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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-1-9, Page 3GERMANY RUINED INTERVENTION IN SAYS RATHHENAN RUSSIA NEEDED GREATEST CALAMITY IN WORLD LORD 111ILNER SAYS DONOR DE - EOR 2,000 YEARS elANDED AU) TO FRIENDS German Capitalist Predicts Emigre- Allies Entered to Saye ('zeclto-Slovttics Gore and Says Food Problem De- and Overthrow the Power of mantis Irnrnediuto Action by ifs. the Bolshevik'. II. T, Grccnwell, the London Daily In reel -mese to etrenee Protest; in the :l:.:tpres,e e"rrespondent, has interview- pre:;; against the secrecy maintained ed in Berlin 1)r, Rathenau, head of the eoueerning military operations in Rus- to arm, train and organize "+o a:; to German General Electrical Company, eta end the insistent demand by liberal be strong enough to defend thcen- one of the largest employers or labor ii,vinapers that the government ex- Reh ts? It would he no abominable in flerran;', Ile Raid: plain and jtntify the cnntinulmee of betrayal, contrary to every British "Germany is ruined for generations these oaerations, Viscount Milner, the instinct of honor and humanity. to conte. It is the greatest calamity Secretary of War, has isau el a state- "You may be quite sure that the that has happened hi any country for ment to the effect that the Allies have last thing the Government desires is 2,000 year:+. We are ruined politically, an obligation of honor to protect the to leave any British soldiers in Russia industrially and economically. Russians and others who have aided11 du;v longer than i:; necessary to dis- "All our people here do not yet them against the Bolshevik', charge the moral obligations we have know the truth. I told the German For the Attlee to scramble out of ' incurred. And that, I believe, is the people that they would lose the war, Russia now would threaten to involve guiding principle of the Allies. Nor but everybody scoffed at me. the whole country in barbarism, be do I myself think that the time when Ines, from Which our North Sett bar- rage could have been thrum,. "'These were important achieve- stents and contributed ru.tterielly 10 the defeat of (lermeny. "I say nothing of the feet that, vast portions of the earth's surrace and iniltfulis of people friendly 1e the Al- lies have been spared the unspeakable horrors of Bolshevik rule, 13u8 in course of this Allied intervention, thousands of RUS:iians have taken up arms and fought on the side of the Allies. Ifow can we, simply because our own immediate purposes have been served, come away and leave them so the tender mercies of their end our enemies before they Leen time "We have a population of nearly says, 70,000,000. half of them can live on Lord Milner, in his statement, which what grows on our soil or is found; is in the form of a letter in reply below it. The other half live on the to a correspondent, goes over the sit - industries for which all materialscation created by the success of the have to he bought and paid foe by Bolsheviks in gaining eontrol of Ruse what they sell. :den affairs, and emphasizes how "Now our colonies are going, and their acts were affecting adversely the vet ran withdraw without disastrous consequences is necessarily distant. But this is a case !n which more haste may be less speed. "If the Allies wore all -to scramble out of Russia at once, the result would almost certainly be that the barbarism that at present reigns in a part only Alsace -Lo. x100 too, with all the ores, cause of the Allies in the west and of that enuntry would spread over the and the greater part of the potash ; otherwise hampering the winning of whole of it, including the vast regions the war by the Allied nations. or northern and central Asia, which "You ask mc." says Viscount Milner were included in the dominion of the in his letters, "what right we ever had Czar. The ultimate consegnenees of to send British troops to Russia to such a disaster cannot be foreseen, but meddle with the internal affairs of they would assuredly involve a far production. There is danger of losing other parts of our country, the Danish and so-called Polish districts, which in reality are German. "Black Ruin Faces Ifs." "Then comes the question of indem- nities. If the indemnities are high the interests and repayments will take our savings and we shell have nothing with which to expand our industries. Black ruin will face us and there will be a great tide of emigration, probab- ly to South America add the Far East and certainly to Russia. It will be most dreadful and the result will be British are only a small proportion of the Balkanization of Europe. the total Allied troops -were sent to "Tho disappearanee of Germany Russia, is that the Bolshoviki, what - from a position of importance will be ever their ultimate object, were in fact the must dangerous fact in history. assisting our enemies in every possible Sooner or later the eastern Powers way, will press on the western civilization." "It was owing to their action that Turning to the food question, Dr. hundreds of thousands of German Rathenau said: troops were let loose to hurl them- trate attention with the other toward "Germany has been hungry for selves against our men on the western some object of fear or fancy. three years, hut is not yet starving. front. It was owing to their betrayal In advancing in a car toward cows Everybody who sees Germany will that Rumania, with all its rich re- standing in the roadway it will be say that she is not starving now, and noticed that those facing the car usually turn to one side and let the car pass; those with side toward the car will, if on, say, the right side of the road, run and attempt to cross to the left side; those with head away from the car will usually run down the roadway ahead, turning off at one side or the other. The reason why the cow or chicken on the right side of the road turns to go over to the left, and vice versa, that country and how long we mean to keep then there, now that the war is over. Reason for Intervention. "Tile question itself shows that you VISION OF COWS misapprehend the :facts of the case as well as the motives of, the Govern- Explanation of Apparent Stupidity of meat. The reason why Allied, not Anima's On Being Approached. merely British forces—indeed, the When a cow faces an object both eyes may with ease be focused on it. When the object is at the side or rear one eye may be focused on it, while the other is viewing objects in quite a different direction. Evidently the aminmal may direct attention to one object with both eyes, or it may inhibit one eye and direct and concen- greater strain on the resources of the British Empire than our present com- mitments." _--_ - that is perfectly true. But if you talk of provisions to be found in Germany you must say truthfully that they will be exhausted in two months; and if you wait until then to send food it will be too late, because 70,000,000 people cannot he fed as easily as, say, 7,000,- sources m grain and all, fell into the hands of the Germans. "It was they who handed over the Black Sea fleet to the Germans and treacherously attacked the Czecho- Slovaks when the latter only desired to get out of Russia in order to fight for the freedom of their own country 000 Belgians. Ships are the greatest in Europe. The Allies, every one of factor in feeding Germany." them, were most anxious Y,o avoid "If the Allies don't send food within interference in Russia, but it was an two months, what will happen ?" the obligation of honor to save the Czecho- corresponient asked. Slovaks, and it was military necessity is, I suggest, because the eye of the "Riots and sickness," was the reply. of the most urgent kind to prevent animal, which sees and appreciates Doctor Rathenau said that he'had those vast portions of Russia that the danger of the advancing ear, is seen the damage done in Belgium and were struggling to escape the tyranny by instinct kept on the dangerous oh - northern France, and his estimate of of the Bolshevilci from being overrun jest. To turn to the right and escape the indemnity payable for this was by them and so thrown open as a would blind the animal during the $6,000,000,000, source of supply to the enemy. period of turtling, and this she will "I say nothing of the enormous not willingly do, But if she runs THE "TRAVELLER'S TREE" quantities of military stores, the pro- across the road in front of the car, perty of the Allies, which were still the eye with which she first observed A plant that is said to be like the lying at Archangel and Vladivostock I it will keep it clearly and continuously rock which Moses smote with leis rod and were in course of being appro- in view, and, she thinks, allow her to and caused water to gush forth is the priated by the Bolsheviki and trans- escape the impending danger, d "traveler's tree," so called because when its leaves are cut a quantity of pure cold water is said to spurt out to quench the thirst of the wayfarer. Botanists say that the "traveler's tree" is not a palm at all, but is closely related to the banana plant, a member of the musa family. While the trunk in general appearance is like that of a palm, the leaves are arranged at the top in two rows on long, stalks diverging in the form of a gigantic fan. The leaf bases are borne on opposite sides of a genuine trunk one above the other. These sheathing bases fit so closely together as to preclude the. evaporation of the water that rune down the channel on the upper or inner side of the midrib. By puncturing the midrib of any of the leaves may be obtained a con- siderable amount of water. A feature of general interest is presented by this tree in its peculiar arrangement of its leaveh, which are oblong in form and are larger in size than those of any other known plant. The flowers are small and numerous and arranged on a spike that is pro- duced from the centre of the stens, as in the banana. The cluster of leaf bases are fold- ed together lengthwise like the leaves of the iris, These leaf bases corre- spond to petioles or leaf stalks of ordinary leaves as in the oak or cherry, and in the case of the tra- veler's tree what would be the upper surface of the leaf base is within. Thus, each leaf base straddles the next inner one, which is known no "equitant." It is in the spaces that the water collects. At the points the leaves clasp very close so that tho water in the spaces cannot escape. The "traveler's tree" grows natur- ally only in Madagascar and thrives only in the vicinity of water. The tree is now cultivated in sotno tTopi- .cal countries for ornamental pure epees, In its native habitat its 'leaves furnish the people with thatch and sides of their houses; the leaves are used also extensively fog Itnaking a groat vaizoty- of eeinor 1louseheld Articles, and the 'trunks, which aro woolly find durable 1n contact with the soil, are used for )nests and fee flooring in warehouses. i ferred to the Germans until the Allied occupation put an end to the processes. Act Brings Success. "And this intervention was success- ful. Rioting was stopped. The Czecho- Slovaks were saved from destruction. The resources of Siberia and south- eastern Russia were denied to the enemy. The northern ports of Euro- peen Russia were prevented from be- coming bases for the German submar- N ruTh is sometimes painful. For instance when the doctor says one must give up the dearly loved cup of -.0 tea or co'f'fee. happiness-fol- lows appiness-Fol-lows however when one finds out how delicious and health making i -the pure cereal drink 1PF O q IJ M Even when safely across, if turne around, by encountering a fence, or by chance, so as to perceive the enemy with the other eye. I have seen her run for dear life to recross the road to the side whence she Is just come. The instinctive action, originally pro- tective, is thus made a source of dan- ger to the animal. The chicken, with monocular vision, labors under the same hallucination; it, too, thinlcs that the danger may be avoided S' running with all its might, keeping the enemy all the time in view with the eye that was originally turned toward it. Thus, truly, the cow cros- sed the road because she crossed the road. • Not For the Princess. A good many years ago when Queen Alexandra was still Princess of Wales, she had accompanied the Prince upon a ceremonial visit to one of the great Midland cities, whore after the main object of the day, the laying of the corner stone of a hospital, had been accomplished, there followed a round of visits to public institutions, with speeches and the presentation of bou- quets, addresses and resolutions. As the royal carriage Was return- ing, a blocking of the road ahead de- layed it in front of a school, The chil- dren had been given a recess, and were crowded on the curb to see the royal- ties, It had boon composition day, itsirl a 'very pretty little girl in a white dress still held her composition in her Band. Moved by curiosity and the pressure other comrades behind her, she eteppeinto the street and stood close by the royal carriage, smiling shyly up into the Princess's face. That gracious lady returned the smile and, seeing the paper clutched in the child's hand, assumed that it was one more loyal address and stretched her hand out to tante it. The surprised little author surrendered it silently—anal Peet, then the procession passed on. A few minutes later Prineess Alex- andra, glancing clown, was struck by something unusual in the aspect of the paper in her Iap--•probably a certetin screwlinese and inkiness ---and opened it fora better look. She read this astonisliiiig titles "On the Habits of Toads." £'U 8U 1 11�,�1V±lillil.ls 1LJL) BY ROYAL BANK Total Resources lip 92 Millions in Year and 247 Millions In give Yeats. 20 P,C. EARNED ON STOCK Increase in Assets Represented Chiefly in Cash and Liquid items, With Higher Ratios in Both. Growth from within ::npplennented by purrhases of other banks contin- ues to make tine annual llgures of the Royal hank of Canada impreeslve. In the pest year total res1nree,e rose to 427 millions against 335 a year ago, 213 two years ago and 790 five years ago...The purchase of the Northern Crown Bank in the twelve months ac- counted for about 27 millions of the past year's growth, but that left the substantial increase of GO millions to he assigned to progressive develop- ment from within the old organization. A moderate increase in profits ac- companied the large sedition to the bank's potential earning power, net profits before war tax ,prrsenting 20.1 per cent, on paid-up capital at the end of the year, or 20.9 per cent. on the average capital employed, against earnings at the rate of 18 per cent. a year ago and 17.8 per cent. two years ago. A million dollars was added to re- serve account, half coming from the premium on shares issued to North- ern Crown shareholders and half out of profit and loss account. After this Provision, with pension fund appro- priation, increased writing off on bank premises, larger contributions to various public funds and the usual dividend, the bank carried forward substantially the same amount in profit and loss as a year ago. Profits and their distribution in the past three years were: 1918, 1917, ' 1916. Profits.92,509,846 52,327.879 92,111,207 Prev, bat' 664,264 862,345 676.472 Total . .$2.374,110 53,150,325 52,787,779 Less:— Dividends ess: Dividends 91,614,702 91,549,404 Pension IP. 100,000 100,000 Premises . 400,000 260,000 \\Tat• Tax , 133,661 128,367 Patriotic . 40,000 80,000 Halifax F, 50,000 Reserve . 600,000 625,800 91,417,207 100,000 250,000 118,226 50.000 Tot dedr01,52,888,853 82.610,061 51,985,422 Balance 9636,767 5664,204 $862,346 LIQUID RATIO HIGIDIR Tho year's expansion finds reflection chiefly among assets classified as liquid, which are 59 millions higher than a year ago, and now represent a proportion of 56.6 per cent. to public liabilities against 68.9 par Cent. a year ago and 58.2 per cent. two years ago. Cash items as represented in coin, Dominion notes and cover for excess note issue In the Central Gold Re- serve have increased 18 millions, bringing the proportion to public lia- bilities under this 'lead up to 17.1 per cent. against 16.4 per cent. a year ago and 17.8 per cent. two years ago. Bal- ances due. notes and cheques of other hanks, are up over 19 millions, and there Is an increase of 25 millions in security holdings, representing chiefly purchases of Dominion treasury bills. Public deposits, which form the foundation for the bank's expansion, have increased 30 millions in the year, this gain following one of 52 millions in 1017,and one of 66 millions in 1916. A considerable increase in note cir- culation and a moderate ono in cur- rent loans and discounts are measures of the prosperity and activity of busi- ness in the territory served by the bank. Comparisons of leading items of the general statements of the years ended November 30th, 1918 and 1917, follow: 1918. 1917, Deposits dem. $135,2.18,278 170,498,007 0, savings, 197,3.19,489 182,488,715 Do, total, . 982,801,717 262,587.382 Circulation . . 30,380.976 25,155,351 Public flab. . 397,047,1.09 807,703,795 Cash 42,124,868 84,364,375 Cent. Gold Res 26,000,000 16,000,000 Balances, etc... 11.110,470 31,626.778 Securities 81,805,276 cu 18 636,..96 Call loans, Can 10067491 13,040,637 Do, abroad 24,374,191 14,874,135 TOG liquid, , 224.082,003 166,836,706 Curr, loans . 188,748,392 150,612,129 Tot, assets. . 427,612.082 235,674,186 HYDRATJLIC CARTRIDGES Cheaper and More Effeetive Than Ordinary Explosives in Mining. It is often difficult and sometimes dangerous to use ordinary explosives for mining ani excavating in confined spaces, a fact that has led to the de- velopment of the hydraulic mining cartridge, The cartridge consists of a steel cyl- inder Containing numerous ,shall pis- tons that move at right angles to the axis of the cylinder and expand when water is injected into them with a hand pump, After drilling a deep Waugh hole the workmen insert the cylinder and then set to work at the hand pump, The tiny pietons expand until their free extremities bear against the 711888 of rock with constantly increasing force and the rock le gradually frac- tured under tremendous pressure. The operation, it is said, is not only cheap- er than the ordinary blest, lint dis- integil'ates a larger area of rock, The Latest Designs °'t7 -Le ClerMail4414 affar.WELTEZET AA Plays ALL records CORREC7LY Through an error the advcrtieement recently publislied in title paper eoatained the wrong rtdrlr15'. 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Three men went tip, crashed, and were killed. Without; a moment's hesitation the young instructor went into a fourth machine, flew, and came back safely. "I fust wanted to find out what was wrong,''' he said, "so I found out what it was and put it right in the air." It:t0lard'S Lipinlent carols Distemper. The true home of the orange Is India. Thence it migrated to Per- sia, and so to Europe. The Persian word for it was nareng, and the Ara - hien' mining; but the color of this fruit, and the notion of or, aurruin (gold), gave the French word orange its form by dropping the which, however,, ,lis retained in some Italian dialects., "When thou wishest to delight thyself, thinkof the virtues of those who live with thee; for instance; th activity of opt, .end ;the industry cf another, end the liberality of 4t third, and some other good quality of a fourth." --Marcus Aurelius, ISSUE No.1-49 FUEL, FFOM THE SEA. A Misinterpretation. 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