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The Herald, 1914-10-02, Page 6OTES S AND COM `` 1.►'7 Belgium's protest ,against the boanlbardraent of Antwerp by .a Zep- pelin will excite sympathy every- where, since Belgiu u was one of the powers which. signed The Hague conference • declaration of Oct. 18, 1907, prohibiting the discharge of peojeotiles and explosives from air- ships. Such methods ' of attack flagrantlyihcrease the horrors of, warfare and undo to a, large extent the progress made in the last ,oen- tury toward a humaner considera- tion of the rights of noncombat- ants. Neither Germany nor Frauoe signed thedeclaration of 1907 re- garding g<rz rding ue-real warfare and neither f these countries holds itself bound by it. Belgium may not be able, therefore, to make out a di- rect case of treaty violation against Germany. The only international compact which holds Germany 's article 2'7 of the .rules of land war- fare adopted by The Hague con- ference on Oct 18, 1907. This says: "In sieges and bombardments all necessary steps must be taken to spare, as far as possible, buildings dedicated to religion, art, science, or• charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where sick and wounded-;, are col- lected; provided, they are not being used at the time for military pirr poses." ' It is evident that an airship operating at night .at a consider- able distance above a city cannot discern the marks which should give protection to such buildings. It is also evident that in a hurried night flight over a city "all neces- sary precautions" cannot be taken to spare the buildings which ought to be spared. • it The present' European war will engage at least ten millions of men. •A great nun:ber.of these will be young men, who otherwise would marry and rear families. After the year these young men will be con- siderably older and many of them would never marry.. A vast host of lives will be destroyed by 'shot and shell, by sickness and disease, by exposure and famine. Thousands ;will lay down their lives or else be !'broken wrecks for the remainder ;of their days. With women already in numerical preponderance, what will this •sig- liify to them? It is seen at a glance that the surplusage of females will lbe such as to cause them to be drafted more largely than ever into industry and into forms of enter- prise from which they have as yet been exempt. These' women, de- prived of the opportunity of mar- riage and bringing up families and forced to enter forms of toil that will cause the stamina of the sex greatly to deteriorate, will consti- tute one of the tremendous calaan- ilties'of the war. Distinctly 'Suspicious. It was during the manoeuvres :'that a british soldier was being tried for shooting a chicken on pro- f bibited ground. ."Look here. my man," said the commanding officer to the farmer ;who brought the accusation, "are you quite certain that this man 'Shot your bird?, Will you swear to it V' "No, I won't do that," replied the canny farmer. "but I will say he's the man I suspect of doing it." "That's not enough to convict a man," retorted the officer, con- siderably nettled. "What raised your'. suspicions?" "Well, sir;'.'. replied the sturdy farmer,. as he slowly mopped his forehead with his. bandanna, PPI saw 'im on my property with a gun ;; then I heerd the gun go off ; then I saw 'int putting the chicken into his knapsack; and it didn't Seem sensible somehow to think the bird committed suicide." Climbing. ,"Yeee folk are being taken up by Society, •aren't you V' "Well, we don't 'believe in brag. ging but we know three ladies who artioke cigs.rettes." CARVING I11 G[RMAN AFRICA PRINCE FIND BRITAIN 1 AY GET SOME 'RICH PRIZES. Great' Warring Nations Own s-uch Land in the Dark Continent. Not only the map of Europe but also the map of, Africa is apt to be changed considerably in the near future; fer';>hlhe three great Powers now engaged in. the titanic European ,struggle ,all hold exten- sive stretches of territories on the Dark Continent.. The French Empire -n' the north- ern part of .Africa . alone is very large, In acquiring this France has had many differences with the h h Kaiser. Then, again, the German activi- ties ctiveties have clashed with those of Great Britain, England has con- trol over Egypt and the country about the southern point of Africa extending northward, but this is broken in its continuity by the German possessions on the eastern coast (German East .Africa). Good Picking. Present probabilities are that whatever map making, - if any, is done in Africa, wil'l1be done in spite. of Germany and at Germany's ex- pense. The German possessions in Africa have a, total area of nearly a million square males, or, to be exact, 931,420 square miles. The African possessions are four and one-half times as large as Ger- many itself, Which is about 209,000 square miles in extent. The African possessions have a population of 12,700,000, as against 65,000,000 in Germany. Apart from its African possessions, Germany has only a few small islands in the Pacific. Undoubtedly the French are the better colonizers and the most lov- ed of the three European nations in Africa. If the worst comes to the worst, it is said, Franke could raise a black army of 250,000 to fight for her, while the Germans would'' have to fight with European soldiers only. The blacks living under French government have been made French subjects and the equal of Frenchmen, and love their masters, while the black man of the German possession both fear and detests the ruler who wears 'The spiked helmet. The Egyptian felfah respects his British master, but he doesn't love him. Took Part of MViorocco., Colonization methods of the three nations are widely different. In- deed it is said "when the English occupy a country the first thing they build is a 'Customs House, the Germans a barracks, and fhe French a railway." Every foot of German territory in Africa has been gained at the expense of friction. One clash of the German and French resulted in the former taking a good portion of the rich Moroccan. country in. the northwest corner of Africa. If the war extends to Africa and the French are victorious' they would undoubtedly demand this portion. of Morocco back and the Came- roons, another German possession on the west coast, would in all pro- bability go to France, in addition to Alsace and Lorraine. • One Obstacle. Were it not for Germany the `Pall red" railway, frorn the Cape to. Cairo on the east coast, would be possible for the British. A glance a,t the neap will 'Show this broken bit of possession. It 'will show the present territory held by the Ger mans in two eeotione on the west, adjacent to the Belgian Congo in the centre of the continent. Ger- many might in the next ferw years., to come, if she •survive's this war wathoult losing her Africanposses- sions, purchase Portuguese East Africa. The Kaiser may poesibly, ere this war is over, lose this foothold in Africa and at the same time the F-eneh and the British possessions would be enlarged. Just what this means may the gleaned from the fact that 'German capital expends- tures in Africa have reached .a to - tall of $400,000,000. Wonders Done.' .. Going into the desert country of bhe British you come to Timfbuctoo, which 20 years ago was nothing but a name, and is now the jun'c'tion of an. • Atlantic -Mediterranean rail- way, part of which has been con- structed and part of which is under construction. The Trench Empire in. Africa is not all desert. Two years ago the Government announced that a tract many square miles in. area in the heart of the 'Sahara had been reclaimed and was ready for grain planting. On the 'basis of past work, in 50 years one half of the desert will be reclaimed. The affairs at home have kept Germany (busy of late years and her colonial enterprises have been a flat failure. In Africa the German possessions have more soldiers than traders, and more barracks than schools. The natives have been so reduced in number that it has been found necessary to import white la- bor to do a good part of tthe heavy work in railroad (building. Possessions Scattered. The German territory in Africa is divided into four scattered Chunks. On the east coast is Ger- man East Africa, on the west is German South-west Africa, while farther north is Cameroons. To- goland is a little strip sandwiched in between French Dahomey and the British Gold Coast, Togo'land has an area o'''+ 33,660 snare miles, while the population is 1,580,000, of whoa- only a. ' are Europeans. German ,cwest Africa has an area of about ,322,450 square miles and 'a population of. 200,000, of which butt 14,000 are white people, and of these 12,000 are Germans. German East Arica has an area of 384,180 square miles with a population of 7,500,000 of which about 6,000 are •Europeans. Cameroons, having a coast line of 200 miles, has an area of 191,130 square miles, and .a 3,500,000 popu- lation, of whom abut 1,400 are Euro- peans. Youthful Slur on Grandpa. "Don't you think he is too cute for anything?" asked the proud young mother, referring to her baby. "0, 1 don't know," retalied her 17 -year-old brother. "He's eute enough, I guess, but I never did thinkmuch of people who hadn't any teeth." Fortune Hunter. "'So Jack's married `1 Did he marry for beauty 1" "No, booty." WRQ COMING M '811{'ORD 01? 11A14IOCLES Ei>CING OVER EUROPE. ' 'russ;ia;N134:(aal to Move in 1.864, ou4 "at id kf"a 5" in Po',Cel .tt Bele; 'lin Since, Why. ,,is' ~.Great,. Britain at ,War asks a w ricer in .the Londoes Daily Mail•e•Tha Mari in the street (that patient Citizen) is `still asking the question,'aalbhough for twenty years war had been a practical .certainty. I agree ,thait no war is inevitable, but so lo'n'g as the Prussian gov ern- ing,class was .allowed to direct Ger- man policy, Europe lived with a Damocles -sword over its head. The one' hope'Of permanent peace was that the German commercial and working classes . Would revolt against their tyrants.: But that was never probable. - The' most, competent" British ob- servers have always realized the danger, and have "warned their country. of the necessity.. of being ready. Unfortunately, thewarn- ings have been more than counter- balanced.by other Englishmen, who were dazzled by the evident friend- ly feeling of the Geranan people. They failed to realize how entirely German policy is swayed by the ex- clusively Prussian party—the Junk- ers—who rule in Berlin. • :. New Germany. Mr. • Beettard Shaw says til"lat Eu- rope haseno quarrel 'with the Ger- many of Goethe and Beethovei. But the Germany of Goethe and Beethoven has ceased to exist for more than fifty years. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Prussia was crushed by NTapoleon, and the German States were largely influenced by the Lib- eral ideas of the French Revolu- tion. After the -fall of Napoleon, nationality again asserted itself, but it should be remembered that Beethoven himself at one time re- garded Napoleon as a deliverer. From 1816 to 1860 Prussia, began a new virile national life. This new life wag .originally the creation of poets and dreamers. It was .affect- ed by the revolution og 1848, but gradually the influence of Lassalle acrd' the philosophic Liberals .and Socialists was overshadowed by the Bisnuarckian dream of a State that would stand pre-eminent not b' its contribution to the a.rt and progress of the world, but by the power of its right arse to bully and subdue its neighbors. Born at Versailles. .In 1864 Prussia began to move. It first stole Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark. Great Britain was implored to intervene. She refused, and British acquiescence in' this first contest was directly responsible for the'growth of Prussian power. In 1866 Prussia defeated Austria at Sadowa, and won the right to be considered the unquestioned head of the-Gernnan people. The South Germans—the Bavarians and the men of Baden and of Wurbentberg- were and are much snore kin to the Austrians than to the Prussians, and Prussia, fought and defeated Austria to prevent the formation of a, strong South German federa- tion that would have effectively hanmperede her ambitions. In 1870 Prussia, with her German Tommy Akins in France and Belgittm The pieture on the right shows Braddock, a well-known British boxer, with his unit alt Ostend. His duties now consist of preparing food for the marines who have been landed at that place, On the, left are two English soldiers at Havre, with a French youngster, who is trying to keep up. locekiri11 TIES TKEWU ZEST, LILH1'i3 11.IIIIt`t;r(1111111I1y111I111ii1Ir11i1ImT TO GUARD AGAINST,ALL/NIa IN BAKING POWDER SEE THAT ALL. INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE ,LABEL,ANDTHAT ALUM OR SULPHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIC SUL- PHATE IS NOT ONE OF THEM. THE, WORDS "NO ALUM" WITHOUT THE IN GREDIENTS;IS NOT SUFFI-'' CIENT. 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Germany meanwhile has grown froan a poor into a rich commercial nation. Large factories have taken the place of ruined castles. A great mercantile fleet has come into being, and has been followed, quite natur- ally, by a navy able to challenge British supremacy on the sea. The Germany of Beethoven and Goethe has become the Germany of million- aire merchants and Socialist work- men. Easy to Govern. This new Germany has been in- spired by perfectly reasonable ambi- tions for commercial outlet and de- velopment, ambitions which have affected Great Britain, but which, of themselves, made for peace ra- ther than for war, for the commer- cial world always stands to lose when fighting begins. Unluckily for Germany her people are easy to ,overawe and govern, and the suc- cessors of Bismarck have been strong enough to hold on to poI:iti- sal power. The new Germany of 1914 is governed by exactly the same class as the old Germany of 1864. The ideal of this class may be summarized in the. phrase "might is right,'' and that all talk of justice and h.uman rights . is sheer nonsense. Faith of Bismarck. This was the faith of the medieval swashbucklers. It was the faith of Bismarck. It has been deduced by Prussian professors (quite unfairly) from the writings of Nietzsche. It finds expression in Strindberg. It is the negation of every religion ever preached to the sons of men, and it is altogether and unutterably damnable. Yet it is to force this awful doctrine on Europe that de- luded German.soldiers .are fighting at this moment, and it its to save Europe from it that Great Brittain,. Trance, and Belgium are prepared to give their last man and their last sovereign. 'Happily for Europe, though Prus- sia preaches the doctrine of the strong anan, the men who direct her policy have themselves none of the qualities of strength. 14r. Gilbert Chesterton has pointed out that it is only the weak who ever brow down and worship strength.' Tho- mas Carlyle, who fawned at the feet of Frederick the Great, was .an in- valid, and one could quote a.•doze•n similar instanees. • Birth of New Empire. As a matter of fact, it is nobori- ou•s that the Prussian governing class is prejudiced, nsarrow, and morally, decadent. The followers. of Bismarck have their master's ruth- lessness, but none of his subtlety. They have begun with a series of blunders. They have miscalculated the character of their opponents. It is more than probable that they have over-estimated their owai re- sources. In a war of this kind one grows a little weary of each side claiming the Almighty as an ally. Blit for my part, I.profeundly believe that God does defend the right, • The end may nob Come until after much loss and suffering, but this war will be followed, by the birthof a new Europe, freed once' and for ,all. from the nightmare menace of half a cen- tury, and 'able to develop along its own national lines for the happiness of its peopiss. - To -day w,e, :are forced to fight the German people, but theirs as well • s ours will b.e the"fruits,of victory. istreseseesseesesestestessesseire",` In the Tin Box. Mary and Edith lived in the cc try and their father worked sii lumber mill, nearly a • mile a He used Ito carry 'his •rllsncheon home in a tin box, and Mary Edith were always eager for return at night, and eager to what was in the box; there wa ways something wonderful. they found two little brown c late mice.. One night their father was late home; the stars 'were shi in the sky, and the lamp was I' ed before they heard his step. Mary opened the door for and he handed hen: the .box. "I wonder what's in it?" said, holding it out toward "See, it's heavy as can be. 0 let's open it1" In a moment the tin box wa, the floor, and the two little were kneeling beside it. "'Look !" cried Mary. "Two tle fiat -irons !" She could not leave taken. out more .carefully if they had made of glass. "Can't we put them on the s to heat, and iron something?" ed Edith, eagerly, as she held small. iron up for her mother see. "Not to -night, dears. It's e 'bedtime now, but you may them upstairs." The girls could not goo to all The moon shone brightly, and Mary watched the light 's'trean across the floor, she suddenly straight up in abed. "Edith 1" she exclaimed. ' light as day. Let's get up and our clothes." Both the 'little girls :were ou bed in 'an instant. The floor p ed a fine ironing board. spread out the garments they M the day, and with their s irons they began to smooth out. 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