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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-10-15, Page 270 government. Debentures of the PRQVJNC[ OF ONTARIO .Thee 19r9, Inlerr'st rwµpons•,¢ayakle semtaisui.11i•. Denomination% $+oeo. These debentures are a direct obligation of the entire Province of Ontario, At no period in recent times has it been possible for this investor to make purchases of Province of Ontario securities at such favorable terms. PRICE': Par and accrued interest to YiirL,13 5% koteslmeot lianken E A. E. AMES 84 00. Union Bank Building, Toronto. 1sslaN 44ied ,seg OOK OF FATE .Grey'•s official reply, which was prompt and Oate,goriealr, On July 30 his tele; ra,phed to the British Am- bassador in Berlin: "His It aje ty's Government can- not fear aT moment entertain the Chancellor's proposal that they should bind taieanselvee„ to neu- trality on such terms, "What ho asks us in effect is to engage to stand by while French territory is taken and France is beaten so long as Germany does not take French territory as lis- tined• from the colonic. "From the material point of view, such a proposal ` is ixna.ccep- table, for Franoe, without fur- ther territory . in Europe being taken from her, could .be eo crush- ed as to lose her position as a Presented to Both kiouses of British Parliament by this Majesty Has there ever been such a Book of Fate as this Parliamentary White -book entitled "Cerreapon- dence on the European Crisis," into which the Foreign Office has compressed within seventy-four foolscap pages the diplomatic story of a fortnight) A grim story told with grim sm- plicity. The drama unfolds inself from page to page, swift and compelling, naked and brutal. The dramatis personae move across the stage almost like automato driven by the evil genius of Germany to- wards the inexonable catastrophe. Only once or twice does the frigid language of diplomacy reveal the hidden fires. It never departs once from the canons of self-restraint and formai courtesy which constitute its code, yet it thrills throughout to the hot pulse of passion none the less feverish because kept under stern controd. From one capital to another the telegraph wires flash for one brief fortnight the oonversa- tions carried on between the half- dozen men who hold, or are the mouth -pieces of those who hold Many. Specious Objections, the fate of Europe in their hands. but not the one solid reason, name - forefront' She had set the fiery ball rolling. Henoetfortth the storm *entre is shifted to Berlin. Aready, on July 25, Russia had read the hill meaning of Austria's action. Over Serv%a'e head it was aimed at Rus- sia. Bub M. Sazonoff had not yet read Germany's intentions, for he. stall -"did not believe that Germany .really wanted war." Germany was soon to undeoeive him and the rest of the world. The one chance of saving peace was to interpose, be- fore hostilities actually broke out, between Austria and Servia the re- straining influence of the Powers, On July 26, Sir Edward Grey in- quired whether Germany, Italy and Fra.nce "Would in street their represen- tatives in London to meet him in conference immediately for the purpose of discovering an issue which would prevent ooanplioa- tions." Germany alone refused (July 27) on the ground that "such a, conference was not p:ract,icable." The German. Secretary of Striate advanced "Then the curtain' falls, the conver- sations cease. They have given plaee to the hurried tramp of arm- ed millions, to the more awful silence that has fallen upon the seas. AR Within a Brief Fortnight. There is •a sort of sinister humor in the short prologue, which shows British diplomacy suddenly awaken- ing to' a Vague seuse of danger, Austro -German diplomacy still speaking "with flattering lips and a double heart." • The first dispatch is dated July 20. It records acon- versation between Sir Edward Grey and the German man Ambassadxar in London, who being asked whether he had any news of what was going on in Vienna with regard to Servia, merely ieplied that "he regarded the situation asvery unoomfort= able." Sir Edward remarked that he had heard nothing, except indi- rectly that the Austrian Foreign Minister had "deprecated the sug- gestion that the situation was grave,,; .but had said that it should be cleared up." Sir Edward added that he "assumed that the Austrian Government would not do anything until they had first disclosed to the public their case against Servia, founded, presumably, upon what they had discovered (at the trial of the Sarajevo murderers). The Ger- man Ambassador promptly took the cue, saying he certainly assumed that they "would act upon some case that would be made known." Three days later, with the know- ledge of Germany alone, the Aus- trian Government, which had so warmly deprecated the notion that the situation was "grave," Bung its ultimatum at Servia—an ultimatum unparalelled in the history of diplo- macy. As Sir Edward Grey staid on the following day, "I have never before seen one State addrress to an- other independent State o document of so formidable a character" -- and, be it added, rendered doubly formidable by a, minatory demand for an answer within forty eigbt hours. It Was the Time Limit even more than the ultimatum itself which meant war. Every Power that wished for peace saw this—Russia not less than this ' country or France or Italy, and . seldom has a Power made .a 'greater effort for peace than Russia then trade by pressing upon her protege such counseleof moderation that the Ser- viae Government actually consent ed to drain the eup of humiliation almost to the drags. Within the, forty-eight hours; Servia, accepted the whole monstrous series of Aus- trican demandssave two, and .even these elle merely asked to, be re- served foie The Hague Tribunal. But even that was not •enough. Aus- tria dismissed with con'tuineIy both Russia's plea for delay and Servia"s submission as incomplete and `°all a, sham." The Austrian Minister left Belgrade forthwith, The Austrian armies were already mobilizing for the "chastisement" of Saralee So Per, Austria hasbeen in the,. ly, that such a conference was clear- ly "not practicable" from the point of view of those who wanted war. The very next day (July 28) Austria declared war against Servia and Russia replied by .a partial mobili- zation of her forces. Three days before, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs had im- pressed Upon the British Ambassa- dor in St. Petersburg the supreme importance of England's attitude. If she took her stand firmly with France and Russia, there would be no war. If she failed thein. now, rivers of blood would flow, and she would in the end be dragged into the war. Prophetic words 1 ;,Similar arguments were used by the French and then by the Italian Govern- ments to press Sir Edward Grey two throw the'weight of British influ- ence into the scale in the only way in which they believed it could ef- fectively redress the balance against the influences that were making fon war in Vienna and in Berlin. But the British Foreign Minister had to reckon with public opinion in this country and to M. Cambon (July 29) he explained that "7,t rappro ached the present diffi- eulty from quite a different point of view from that taken during the difficulty as to Morocco, the dispute was one in which. Fratnoe was primarily interested and in which it appeared that Germany, in an attempt to crush France, was fastening a quarrel on France on a question that was the subject of a special agreement be- tween France and us. In the pre- sent ease, the dispute between Austria and Servia was not one in which we felt called to take a hand. Even if the question bee - came one between Austria, . and Russia' we should not feel called' upon to talkie a hand in it. . If Germany became involved and France became involved, we had not made up our minds what we should do; it was aease that we should have to consider. Francs would then have been drawn into a quarrel which was not hers, but in which, owing to her alliance, her honour and interest obliged her to engage, . We were. free from 'engagements, and we should have to decide what British in terests required us to do." Nevertheless—and the same intima- tion was conveyed •to, the German Ambassador—we were taking all precautions with regard to our Fleet, and Germany was, not to count On Our. Strniliitg .Aside. Would Sir Edward ,;Grey's l,an- giiage perhaps have been more em- phatic had he already received the telegram which reached him that night from: the British Ambassador�. Berlin.1 • It was the telegram re-, porting the Oerman Chaneedlor's` offer for the prerelease of England's neutrality, 3\fr, Asquith has quoted it in fell in 'the House of Conim:ons, and branded witth burning words that "infamous proposal.' ' It must sedlee- here to quote Sir Edward Great Power,. and beootzne subor- dinate to German policy. "Altogether, , apart from that, it would be a< dsgraep" from 'which the good name of thiscountry would never recover, "The Chancellor also in .effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we havo as regards the neutrality of Bel- ginm. We oould not' entertain that bargain eitlxer, "Having said so much, it is un- necessary to. -examine- whether the prospect of a future general neu- trality between England and Ger- many offered positive advantages sufficient to compensate us for tying our hands. now. We must preserve our full freedom to act as circtinestances may seem to us to require in any such unfavour- able and regrettable development of the present crisis as the Chan- cellor contemplates." A nian of Sir Edward Grey's moral optimism and high sense of honour is loth, however, to credit others, even on evidence straight out of their own mouths, with the full measure' of their 'patent duplicity; and Berlin must have smiled grimly when it learnt than he head added as a sort of postscript a curiously Utopian appeal to The Better Feelings of Germany. "If (he continued) the peace of Europe can be preserved and the present crisis safely passed, my own endeavor will be to promote some arrangeanent, to which Ger- many could be a party, by which she could be assured that no ag- gressive or hostile policy would be pursued against her or her allies by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately. I have de- sired this and worked for it, as far as I could, through the last Balkan crisis, and, Germany hav- ing a corresponding object, our relations sensibly improved. The idea has hitherto been too• 1to-- paan to form the subject of:'defi- enite proposals, but if this'present crisis, so much more acute than any that Europe has gone through for generations, be safely passed, I am hopeful that the relief and reaction which well follow •may make possible some more definite raprochement between the Pow- ers than has been possible hither - tic appeal to her Germany finally threw off the meek.- It WAS no longer a question of Atitsttria and taervue, or even of'Aue- trite ,and Russia, Those were cards wheel/ had served Germany's pur. powe, They estrved it no longer, For, in spite. of the laoinbarelinent o£ Ieagrade, in spite of Russian general' mobilization, eenvereatior'e were at last actually proceeding 'be- tween Vienna and Se. I'etersburg,. and, thanks to Russian moderation, seemed to hold forthat last, ray of hope. Just when Russia vitas con sending to a Brrtist foranulafor mediation and Austria was, for the' first time, expressing willingness to discussthe attbatanoe of her ulti- matum to Servo, Germany delib- erately Sundered the Thread upon' which the peace of Europe still -hung.. On July 31 came the two -fold ultimatum in St. Peters- burg, and in Paris, to which neither Russia nor France could be expect- ed, or was meant, to yield; The rest of the official dispatehes are so many flashes of forked light- ning. On August 1 Germany for - 'really declared war against Russia., and on August 2 her troops moved across. the French frontier without even a formal declaration of war. British ministers ,still *lung desper- ately to the hope of .avoiding, or at least of limiting, England's own ac- tive intervention: Buther, too, Germany was bent on goading to the Bast extremity. England was bound, to defend Belgium. So it was Belgium's turn now to with- stand Germany's final onslaught on the peaoe of Europe, On July 31 England had demanded front France and from Germany assur- ances that the neutrality of Bel- gium would be respected. France gave them at once. Germany with held them. On August`2 she vio- lated the neutrality of Luxemburg, and, whilst seizing British ships in her own harbors, she made, mainly to gain time, a last insolent. at- tempt to secure Belgium's consent and ours to the use of Belgium terri- tory for her operations against France. They were of course re- jected.- The German troops were already -crossing the Belgian fron- tier, and on the morning of August 4 a British ultimatum, to expire at midnight, was dispartehed to Ger- many. Thus -closes the Book of Fate. - It is •a book which every English- man should not be content to read about, but .should read and master for himself and put into his library. It should, above, all, be circulated as widely as possible throughout the Empire; and for the instruction of our foes, as well as of our friends abroad, it should be at once trans- lated into the principal foreign la,n gunges,—London Tiir es: A. Lesson to Hinz. A who was extravagantly fond of his dogs one day saw his youngest son kick a favorite pup. "You unmannerly young cub 1" roared the irate parent. "How dare youkick my dog? I'll teach you how to behave yourself better 1" When the offender had been sound- ly thrashed the father wiped the perspiration from his forehead. "Let this be a lesson to you," he said, "how to treat any dogs! And, now that I think of it, you've been disrespectful to your . mother` of Iate." YEAST CAKES Little was Germany. reeking of any future millenium. She was hurry- ing on iniIitary preparations not so much against Russia as against France, who was still laboring as earnestly as we were in the eau:se of peace, and had, at no small risk to herself, confined all military measures to the iniost indispensable precautions, and bad even with- drawn her troops beyond a zone • of ten kilometres from the German frontier in order' to avert the risk of any accidental collision. On the very day after Sir E. Greys pathe Benevolent . Old Lady "Poor mail And ' are you married?" Beggar -"Bless your heart, kind lady ; do you think I'd be relying on total strangers for support if I' had a wife 1" .Atn I.ncillen.t of the Wax. P'rench eavalryunen aidinig a wounded ...IN 13 VYING `..AST CAKE'S OE CAREFUL TO �y (S+PECIFY dg'�$ML.. Y�'AS7' CAKES DaCLtN,54' B,STI7UT.ES. E,W.GILLETT CO. LTD. TORONTO. Wt MIF G MONTREAL EWEIH,ETTCO PANfltMiW k�4,,JnJORONTO 416-041.0416 Selected Recipes. i`en.Minute Ca.bbago.—Chop : a cabbage as fine as for Isaiah. Have ready a kettle of boiling water. Salt the water and put the cabbage in. Let the water boil exactly ten minutes, and then drain it off. Sea- son the cabbagewith pepper, stab and butter. Cider Apple Sauce. Boil four quarts of new cider until it is re- duced to two quarts. Add enough. pared and quartered sweet apples to fill the ,kettle. Cook slowly over a moderate fire for four lours, Cas- sia, may be added if desired. In a cool place this apple sauce may be kept in a stone jar without sealing. It may be served with almost any kind of meat, but it is partieularly good with roasb pork. Liver and Bacon Entree.—Cub lour slices of fried bacon, four slices of fried liver, and two med- ium-sized (boiled potatoes into very small squares; add two cupfuls of toast crumbswall and pepper to taste, and a little savory. Place the mixture in a baking dish, and pour over it one pint of milk with which you 'have mixed two well -beaten eggs. Sprinkle grated cheese on top ,and bake until brown. Do not allow it to become too dry. Salmon and -Green Peas: Drop a can of sawlmon into (boiling water and thoroughly heat. Open the can, drain off the liquid, break the salmon up and •spread on a hot platter. Have ready one can of cooked peas. Make a, whibe sauce and heat the peas inrit. Pour over the salmon and serve 'hot. Soni Cream Calle.—One cup su- gar creamed with one heaping tablespoon butter, two eggs, one teaspoon vanilla, one-half cup sweet milk; one-half cup sour cream. Stir one scant level tea- spoon of soda, into the sour cream and one rounding teaspoon of bak- ing powder into two eups of flour: Bake either in layers or loaf .and frost with marshmallow frosting. Baked -(cell Ceeain. Lay a sponge eake one and a half inches on firm thick pasteboard and place it upon a granite biscuit pan: In the cen- tre of the cake place a brick of ice" cream. Cover the cream closely with a meringue of beaten whites of two eggs, with two tablespoons of sugar. Be oareful that .the merin- gue covers every particle of the cream. Sprinkle with Chopped al- monds or . sliced marshmallows. Place in a hot oven till slightly browned. Serve at once. Cut in slices on ice cold plates. Molasses Cocoanut Wafers. --Boil two cupfuls of molasses and one cupful of butter together for half an hour. Add one-half cupful of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of de- siccated cocoanut, and one tea- spoonful of soda. Boil the mixture ten minutes, and stir it constantly. Drop it in small lunips on a butter- ed pan, and bake the lumps until they bubble. They •should be well separated from one another, for they spread much in baking. To prevent the wafers from sticking to the pan, remove them as soon as you take them from the oven. Use this receipt in cool weather. Simple Pilteapple Dessert. -Pour one can of shredded -or one jar of preserved pineapple into a deep dish. Add abouts one-quarter of a pound of marshmallows cut ' in quarters. If canned pineapple is used, .allow more marshmallows; if preserved • pineapple, less marsh mallows, for, they sweeten the des- sert Let the mixture stand over- night in a cold place. ` When you are ready toeserve it, Whip half .a pint of thick cream, :and ,two-thirds Continue tobeat the mass until ib , is stiff and cold; add the pint of heavy cream, beaten stiff, and tela nuts and thread, Pub the mixture into .a mould, buck it with ice and salt, and leave it for Sour or five hours. . Whole Wheat" Giiigerliretttl.'—. Four:tablespoons . sugar, one-half cup abutter or lard, two eggs, two cups flour,. two cups whole wheat flour, one teaspoonful baking soda, one-half cup seeded raisins, one- half cup chopped ; walnut meats, three tablespoons chopped citron, one and one-half cup, syrup, ene- half teaaspoon ground mace, one teaspoon ground ginger, one tea. spoon ,ground cinnamon, one-quar- ter cupful sour milk. Mix flour, add spices, ditron, raisins and nuts. Melt butter, syrupand sugar, then cool. Add them with well -beaten eggs and sour -milk in which soda has been dissolved, to dry ingre- dients. 's Mix well and bake in a well -greased and floured tin in mo- derate oven for one hour. When baking graham bread or whole wheat bread raised with yeast, if. three tablespoonfuls of syrup and ahalf teaspoonful of baking soda are added, instead of sugar, the bread will retrain moistlonger and will net crumble •so easily. household hints. Clean tarnished silver with a piece of common raw potato dipped in baking soda. Tin and iron should not be clean- ed when hot,as they rust. They should be well dried. Linoleum which has been rolled and put away can be prevented from crackingby placing ib for a few minutes in front of a fire be- fore itis unrolled. When ironing have a number of coat hangers upon which to put waists, children's dresses, 'etc. Betfore.cleaning knives on a knife - board dampen them slightly. They .3` clean more quickly and gaina bet- ter polish. To bake potatoes quickly, putt them in salted water and boil ten. minutes, then put them into the oven and they will be heated through and so will take less time in the oven. Ripe tomatoes are exceedingly_ good for the complexion. They may be rubbed on the face,. neck and hands and allowed to dry, then. washed off with clear water. They are very bleaching. .As soon as the celery has a fine flavor combine it with oysters for a salad course for your 'Sunday' night tea. Fry half a, dozen large oysters rolled in cracker or bread crumbs in. a small tablespoonful of butter and set them away to. -cool. Then add six tablespoonfuls of celery and salad dre.ssing. I' OT D1UJGS Food Did It. After using laxative, end ,cathartic meadieinea (roan childhood :a case of ehro•nic 'eonstipartion yielded to the :scientific food, Grape -Nuts, in a flew days. "From .early childhood I suffered width ,such terrible constipation that I had to use laxatives continuously, going from one drug to another and suffering more o•r 7tess all ,the time. "A proaninent physician whore I consulted told me the muscles of the digestive 'organs were weakened and could nob perform tthnir work without he'p of some kind, ,so- 1 have tried at different times about every laxative and cathartic known, but found no help that was ,at all permanent. I had finally btecome dist«lo'ureged ,and had given MOT cease up as hopeless when I began to use the pee -digested. food, Grape -Nuts.' "Although I had not expected this :food to help any trouble, to my great surprise Grape -Nuts digested eai,ly frronn the f,rst, and in a few oaf this to the mixture, .and stir'it in days I was convinced that thee: was thoroughly. Serve it very cold in punch cups, with the rest of the cream to garnish the top, NOW 1i agland Frozen Pudding. --- Toast steamed brown bread until it is .crisp, then.roll or grind it in a chopper' until it fine. Allow one- half of a cupful of bread to each pint of. cream. , Shell and blanch filberts, roast them slighbly, and grind them exceedingly fine. Allow one cupful of nuts: ;to each pint of cream. Beat the white of two eggs until ib is dry arid stuff, and add slowly a' syrupeinade of one cupful of sugar and one-third o'f a cupful of water cooked to 238 degrees, just what any spst>em, needed. ,"The 'bowels performed their flint - tions regularly land 1 'sin now corn.-. ptletely and p,eranarnently cured of this -awful trouble, "Truly .-the power. of oeientifie foo ; must be unlimited." Name given by. Canadian Postale./- Co., Windsors Ont: Trial 10 days • of. Grape -Nuts, when regular food does not seem to sustain the body, works wonder. wwTtheree a Reason,,, Look in pk€ss.:far the faanotis 1attlo book, "Thee Rood to Welevale,", Ever road the abovo lotto. A now onr Appears Iron time to time. stay are t mantic, trut, and Cull et tiunian interest.