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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-9-24, Page 2When the Germans Surrender A Great Military Expert Prognosticates the Close of the War Asstuning that the German attack on Franca absolutely fails, and that a similar fate .attends the actions of the German fleet against ours, one must presuppose •a tremendous, wave of enthusiasm sweeping over the armies invading Germany which must carry them over the different frontiers well on the road to Bete lin, writes agreat military expert in London Answers. Step by step the German armies rause be ima- gine=d as recoiling, on the one hand, from the French forces, (swelled by the British Expeditionary Away, and, on the other hand, froze the enormous Russian masses moving with slow but irresistible momentum towards the same goal—Berlin. The German fortresses are enor- mously strong, but nothing can withstand the onslaught of a well - directed array with magnificent ar- tillery such as the French Army is. equipped with. The forts of Col- ogne, Strassburg, and Ehrenbreit- steint mnuch larger and mounting heavier guns than those at Liege, must fall . to the ettaok of deter- mined etermined forces in sufficient strength, and able to bring to bear guns of the right calibre, and, once the plan of the German invasion of France has been thoroughly foiled, we must suppose the French Army sweeping everything before it. When Panic .Threatens. With both France and Russia threatening the German capital, and her sea commerce totally para- lyzed by the •operations of our Fleet, the German armies must con- tinue to give battle under the most disheartening conditions which pre- clude the idea of any victory of sufficient importance to retrieve the campaign. Panic will begin to spread through the Fatherland, and with panic will come dieillusionmen:t and a terrific revulsion of feeling. The German people, who or years have been taught tha.t German airm,s were invincible, will feel that they have been made the catspaw of an unscrupulous set of gambJlers. The Imperial family will be look- ed upon by Germans as was Napo- leen III. during the sorrowful days of the disasters in , the war of '70 --- with feelings of the bitterest hatred. If history teaches us any lesson at all, it is that, if a victorious emper- or can ask nothing too much of his subjeot•s, a defeated emperor must expect no mercy. When Napoleon was losing there were few to say a good word for him. In Peaceful Solitude. Thus it is safe to .arguetth -"the Kaiser, being regarded as person- ally responsible for the awful plight of the country, will precipitate a movement against his dynasty that may become too violent to check. If the Emperor survives all vicis- situdes, one might, having regard to all the possibilities, foresee him and his family exiled to soave quiet spot where his power for mischief would be for ever gone. I was going to mention England as a possible refuge for the Emper- or, noting its popularity as a home of monarchs who have lost their crowns, but I hardly thank the Kai- ser would feel comfortable living at Twickenham, where King Manuel Evens at Alsace-Lorraine, which hes always been a. thorn in the 'side of Germany and a source of weakness to her, will be restored to Frame. The whole of the buskin Colonial Empire of Germany will disappear, 1 hope we ahall not take any of her colonies, for we have. enough and to spare already, and, in any :case, Germa.ny'a overseas possessions are not of much aceaap t. ` Pessibly we may consent to them being p,areelled out equally between Russia and Franoe, contenting ourselves with Togoland, and passing Liao-Ohato over to Japan. France oe abannnly will insist on the slice taken from the French Congo being restored to her. Denmark, in recognition of her good behavior during the war, may demand, and with: every hope of suc- cess, the restoration to her of Schleswig-Holstein. What Belgium's reward would be is impossible to say. Possibly a monetary one. There is nothing territorially that could be offered this tight little kingdom, for one has to have regard in ell these frontier adjustments to the sentiments and race origin of the people whose land it is proposed to divert. Belgium would never ask to be loaded with such a thankless 'gift as a German province that might be a canker to her as Alsace-Larraioe has been to Germany. Servia, who should have conquer- ed Bosnia-Herzegovina from Aus- tria, will be given authority to re- tain what is hers by right unoh'al- lenged. I am prophesying that Italy will be strong enough to withstand the bullying of the other two members of the Triple Alliance. If she does so, her reward will be the restore- tions of the Italia Irredenea, that little triangle, with Trieste at the extreme left-hand corner and Fiume at the extreme right-hand earner, which formed part of the old Vene- tian Republic, . and was filched from her by the Hapsburgs. Expelled from Turkey.. For other Bailean states whose conduct has been beyond reproach there will also be tearito:rial re- wards. Turkey stands to lose most. If she controls her ambitions, all will be well with her. If she elects to make trouble during the war, the Powers of the Triple Entente may decide, for the sake of the future peace of Europe, to expel her en- tirely from Europe. Russia then might, with some rea- son, ask fox- the reward she has always coveted — Constantinople. Probably the arrangement that would be made would be to join the remainder of the Turkish European Empire to some Slav state in sym- pathy with Russia, so that, even if Russia didn't actually get Constan- tinople, she would be the commend- ing influence there. The absorp- tion of all Poland into the Musco- vite Empire is certain. Roumania would be territorially enriched at the expense of Austria, in accordance with the line of race, and the Powers, might decide to end the comic -opera business of the Al- banian monarchy by passing her on one of the Balkan etates. enerally, the 'effect, of the crush- d:efeart of Germany and Austria- ngary will be bo reduce, oonsid- ereb ly the boundaries of the two mpires. How far Germany will suffer will de • largely on internal condi- ns end her. ability to bargain. atever else happens, however, loss of her colonies and .Alsace-, rains are certain. Equally cer- is the loss to Austria of .Bosnia Herzegovina, end talmost as cer- the Io,ss of the Italia Irre,denta. A.rms and the Nations. consoles himself for the loss of his toG kingdom, or even Farnborough, ing where Napoleon III. made his Hu home, and where his widow, the ex- er Empress Eugenie, lives to -day. e No ; I think the Austrian Tyrol, or somewhere in the `Bay of Naples., d more appropriately fits the picture. tic Such an anti -dynastic movement Wh would probably be initiated by the the commercial interests in Germany. Lee The anti -dynastic movement may fain take two forms. There may be a and strong Socialistic movement to- .fain wards the establishment of a. repub- lic to replace the present autocratic form of government, or there may be an overwhelming feeling in the rife direction of breaking up the can- on federacy, and resolving the Empire esse into a series of strong, independent mic states again. ca Whether Germany wi11 sue for for • peaee before the invading armies ac- tually reach Berlin is of little im- duor portanee. What is amipoetant it, that pr before the German armies are en- ship tirely routed, internal political con- sitars dations will compel them to demand as w an ignominious peace. pre And what will be the price of this red peace ? just When Germany brought France tect to her knees in 1870.they secured . I3 as the price of peace a. war indem- com nity of £200,000,000, and the renes- eerie soon of the provinces of Alsace, and asses Lorraine. If In their turn, the • •victorious repu armies, will demand a war . tndeni- be - nity not as large as they might with, and More important even than the ter - rial changes. will be the influence armaments. Europe will find if left in such a terrible e,00no- position that the Powers will be mpelled to, meet and settle a plan the reduction of armam:enbs. They will insist on Geranany re - 'ng her army to unformidable aporbions, and her fleet, if any s be left to her at the conclu- of the war, to such �a number ill no Ionger tthreaten our au- macy. Austria will be forced to uce her forces to a level that will allow her'oomforta.bly to pro - herself from. Slav aggression: ussia, France, and England will e to a oo�mee n. agreement simi- to= reduce their expenditure fon aanents. Germany survives, either as a bile :or as a kingdom, she will shorn of much of her strength, to ensure that the proper libriunr of power is •mainbaaned the Continent, treaties safe - ding, her from attack may be rad into . Italy, whose race has no affinity whatever with the TTettonic people, is inevitably bound to come into ansacher orbit of friendship, but the re-a,rrangemen:t of alliances than is likely to take place will be purely defensave, rather than an offal - because of the necessity for preserv- equi ing Germany from going into bank- ,ern ruptcy; blit still :heavy 'enough to guar cripple • the Fatherlandfor years, ante and, :mare important still, will ire siston huge territorial acdjustmcnts•, eve,rythinrg being done to: remove artificial frontiers between kindred races. Alsace and Lorraine. It is a foregone conclusion that of a, leveasseseteDessse I I Lord Roberts Inspecting the City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) at the Temple Garden. sive character. The object of the victorious Powers will be to break up the alliance between Germany and Austria, which has nlena.oed the peace of Europe •so. long. India Secure. To Chose people who believe in the ,aggrandizement of Russia, at the ex- pense, of: a weakened Germany a possible attack on our Indian Em- pire, 1 would •say that Russia has long since ceased to • entertain de - 'signs on our great Empire. Quite apart from the ±act that we shall have united Frans to us by bonds that can never be broken- -which means :that France could ne- ver be a party to an attack on us by her ally—the military problem is too great for Russia to contemplate So long as.Afghanistan is true to us -and I have 'never questioned her fidelity—the invasion of India will never be attempted. this side of twenty-five years; and, in the sec - and place, Russia will have so much need of our financial assistance in moo -raring from the effects o -f the War, and in conside•redringthe econo. mic position of her vast hordes, that she will have lite -Le taste' or oppor- tunity for looking again towards Herat. Always ,assuming that • to pro- phecy ss to the German ebacle is vindicated, the general result of the war will be to leave us undisputed mistress of the seas, with no fears, as of recent years, of our shores being. invaded, and vastly to in- crease our prestige all over .the world. Colonies Going Begging. The resto�nation of Alsace-Lor- raine will pave the way to. better relations between the French and Gernvan peoples, whom the two- pro- vinces have always kept apart; the loss of Germany's colonies will cause her to. ,concentrate on the de- velopment of her wonderful home resources, and build up her oo- merce refresh, the proper safeguard- ing of which no one will wish to pre- vent. The Austro-Hungarian Em- pire will be all the stronger for the loss of provinces that kept her at war with the Slav races, and the way will be opened to a real under- standing between Italy, which will no longer cause to mistrust her intentions; while the bestowal of Kiao-Chao, on Japan will preserve the balance in the Far East. Finally, the great nations, in- stead of wasting their money on armaments, will .apply a huge .slice of what now.goes in, the building pf warship's and the provisioning of armies to• social reform. CARE OF THE WO!JNDED. First Aid Is Given, Then Taken to The Rase Hospital. The care of the wounded is neoes- sarily an inaportant duty imposed on every nation in case of war, -and the methods adopted in European armies, a•s bold in an article in tb,e Scientific American, is particularly interesting, as will be seen from the following extract : The general. system adopted for providing is medical service is prac- tically identical. an the armies of all the great powers. It contemplates a division of the service into three portions : that which belongs ,bo and accompanies the fighting troops; that which pertains to, the base (of applies) end the line of communi- cations ; -and that which pertains to the home territory or "the zone of. the interior. The principle gov- erning these services is that nothing first st aid and emergency ,treat- ment should be :attempted in the im- mediate zone of :combat, a.nd chart having received this treatment, the clisabled ,siheu+ld be quickly treats - ported o the base, where a.bun- dant facilities' for their =care can be provided without encumbering the --fighting +forces. Here at rthe base iahey are care- fully cl.a•asifred, land those who are so seriously disabled is to be unfit for further service at the front are senrb back to hospitals at home, while those who are less seriously disabled are retained until they are well enough to leave the hospital, when they are transferred to the convalescent camp. Here they re- main until they have fully -regained their strength, when they rejoin their regiments at the front. Out of Commission. Nervous Wife—Oh, Harry dear, do order a mouse -trap to he sent home to -day. - Harry—But you bought one last week. : Nervous Wife—Yes, dear, but there's a mouse in that. People who Iive in glass houses should have rubber proof curtains. A cat' will not look at a king' if there is a mouse in sight Seleeted Recipes. al creme halterbratc}zt.--Take large pierce of nice beef without any bone, preferably five or ,six. pounds. Make pickle 'enough to cover it by boiling together two-thirds vinegar and one-third water with bay leaf, cloves, a few peppercorns, and two pieces of lump sugar (large or small to taste). While that is bail- ing hot drop the meat into it and let it remelt for four or five days, turning once. Take the meat out of the vinegar the night before it is to be used and thoroughly drain. Put some butter in a pot with one whole onion, add the beef with salt and pepper and a cap of liquid (some people use a little of the pickle diluted, others use meat stock and others water, while those who are expert cooks add nothing but the butter since none of the juice which cooks out of the meat is lost by too much fire). Cover •the pot closely and cook for two hours and a half over a low fire. Take up the meat, thicken the liquid for . a gravy, adding, a little sugar. Serve with boiled potatoes, This is good cold as well as hot and is. used for sandwiches in Dortmund. Pot Roast Cut.—For any pot roast the chuck is in general con- sidered the best cut, but a domes- tic science expert some years back showed by experiment that, as far as economy was concerned, the acf vantage was in favor of the rib roast ifethe difference between the two was 2 cents a• pound. The loss in cooking in. the case of the chuck roast was one pound and two ounces and only ten ounces in case of the rib roast. The refuse or un- edible portion of the chuck was one pound and five ounces, of the rib eleven ounces. Another piece that is recommend- ed Thr the pot roast and for boiling is the sirloin tbutt, which is just be- low the sirloin steak part Sonae butchers will give a pierce off the round when _ asked for a pot roast, but this is really too dry for the purpose. The "heel" of the round, which is generally made. into Ham- burg steak; is often boiled and may even be :used for ::a -pot • roast if ooked expertly. Pickled Eggs.—Take eight hard boiled eggs and, having shelled em, stick four cloves in each. Heat one quart oaf vinegar (it may eed to be diluted. if .strong) to oiling and add a.teaspoon each of alt, pepper, and mustard or •scant hese "somewhat ' put- the eggs into; glass fruit jai, •pour the : boilingvinegar over them, and let them teed two weeks or use eooner if to aste. Serve sliced with . broiled eefsteak or mutton br as you will. Horseradish Sauce. — The Ger- ans have numerous ways of mak- g horseradish sauce which is a rfavorite with them. For one ing they freeze- it with whipped ease for one of the daintiest ac- mpanitents possible for boiled sh. They make a sauce with pure earn with a little vinegar and out half as much grated horse adish as hot 'cream. They make it ith a white "sauce,. 'to which this icor, once a friende is now a per - stent foe. ' And here is one of the wipes from one of the most au- oritative of the greater German oks on cookery : Two tablespoons grated horseradish, about half eup of beef stock, an ounce of but - r, about the same quantity of ion, two tablespoons of flour, and en another cup of beef stock with •t to taste. Peel and grate the rseradish quickly and let it draw the half cup of stock•in an earth - ware dish. Make a sauce of the tter, flour, and cup of stock, sea- ning to taste, and then add the e h n b s t a b m in reat cr co fi cr ab w ed si re th bo of a to on th sal ho in en bu so ie;Gx,. fir%%SS.I:".•..'','%''65yt=i'''�ifFx1•'$,•.��,i k xr. lleinforoernents Cr ing7L river to loin the Frei' Army. MOST PERFECT MADE T:HE'INCREASIER NUTRITI- OUS VALUE•Or BREAD MADE IN THE HOME wrTH ROYAL E YAST CAKES BNQ;ULD BE SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE TO THE CAREFUL HOUSEWIFE _'1'O GIVE THIS IMPORTANT FOOD ITEM THE ATTENTION TO' WHICH 1T l¢ JUSTLY EN- TITLED. HOME BREAD'BAKING RE- DUCES THE H(GH COST OF LIVING BY LESSENING T.HE AMOUNT OF EXPENSIVE MEATS REQUIRED TO sup. PLY THE NECESSARY NO,UR- ISHMENT,TO T,HE, ISODY. E. W. GILLETT CO; LTL. TORONTO; ONT. ';MONTREALLNNIPEG . MONTREAL horseradish and half a cup of stook to this. If the"'horseradish taste !s then very sharp add two table- spoons of milk or cream. Mustard Sauce. --mustard sauce, especially when na.ade with either. white or !butter :sauce, is not a thing to recommend for the diges- tion. Another way to make it is to mix a tablespoon of French mus-' tard with three or four tablespoons' of good meat gravy, or better, aS greatly reduced and highly season- ed meat stock, one in .which many vegetables have been used to flav- or. In that German -American publication called "The Settle- ment" cook book there is the fol- lowing recipe : "One cup white sauce, one tablespoon vinegar, one tablespoon mustard, one-ihalf tea- spoon sugar, one teaspoon cold wa- ter, and stir into the white sauce' two minutes before serving. • Sea- son to taste. More or less mustard may be added as desired. Serve hot with great or fish." Culinary Wrinkles. Mix a eake of crean cheese with whipped cream until light, =then stir through it bar -le -duo untilr"' highly colored. For afternoon tea serve fresh graham crackers put together with marshmallow frosting. Flavor rhubarb pies and canned rhubarb with grape juice. Serve salmon flavored with orange juice instead of lemon. Use equal parts of oold boiled macaroni, cooked, diced carrots, and canned or fresh peas to make a novel salad. Serve a loaf of baked dressing with roast of beef or leg of lamb. Mold cold boiled rice in balls, sweeten, roll in cocoanut and serve with boiled custard. Serve crushed maple sugar with apple pie. An artistic border for creamed fowl er meats is made of a ring of boiled rice sprinkled with finely chopped parsley. SICK DOCTOR Proper Food Put Him Right. The food experience of a physician n his own case when worn and weak rom ,sickness and when needing raouris�hnaetet the worst way, is valu able: "An astta.ck of grip, 80 +severe it as -he near •making .an end of me,' ft my E,:oariash in such condition I' could arrob remain any ordinary foods knew of course that I must have od nourishment or 1 could never ecover, "I began to 'take four teaspoon els of Grapeand-Nuts cream three mes .a day, end for 2 weeks this, as elm,c�st my only food. It basted; o elseicious• She I -enjoyed it din nensely and, my stoma ,h handled: it erfsciily from the .filrseb mout•hftul. Ib Las sen urerzting I was quickly, uilt beak to normal health and tang th. • "Grape ra�t'urts is of .. great 'value •ac od to .sustain l i°e durb g serious "sacks in which the storrpaseh is- so` raalged tt oannt d cigeat andsesi- te ilaother foods. "1 am ,00nvrn'ced .that were Grape- ubs Morewidely used by physd- ane, it would save many lives: that re otlierwdrs:e lost from lack, eti orishment." Name given .411!)3/ana,dian n Poste Ce,, Windsror,! nrt. The moat perfect. food, ori the rld. Trial of Grape -Nuts. and earn 10 days proves, "T'here's. a ,anon,.„ Leak in pkgs.. for the .ii+tale book, he Road toiTellvill•e."" ver read tho alley° letter,. A new orty rears trent time to time. 'they are ludic, true,.. and foil at Ii als Intoroat. c le I to r, f ti s: t p' w b sit fa Mr'.• de m N a ne C 0 rro cr Re rr�} ct;si fat