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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1914-11-19, Page 7?RN tilorAL : GODERICH ONTARIO LONDON CONSERVATORY OF ,MUt;IC - :-AND--,-- 5CtIOOL OF ELOCUTION, LIMITED UNPRECEDENTED OFFER OF SCHOLARSHIP AND PRIZES. Write for Particulars 1-0T TIE ARMSTRONG, F. LINFOitTH W1LLGOOSE, Rogiatrar. Mos. Bac ,Daseeigni Principal. Addre.ss:-354-6 Dundas St., London, Ont. WHY THE BRiTIS11 ARE NOW AT WAR INNS Always Dry and Free Running matter what the WEATHER -no matter what the CLIMATE -no matter what the SEASON It's • daily pleasure to have such pure, fina, dry salt 10-mis ea the table. Get a package from your gror-er. 128 if • • • • at • • • .1.5•1 • 104...1 Stele • ••••••••• 1 •..e..:•: • • • •••••• 1 • ••• • . • Pledged by Treaties to De- fend the Neutrality of Be'gium BELGONS MUST I[ EREI Their Coaallsre Must be Held by a Peacefutf Melther Than by • ~alio Nation TABLE IRA% Rinedu-Aa. t By °repay Why did the British Empire,d war against Germany v. hen that power attacked Belgium' The first and easy answer" is be- cause the British Empire is pledged by treatiee to defend the neutrality of Belgium This needs some ex Planation in 0130 and 1831 Belgium was set up as a separate kingdom and the Great Powers of Kumpe agreed tuaiong themselves that liel • Orin aa s to 'he left independent alai tO tot- annexed by any of tocru Sbe was it to go to war, and nobody Was to make war upon herthis is what 1. meant by her being neutral. Each of the Great lower' Great Britain. France, Prussia. Austria ad Russia agreed to two things: la That none of them aould attack Belgium. Ibt Toot if Belgium were at- tacked they would fight the as- sailant. This treaty was renewed in 1867. Germany had signed it, but Germany •••••••••••••••••••••••••• broke her pledged word. The Germas 0. • the same position as ow Prime Mink - Chancellor -a statesman to somewhat al ir 0, ter- -spoke of the Treaty as only a • piece of paper .•' It was a piece of • protnise upon it. When Germany paper with his country's written • • • • • • Every Reader of The Signal • • • • May Have a War Map Free • 0 • ! . • . A Map 313 x 2% feet, showing clearly every • • boundary, every city, every town, village, hamlet • . and river in the whole European War area. Each • io - map in a neat folder of convenient size. • • . • • The Family Herald and Weekly Star of Mon- • 0 treal has secured exclusive rights for the 1Var -Map pre- 0 a ,, pared by the celebrated map firm of G. W. Bacim & Co., • Z Limited, of London, Eng. 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IFtereele Pleasimit Palma seaullade Over end beessile le provost mantes coming la sides le Mad ou their shores. There were tem ways of doing this .411114 ad mold hapoitaat. they keep ships of their own st ma. 14114 ilsht soy ship* congas with sot tint to %loose Rsigland The Eng - have underetood this since ti.e 'Base of Henry VI11. Mace She no.. of Queen Illiimbeth they further have Meows that the proper place to keep , Weir ships is not off their ewe vault. 1(6 "defend" Itu but rice, to the Irwin?. Coast, ta light his shim (hi moment they put to mid. Secondly, they could try to arming* that the country wish h desired to in- vade them shouW not ha‘e very good esePorts from which to *et sail on Ilalealons of Invasion This requires Mies explanation. Look at the map lard see how the mast of England approaches (he mast line of continental Europe at an eagle The point of the angle to Kent. which Is oaly some twenty miles easy from the continent. Front filttaficar, NOvItriallie 19, 1914 7 PM, sever were unsung immesh tas Z:aa tamales. The riessiali se ports long wens no danger became Saidiand gmerally was Mobi- le With Austria. Daring tho greet heath Wars, from 171111 to 1111 tbe Icor Colustrleg were under rreacti metro& and Great Britoil felt the Th •rept len lisS la -PEI 4.cr3s Antwe as a pistol levelled against the breast of Aad so it happened that Plum WS war we& over Great Brasilia was anxious the, the ',Mel% r,04 N- eon ports should /int be la th."f• vice of a greet military power, either Preach. German or Austrian. The Dutch gad Belgians were anxious to be small Independent mations. This suited Prussia. who could not get Ib em for herself, and would prefer them to be independent rather than part of France. It malted France. since she -could not have them, to have them indepeudent rather than part of Germany It stilted Great Britain, who did not dream of acquir- ing them for herself, and who was anxious that they ahould be neither French nor German. So ail the Vow- ers of Europe agreed that they should be Independent and that Belgium in particular should be neutralized aad guaranteed. Thus we Nee that for hundreds of years Great Britain has had good reasons to desire Belgium in particu- lar to be a separate country, not con- trolled by a great military nation. Has it become less important for Great Britain` Belgians Must be Free On the contrary, it has became more important than ever that the Belgian coast line should be held by a peaceful rather than by a werlike country. In the old days warfare overseas was carried on by sailing ships which could hurt • hostile come try in two or three ways... they might carry soldiers across to invade It, they might capture its ships in open sea. and they occasionally could do a little damage to ships in harbors by dashing in. or by discharging into them cannon -shot or bomb -shells of O power greatly inferior to that of the shells to -day. At present t he means of annoying an enemy are far greater. Torpedoes can steam acmes a narrow sea and try to get into the enemy's harbors, to torpedo and sink his warshipa and merchantmen. Sub- marines can make torpedo attacke upon hostile ports. Mine -laying ships can steel across, if the distance is not 'too great, and plant their devilish mines so la to destroy the enemy's ships.. And besides airships and aeroplanes Can fly over to drop their bombs. Now the coaet of Germany is too far trom the roast of Great Britain to render it N ery easy to try all those forms of attack. It is about 400 mllea from Hamburg or Emden or Bremer- haven to Hull or Tynemouth and about 5011 miles from the German coastline to the Scottish seaports; a German torpedo-boat destroyer would have just enough coal to get acTOSs, make an attack and get home again. and would not have coal enough to make a long stay off the British coast. Bo also a German airship would Anti it a long Journey across the 400 miles of cm to make a bomb -dropping ex- pedition. But if German torpedo craft or airships were ensconced in Antwerp or Ostend, they Mild cover tried to march her armies across B 1- gium to attack the French she broke that Treaty. When Germany broke the Treaty. Great Britain had to re, Mgt, or break her word. Fighting Ground' of Europe But why did Great Britain sign those two Treaties' The answer to this lies in the past. Holland and Belgium are called the Low Countries. They have for kundreds of years he• -n the great fighting ground of Europe. When nations fight repeatedly in the RAM, region there 1s sure to be a reason. In this ease the rearion is two -fold. The Low Countries lie at the mouth of the Rhine, the great river which allows boats to carry goods to the foot of the mountains of Switzerland Before ,railways were invented river - ways such as the Rhine were of enormous value. Goods came in ships over the sea and were trans- slaipped to river boats and, sent Into the heart of Europe: naturally the great nations on the banks of the river desired to control the mouth, where the ocean arid river traflic met. In addition, the French and the German races met about the Rhine. The Irrencn wanted the Rhine to be their boundary and long fought for it; the Germans were set upon the Rhine being a German stream. The Low Countries et the mouth of the Milne were anxious to be separated from both France end Germany. They were the first part of Europe to be eome • great manufacturing district. and were the richest region in the known world They wished to govern themselves, and the Great Nations. Trench or Germanic. wished to con- trol them The result was constant warfare. In the time of Queen Eliza- beth, Holland. after desperate flght• Inc made good her independence. The neighboring district of Belgium. otherwise styled Flanders long re- Ituained a dependency of Austria. and whenever the French and the Aus trtimis fought -which was pretty often -tbe two sidee were fairly certain to use Flanders as their battle ground. As • result. nearly every v1ilage in Belgium has seen its battle, and one of the nicknames for the country is -Tlie cockpit of Murope" den Frame, first under the Revolutionary leaders and then under Napoleon, tried to conquer Sergipe. one of the first things she did was to conquer sail same both Holland and Flanders When Napoleon was defeated the Powers of Europe *operated the Low Coustries and set them up as a separate kingdom, consisting ot what pow are Holland and Belgium. After a • two yeeuv• the- Belgians.' 'who COW Pot like the Dutch. relsoRen. an* le Me mid, In 1831. Belgium was snade Mte • separate and neutral kingdom Tbst, then. is in part the reason why Belgium is tamertaat to the people or contisental ramp, Now we must see why it is important to Great Britain. Important to Britain It already has been said that Great laritals Is a small country as com- pared with the Great leatioas 01 Rump* Datil tbe English people began to underetaad what policy they 10 Cents will pay for THE SIGNAL to the end of the present year. HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V. Xent the island gloom, off. the south- ern coast along the English Channel. the aorthern along the North Sea. Coast Conditions As regards the southern coast two circumstances were ot importiance. One, which was unfathomable, Was that Use continental coastline oppo- alte from a very early period. some time In the thirteenth century be- came solidly French_ From this coast- line numerous attacks on England were launched, the most succeseful was the one led by William the Con• titterer, and the latest attempt was tbe one made by Napoleon In 1805. when he camped a great army at Boulonge and tried to get together a Meet strong enough to enable the tansy to be ferried across. The other circumstance, which was favorable to England. was that the English (vast is far better than the French eoaet for the purpose of se& trade and naval warfare. On the English side of the English ...alinel are numerous ex- cellent harbors, such as thoee of Portsmouth. Southampton, Weymouth, and Plymouth. and good anchorages, such as the Downs. On the French side of the English Channel the ports are few In numberare small, and have poor accommodation. Moreover, the prevailing winds are such as to favor sailing ships working from the English harbors against similar ships working from the French shore. Thus during the centuries In which ships Moved by sail -power the English sea- men in their battles with the French In the Channel had a great advantage. On the other coast different con- ditions prevail. North at the mouth of the Thames there are ie./ good harbors on the English coast, while ea the continental coast there is a Rae of great ports beginning with Ostend. and continuing as far as Ramberg. In particular there ts the great elty and harbor of Antwerp. Looking again at the map, and you es411 see that once you reach Holland the coast of the continent trends away to the east, while the English and Scotcla coast opposite falls away be the west; so that if you draw • Bee from the mouth of the Zuider See to the Wash. you will see that to the south ot that line the North Sea is very narrow. and to the north se it the North Sea is much wider. Thee it is nearly 400 miles from Ram- berg to the coast of England oppo- site, but it is not much more than 11111 miles from the Belgian seaports emelt as Antwerp to the °oast of Nor- folk and Suffolk opposite them. Here the advantages are with tbe coetinen- tal seamy who wishes to invade Sag- lasfic• Mod as& milk the ililawdeb Vigh sidles is beep the taredir oat: the mettnental seaports are better (baa the Illaglish harbors. exeludIng Lou- don. and the distance to short. The story of tbe Wars of the Roses al... as an example of how these con. dittoes work. The Government gie Flanders was in the lhaside of people firloadly to the Torklats. and when the Lancastrians had the upper hand expedition attar ex pedition sailed hula the riemish Porta to land to Ragland. One of the last invasion@ et Miglaad, that of Martin Stuart and his German soldiers sailed in the must purism. tbe islands were re- time of King Henry VII.. the Invading PeatcdIr invoillid- The ra`clisk 504 gy saarchiag far Into Reiland be - Rezone leaded sad destroyed tbe ft was bootee All Powers Agreed 0,,,....0=10=1=111% OVERCOATS! 0 We were never better prepared than at the present time to supply you with a new Winter Overcoat. 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The Danes sad Norsemen for loamy rears landed is Newland and Ss -attend O04 wooed mormous damage The Novisaas lauded and subdaed the Ruins\ All throng% the Nildidie Ages whomever there was evil war tn Itaglaad expeditious wield gall from the ports a cceithiestal Europe and temd la Mosta/a to stir tip freak visite OssiteallY the English M09141 Denis10 amainstand. as a amlima that tf they wasted to the la psalm sod motet they t must see to that me IMO dme from he saw Ma But what saved England from more sweemishil invasions from these her- bage and cities was the fact that they lever tally Deloused to any one 01 th• sroM powers of the continent The Distchssen ,,sad the rleminste did not themselves wish to attack the Eng Illeli; they preferred to trade with them. sad tht. tine ot seaports has bags used molest ragistad only when mem great military power has eon - trailed the Low Cosratries. In the Mae et Quote 1111teabials the Dutch k essmi. impagesis auss bp hewn* taiMpeadeat sad while they 11111011001 Illnetisees Iambi th• Magna at sea. SIR EDWARD GREY Foreign Secretary the hundred miles or so In a night god could inflict great losses upon the English towns So we see that to the British people ef to -day, just •s to the Englishmen of the Middle Ages, of Queen Elizaeth's time, •ad in the days of King George 111., it is vitally necessary to keep Belgium a separate •nd Inde- pendent country We must help tbe Belgiums to keep free AtIvisteat.amety's Paaacator Itaout kM Osell knowledge an tailor ever earned as many mascots is Admiral Beatty on the occasion of Its victory over the Germans in Heligoland Bight His wife stitched them in the laterilning of him uniform ihere was a quill pen that signed • reprieve, several mednla represent Ins saints and guardian •ngels. alleged lock of Nalson's hair. a prat tooth shed by her little boy, and numerous oriental and Spanish was - Tb. admiral was highly amused When Int found out the &malting num bet. of charms he had been carrying( about with him. 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