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‘Greed of Japan Pointed Out Side by
- Side With Other Menaces Which
. Are Likely to Follow War.
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concentrated available strength engaged in a futile
‘@éffort to hold the gigantic Canadian frontier against an
‘equal number of seasoned troops with less than the
_army corps, four hundred thousand men, the number
that in modern warfare as exemplified in Europe are
‘concentrated on a fifty-mile battle front!
' What wmerit it that we could counter the invasion of
the United States by an Invasion of Canada? How
woould an invasion of ‘the barren wastes of Alberta and
Columbia or even the grain-producing State of Manitoba
mpensate us for an invasion of California or the Mid
§ ‘West, or the conguest of Ontario and Quebec for
loss of New York, Pennsylvania or Ohio?
~ Meanwhile, the Japanese navy would engage our
Pacific squadron, less than half its size; Great Britain
, uld overwhelm our Atlantic fleet, less than one
i rth its size, and there would remain twelve sub
marines and two mine layers, possibly, between our
. coasts and the enemy fleet. True, New York, Boston,
Ban Francisco have coast defenses, but there are in
.numerable strips of coast where an enemy fleet could
force a landing for its transports. And New York, Bos
ton, San Francisco have practically no land defenses.
The Importance of Munitions.
In the matter of ammunition, our Secretary of War
~‘has repeatedly Informed us that there is a woeful
: ‘ortlge But, you say, in time of necessity we, who
supply balf of Europe with ammunition, could soon
" arrange such matters. Two weeks' time is the cause
every German success on the Franco-Belgian line.
. And it would take a great. deal more than two weeks’
for the machinery of a munition department to
~ be get in motion so as to insure the adequate distribu
¥ of ammunition, were it on hand. And it would
uire time to make it, even though the equipment for
making it be prepared. In the midst of the present
~war the English Minisrty fell because of disorganiza
tion in this department. The government of Britain .
had to undergo a radical and dangerous change during
~ the course of its greatest war because after six months’
_effort on the part of the greatest men in England, to
rfin with the help o{ some of the greatest factorles
: America, the initial unpreparedness of a mumry‘
- which neglected the policy of an efficient standing army
~woould not be overcome.
~ On the other hand, let us pleture a defeated Ger
- many, with hands siill dripping with the blood of En
_TYope, endeavoring to regain in another direction th.t‘
- which she has lost in this unequal struggle.
- Overcome by sheer welght of numbers, she has made
f‘tce- prejudicial to her best Interests, still retaining
: sovereignty and power, if shorn somewhat of her
z . Incensed by our failure to supply her hosts with
&8 vast a quantity of death-dealing materials as we fir
’ to the Alljes, impelled by the thought that per
from us she can regain in territory and wealth
all and more than she has lost in Europe by her useless
~attempt at world-empire—in such an undertaking a vni
i&vo Germany might not scorn the help of her one
i enemy, the crafty Japanese.
~__ln the deflorable case of the sinking of the Lusi
tanla, when American lives were lost, what retaliatory
- § ures could we take against Germany with possi
bility of cemmensurate resultant military, territorial,
w;, 1 or financial advantage? Further than the
YM ent of ammunition and supplies to the Allies,
th we are now doing to the greatest possible extent,
- richly deserving okpunluhmem though Germany be,
- What punishment could we mete out? Having now
meither colonies nor commerce, Germany need fear
navy only as an adjunct to the already more than
ample navy of Great .Britaln. Our ships would only
8o to pull England’s chestnuts from the fire, some
- What in the same manner as have the men of Belgium
M\) Our Only Weapon.
- _ln relation to England's treatment of our commerce,
\ have already passed through incldents caleulated
10 try the patience of a calmer people. But again, if
;i except the occupation of Canada, we are helpless
10 wage offensive war. The expeditionary army which
Y could marshal would not be a factor. We are com.
E:lhd to a policy of seeking no territorial acquisitions.
In case of strained relations with England, our only
yWweapon lies in a re-enaction of the non-intercourse act
of 1811, which placed an embargo on all shipments.
“Although we would suffer financially thereby, we eould
bring England to terms by placing an embargo on ship
_ ts of food and arms alone.
it We are jealous of no nation: we covet no colonles;
Wwe need no room for expansion; we lack nelther grain
! nor mineral deposits; we seek no additional place
b the sun. We do not even aim at the commereial op
unities which a merchant marine would insure us.
Five war seems out of the question. But we must
oh retaining those colonies which we now possess
ind In maintaining our national sovereignty and Integ
ity. Therefore, defensive war seems possible, We
ealize that while the civil war of the white race con
the amalgamation of the yellow race EOOS on;
} slowly balances. Before long the weakened
Ca civilization may have to give way to a
r ant era of yellow supremacy. Therefore, de
. WAar seems inevitable,
There s an irreconcilable disparity in the ratio of
be white and vellow populations to their respective
erri possessions. There is furthermore an im.
pesibility of amalgamation, for physical and eugenic
: Amalgamation or segregation has been the
mnacea for all religlous and racial hates in history.
] : tion has always been followed by war. Amal
' Hoo has sometimes been followed by lasting
: always by temporary lapse into quietude,
F in, in the final analysis, European segregation
8 falled—American amalgamation has triumphed.
jore than a truce between segregated rival peoples
| inconcelvable; such truce |s maintainable only so
g &8 the more highly clvilized shall rematn the more
Werfl. More than a truce between the yellow and
B white is inconcelvable: such truce is malotainable
Bly 80 long as the white shall remain the more power-
- Begregation of a highly civilized people from a more
Bvage people has Invariably led to an attack upon the
rmer by the latter, where geographical proximity per
ited, when the latter had reached a state of military
repared seeming to warrant a trial in prowess of
1 And unless the highly civilized people were
i enough to repel the barbarian hordes they were
‘and their eivilization obliterated. And wun
pos we shall be strong enough to repel and conquer
jem we in our turn will be conquered and our civiliza-
Palse Sense of Security.
Amerfean has been lulled into a false
nse of security : the erroneous belief that the ex.
. of the yellow peoples, when 1t becomes neces.
by, will come by way of Asta and Europe: that in
x distant and altogether Improbable future out.
1t of the yellow hordes of barbarians America
|be the last stronghold of the white race. First
e of the yellow peoples is necessary to
:;m. that expansion will come by way of
mer the least populated, least exploited, least pro
eted, richest country of the white world. The seure.
Btion of the white and yellow races means war —to he
ola perhaps, but not to be avolded,
B realizes this Cont,f!h-g premier of Japan,
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realizes this. In the “Shin Nippon,” .a Japanese month-
Iy periodical, appeared the following over his signa
ture: “Thus those who are superior will govern those
who are inferior. 1 believe within two or three centu
rles the world will have a few great governing coun
tries, and others will pay homage to the mighty. In
other words, four or five great countries, each having
a population of half a billion, will be developed, and the
other countriegs will be attached to these great ones.
For instance, England, Russia, Germany and France
may be such countries, There may be one or two
other independent countries. In that event, woe to the
nations governed! WE SHOULD FROM NOW ON
PREPARE OURSELVES TO BECOME A GOVERN
ING NATION, NOT A NATION GOVERNED.” Perhaps
there {8 nothing sinister in the omission of the name
of the United States from the category of the govern
ing nations. But at least it proves conclusively the
relative importance in which Japan regards us. In
any event, we too must prepare, as Japan is admittedly
preparing.
It has been argued that since our treaty of 1858 there
has been scarcely a cloud in the skies of our relations
with Japan; that the action on the part of California
in excluding Japanese children from the public schools
was a purely local agitation on the part.of California,
attended by no action on the part of either the Japan
ese or American Government., Secretary Root declared
that “Never for & moment was there, as between the
Government of the United States and the Government
of Japan, the slightest departure from perfect good
temper, mutual confidence and kindly consideration.”
When a people desire war, as evidenced qifite recent
ly in Italy, the attitude of a government matters noth
ing at all. The mere fact that the governments of the
two nations did not at that time voice their disapproval
shows admirable restraint on the part of diplomatists
nothing more. The vital fact is that the pride of the
whole Japanese people was insulted and hurt. Then
when the California Legislature enacted a law with
drawing the privilege of equal rights with other for
eigners in owning land in California, national ire and
resentment in Japan were fanned to fever heat, as
evidenced by the real pulse of ‘the people—the press,
not the government,
Japan Master of the Pacific.
Let us consider the issue of the Philippines. Geo
graphically, diplomatically and in policy, Japan i 8 the
England of the Pacific. Japan's navy is forging ahead
of ours in tonnage, speed and armament. Japan seeks
to dominate the Pacific as England dominates the At-
Jlantic. She lacks great natural resources and there
fore great developed national industries. China opens
up the way to Japan to acquire what she lacks -terri
torial expansion, development of natural resources, at
tendant creation of great industries, money; money to
wage offensive war, money to maintain her as a mili
tary power!
~ Although of the western powers England exacts the
~most heartrending tribute to the God of War—a tax
amountigg to almost 26 per cent ‘of the total Incomes
of her inhabitants—and although the Englishman
squirms under this burden, the Japanese cheerfully
bear a load amounting to 40 per cent of their incomes,
which is diverted into the war chest. The argument
that Japan will not extend her frontier and make her
possessions (Formosa, Korea and Manchuria) more
difficult of defense is as untenable as to argue that
England weakens itself by adding Australla and Nova
Scotla to her colonies.
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rope Is overpopulated. Emigration to America is re
stricted. England, Japan's most formidable rival, must
not be antagonized at this stage of the game. The log
feal expansion of Japan begins with the Philippines.
Further, let us consider the question of the open
door In China. As Belglum's coast was necessary to
Germany as a naval base against Britain, so was the
closing of the open door in China necessary to Japan
as a financial base for future operations against the
United States. And as England defended herself from
this menace to her national existence by every means
in her power, so must the United States take imme
diate steps to safeguard itself against this menace to
its peace and prosperity.
Although the Standard Ofl Interests have concessions
which are perhaps as important as railroad concessions
demanded by Japon, no American interests have ever
demanded supervision of the Chinese military arsenals
and armament. And though Japan has rights in ex.
ploiting China to the mutual benefit of China and her
self, the forces with which she guards her concessions
and the influence which she exercises over China lnm
not be allowed to become 8o great as to overawe fubure
American and European capital from legitimate Invest.
ment in China, or to feonardize European and Ameri
can Interests there existing, ¢
United States Must Weld White Races.
The United States must weld all the white races of
the world, as it has already welded the samples 1o its
American laboratory.
To keep pace with Japan's organization of China
into a storehouse of blood and treasure for the ad
vancement of her imperial dreams, we must act, and
act quickly, in organizing frst ourselves and then our
race brothers across the sea. First, we must, there
fore, correct our military poliey, or, better perhaps,
our lack of a military poliey.
The fallacy of reliance on the mutually.-pledged neu-
Arality or integrity of a weaker power by stronger pow-.
ors s proved beyond peradventure of a doubt through
out the course of modern history. England has twice
Violated the neutrality of Denmark: Germany has vio
lated the neutrality of Belgium and Luxemburg. Rus.
win and Japan have each at separate times violated the
neutralfty of China.
We, as a guarantor of the Integrity of China, have
seen England, a coguarautor, stand idly by while her
lly, Japan, foreibly coerced China to cede extravagant
;demnds Since Napoleon, France has not had the
rpnwof to aggressively ride roughahod over the Ittler
peoples. But France, England, Prussia, Austria and
Russia have each at many times both ignored the
\rkhu and destroyed the independence of weaker pow-
aodlve '3 SUNDAY AMEKICAN, ATLANTA, GA. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 19i5
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Germans in Trenches
‘Athlete’sHeart’
Have'Athlete'sHeart
Soldiers Suffer From External Exer
tion, Say Doctors-—lron Hats
Boon to French.
Two less serious discoveries on op
posite sides of the western trenches
are of interest. The Geormans have
discovered that a notable percentage
of their young soldiers turn up in the
hospital with what in this country is
known as “athlete’s heart,” namely, a
dilated heart, and a tendency to-high
pulse rate that several of the leading
German doctors charge directly upon
extreme exertion and fatigue in the
service,
Many of these cases are said not to
improve, but to tend toward harden
ing of the arteries. “Athlete’s heart”
and its evil sequels has been proved
In this country by United States Navy
surgeons and others; and in turn dis
proved by others, as these others de
clare, Here comes the ultimate Ger
man to prove that “athlete’'s heart” is
a fact.
A more cheerful discovery is that of
the French, who have rediscovered
the utility of iron hats when the oth
er fellow is shooting things at you.
Metal head dressings were distributed
In certain trenches, for a try-out, and
they seemed to be very useful.
Dr. Devralgne examined 35 cases cf
head injury, thirteen of the patients
having worn iron hats at the time cf
the collision. Of these thirteen, eight
had cerebral shock and five light
scratches; no deaths. Of the 42 non
hat wearers 23 got thelr skulls frac
tured and most of these died. The
iron hat was held to have proved its
title, and Dr. Devraigne strongly ad
vised the commander-in-chief to be
more libera] in distributing them.
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9 American Flyers
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Fighting for France
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Sept. 18.—Wililam Thaw,
the American aviator, states that at
present nine Americans are serving
as aviators In the French army.
Eleven others are in|training.
Thaw, who i# a second lieutenant,
says the Yankees are endeavoring to
form a special American squadron.
The nine now serving are Norman
Prince, Elliott Cowden, James Bach,
Frazier Curtis, H. G. Guerin, Burt
Hall, Didyer Masson, Charles Wey
man and Thaw.
Unless an era of international pesce
and national disarmament speedily
becomes an established fact, our
Monroe Doctrine can undoubtediy
embroil us In a terrible war for na
tional preservation. Were it not for
the fact that all Europe is ¢onsumed
by the conflagration of its own con
flict, emphatic representations would
long since have been made to this
country which would either have
forced us to Interfere in Mexico or
sit Idly by while some foreign nation
Interfered. In the one case we would
have the dublous duty of cleaning up
the evil conditions there existing at
great cost of lives and money, and
with no commensurate resulting ben
efit. In the other case we wou'd
have to stand or fall by our Monroe
Doctrine. If this doctrine is to be
preserved, if Europe's overpopulated
empires are to be restrained from
logieal expansion in the Western
Hemigphere in order that our “splen
did isolation” be perpetuated, we
must prepare to defend even Mexico
from foreign aggression, alming in
evitably at territorial aggrandize
ment.
Without regard to the merits,
Causes, purposes or motives of he
present war, Germany illustrates be
yond question of a doubt the neces
sity and efficacy of complete national
military preparedness, whereas Rus
sia to a great extent exemplifies the
helplessness and suffering of a mighty
nation unprepared to meet military
emergency. The thousands of Rug
sion prisoners, the Appalling loss ot
life, the frequency of stupefying de
feats, all point to the fallacy of a
people relying on number and a cit
izenry moderately individually train
ed in arms,
The Lesson of China and Japan,
Lesser in degree, but equal in kind
is the lesson brought home in the
case of China and Japan. Here again
is demonstrated the humbling of a
mighty nation because of absolute
military shiftlessness. There is no
inherent reason, even taking into con-
Sideration the disrepute in which the
military calling has ever been re
garded in China, why a regiment of
intelligently and diligently trainel,
equipped and officered Chinamen
should be a less formidable antag,-
nist than a similar regiment of Jap
anese. And even were there such a
reason, it would be impossible to ad
duce further reasons why three or
five or ten regiments of intelligently
and diligently trained, equipped and
officered Chinese should not be g 4
more formidable antagonist than a
single regiment of picked men of any
country in the world.
Yet, overawed by Japan's prepared
ness, China has had to bow beneath
the yoke of Japanese infringement of
her sovereignty,
Our opportunity is at hand. Amer.
lea, by the exigencies of war, has
been turned into a vast manufactur
ing plant for the benefit of Europe's
warring Titans, Let us appropriate
unto ourselves all these various Jde
vices and equipment for wholesale
murder.
Let the government, profiting by irs
knowledge of the enormous margin
of gain on war orders, take over at
value some of the plants for the
manufacture of munitions,
Let us in time of peace place our
selves in that position In regard to
military equipment which England,
after six months of war, has not been
able to assume,
Lot us organize and maintain and
train and equip a standing army of
A quarter of a million men (approx!-
mately as large as Belgium or
Switzerland).
Let us limit our term of enlist
ment to twelve monchs, so that in
the course of five {flu’a we could have
A war footing of a million trained
men.
Let us institute compulsory drill In
the public high schools, It is a ben
eficial, manly exercise and aside from
118 usefulness in creating a know'-
edge of military tactics in the minds
of youth of the country, can not fall
to ald In healthfulness and longevity,
Let us quadruple our navy, and in-
Crease our aeroplane and submarine
strength 25 times over,
-~ The cost nfnu'l.l this l;'n nothing
compared to cost waging a
losing war for a vear's time before
being in a position to wage war at
all. Though the creation of such an
army and navy wil! not have oblitar
ated passton, vice and brutality from
the !{n of the earth, we will have
established a means both of (hecking
and controlling them, no matter in
wh: form they may appear.
RiPLING FINDS MOUNTAIN
SIRIPPED BY ARTILLERY
Smashed Trees and Powdered Soil on Alsatian
Heights Suggest a “Ragpickers’ Dump on Co
lossal Scale”—Tea During Bombardment.
The Sunday American presents be
low the fifth of siw articles from the
pen of Rudyard Kipling under the
general title of “France at War' on
the Frontier of Civilization,” describ
ing the impressions of a visit to the
fighting line in France. The last arti
cle will appear in The Georgian.
By RUDYARD KIPLING.
(Copyright in U. 8. A, 1915, by Rud
yard Kipling.)
LONDON, Sépt. 18.—Very early in
the morning I met Alan Breck with a
half-healed bullet scrape across the
bridge of his nose and an Alpine cap
over one ear. His people a few hun
dred years ago had been Scotch. He
bore a Scotch name, and still recog
nized the head of his clan, but his
French occasionally ran into German
words, for he was Alsatian on one
slde,
“This,” he explained, “is the very
best country ‘in the world to fight in.
It is pleturesque and full of cover,
I'm a gunner; I've been here for
months, It's lovely.”
It Seems Like the East.
It might have been the hills under
Mussoorie, and what our ¢ars expect
ed to do in it I could not understand,
but our demon driver, who had been a
road racer, took the 70-horsepower
Mercedes and threaded the narrow
valleys, as well as occasional half-
Swiss villages full of Alpine troops, at
a restrained 30 miles an hour. He
shot up a new-made road more lke
Mussoorie than ever, and did not fall
down the hillside even once. An am
munition mule of a mountain battery
met him at a tight corner and began
to climb a tree.
“There isn’t another place in France
where that could happen,” said Alan.
“I tell you this is a magnificent coun-
Wy
The mule was hauled down by his
tall after he had reached the lower
branches, and went on through the
woods, his ammunition boxes jinking
on his back for all the world as If he
were rejoining his battery at Lutogh.
One expected to meet the little hill
people bent under their loads under
the forest gloom. The light, the color,
the smell of wood smoke, pine nee
dles, wet earth and warm mule were
all Himalayan. Only the Mercedes
was violently and loudly a stranger.
Near the German Positions.
“Halt!” said Alan, at last, when she
had done everything except limitate
the mule.
“The road continues,” said the de
mon driver, seductively.
“Yes, but they will hear you if you
g 0 on. Stop and walit. We've a moun
tain battery to look at.”
They were not at work for a mo
ment, and the commander, a grim,
forceful man, showed me gome detalls
of their construction. When we left
them in their bower it looked like a
hill priest's wayside shrine. We heard
them singing through the steep, de
scending pines. They, too, llke the
“75" men, seem to have no pet name
in service.
It was a poisonously blind country.
The woods blocked all sense of direc
tion. Above and around, the ground
was at any angle you please, and all
sounds were split up and muddled by
the tree trunks, which acted as si-
Jlencers. High above us the respecta
‘ble, all-concealing forest had turned
Into sparse, ghastly blue sticks of
timber—an assembly of leper trees
around a bald mountain top. .
“That's where we're going,” said
Alan. “Isn't it an adorable country?”
Shots Are Exchanged.
A machine gun loosed a few shots
in the fumbling style of her kind when
they feel for an opening. A couple of
rifle shots answered. They might have
been half a mile away or a hundred
yards below.
An adorable country! We climbed
up till we found once again a com
plete tea rnrden: little sunk houses
almost invisible in the brown-pink re
cesses. of the thick forest. Here the
trenches began, and with them for
the next few hours life in two dimen
slons—length and breadth.
You could have eaten your dinner
almost anywhere off the swept dry
ground, for steep slopes favored drain
ing. There was no lack of timber,
and there was unlimited labor. It had
made neat, double-length dutguu.
where the wounded could be laid dur-
Ing their passage down the mountain
side; well-tended occasional latrines,
properly lined dugouts for sleeping
and eating, overhead protections and
tool sheds where needed, and, as one
came nearer the working face, very
clever cellars to protect against trench
sweepers,
Men passed on their business; a
squad with a captured machine gun
which they tested in a sheltered dip.
armorers at their benches busy with
sick rifles, fatigue parties for straw
rations and ammunition, long proces
sions of single blue figures turned
sldeways between brown, sunless
walls. One understood after a while
the nightmare that lays hold of trench
stale men until the dreamer, wnchlns
seemingly forever in those blin
mazes, finds himeelf after agonizing
centuries out again in the white blaze
and horror of the mined front.
__Thers were no trees above us now,
‘Their trunks lay along the edge of
the trench, bullt in with stones where
;nocmry. or sometimes overhanging
1t In ragged splinters or bushy tops.
Bits of cloth not French showed, too,
in the uneven line of debris at the
trench tip, and some thoughtful soul
had marked an unexploded bosche
trench sweeper as not to be touched
It was a young lawyer from Paris who
pointed that out to me.
Devastation Everywhere.
We met the colonel at the head of
an indescribable pit of ruin, full of
sunshine, whose steps ran down a
very steep hiliside under the lee of an
aimost vertically plunging parapet. To
the left of that parapet the whole hill
side was one gruel of smashed trees,
split stones and powdered soll. It
might have been a ragpicker's dump
heap on & colossal scale. Alan look
ed at it eritieally. [ think he had
Lelped make it not long before,
“We ure on the top of the hill now,
and the bosches are below.” sald he,
“We gave them a very fair sickener
lately.”
“This” asald the colonel, “is the
front line.”
There were overhead guards
against hand bombs, which disposed
me to believe him, but what convinced
me most was a corporal urging us.in
whispers not to talk so loud. The
men were at dinner, and a good smell
of food filled the trench. * This was
the first smell I had encountered in
my long travels uphill; a mixed, en
tirely wholesome flavor of stew, leath
er, earth and rifle oil. A proportion of
men were standing to arms while oth
ers ate, but dinner time is slack time,
even among animals, and it was close
to noon.
“The bosches got their soup a few
days ago,” someone whispered.
I thought of pulverized hillside and
hoped it had been hot enough.
We edged along the still trench,
where the soldiers stared with justi
fied contempt, I thought, upon the
civilian who scuttled through their
life for a few emotional minutes in
order to make words out of their
blood. It reminded me of coming in
late to a play and incommoding the
long line of packed stalls. The whis
pered dialogue was muech the same,
“Pardon, I beg your pardon, mon
sieur. To the right, monsieur. If
monsieur will lower his head; one
sees best from here, monsieur.”
It was their day and night long
business, carried through without dis
play or heat or doubt or indeciston.
The Germans in Sight.
Those off duty not five feet behind
in the dugout were deep in their pa
pers or their meals or their letters,
while death stood ready every minute
to drop down ilnto the narrow cut
from out of the rarrow strip of un
concerned sky.
And for the better part of a week
one had skirted miles of such a frieze,
The loopholes not in use were plugged
rather like old-fashioned hives. Said
the colonel, removing a plug:
“Here are the bosches. Look and
you'll see their sandbags.”
Through the jumble of riven trees
and stones one saw what might have
been a bit of green sacking.
“They’'re about geven meters distant
here,” the colonel went on. That was
true, too.
l We entered a little fortalice with a
cannon in it in an embrasure, which
at that moment struck me. as unnec
essarily vast, even though it was part
ly closed by a fraill packing case lid.
The colonel sat him down in front of
it and explained the theory of this
sort of redoubt.
“By the way,” he said to a gunner,
at last, “can’t you find something bet
ter than that? I think it's too light.
He twitched the lid aside. “Get a log
of wood or something.”
1 loved that colonel. He knew his
men and he knew the bosches had
them marked down like birds. When
he sald.they were beside dead trees
or behind bowlders, sure enough, there
they were; but, as I have said, dinner
hour is always slack, and, even when
we came to a place where a section
of trench had been bashed open by
trench sweepers and it was recom
mended to duck and hurry, nothing
much happened.
No Movement in Trenches.
The uncanny thing was the absence
’nf movement in the bosche trenches.
Sometimes one imagined that one
'smelt strange tobacco or heard a rifle
‘bolt working after a shot, otherwise
‘they were as still as a pig at noonday.
We held on through the maze, past
trench sweepers of handy, light pat
tern, with their screwtailed charge
all ready, and a grave or so, and when |
I came on men who merely stood |
within easy reach of their rifles I
knew I was in the second line. When |
they lay frankly at ease in their dug
outs I knew it was the third; a shot- |
gun would have sprinkled all three, ‘
“No flat plains,” said Alan, “no
hunting for gun positions: the hlllOl
are full of them and the trenches close
together and commanding each other.
You see what a beautiful country it
18."
The colonel confirmed, this, but
frém another point of view WAr was |
his business, as the still woods could
testify. But his hobby was hig
trenches. He had tapped mountain
streams and dug out a laundry where
a man could wash his shirt and go
up and be killed in it all in a morn
ing, had drained trenches so muddy
that to stretch in them was an of
fense, and at the bottom of the hill it
looked llke a hydropathic establish
ment on the stage. He had created
baths where a haif battalion at a
time could wash.
He never told me how all that
country had been fought over as
flercely as Ypres In the west, nor
what blood had gone down the val
leys before his trenches were .pushed
over the scalped mountain top. No,
he stretched out new endeavors in
earth and stones and trees for the
comfort of his men on that populous
mountain, and there came a priest
who was a sub-lieutenant out of a
wood of snuff brown shadows and
half-veiled trunks.
A Chapel on the Hillside.
Would it please me to look at a
chapel? It was all open to the hill
side, most tenderly and devoutly
dor.e in rustic work with reedings of
peeled branches and panels of moss
and thatch—Bt. Hubert's own shrine,
I saw the hunters who passed before
it going to the chase on the far fN\le
of the mountain where their game
lay.
Alan carried me off to tea the same
evening in a town where he seemed
to know everyhody. He had spent
the afternoon on another mountain
to) inspectiyg gun positions whereby
he had been shelled—"a little mar
mite,” is slang for it—and he haq
spotted a bosche position which was
marmitable.
“And we may get shelled now,” he
added hopefully. “They shell this
town whenever they think of it. Per
haps thay'll shell us at tea”
It was a qualntly beautiful lttie
place with its mixture of French and
German ideas, its old bridge and
gentle minded river between culti
vated hills, the sand bagged cellar
Jdeors. The rulned houses and the
holes in the pavement looked as un
real as violence of a cinema agalnst
that soft and simple setting.
The penxle were abroad in the
streets and the little children were
playing—a big shell gives notice
enough for one to get shelter if shel
ter is near enough. That appears to
be as much as anyone expects in a
world where one is shelled, and that
world had settied down to it. The
""'f"" lips are a little firmer, the
| eling of the brows s a little
more pronounced and maybe there {s
a change In the expression of the
eyes, but nothing that the casual aft
l‘mm caller need particularly no
tice.
. The house where we took tea was
.
Belgium Was Never
Neutral, Say Teutons
Little Kingdom Did Not Protest
Threat of English Invasion, De
clares Official Paper.
BERLIN (via Amsterdam), Sept. 18.
The Norddeutsche Allegemeine Zei
tung, the Goverument organ, in an
official reply to Sir Edward Grey’s
recent statement with regard to
Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's
Reichstag speech immakes the following
three prinecipal assertions:
That Sir Edward Grey, while go
ing exhaustively into the subject of
threats against Belgian neutrality,
ignored the valuable material con
tained in reports from Belgian Min
isters in various European capitals
prior to the war;
That documents found by the Ger
mans in Brussels show conclusively
that a British military attache coolly
told his Belgian colleague that Great
Britain would land troops in Bel
gium without Belgium’'s consent; .
That Belgium not only falled to
protest against this, but on the mere
supposition of a possible German in
vasion planned co-operation with the
British forces.
The official explanation concludes
by saying that “such a country is not
a neutral country.”
77-Yr.-old Corporal Is
Oldest French Soldier
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Sept. 18.—The oldest sol
dier serving in the French army is
M. Surugue, former Mayor of Aux
erre. He is 77 years old and is now
serving as a first-line corporal near
Arras. He was a lleutenant of en
gineers in the war of 1870.
e
the big house of the place, old and
massive, a treasure house of ancient
furniture. It had everything that
the heart of moderate man coul!d de
sire—gardens, garages, outbuildings
and the air of peace that goes with
beauty in age. It stood over a high
cellarage, and opposite the cellar door
was a brand new blindage of earth
packed between timbers.
Tea During Bombardment,
The cellar was a hospital with its
beds and stores, and under the elec
tric light the orderly walited, ready
for cases to be carried down out of
the streets.
“Yes, they are all civil cases,” sald
he. “They come without much warn
ing, a woman gashed by falling tim
ber, a child with its temple crushed
by a flying stone, an urgent amputa
tlon case, and 8o on. One never
knows.”
‘Bombardment, the bosche textbooks
say, Is designed to terrify the civil
population so that they may put
pressure on their politiciane to con
clude a peace. In real life men are
very rarely soothed by the sight of
their women being tortured.
We took tea in the house upstairs
with a propriety and an interchange
of compliments that suited the little
occasion. There was no attempt to
disguise the existence of the bom
bardment, but it was not allowed to
overweigh talk of lighter matters. 1
know one guest who sat through it as
near as might be inarticulate with
wonder, but he was English, and
when Alan asked him whether he had
enjoved himself, he said, “Oh, yes,
thank you, very much.”
‘ “Nice people, aren't they?” Alan
went on.
“Oh, very nice—and such good tea.”
He managed to convey a few of his
sentiments to Alan after dinner.
“But what else could the people
nave done?” said he. “They are
French.”
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Central America, of which Dr. Bern
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president, was formed by combining
the German-Argentine Central ‘Asso
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him by the taunts of the women that
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