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THE SALVATION ARMY
REFORMS TRIBES
While many volumes have been
*Wished dealing with crime and
criminals throughout the greater part
of Europe and America,very little
has been said on this subject .with re-
- gard to India. Few people have any
%inceptioa of the work done In India
to reform the many outeast tribes
. of hereditary criminals, who for years
past have been the despair of the
police and public autherities in that
country. Throughout the IndianeEne-
pire, in some provinces more than in
others, many outcast tribes are fund,
some as despised settlers on. the out-
skirts of villages, ostensibly earn-
ing a livelihood by the lowest forms
of menial labor; some as nomads liv-
ing nominally by the sale of live
'stock (generally pilfered to be sold),
by exhibitions of dancing and rough
11111ge, and sometimes admittedly by
the prostitution of their women, In
many of these tribes the individuals
are ;professional thieves.
'Some of these criminal races are
Righest cash prices
paid for
Skunk, Raccoon
and MInk °
Enquiries promptly
answered_
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ONT.
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Don't suffer! fA. tiny bottle of
Treezone costs but a few cents at any
crug• store. Apply a few drops on the
corns, calluses a.nd "hard. skin on bot-
tom of feet, then lift them off.
When Freezone removes corns from the
toes or calluses from the bottom of feet,
the skin beneath is left pink and healthy
and never sore, tender or irritated.
believed to be „pure deecendaets of
I the ` aborightee of India, driven Out
of their f&mer heritage by a suc-
cession of invading races, awl. now
,
regarded as So uneleae that they . are
not suffered to drink •of the ',setae
pool as their superiors. Others, not,
ably the Doms, have been declared by
ethnolegiste to show traces it !wig!
nage and cuStores Of a. clear Connecs
ton with the gipsy tribes of Europe
and Western Asia. Whether through
I tendencies inherited fromegeneratiohs
I of vagrant ancestors., .or -from ecoet-
oniic
causes brought about by their
caste degradation, these people have
now adoptedierune as the easiest way
open to them for earning sufficient
for the sustenance of life; iui fact
crime is with thens a social and re-
ligimie obligation. Among them' a
young man is not considered eligible
for marriage until he has committed
a successful. burglary, and the gods
of the tribe are wordiipped and pro-
pitiated to secure their assistanee in
all criminsiil enterprises:
The law up to 1911 furnished the
police with no means of dealing with
these people other than by the com-
mon procedure of arrest, conviction
and imprisonment, when crime could
be brought home to them, says et
• correspondent to the London Times.
From time to time spasmodic ef-
forts to reform had been rnade itt
the way of -agricultural settlements,
but these, generally controlled by
police agency, were entirely lacking
in the moral influences that are so
essential to reform .as distinguished.
from mere 'punishment. .They were
not even effective as deterents, as
the immediate control being in the
hands of ill -paid and -often illiterate
subordinhtes of the police- _depart-
) merits, eecapes and absences were
I frequently "connived at. Prison life
, was too comfortable in -comparison.
'with their existence outside to Pee-
' sent any real terrors to these peo-
ple, anti was far from conducive to
any improvement of character. • In
1911 the Government of India pass-
ed an Act known as the Criminal
• Tribes Act, which furnished the
local t Governments with powers to
registee the members and restrict the
movements of gangs and tribes ha-
bitually addicted to the commission
of crime against property-, and, with
the sanction -of the Government of
India, to confine such gangs and tribes
to settlements but the difficulty of
finding suitable agency for the control
of such settlements still presented it-
self.t
Sir John Hewett, Lieutenant -Gov-
ernor of- the United. Provinces, invit-
ed the assistance 'of , the Salvation
Army in an endeavor to cope with
the criminal element. An initial
experiment was tried. with the Donis
at Gorak-phur. These people, wild,
truculent and intractable,at first
refused V) work and sometimes
treated the officers with open de-
fianct . and violence. They would
sit about sulking and wa!tch .for the
earliest opportunity to escape, in
which they frequently succeeded., for
the Salvation. Army works on. a
system of winning by persuasion
rather than force, and in some cases
three-fourths of the inmates of a
settlement have been known to scale
the wells and decamp during the
night. It is the work of the, police
to pursue and bring them back, and
the Act provides for imprisonment
as a punishment for • escape. On
release front goal- they are again
taken to the settlement, and while
many renew their efforts to escape,
the majority graduhlly begin to see
that the comparative liberty and
kind treatment they enjoY in• the
settlement is preferable to. the hunt-
ed life after escape And the almost
inevitable re?apture and imprison -
Ment.
The nature of employment given
to the inmates varies in the different
settlements. Agriculture, basket and
mat making, sericulture and hand
loom weaving are the principal in-
dustries. The rates of pay vary ac-
cording to the ordinary labor rates
•of the district. • In the settlenientsat
Saidpur, where the Karwai Nuts, a
partitularly low and intractable mei
tribeehad been brought under control,
some _of. the settlers are earning as
• Much as -three and a half to four
enpees veek, which brings the e4ges
of a steady worker up to considerably
more than their enemies, the police
are paid by the Government. Many
offieers4who were at. firstinclined to
regard the methods "'practised by the
Salvation Army in dealing with these
criminals as impracticable, have
changed their opinions, and are now
convinced that the extension 'of the
Scheme to every gang and tribe of ! Aestriall railrc•ad in Texas has sup -
professional .criminals will prove a .planted its steam locomotives by gear -
solution that has baffled the peliceand ing six Cylinder automobile motors to
Gavernment since Britain's ' adminis- the wheels of several box cars.
tration of India first began. • A college will be established in
One of the two telephone companies
• serving Philadelphia and its suburbs
y will install; automatic equipment
through* ite system.
The INitniSh gevernment is planning
• to erect it, wireless station at Copen-
hagen for direct communication with
the -Vetted States. ;-
Everything' needed by chamber-
in.aids in their work can be carried on
a rubber tired truck designed for
hotels and apartment buildings.
Building materials are tested for
hardness in an ,European institute by
subjectieg,them to a sand blast at a
pressure of tWo atmospheres.
i NEW -EST NOTES OF SCIENCE
About four per cent. of children
are left handed from birth.
The manufacture of caffeine froth
tea dust is increasing in Japan.
• Injectiots of turpentine can be us-
ed t�; preserve wood from insects.
German „experimenters are trying
out electrical machinery for cutting
• peat.
An efficiency of eighty-three per
cent. is clairned for a new motor fire
engine with a rotary pump.
About ninety-five per cent. of the
motion pictures shown in British India
are American productions. ,
A patent has been granted; to a
Chicago men foe a tennis racket 13ress
that also serves as a cover.
•"Light and power are supplied to•
166 surrounding villages from a single
central station in Germany. •
It has been estimated that the
world's nut trees could supply nourish-
ment te its entire population.
A Frenchman is the inventor of a
device to, be clamped to the edge of a
table to hold playing cards.
Electric bulbs lighted from a dry
batterii form animal's heads on a re-
cently patented muff for women.
A hydraulic brake for motor ve-
hicles which acts upon all four 1,i/hee1s
at once is ,an English invention.,
Apparatus that feassages women's
throats" with sprays of water to im-
prove their contour has been invented.
Alcohol is being made from calcium
carbide at a rate of abOut 12,000,000
gallons a year at a Swiss plant.
Numerousadvantages are elainied
for a recently patented watch that
has a clamp to fasten 'it to a tele-
phone.
An electrical method for quickly de-
tecting counterfeit coins has been in-
vented by a mint official in India.
An extension seat, fastened. to the
running gear, :features a new baby
carriage to permit an attendant to
rest.
London boasts of having the world's.
smallest violin, a perfect instrument,
but 2% inches long.
- Extensions that can be attached to
the pedals of any piano have been
invented for the use of youthful musi-
cians.
An axial mail service soon Will be
started between two important coast
towns in the Congo, seaplanes being
used.
• Slightly raising and. -lowering a
user's heel actuates gearing that pro-
pells a roller skate inventecl by two
Oregon men. -
China to tea& the nativei scientific tea
UM al i 1 attention, be
In
e v on, spec a
• paid to sanitary conditions.
A new automobile ambulance re-
sembles a limousine when closed, the
tire rack dropping -down to form a.
step when the back is opened its full
• width.
An interne combustion locomotive
of 1,000 horsepower that uses crude
oil fuel is hauling passenger trains
- experimentally on an European rail-
road.
Mildew proofing processes for tent
canvas can be thoroughly tested for
effectiveness in from three weeks to
a month by a recently invented method
• Grown expekimentally but a few
years ago, American cotton has be-
come an established crop in India as
it give e a larger yield. than native
varieties.
Rich and extensive deposits of iron
and manganese ores have ben found
by prospectors in the Idarwald, about
30 miles south of Coblenz, Germany.
I To make a Motorboat of any craft,
an inventor has mounted an engine,
shaft and propellor • in a hollow fin
which is used to replace the boat's
keel.
To enable two persons to examine
an object at the saine time a Freneh
optician • has 'invented a microscope
with two eye pieces but only one ob-
jective.
A six -bladed, easily adjusted re-
volving shutter forms a new device
for regulating the amount of air ad-
mitted to an automobile radiator in
cold weather.
Some European railroads are ex-
• perimenting with electric locomotive
headlights so mounted that engineers
• can direct theirarys in any desired
direction.
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
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The worlds, most northerly railroad
in Lapland, will run its trains with
electricity obtainedfronl nearby-
'waterfalrs. t
An inetrunient has been 'invented to
permit draftsmen - to draw perfect
ovals •and to draw two or more of the
.same dimensions.
Apparatus for winding clocks with
air pressure obtained when doors are
opened and closed has been invented
by a Fry -nehmen.
Last. year -for the first time the
United. States exported more tinplate
ellen Wales,- heretofore the leader in
the industry.
In France a process has been in-
vented for treating gelatine or glue
that produces- a non -inflammable sub-
stitute for celluloid.
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its ability to keep them in reading -
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that will win your approval by its fair-
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Motor trucks rush the editions _to the
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Many women are being employed
to help repair roads in Great Britain.
.Several Ohio farms are hiring girls
as machine hands on light work.
Nearly half the stockholders in the
Pemisylvatia - railroad are women,
The various newspapers through-
out the United States employ more
than 90,000 women.
In . Pennsylvania it is against the
law for girls to work around the an-
thracite_mines.
More than 120,000 women teachers
in the commune schools in France are
members of trade unions.
The New York Dental college, the
oldest institution of the kine in the
state, will admit women next fall.
The Minneapolis Business Women's
club, which has been in existence only
five months, hes a membership of
1,500. -
If a widow. entertains ambitions of
marrying h widower, her chances are
good, clear up to the age of 45 years.
Dr. Ftlizabeth Gillett, recently elect-
ed to the New York assembly, is the
third i)voisaan- in that state to be so
honored. I
• The Woinen ie Turkey are fast be-
coming Americanized and no,w there
are More women to be seep on the
streets of Constantinople minus veils
_than with veils.
• Women have been added to the 'Re-
publican state icommittee. in New
Hampshire for ;the first time in his-
tory.
The British Ilouse of Lords has re-
jected the elauee in the bill for the
removal of sex qualifications,which
i
would permit women to sit n the
House of Lords,
Ruth Law, American aviatrix, . is
now in Paris in search for an air-
plane with which she intends to try
to beat Lieutenant Ma ord's cross -
continent record.
The New England Women's Life
Underwriters' association with fifty
• members, is the only organization of
woman underwriters in America.
A bill brought before the Spanish
• cabinet provides the- right of all wo-
men to votet,and also provides to-
lishreent near -Ascot, England, takes
an active part in the training opera-
' thins of horses ia their father's stables
and regularly ride at exercise on the
fiat and over obstacles.
New York's oldeet woman voter
Mrs. Rose Oppenheim,. aged eighty-
nine years, was out beight and early
at her. polling place at the recent.
election, escorted by her ,five daugh-
ters one one granddaughter.
Legislation extending financial as-
sistance to mothers and exempting
them from labor for a. period of six
weeks before and after child birth has
been indorsed by the International
Congress of Working Women,
• Mrs. Newton D. Baker:, wife of the
secretary of war, is a College woman,
who has not forgotten her campus
activities. She never %tines a re-
union of her class, no matter in what
part of the United States it is held.
Austria, facing an acute shortage of
laboring men, has partly selved the
• problem by the' employment Of wemen
in the reconstruction work now going
on itt war ruined sections of the coun-
try. Women are working as hod car-
riers, mortar mixers and as general
laborers.
Miss Ray C. Sawyer, known as the
musical 'godmother of the army, navy
and marine cwips, has been aPpointed
executive secretary of the New York
state branch of the Anieriean Legion.
In Japan not only the men but the
women go to the barber if there be
any sign of hair on their faces; they
do not permit even the soft down to
grow, whieh the Japenese are often
astonished to see left Menolested on
the faces of some Western women.
More than 2,000 women and girls
employed in t'he bureau of war risk
insurance in Washington, are up in
arms and threaten dire things because
the director of the bureau has ordered
the removal of all mirrors in the
bureau.
Mrs. Helen Essex, elected town
clerk of Orangetown, N. Ye intends
to appoint her husband as her assist-
ant. She succeeded her husband in
the office and was his assistant dur-
ing his incumbency. s
' The married Kaffir women are com-
pelled' to speak a language different
from that of their husbands. They
may not • even pronounce their hus-
band's names; commonly refer to them
as the father of, so-and-so.
Mrs. Victoria. Thompson, a Jackson-
ville woman, has invented. a new spray
which, it is claimed, will spell doom
for the cotton weevil.
Miss Adelaide Thorman is chief in-
vestigator for a large New York- fire
insurance company.
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• Flower Langhage.
In remote Alpine hamlets and vil-
lages, especially in the Bernese Ober-
land, there still exist ancient and
pretty, customs of proposing marriage
by a language of flowers. /If a maid
accepts a bouquet of edelweiss from
a man she at the same time accepts
him as her fiance, the idea being that
the man has risked his life to ob-
tain the flowerfor the woman he
loves.
Another method which exists in
the canton of Glarus is for the young
man to place a flower pot contain-
ing a single rose and a note on the
window sill of the girl's room when
she Is absent fro -m home, and wait—
perhaps days—for a reply. if the
maid takes the rose the young man
boldly enters the house to arrange
matters with her parents, but if the
rose Is. allowed to fade away. the pro-
posal Is rejected Without a single
word having been exchanged between
the couple. •
vote on the first day and the men t
the second.
• Servant girls employed in the
homesain Des Moines, lee are 'con-
templating the forming of a union
with a view of bettering their work-
ing hours and increasing wages.
Householders in Great Britain are
barred - from . entertaining their
mothers-in-law, or ether guests longer
• than four weeks, by an .order of the
ministry of food.
.The latest fashion in London_ of
'giving a cigarette .holder to a bride
an indication of the widespread hab-
it of smoking among the ,women in
that part of the. country.
Hannah Montague, wife of a black-
smith in Trey, N. Y., made the first.
detachable collar for men in 1819, And
now '200,000 yards of goods are used
in a day in that town by a single
factory.
English women are beginning to
• wear monocles, and not only are they
adopting them for home wear, but are
appearing on the street so aderned.
Since the armistice, demobilization,
of England's famous Women's Land
army has-been gradual and now stands
at 8,000 strong. The final mustering
out will not take place until the har-
vesting ot this fall's potatoe crop is
completed.
I The medical college of the. New
York university now has twenty wo7
men students, all of whom are on the
same basis as the men, attending the
same classes. working in the same
laboratories and clinics and receiving
thesame degrees.
A crusade against short skirts, high
heels, rouge, lip sticks, eyebrow pen-
cils and flour face has het started by
,the 'girl scouts itt the public and high
schools in New York City.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, of Chicago,
has been elected temporary presid.ent
of the International Congress .of
• Working Women, while Mrs. • Mary
Schwartz, of New Yorke has been
elected secretary of the same organ-
• ization.
The daughters of Sir Robert Wil-
t, mont„ Batt, Who has a training estab-
a
,They and We
. -
A wounded' corporal in a hospital
told bow, while on patrol duty, hp had
seen the body of a noncommissioned
French officer hanging by the feet, hie
face bashed in with. muskets.
-"My mai and I were furious," he
said, "and made up our minds that
we'd clo the same thing to the, first
German we caught. That night we
found two Oermans hidden in a barn.
We fell on them and then ns they
were hungry we gave them bread. We
could not do what they did, for we
are not of the same race."—Every-
body's Magazine. ,
Fowls Plucked With Vacuum.
A.machine of the vacuum type for
plucking Owls is -described and Inns-
•trated in Popular k4 Ikledlanks..rnaga-
'zite. With. it, it is said, a person' can
remove all the feathers, dry, from an
average -sized bird in about five min-
utes. A motor -driver -fan createsssuc-
tion in a' large flexible tube, at the
free end of which is a special pluck-
ing apparatus. Once loosed, the
feathers pass through the 'tube into a
large receptacle overhead.
No Honeymoon Trip.
T attended a .wedding of a dear girl
friend whose father was a well-to-do
farmer.. After the ceremony we girls
crowded around, the blushing bride
and she was asked where they ex-
pected to go on their honeythoon trip.
She replied; "We aren't going to take
a trip, for the moneY we would spend
will buy a nice cow." ----Chicago Trite
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David Harum
Continued from Page '7
himself at that hospitable house that
evening, he was greeted by Miss
Blake alone.
_"Julius did not come down to -night
and my sister is with him," ahe said,
"so you will have to put up with my
society—unless you'd like me to send
up for Alice. Julius is strictly en-
retraite, I should say."
"Don't disturb her, I beg," protested
John, laughing, and wondering a bit
at the touch of coquetry in, her speech,
something unprecedented itt his fex-
perience o her, "if you are willing to
put up wi h my society. I hope' Mr.
Carling is not ill?"
They seated themselves as she re-
plied: "No, nothing serious, I should
say. A bit of a cold, I fancy; and
for a fortnight he has been more
nervous. than usual. • The changes in
the weather .have been. so great and
so abrupt that they have worn upoa
his nerves. He is getting very un-
easy again. Now, after spending the
winter, and when spring is almost at
_ . •
handt1 believe that if he could make
uphis mind where to go be would be
for setting off tearnorrow."
"Really?" said John, in a tone of
-dismay,
"Quite so," she replied with a nod.
"But," he objected, "it seems too
late or too early. Spring may drop
in upon us any day. Isn't this some-
thing very recent?"
"It has been developing for a week
or ten days," she answered,"and
symptoms have indicated a crisis for
some time. In fact," she added, with
a little vexed laugh, "we havetalked
of ,nothing for a week but the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of Flori-
da, California, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Virginia. at large; be-
sides St. Augustine, Monterey, Santa
Barbara, Aiken, Asheville, • .Hot
Springs, Old Point Comfort, Bermu-
da and I don't know how many other
• place, not forgetting Atlantic City
and Lakewood, and only not Barba -
does and the Sandwich Islands be-
cause nobody happened to think 'of
them. Julius," remarked Miss Blake,
"would have given a forenoon to the
discussion of the two latter places
AS 'readily as to any of the others!'
"Can't i you talk him along itto
warm Weather?" suggested John,
with rather a mirthless laugh. "Don't
you think thee if the weather were
to change for good, as it's likely to
ilo ahnost any time now, he might put
off going till the usual summer lik-
ing?"
"The change in his mind will have
to come pretty soon if I am to re-
tain my mental faculties," she de-
clared. "He might possibly, but I
an. afraid not," she said, shaking
her head. "He has the idea fixed in
his mind, and considerations of the
'weather here, while they got him
started, are net pow so much the ques-
tion. He has, the moving- fever, and
I am ,afraid it will have to run its
course. I think," she said, after a
moment, "that if I were to formulate
a special anathema, it would be, 'May
traveling seize you!"
"Or restlessness;" suggested John.
•she said, "that's more ac-
curate, perhaps, but it doesn't sound
quite so `smart. Julies is in that
state of mind when the only place
that seems desirable is somewhere
else."
"Of course you: will have to go,"
said John mournfully.
"Oh, yes," she replied, with an air
of compulsory resignation. "I shall
not only have to go, of course, but I
shall probably have to decide where
in order to save my mind. But it
will certainly be somewhere, so- I
might as well be packing my trunks."
"And you will be away indefinitely
I suppose?"
"Yes, I imagine so."
"Dear me!" John ejaculated in a
dismal tone.
They were sitting as described on
a former occasion, and the young two-
man was engaged upon the second
(perhens the third, or even the fourth)
of the set of doilies to which she had
committed herself. She took some
stitches with a composed Mr, without.
responding to her conipanion's exclam-
'nation. •
"I'm awfully sorry," he said pres-
ently; leaning forward with his elbows
on his knees, his hands hanging in an
attitude of unmistakable dejection and
staring fixedly into the fire.
"I am very sorry myself," she said,
bending her head a little closer over
her work.. "I think I like being in
New York in the spring better than
at any other time; and I don't at all
fancy the idea of living in rey trunks
again for an indefinite period."
"I shall miss you horribly," he said,
turning his face toward her.
Her eyes opened with a lift of the
brows, but whether the surprise so
indicated was quite genuine is a mat-
ter for 'conjecture.
"Yes," he declared desperately, "I
shall, indeed."
"I should fancy you must • have
plenty of other friends," she said,
blushing a little, "and I have wondered
sometimes whether Julius's demands
upon you were not more confident than
warrantable, and whether you would-
n't often rather have gone elsewhere
than to come here to play cards with
him." She actually said' thie as if
she meant it.
"Do you suppose---:" he exclaim-
ed, and checked himself. "No," he
said, "I have come because—well, I've
been only too glad to come, and—I
suppose it has got to be a habit," he
added, rather lamely. "You see,. I've
never known any people itt the way
rhave known. you. It has seemed to
ifte more like home life than anything
I've ever known. There has never
•been any one lint my father and. I,
'and you can have no idea what it has
been to me to be allowed to come
here as I have, and—oh, you must
know—" He hesitated, and in-
stantly she advanced her point.
Her face was rather white, and the
hand which lay upon the work in her
lap ttembled, a little, while she clasp-
ed the arm of the chair with the
other; but she broke in upon his hesi-
tation with an even voice:
"It has been very pleasant for us
all, I'm sure," she said, "and, frank-
ly, I'm sorry that it must be inter-
rupted for a while, but that is about
all there is of it, isn't it? -We shall
probably be -back not later than
October, I should say, and then you.
can renew your contests with Julius
- and your controversies with me."
Her tone and what she said re-
called to him their last night on board
the ship, but there was no relenting on
this occasion. He realized that for a
moment he had been on the verge
of telling the girl that he loved her,
and he realized, too'that she had
divined his impulse and prevented the
disclosure; but he registered a vow
that he would_ know before he saw her
again whether he might consistently
tell her his love, and win or lose up-
on the touch.
Miss Blake made several inaccurate
efforts to introduce her needle at the
exact point desired, and when that
endeavor was accomplished broke the
silence by saying, "Speaking of 'Oc-
tober,' have you read the novel? 1
think it is charming."
"Yes," said John, with his vow M
his mind, but not sorry for the diver-
sion, "and I enjoyed it very much. I
thought it was immensely clever, but
I confess that I didn't quite sym-
pathize with the love affairs of a
hero who was pat forty, and I must
also confess that I thought the girl
was, well—to put it in. plain English
—a fool."
Mary laughed, with a little quaver
in her voice. "Do you know," she
said, "that sometimes it seems to me
that I am. older than you are?"
"I know you're awfully wise," said
5 1919
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Jelin with a aug,S, and from that their
talk deftee the safer channels
of their U inverse until be
ro. e to -a, - ;.
"Of courta 4iail see you again
before you go, # said as he gave
him her hand.
"Oh," he declared, "I intend
larly- to haunt the place."
(Continued next week).
Celebrated Remark Made
; By General Castelnau
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HILE attention has been
fixed on the ethical as-
pects of the invasion of
Belgium in 1914, people,
forgot the political and military as-:'
pects of that question As they pre-
sented themselves in theory itt the
days before the war. One of the sur-
prising things in that episode haa
always been the apparent unreadia
nese of the French General Staff for
such a move. Was the French cam.
mand relying on a German treaty
to protect the -Channel ports? If sol,
why this example of unsuspected
naivete in European polities, which -
has shown itself so expert in ninety-
nine maxims of Machiavelli, only to
prove wanting in observing the limndredth, the one, namely, that if yea
are protected on the right wing by Te
fortress and on the left by a promise
you may expect the attack to emne
through the promise?
As a matter of fact, if we are to
believe the , exposition. whieh
Mayer -as makes of the situation in Le
Populaire, the French strategy of
August, 1914, has a hietory which
goes back to 1911. At that time en,
Michel was forced out Of the high
command in Prance and the ascend-
ancy passcd to Gens. Pan, Castelnan
and joffre. The change in personnel
was the result of differing views at
the military pogsibilities of the Ine
time. Gen. Michel belonged to the
school which foresaw the - attack
through Belgium, which favored the
fortification of the atranco-Belgiase
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frontier,' and a, united front from the
Channel to the Alps. This view .oe
things also implied certain changes.
in the theory of French military
organization. For a front so extend-
ed many more troop a would be re-
quired inthe standing army than far
the shorter front, Meuse -Lorraine -
Alsace. Hence a Three-year SerVICO
law, but also, still from the military
point of view, reliance on the vast
citizeu army • to supplement tie
standing force. This view also Im-
plied a certain political attitude t*
ward the war. 'Under it France.wouid
wage a war of .national defeece Ler
the integrity of her territories.
• It was the official or profeesionalf
view of the war that triumphed' im
France in 1911: no additional ex-
pense on the Belgian front, manned
-attack through Aimee _and Lorraine
with- regular Weems, holding the Am-
cond line .soldiers in reserve aid this
pubbcp1ritearried on . by the ,"wast
ffor revanehe" antlthe recovisereftlie
• oj poyjne., Gem Lebow, justelse-
..fore the war, support,* by :Gem
!Pori:Air and M. Vandmme,, Depallg
firma the Nerd, presented a menage -
random to Oen. Jerre- protest
agninst the disarmament of Lille.
Gen. Joffre avoided the interview and
vaned the deputs.tion up to Gen. OW
,telnate In:waving ;di the prOpbeer
•Qt an ilWagioIlthro Bele/empanel.
tm; "We cannot(3 for se*
Castelnau uttered arlelebrated sem-
ealuck." Thh3 confidence rested on
simple calculation of Gereasine eve
-stnieces: to Meet the Ituseleatadeafloi
:and the Wench attack through AI -
sae (ivhich came off in A-Vgin*e_
1914, according to plans), the ear -
mans would have not more than
twelve divisions left for the offensive
through Belgium.
When the "luck" which Gen. Caw-
telnau despaired of came, it wass
backed not by- twelve divisions, het
-by thirty-two. Fortunately tbe
French official error was balanced h5f
the German mistake of driving at
Paria instead ot at Boulogne. While
the Freneh professional campaign
collapsed beyond Mulhausen, the
French citizen army was preparing
for the Marne; and the en.thusiasur
that France could never have' aro-
ed abroad with her armies on the
Rhine she gained again from her
magnificent resistance on the defen-
sive.
Many morals could be 'drawn fro=
this narrative. But to keep exelee
sively to history, the people found
wanting in 1914 were the profession-
al military strategists of Berlin and
of Paris.
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