HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-9-24, Page 8RICK SOLDIERS Of FRANCE
?IG TT'IN° WITH THE ALLIES
IN THE PRESENT WAR.
They. Are Among the Most Valuable
Soldiers That Can Be
Employed.
No troops fighting under the Tri-
color have resisted more desperate -
1y the German advance than have
the Tams. On et least one ocea-
nion their charge put to utter rout
an opposing body of Germans. On
another occasion they were able, to
get close to the German lines be-
fore it was discovered that they
were enemies, their khaki uniform
having deceived the Germans, who
thought it was the dull grey of their
own men, In charging home they
have exhibited an impetuosity that
suite equals the best French trail-
tions, and there seems every reason
to believe that whee properly led
they will be among the most valu-
able-sol&di.ers that can be employed
against the common foe. The Tut-
ees are the native blank and yellow
troops of Africa who live under the
French flag. Many of them are of
Arab blood, and to fight is as natur-
al for them as to eat. Moreover,
France, like Britain, has employed
native troops for two generations to
put down risings of hostile natives,
and the Turoos will have more right
to call themselves veterans than
any of the soldiers fighting in the
Kais'er's army.
Turcos in Europe Before.
tplrt o militarim that boded- all
for their European rulers, There is
also the objeetio•n raised that near -
1v all the bleok and yellow troops
that could be pat in the field by
France and Britain are Mohaanme-
donee, and that tc permit them to
slaughter Cluistien.s of one rata
would be a mere incitement an-
them to slaughter those of another
nation, Britain, however, who
probably knows more about the
problem of governing Mohamme-
dans than all the rest of the na-
tions put together, has come to
the conclusion that the Kaiser is a
more dangerous• foe at the present
tiuz}e than any Malydf, and will plasm
some of her Indian army in the
field, The Sikhs and the Ghoorkas
have already proved their valor and
their devotion to the British flag,
and soon they will be fighting side
by side with the French natives.
After the problem. constituted by
the Kaiser has been satisfactorily
solved, it will be time to solve the
problem created by. the emcees of
the Mohammedan troops,
SCIENCE IS RETARDED.
War May Dim Torch of Progress
for Years to Come.
Nor is this the first time they
leave been employed on European
soil. In the Franco-Prussian War
France called upon some of her le-
gions from Algiers, and if she had
called upon more of them it is pos-
sible thatthe war would have had a
different ending. At Wissenburg the
Turcos drove back the German in-
fantry with heavy loss, and under
MacMahon at Worth they hacked
their way through the solid German
ranks. Although they were not
then fighting for their fatherland
the French blacks displayed all the
qualities necessary in a soldier.
Since then they have been brought
closer to France. The policy of the
French Government has been to
impress the natives in her colonies
with the magnificence and impor-
tance of the French nation. It is
only a few months ago that, in pur-
suence of this wise policy, the
French War Office brought several
companies of Senegembians to Pa-
ris. It was said that the idea was
to show the citizens of France what
magnificent specimens of manhood
were to be found in the. French col-
onies. The real reason for the visit
was to impress the native troops
with the magnificence of France.
The Medical Record expresses
the opinion that a long .drawn- out
struggle in Europe will retard the
progress of medical science tubroad
for many years.
"It may be premature," •says the
editor, "to attempt to prophesy
the ultimate effects of the insane
struggle in Europe upon the pro-
gress of medical science, but there
can be no doubt that in Europe,
where the torch of science has been
carried high, the economic losses
resulting from a long -continued
war would dim its radiance for
many years to came. Attainment
in science and in the liberal arts is
favored by unrestricted leisure and
freedom from the stresses and cares
of daily life, and the dissipation of
a country's resources eannot but
react unfavorably in halting the
onward march of science.
"In addition to the diminishing
endowments for research which will
presumably follow the war, there
is another important fadtor that
will hemper medical investigation.
The mobilization of the large Eu-
ropean armies must drain the la-
boratories and the clinics of their
brilliant young workers, who, as
reservists, volunteers, or members
of the Red Cross, will ate added to
the medical corps of :the respective
armies. On the other hand, these
men, or sudh of them as survive,
will return with an experience
which may perhaps more than com-
pensate for the interruption in the
orderly prosecution of research ;
but even research is not altogether
paralyzed by war.
"In addition to the surgeons at-
tached to the armies in the field
there are medical men detailed at
headquarters or at the base of sup-
plies Who carry on important inves-
tigations in connection with the
hospital work of the medical corps.
During the Russo-Japanese war,
while the Russian army was engag-
ed in Manchuria there were 'being
carried on in the army headquar-
ters at Moscow important bacterio-
logical investigations as to the na-
ture of so-called Manchurian ty-
phus, and the story need nob be re-
told of the wonderful aehievemenbs
of the Japanese in camp sani-
tation."
A huge Black Reservoir.
Their appearance excited a tre-
mendous furore. They became so-
ciety pets, were taken everywhere,
shown everything, and honors were
showered upon thein.. Naturally
enough, when they went home they
loudly sounded the praises of the
French people, and are said to. have
&roused great enthusiasm among
the entire native population. It is
partly as a result of this enthusiasm
that from Dahomey, Algeria, Sene-
gambia, Morocco, French Guinea
and the French Congo have corse to
the French Wier Office requests from
thousands and tens of thousands of
natives who desire the privilege of
going to France and repelling the
German invader. Thinking, as most
of us do, of the incomparable extent
of British colonial possessions, we
lose sight of the fact that in Africa
alone the French kg flies over mors
than 30,000,000 people, This is a
tremendous reservoir, upon which
Fiance may draw for yearn, should
the war last that long.
Objections to Black Troops.
How many thousands of drilled
black and yellow troops France
ccold
field is not
lace p in the
known. Tihe army decree of De'
comber, 1900, undoubtedly contem-
plated the use of the native troops
in Europe. By that order the
French colonial army was reorgan-
ized, and while ib was stated that
the organization was chiefly for the
defence of the colonies, it was pro-
vided that these troops might be
called upon for service in any part
;of :the world where French interests
leers 'at stake. When the French
brought the Turoos and Sphasi to
Europe in 1870, there woe very gen-
eral Criticism of the act, based upon
the grounds that there was some-
thing barbarous in the idea of pit-
ting blank men against whites. It
was pointed oat that the success of
the blacks was a disaster to be
guarded against even more than.
their failure. If they were ;taught
that .they could: defeat one race of
white men, they might become
seizedof the idea that they co'ul'd
also defeat any other rage, and
migh•b even turn against Franey.
Britislt Blacks Coining.
This idea was put forwardagain
and again in the course of the watr
between 'Russia and Japan, end we
Were told that the victory of the
laps had fired all Asiatics with a,
Gen. Baden-Powell Calls Out 200.000 Boy Semis.
•
The Chief of the Scoots of Great Brittain, who has just called the
200,000 Boy Scents of Great Britain to r .:1y round the colors for duty
as monis and despatch hearers.
GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLY
MUST
IMPORT FOODSTUFFS
OR STARVE.
Grows Only Eighty-five Per Cent.
of the Amount Slec
Eats.
When ib is said that Germany's
only possible chane° to win is by a
short war, it is meant that in a long
struggle the combined resources of
the allies are superior to those of
Germany, and that in the end they
w.oulcl inevitably tall, no matter
with what genius -the Garman forces
were handled. In along war, with
Germany unable to import food-
stuffs, the result is no mere open
to argument than is the assertion
that a bag of flour is heavier than
half a bag. The German army might
destroy nine -tenths of the soldiers
sent against them, but some one
has made the remark that an army
fights on its belly, and 1 the victori-
ous
ictorious German's found that their army
could be starved and that their peo-
ple were already starving, there
would be nothing to do but to sur-
render and accept whatever terms,
short of starvation, night be im-
posed by the powers that, from the
point of view of actual engage-
ments, had been defeated.
No Problem for Allies.
Jews Loyal to England.
We Jews, whether England is to
us the beloved country of our birth
or the egmelly beloved country. of
our adoption, will go forward, our
one inspiring motive our affection
for England, our one stern resolve
that come what may her •cause shall
prevail. If we cannot do more we
cannot do less, for, we repeat, Eng-
land has been all she could be to
Jews; Jews will be all they rain to
England.—London Jewish Chroni
ole.
The Result.
"I," -said the temperance man,
"strongly object to the custom of
christening ships with cham-
pagne." "I don't," replied the
other man. "I think there's a tem-
perance lesson in it." "How can
that be " "Well, immediately
after the first bottle of. wine the
ship takes to water, end ,sticks to
it ever after."
5 --
Tho Doctor's Reply.
When a lady patient living far
from town had to telephone for her
physician she apologized for ask-
ing him to .come such a distance.
"Don't; speak . of it," said the doc-
tor, cheerfully. I happen to have
another patient' in that vicinity,
and so can kill two birds with one
stone."
The Limit Reached.
As far as the allies aro concerned,
the food problem is solved already.
It is command of the ;sea that solves
it. From all parts of !the world food
is now arriving in England and in
France. Russia is self-supporting. seamy,
cannot Morrow. Her
Even should she he isolated, she bbems industries are at a standstill.
could continue to grow all the food Not a wheel is turning except tor
her people require. Moreover, in rmilitary purposes. Nobody is draw -
on receiving a certain supply of
cattle, and from Hungary also she
will continue to get barley for brew-
ing purposes. Neither Austria nor:
Hungary, however, has any great
qu'a'ntity of surplus wheat et lir
present time, and there is always
the extreme probability of the ad-
vance of the Russian army dam-
ming •this channel before many
months have elapsed. There re-
mains Italy. Should Italy continue
neutral, it will be possible for Ger-
many to secure a certain amount of
foodstuffs, :but it will he only the
food that Italy grows herself for ex-
port purposes. It would be impos-
sible to ship food from abroad to
Italy and forward it to Germany,
for the powers in command :of the
seas would probably hold up such
grain -carriers. Moreover, Italy's
neutrality to Germany, should it be
main'tain'ed throughout the war, is
noplites. likely to be. a friendly neutral-
ity, and the Italian Government is
not likely to. encourage Italians to
help out Germany with food sup -
Where Is the Gold to Pay'?a
But supposing that even if Ger-
many had access to the food mar-
kets of the world, she could be sup-
plied only with what the could pay
for, and where is she going to get
the money to pay for anything in a
year's .time 1 She is now spending
at the rate of $20,000,000 adayl and
huge though, her war chest is, it
cannon survive a year's steady
drain. Everything is going out and
nothing is coming into Germany.
Her foreign trade has collapsed
absolutely. Not a dollar's worth of
artiolss of German manufacture is
being exported. She is not being
paid by any [foreigners who owe her
ut t! ^, 1, ss e arras+., cseasess.3
The Standard stile of
Canada. Has >tallallaj
Imitations but Imo equal
CLEANS AND
DISINFECTS
MMO%N E
° 'RU"+'.An' t'i iSIMS` itis i "t
CIVIIRATION'S CHAMPION
A SCIENTIST EXPLAINS GER-
MANY'S MOTIVES.
Columbia University Professor
Gives Some Interesting
Information.
Even nations in the death grips
upon the battlefield appear to un-
derstand the value of the sympathy
of onlookers, and in the present
struggle Germany seeks to show
that the war eras, thrust upon her.
It being impossible to prove that
som'eo'ne streak her first, she falls
back upon the cry that this is thie.
irrepressible conflict, the babble be-
tween Teuton civilization and Slav
barbarism. She tries to prove bo
the onlooking world, and especially
to the United States, that she is
the veritable champion of civiliza-
tion, stemming the aide that flows
upon her and upon civilization from
Russia. Her loyal sons in the
United States have been arguing
upon this theme since the outbreak
of the war, and they are ably an-
swered by M. I. Paupin, professor
in Columbia University, who was
born in Hungary and proclaims him:
self a Slav, but who use's the King's
English as though it were his mo-
ther tongue. Ln the course of an
entiole in the New York Sun, Pro-
fessor Pupin gives some interesting
information regarding the situation
in Germany as revealed to him by
brother scientists long before the
war broke out.
Militarist Intellectuals.
She (impatientbiy)--•f.is is the
fourth time von have asked me to
marry you, How often do you with
me to refuse youl
He --Well, I think three times
quite sufficient.
Many e man makes a strenuous
effort to recognize his duty •so that
he will be in a' position to dodge it,
Russia the vast majority al the
population continues to till the soil
and harvest the crops, and will nom-
tintre to do so no matter how long
the was may last. In the event of
a long war, France, like Great Bri-
tain, will have to import foodebuffs;
but if the seas are secure for Bri-
tain they are secure for France.
Germany, however, in normal times
grows only 85 per cent, of what she
eats, and next year, on account of
practically all the table -bodied men
of the nation being under arms, she
will grow far less. It is saki that
even now the pinch of hunger is be-
ginning to be felt in Berlin by the
poorer classes., I•n anbioipation of
a famine, those with a little capital
laid in supplies, and those whom
stern necessity compels to live from
hand to month arealready
hungry.
ing wages excelab from the Govern-
ment. Where is she to get the
£162,000,000 ayear that she has
spent with foreign nations for food
and drink? And without this food
for a year, what is to become of her'?
CANNING FACTORIES BUSY.
Canned Vegetables From France
and Belgium Curtailed.
Must Import or Starve.
It is incredible that among the
preparations for the war the Kaiser
did not provide a stock of food-
atuffs that he calculated would be
ample for the needs of the people,
In some quarters it has been said
that Germany has on hand but four
months' sbo•res, while others say
that there is enough food for a year.
However much or little there is,
'there is not an indefinite supply,
and sooner or later Germany must
import foodstuffs or starve. Where
is she to get her food 1 In the past
she has purehesed most of her grain
from Russia, as e writer in the Lon-
don Mail points out, She will not
purchase another bushel from Rus-
sia as long as the war lasts. She
cannot impart from, else Unated
States, from. Canada or frons the
Argentine, for the British navy
will not lot the food pass to the
ports on her northern timet. There
remains only the frontiers that part
her from 'I:taly and Austro -Hun-
gory, If she is to get food et all, it
must he from this source.
Only One Soiree.
Frain Hungary she earn •count up
Industrial 'Conditions in Canada
at this time will result in the em-
ployment of many more Canadians
then usual in the canning factories
of the Dominion. In previous sea-
sons many canning factories, find-
ing difficulty in obtaining sufficient
local help, secured from the larger
labor .market of the United States.
It is •estimated that several t'hons-
and employees of ;Canadian canning
factories during previous seasons
were not permanent residents of
this country. In view of the unem-
ployment in some industries at this
time the canning factories will be
able to secure in Canada most, if
not all, the help they require this
season. Thus many 'Canadians who
would otherwise be out of employ-
ment will have the work in the can-
ning factories that in previous years
was given to ,parties who were resi-
dent in IOanada only during the
canning season. The policy of the
leading canning companies has been
to employ local help as far as pos-
sible.
Another condition that will tend
to increase the number of ,Cana-
di:anM employed in the canning in-
dustry in. this .00nntry is the cur-
tailment of imports of canned vege-
tables frons France and Belgian.
The imperbs of canned vegetables
from these countries into Canada
during the fiscal year ending
March 31, 1014, amounted to $164,•
181 and $124,468, respectively --a to -
tat el earnest $300,000. The curtaiil-
mont of these imports will increase
the demand for the 'products of
Canadian canning factories.
with Fiance that Germany really
began to become the great indus-
trial nation she was before the pre-
sent catastrophe occurred. Until
1885 she had no iron industry to
speak of, end a,s a wit remarked,
"the Iron Chancellor represents the
only fine iron that Germany has."
Hex metal contained too much phos-
phorus; but suddenly England,
through Bessemer and Gilchrist -
Thomas, developed a process that
made this iron entremely valuable.
Immediately the iron and steel in-
dustries of Germany started with a
bound, and grew until they are •to-
day second only bo those of the
United States. Other subsidiary
industries developed, and this, in
brief, is the history of German in-
dustrial development in the past
twenty years. Side by side with
this prosperity developed the prob-
lem of finding markets for produots,
and feeding the industrial popula-
tion. Ger'many's prosperity
brought about a great increase in
her population, particularly in the
industrial districts. Industrial em-
ployment at hoanie reduced German
immigration to practically nothing.
The agricultural population clid
not increase so rapidly, because
Germany does not possess en•ouglr
arable land. The inevitable result
approaohed. Germany caw the
time approaching when she could
not supply more than one-third of
the food supply that the country
consumed. As one distinguished
German told Prof. Pupin some
years ago, it was necessary for
Germany to find a method by which
one were could produce what three
then produced or to multiply the
number of her acres.
PREPARE FOR A 1OPt WAR
GERMANY WILL FIGHT TO DIE
LAST DIAN AND IIORSE,
half a Million Additional Men May
Have to be Raised in
Britain.
The war situation and ;the neces-
sity of rallying wholehearitedly to
the support of Earl Kitchener is set
out as follows by the military cor-
respondent of The London. Tames
It is most important that the pub-
lic, alt this critical time, should
rally wholeheartedly to the sup-
port ,olf the great Field -Marshal
:Who has takes.' off his coat to 5e0
the country through this war, and
means to fight it out with all the
tenacity and the perseverance be-
fitting a great occasion in the na-
tional history.
This is no time for precedent,
red -tape, and routine. The coun-
ery is in for the greatest war of its
history and it must rise to the
height of a great responsibility.
Le,b it be clear to all than, though
politicians have tbabibled about
gre•att wars, they have never seri-
ously faced such a situation, nor
does Lord Kitchener now find un-
der his hand the means for waging
war on e ;great seal's, Whether it
is organization, numbers, arms,
equipment, or anything else that
goes to make an aimed force for-
midalble, we are dreadfully in ar-
rears, and the present generation,
by its efforts and its steady pa-
.traotisin, is called upon to make
good the neglect, the selfishness,
and the callous indifference to de-
fence which has •characterized our
peace -•loving nation in the past.
A Nation in Arms.
He challenges German culture at
the outset, and says that Professor
Munsterberg is right when he says
that among the intellectual classes
in Germany there was practically
no response to the movement for
universal peace. Even among the
best thinkers in the empire it was
realized than if German ideals were
to be established they could be es-
tablished by war alone. Therefore,
the only enemies to war in Ger-
many were those who did not take
it for granted that these ideals
should be established. Militarism,
as a result of .the Franco-Prussian
War, which laid the foundations for
the modern German Empire, be-
came the ruling passion, and beside
it grew that other product of medie-
valism, the cloctrine of the Divine
right of kings. The Kaiser's pious
uttter.anoes were not without their
effect. He asserted that he ruled
Germany as a sort of vice-•gerent of
God, and the people appear to
have believed him. The difference
between Germany and England and
France is that while the Kaiser was
re-establishing the fetich about the
Divine right of kings, e other
countries were beginning
to lay
down the doctrine about the Divine
right of the people.
What is the situation 1 We are
figfhting a nation in arms of 70 ing-
lion people, and we have no good
reason to suppose that they have
any object in life bub to erush us ilf
they can. We have stout allies and
many other advantages for which
to be thankful, bub our two fore-
most allies, France and Russia,
have certain characteristics to
which we must not remain blind.
France has already thrown the
'whole of her manhood into the war.
!She San do no more, and •enoept for
her new contingent of reerubts she
cannot even increase by a man her
power in ,the field. Russia is a
mighty ,ower with immense Dopa-
city for defence, but with untried
and unproved offensive powers. Ws
may beat back .the German attack
but behind the first German line
are immense reserves, and we muet
take it that Germany will fight
this fight Mhrou•gh, as the well-
known saying has it, "to the last
breath o[f man and horse."
Changes of a Long War.
Germany's Ilced is Farm Land.
This was marc than a hint at ag-
gression upon the great fields of
Russia, The writer points out,
however, that the 'greatest iron and
coal fields of Europe are in Luxem-
burg, Lorraine and Belgium. Could
Germany come into; possession of
these reso.uress, she could lead the
world in her industries, providing
that she could also grow sufficient
food for her people. Long ago, -it
became plain that neither these iron'
fields nor the agricultural land
could be sscured except by con-
quest, and it was for this season
that the great German army and
navy have been brought into exis-
tepee. That she was not threaten-
ed, .but acted on, the offensive, is
proved, said Prof. Pupin by the
fact that in Russia half the popular
tion of Russia does not know of
her existence, and that the other
half is indifferent to it. Russia and
Germanyare not industrial rivals.
Nor is France a rival. The trouble
is that both, Russia andFxanoe have
what Germany needs, namely, agri-
cultural resources. These, with the
coal and iron fields o[f Belgium and
Luxemburg, are the stakes for
which Germany is playing.
Military Inventors honored.
Prof. Pupincontinues: "The Kai-
ser
aiser became not only the war lord,
but also the central figure of all
activities o[f the empire. Inven-
tions, discoveries and all products
e which could
scientific
research w
of
inoroase the efficiency of the Ger-
man army and navy were heartily
applauded by him. For instance,
scientific men in Germany who
otherwise would have remained, oh -
souse enjoyed his Imperial favor
and laecabe prominent because they
dabbled in wireless telegraphy,
which to the Kaiser always etpeer-
ed' as sa ecially designed by heaven
to become a great adjunct to his
ar'ny and navy. Count Zeppelin, in
the opinion of the Kaiser, is a great
German and the, greatest inventive
genius of the age, just because he
has been adapting an. old French
invention for Germain ,military ,ser-
vice.' The really great soientido
men of Germany felt lonesome;
they looked on from a respectful
distance and smiled ironically and
told ouch other amusing stories
about the Kaiser's stabdnrd of
scientific acumen. The wise men
of Germany know the Keiser's
shortcomings; they never took him
very seriously, and yet they follow-
ed ham meetly, carried on by taw ir•
resistible eurrent of German mili-
tarism,"
Debt Id British Genius,
]',b wets aortic years ;alter the war
3r -
MACHINE MILLS 'HOPPERS.•.
Electric Contrivance Destroys In-
sects and Their Eggs.
In sudh conditions the war may
ibe long, very long, and whether
this turns out to be the eaee or
not it is Lord Kitchenex's duty to
prepare our land forces so that
they may not only' emend the ef-
forts of our Friends by weak ao.n-
tingents, but may by their steadily
expanding nrrw!bers and their con-
stantly increasing efficiency en-
able as to play a part worthy of
'England an the war and at peace
impose terms most in contlonance
with our interests. If, .at the peace,
'there is a weakened France, a com-
manding Russia, and a negligible
England, we .shall.only have a voice
in the teams equal to the weight of
our sword, which will be ;slight,
and as the snap of Europe has been
torn up, and wholly new conditions
will arise when the fighting is over,
we are (bound to neglect for a time
the arts and crafts olf ,peace and to
tamely ourselves 'sternly to the busi-
ness of war in the defence oh a
righteous and impregnable cause.
Increase Military Tower.
A new machine has just been in-
vented by an engineer, Mr. Frig -
i sects.
i of n
destruction ort
g t for the
This electric machine has been
tried at •Pelacios, in the Province
of (Santa Pe, in the Argentine Re-
publica
On a carriage that it is easy to
transport, Mr, Fraggeri ,places a
gasoline motor and an alternating
current generator. At the back of
the car-iagge a drum is placed, on
which about 200 metres of insulated
cable have been rolled.- .
This calble carries the current to
a metallic net or system fixed upon
a little vehicle with two wheels, and
which carries in its centre;; a, brans -
former that is destined .to raise the
tension to 6,000 volts and even,
more.
.After several •trials, which have
all been crowned with sitcom, the
ei4perimen'ts at Palacios were con-
sidered as, decisive. Indeed, not
only has it been possible to destroy
the grasehoppere, but also their
eggs, whroh are to be found buried
four inches deep am the ground,
With the same apparatus ;provid-
ed,with a •metallic broom worked at
the end of insulated handle, and
which is joined to the positive .pole
of the transformer, it is also pox
Bible to completely than the trees
attacked Iby inseeb parasites.
At tths base of Lord Kitchener's
plans, therefore, lies this need for
preparing for a long war, andh'ts
further need, experie'n'ced 1 ng
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ego by Chatham and 'b y Pitt? of
steadily increasing aiir mill ary
power, day in• and clay out and ear
t—since
ill at lass
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b
ear,
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race of 'war is not only to the swift
bub to the pertinacious --we 1n ,y
figure 2n a,�ia in a mousse Ilsefita„}r rtg ,.'the wealth and apart off` our Et -
vire and the legacy of a great a :d
honorable past. Lord Kitchen' r,
therefore;' may .quite concervab. y
Ise/ye toelgploy 600,000 •additionsl
'men, and it is possible that when's.
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;other powers have exhaiusbed them-
selves, we shall be, as we have been
in the past, most capable of eon -
galling the war. There must be. n
'queotjog: of peace except on out
Iteruha, 'Even if all our pules were
:struck down Ave ethotild continue
,the wan, until the enemy had relax-
ed his grip, and, ms Russia nt least
is equally well prepared for a long
war, any misfortunes•—Which are
not indeed, to be foreseen but may
befall anyone in war—must not
turn either Russia or ourselves by
Dene bairabreadth'from aur resolit-
lion. No disasters must affright
ate. W@@ are Sighting for the liber-
ties and even the exi,sten:ce of T£rts.
rope,and we must make the world
learn what it means to turn the
thoughts of our people, and their
tstupendo'us energies, Se wars,
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