hines Page and his secretaries spent a bad naif hour when they dis covered that Page Hornsby, one of the hallboy* ut Grosvenor Gardens, was missing. Search was instituted, in fear the boy had met sonm serious accident. At noon Hornsby himself called up and solved ttie mystery. "I have enlisted and won’t be back," was his message. Field Guns Hidden On Interned Vessel NOPLES, July 3.—The German steamer Bayern, which ha* been in terned in this port since last August, the hand#bombs, a* many as twenty j wa* unloaded by the Italian authorities arv often taken aboard. Near Su-J H^de^ Oltengible good* of no par # walk! I saw an aviator load 22 of them into the observer’s compart ment. They were deposited Into a portable compartment tliat reminded me of a huge box of egg* • One by one these bomb* are tossed over the sides of th6 car by hand. Now, all the aviators with whom I have talked agree that bomb-drop- ping is not the Important thing. The making of observation* Is what counts. That is the real value of aeroplane* to an army. To know the location and ptrength of the enemy's positions is to decide battles. The German flyers all agree that It is moit dangerous to make observa tion* over a fortress. If an observer Is killed, the aviator can still escape; if an aviator Is killed, the observer is bound to be; the ma chine falls. In none of the German mono-biplane type did I see a single double-control, whereby the observer could handle the machine if his avia tor was hit. Sooner or later these ob servers must die; it is an Inexorable law of military mathematic*. ticular Importance were field guns, ma chine gun* and several aeroplanes As none of this wur material was mentioned in the ship's papers, the customs au thorities seized it all. Scion of Harvard, Graduating, to Enlist BOSTON. July 3.—Lionel DeJer«*v Harvard, a lineal descendant df John Harvard, founder of Harvard Univer sity. on being graduated from Harvard, will return to nis home in England to enlist in the army This young Briton is the first of hi* name who ever entered Rivard He has Just written & war poem for th* senior class album. DEVICE FINDS BURIED SHELLS. NASTY. FRANCE, July 3.—A curl oui invention designed to disclose by magnetism unexploded shells burled In the earth not more than eighteen inches was tested to-day. The object of tbe device is to protect farmers from strik ing live shells with their plows. By ORTON TEWSON. (Special Cable to The Sunday Ameri can.) LONDON, June 27—Sir Oliver Lodge, perhaps the greatest living scientist, welcomed the opportunity which I gave him to speak to the great circle of American people reached by the Hearst newspapers. As I was being ushered into hi* room specially set aside for his re searches in Birmingham University, in the heart of England, I caught a glimpse of several of his laboratories. Here were delicate instruments of strange shape, at the purpose of which the laymftn could only guess and wonder—weirdly shaped retorta, endless rows of bottles, books of ref erence, notebooks of research, and beyond were the humming wheels and rewtiesH tracery of driving belt* appertaining to the engineers’ work shop. The principal of the great British industrial university is no mere book ish theorist, but an energetic investi gator of many branches of science. Although his device for dissipating fogs still is a thing of wonder, his in ventions by no meant/ are all in tbe air, as the universal use of the Lodge sparking plug readily proves. Greeting Cordial. Waving me a cordial gretting. Sir Oliver settled down to his cross-ex amination with a zest which gave no indication he was giving up a portiod of a particularly busy morning for the benefit of the readers of the Hearst newspapers. While he sat there, a smile on his face, his great frame overflowing the boundaries of his chair, his head bent a little forward by seeming weight of his huge polished dome, with his beard as a support, his fare was ir radiated with a boyish gleam which smoothed out the lines of care on the ruvged features. "I would like to know. Sir Oliver,” l raid, "your view s on some of the sci entific aspects of the war. For ln^ stance, the leading papers contained in the last few weeks a wide corre spondence deploring the lack of or ganization in the field of chemistry, physics, mechanics and general in vention. Do you think British leaders in science are alive to these matters, and Is the organization with them adequate for the need or equal to that of Austria or Germany?” “Many of the people busry writing paper* on these matters,” broke in Sir Oliver, "are uninformed or mis informed. There is far more organi zation and science in England than the public is aware of. Laboratories Are* Busy. It 1* not known, as many recent letter? prove, and I am perhaps giv ing a wav secrets by saying so now, that practically since the beginning of the war there has been in exist ence a special war committee of the Royal Society, of which I am a mem ber. It includes representatives of every branch of science, who meet and discuss various suggestions for research into matters of martial im portance. "The laboratories of its members are busy w ith investigations, and the outcome of this work eventually will be felt at the front. I have been In favor of more pub licity in our work, but it might pos sibly lead to the inundation of the committee by a flood of useless pro posal*. As it is. the members receive numbers of suggestions from outside sources Some contain germs of renl worth, but the majority are useless. Still, I think we may be missing something of excellence.” "Are you connected in any way with the fighting departments?” "Yes. From time to time we re ceive requests from the War and Ad miralty offices. These request* are passed on to members of the com mittee be* able to deal with them. Investigation* are made at our labo ratories maybe in *ome university, maybe in some private laboratory or large manufacturing works, and the results are communicated to official departments and orders then aT* given ., ^ Nothing Now. He Say*. "Yes. there I* nothing much the matter with onr organization.” said Sir Oliver, a* he smiled the smile of one who know* "With regard to the scientific in terests which the war has brought into prominence, do you think any striking development has taken place ?” "There i* nothing new," said Sir Oliver. "There have been develop ments. of course, end strange rever sion* also to the old-fashioned meth od* and Engines of warfare, but when our enemies u*e poison gap they only are employing means of destruction which were known before the war and forbidden "Their Zeppelin* and submarines certainly have been Improved no as to become a real menace and the range of their hie guns has been increased but these are only developments of the already existing engine* of de struction ami can not be called inven tions in the strict sense. You will notice, too. with the possible excep tion of aircraft, these machines all are necessarily of a destructive^ na ture. and therefore not truly and in any real sense contributions to the world’s science. Wireless Telephone. "To my mind, the most wonderful scientific development 1s long- range wirele~* telephony. By its mean* the human voice can travel for miles and man can speak to man. though only the air connect* them. This 1? a true contribution to science which the war has developed, n con tribution which will outlast all the engines r*f destruction which have been used or still are to be mnde ” I ”Tn your opinion, is Great Britain keeping pace with the enemies in the invention of destructive war machines and has she anything to counter the craft of Zeppelin type? Can she hold in check the mid* of submarines? I* she keeping pace with the many in ventions In the field of warfare?” "Means are being found, some in deed are In use," he said: “means con cerning which, for obvious rea*on». I can not give details, but which will counter all these. Take, for instance. submarines We are " T leaned forward eagerly, but the spirit of caution nudged Sir Oliver at that moment, for he Hosed up as tight a* an oysrter and no perauaslon could get him to hint at the secrets he guards, »o I changed the subject. The Student*’ Part. "Aa the principal university, what part do you think your students and th© institution generally should play in war?” "Al who can.” he said, "have been invited to enlist. The names of those fighting and those dead on the field of battle you will see on the roll of honor in the corridoT.” Here Sir Oliver’s words sounded for a few moments only during the inter view like those of an old, carevvorn man. "Yes,” he a/Jded, "the university can and should supply fighting force* of the greatest importance." In a war of such magnitude, where science is playing so important a part, I thought it might be possible to as certain the probable lines along which invention* might develop, so I asked: '^Can you give me. Sir Oliver, any Indication or even a hint a* to the probable line of development of the Allie*’ fighting gear; will it be with regard to machines on land, to gases, to vessels in the air, on the water or Under the sea, or is it likely someone may harness the force of nature to work destruction on opponents?” Sir Oliver shook his head and re plied: “I am no prophet.” Knows of No Message. "Speaking of prophets,” I said, “what l* your opinion of the various prophecies which have been made with regard to the war.” "The prophets have not done them selves Justice,” was the laconic an swer. "But you believe, and the public ex pects you. as a spiritualist investiga tor, to believe that future events can be foretold. One would think that a world catastrophe such as the present would have been foretold by a me dium at some seance. Has such a message been given?” "I know of no definite message.” re plied Sir Oliver, "no authentic .proph ecy. There have been allusions Princess Mary Resents a Slur At U. S. Stand GARVIN CULLS THE WAR Abruptly Leaves “Volunteer Work ers” Meeting When American Attitude on Lusitania Criticised. Is LONDON, July 8.—At the first meeting of a new league, entitled "Lady Volunteer Workers,” held at the London residence of Lady Wan tage, an old friend of the royal fam ily, and attended by the Princess Mary, a remarkable scene occurred, which ended In the Princess and her governess, Mile. Dussau, by whom she was attended, leaving the meteing abruptly. A discussion arose aa to the position of America in the war, and the atti tude of the United States Adminis tration since the sinking of the Lusi tania was s^rverely commented on by several of the ladles present, notably by a Mis* Davidson, a cousin of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Prin cess Ma*ry did not join in the discus sion at alJ until Miss Davidson re marked that it was now simply a question of the United States choos ing between honor and dishonor, whereupon the Princess said she did not agree with that statement; to her it seemed that It was simply a ques tion of the United States doing what was the wisest thing in obYlously very difficult circumstances. Etiquette gives the members of the reigning house the advantage of hav ing the last word at such discussions, for no one 1* supposed to differ wijth the plainly expressed opinion of afiy member of the royal family. Miss Davidson, however. apparently thought that the considerable dispar ity between her own age and that of the Princess relieved her of the neces sity of observing thi* rule, and she re peated the expression of her opinion, adding: "Your royal highness must pardon an old person like me for not agreeing with the opinion* of a young person like you." "They are not my opinions only,” replied the Princess. "I know that; they are your parents’ opinions.” said Miss Davidson, “but I still claim the liberty of having my own opinions, which are those of a great many of your father’s friends.” The Princess then at once rose, and, with her governess, left the room, and the party Immediately afterward Editor of Pall Mall Gazette Declares Allies Have Postponed Their Hopes for Months to Deliberately Prepare for Thorough Victory. broke up. As a result of the Incident, , . . .. royal support has been withdrawn through media and many of us felt from t he league, which will, of something terrible Was pending, tout there has been nothing definite.” "What do you think of messages in the past that are said to have fore told this war? There was one of a French monk which purported to foretell th© beginning and the end of the war, as well as the result; there was one which prophesied the down fall of the house of Hohenzollem when the head of the house mounted his course, die a sudden death. New Zeppelin Goes Out Every 20 Days GENEVA (via Paris), July 3.—News dispatches reaching Geneva from Fried- horse from the wrong side, as does the richshaven set forth that double shifts present Kaiser. There was a horo scope of the Kaiser cast by an Amer ican astrologer, which foretold the downfall of the German Emperor for last December. Are not these false prophecies sufficient to shake your be lief in the existence of communion with the spirit world?” Speaks of Researoh. "These were probably misinterpre tations.” Here he spoke of the man of science who requires that all phenomena of his Investigation shall be fully known i before Judgment is passed. He con tinued : ‘T myself have investigated none of thejje prophecies, but they probably are misinterpretations. Because some people got hold of a cryptic Latin screed, which is supposed to have been ■written many, many years ago by a French monk, and twist the transla tion to make the resulting version Into a prophecy of a war already be gun—such a fact neither affirms nor denies the possibility of prophecy. It does nothing. The others mav be like them.” Pressed on this point, Sir Oliver ad mitted. so-mewhat sorrowfully, I thought, he has not come across any case of authentic prophecy concerning the war. When I reverted to the ques tion Sir Oliver shook me off with a laugh, and I am not going to make any prophecies. They, too, might not come true. of men are now working in the Zeppelin factories, which are turning out a com pleted Zeppelin every twenty days. One of the two Zeppelins destined for operations against Italy was sent from | Friedrichshafen yesterday to replace the dirigible destroyed over Belgium recent ly by the Canadian aviator Warneford. It is reported in Geneva that the Ger man authorities are preparing for an important combined raid of Zeppelins and aeroplanes on PariR and London in retaliation for the recent attack on German towns by aviators of the Allies. By JOHN L. GARVIN. (Editor of The Pall Mall Gazette. Spe cial Cable to The Sunday American.) LONDON, July 3.—Last week marked an epoch in national organi zation. as well as a pinch in the Euro pean struggle. The Allies have post poned their hopes for months and de liberately reorganized their methods to assure thoroughness of a deferred victory. Russia’s emergency has been met by our allies with indomitable for titude and reeohition. It means that France plays for the present the main part of holding an impregnable barrier in the west. It depends on the supreme exertions of Great Britain during the next few months to provide men and munitions with an effect which will turn the course of the war and vibrate from one end of Europe to the other. The situation, but on a larger scale, is not unlike the sterner years of the Napo leonic wars. After more than a century, thi* is again the situation that suits the British temper. We shall bear it well. The signs of the last few days have satisfied u* of the British temper. With man-power, machine-power and money-power we will rise to the need with a vigor that will discomfit o-ur enemies, assert the supremacy of the Quadruple Entente and astonish the world. We have vast reserves, but we have to mobilize them now fully without delay. We can do it and shall. Grave Voice* Heard. While in Germany and Austria many enthusiasts and some experts declare that the Russian colossus is or soon will he overthrown and finished for the remainder of the war, other grave voices in the central empires warn all concerned against thinking It Is all over but the shouting. The Russians are described as moving back with Incredible obstinacy and Immovable courage, lacking nothing but munitions. The Bear is always ready to maul its pursuers. Nevertheless, serious and perilous as Potsdam knows the event to be. it is practically certain Germany means to make the crowning effort one way or another to seize Warsaw and the who-le line of the Vistula, and. if pos sible, throw Russia back beyond the more Interior line of the Bug and its key to the fortress and Brest-Litovsk railway junction into the marshes of the Pripet. Since the fajl of Ivem-berg our allies in tbe south of Poland have retreated very slowly to a point somewhat near er the Vistula. It is well-nigh as great a crisis as that of 1812, and may quite possibly prove the greatest in Russia’s Mmols. Under direction of his sovereign and with the whole Russian nation behind him, the Grand Duke is preparing /or all emergencies. Factors of Time and Space. We repeat that we have absohit* confidence that the Grand Duke will be the eventual victor, upon the con dition that he be fully supported by the colossal energy of this country L. piling up munitions. Against Germany are the factors of space and time. She must succeed before November or she can never succeed. The time is too short for her purpose. Even for a partial and tem - porary success he will have to pay a tremendous price. The deeper she advances into Rus sia the graver becomes the danger of a total reverse. It must be month* before the Grand Duke's anmiea are so fully reorganized and refitted as to b« able to resume the final offensive with huger forces than ever. But even in the meantime the Czar’s troops will be better and better equipped with every month that passes. We do not say too much when we suggest that this is one of the great est dramas in human history. Cruiser Interned; Officer Loses Mind 8ATS' FRANCISCO. July S— Lleuten- ant Herman Berka. of the engineerin'* corps of the German navy* could not stand the strain of being interned by the United States on the Island of Guam, and his mind gave way under it. Suffering from the hallucination that he was the son of the Kaiser, he was brought into San Francisco aboard the transport Sherman for treatment at the Mare island Hospital until it will he convenient for him to be taken through to his home in Germany. BRENAU Collefie.Couscrvatory f©u» yew A.B. eovree of wanoonl rr»«e. Special o»or»e* I* llusic. Art. Expression end UonfilK Science. Adnalaainn 4)poo certificate. Location ie fumed m U'-atth retort, ki.'fc Clutude. bracing but m.ld ebraatc. n building*. 100 acres In ground'. Modem theatre <01 pla>«. concert*, fete*. Outdoor aporie and recreation*, end tnonj interenttne ooelsi event*. Seven notionalgoro/ttie* with high ideal*. Patron, •re Iron JO *rcie*. E«pen*e about WOO jwi yew. Cowplem •tory ineoialorvic and •overal bullet,n* freo upon ro«ucai Foil term begin* September 14th. Addixn* BRENAU. Box 16, Gainesville, G*. England Preparing For Prolonged War LONDON, July 8.—The Earl of Sel- borne. president of the Board of Agri culture. has appointed a committee, of which Lord Milner is chairman, to in vestigate the report as to "what steps should be taken by legislation or other wise for the sole purpose of maintain ing and, if possible, increasing the present production of food in England and Wales on the assumption that the war may be prolonged beyond the har vest of 1916.’’ The committee is instructed, if it finds additional powers are necessary, to re port in time for legislative action dur ing the present session of Parliament. GEORGIA MILITARY ACADEMY The South’s Most Splendidly Equipped Prep School Illinois Student, 23, Is Canadian Captain CHICAGO. July 3—Less than a year ago Dougal Kittermaster was a freshman at the University of Illinois. Soo nhe will sail as the youngest cap- 1° the third Canadian contingent to fight the German* "somewhere in France." He is 23. 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