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FROM MAID POINTS EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. UTE EVENTS BOILED DOWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Interesting to the General Readers. WAR NEWS. The British parliament has passed fe new credit of $1,250,000,000, bring ing the total since the outbreak of the war to $6,310,000,000. * * * The Russians lost one of their sea planes In the attack by these craft on a small German cruiser oft Windau, It is reported in Berlin. • * » British losses at the Dardanelles to September 16 total 79,238 in killed and wounded. Under Secretary for War Tenant announced in the British house of commons. • • • Several millions of dollars worth of American goods, mostly meat prod ucts, carried by four steamships, have been declared forfeited to the crown by a British prize court. * * * The numerous attacks on London by Zeppelin dirigibles have impelled the British government to appoint Ad miral Sir Percy Scott, formerly direc tor of naval gunnery practice, to as sume charge of the defense of London against the air crafts. • * * That the central powers still have an overwhelming superiority in all the material and equipments of war. and that the allies to win must put forth all their strength, is the state ment made by David Lloyd George, minister of munitions in London. • • * Total British casualties for the first year of the war were 381.982, Harold J. Tennant, under secretary of war. announced in London. Of this num ber 75.957 were killed, 251,068 wound ed and 54,957 are missing and sup posed to be dead or prisoners of war. * * • ‘‘The United States will have the cream after the war. Great Britain will have to be content with milk, and the other belligerents with skimmed milk.” This sums up the report pre sented to the British association in London by a special committee ap pointed to study the effects of the war on credit and finance. • • • Bulgaria has demanded an imme diate explanation from Greece and Rumania of the concentration of Greek and Rumanian troops on the Bulgarian frontier, according to Sofia dispatches. This is the first intima tion that the two Balkan states were massing troops on the Bulgarian border. * * • Having furnished the German am bassador with the evidence of officers and survivors of the White Star steamer Arabic, torpedoed August 19, to the effect that the steamer was proceeding peacefully and was attack ed without warning, the United States asks for a disavowal of the attack and reparation for the American lives lost. GENERAL. Mrs. Scott Durand of Chicago, whose $51,000 herd of Guernsey cattle is to be slaughtered because of foot and-mouth infection, will buy another herd at once and continue her dairy ing. the wealthy dairy woman has an nounced. • • • Damages estimated by operators and business men at $500,000 wa^' caused in Joplin, Mo., by the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in that place. Seven inches of rain fell in eight hours. Two derrick riggers in the employ j of the Lewis Construction Co. of New ! lYork, builders of the new Ames hotel I at Ames, la., were killed when a con crete hoisting bucket gave way with them and they fell fifty feet to the bottom of the tower. * • • Forest fires have done enormous damage to the great unprotected for ests of interior Alaska and rapidly are wiping out the timber not includ ed in the National forests, according to Chief Forester H. S. Graves, of the United States bureau, who has just returned from Alaska to Seattle, Wash. * • • All records were broken for attend ance at the Nebraska state fair at Lincoln, a total of 182,000 attending. It is nearly 20,000 more than in 1912. which has heretofore held the record. * • • Chief of Police Crawford of Des Moines discharged fourteen police men, some of them men of long serv ice because he said they are not aid ing in enforcement of the liquor and “red light” laws. This is the biggest sliakeup in years. • * • The cigar industry at Tampa, Fla., Is now at its height. Over 8,000.000 cigars or more than 1,670 cases are being turned out weekly. This makes over a million “smokes” a day. • • • J. L. Wines, international organizer lor the garment workers told the con Tention of the Nebraska State Federa tion of labor at Omaha that the mer chant who says all his goods are made in union shops and then de clines to show the label, is telling an untruth. , • * * Miss St. Claire, a balloonist, fell 800 leet when a second parachute failed to open in a drop at Madison, Wis., but by swinging during the fall she managed to land on plowed ground, and will recover. Three deaths and a number of prostrations were reported in Phila delphia Sept. 14, from heat. * • • Only three states, Georgia, Virgin ia and Arkansas, refuse to permit wo. men to practice law. Governor Clarke of Iowa named more than 150 honorary delegates to represent the National Farmers’ con gress at Omaha September 28 to Oc tober 1. * * * Soutli Carolina adopted state-wide prohibition, effective on January U Returns from forty-four counties showed a vote of 33,104 for prohibi tion to 1 4,157 against. * * • The Iowa commission on animal health at Des Moines has placed an 1 embargo against Illinois cattle, sheep, swine, goats, hay, straw, cholera se rum, raw milk or cream, to prevent t he disease from invading Iowa. * * • i Memphis women have organized for i a systematic attack of the mosquito j pest. The women will hunt the whole city for the breeding places and work 1 for their abolishment, that malaria , germs may be driven from the vi cinity. * * * Thomas A. Edison has just closed a contract to supply 365 gun-fiiring bat teries to the United States govern ment for use on battleships, accord ing to announcement made by M. R. Hutchison, chief engineer of the Edi son laboratories in West Orange, N. J. * * * Governor Hiram W. Johnson of Cal ifornia announced in a formal state ! ment that industrial workers of the world and other persons had threat [ ened wholesale devastation of the in. j dustries of California "and even worse,” unless two members of the organization serving life sentences for murder, were pardoned by a cer tain date. * * * From an unofficial, but trustworthy source, it was learned that electric ians who have been making an exami. nation of the submarine F-4. lost out side of Honolulu harbor, March 25, dis covered that the fuses on all four bat teries had been blown out, indicating that this was the cause of the disas ter, which resulted in the death of the vessel’s crew of twenty-two men. Representative Fred A. Britten of Illinois, member of the naval affairs committee of the house of representa tives. said on his arrival in San Fran cisco, from the Orient, that he will in troduce a bill in the next congress to close the American ports of Pearl Harbor, Manilla Bay and Guam to the warships of foreign nations. He said he favored the construction of forty submarines. SPORTING. John Evers, captain of the Boston club of the National league, said that he had been asked to become baseball coach for Yale. * • « The schooner yacht Katoura. cross ed the finish line off Ambrose chan nel lightship at New York, well ahead of the schooner yacht Atlantic, which she raced to cape May and back ovei a 214 mile course. * * * Before the largest crowd that ever witnessed a boxing match in this country, Mike Gibbons of St. Paul out pointed Packey McFarland of Chi cago in a ten-round, no decision con test at Brighton Beach, N. Y. • * * Directum I. champion pacing stal lion, established a new world’s record of 1:56% for a mile paced without windshield at the New York state fair at Syracuse. In so doing he low ered his own record of 1:58. / * * * The student body of Leland Stan ford, jr.. University which plays rugby football invited the University of Cal ifornia to bring its American game down to the waterfront at the Panama Pacific exposilion at San Francisco and let the public judge which is the better. * * * Johnny Krtle of St. Paul was fouled by “Kid” Williams of Baltimore, world’s champion bantamweight, in the fifth round of their scheduled ten roniid no-decision fieht in St. Paul. Referee Barton announced from the ring despite the no-decision boxing law, that Ertle had won on a foul. WASHINGTON. Secretary of state Lansing declares no violations of domestic or interna tional law are involved in the pro posed floatation by the allied powers of Europe of a loan in ihis country. * •* * The interstate commerce commis sion has denied the application of the Southern Coal. Coke and Mining Co., for a rehearing of the case involving rates on coal from Illinois mines to Omaha. The Panama canal has been clear ed of recent slides so that ships draw ing not more than twenty-eight feet may now navigate the water way, ac cording to official dispatches received at the war department • * * President Wilson has begun a de tailed investigation of the reports on the national defense submitted to him by Secretary Daniels. He is paying particular attention to the probable cost of strengthening the army and navy. • • • Gold resources in the vaults of the twelve federal reserve banks increas ed almost $3,000,000 during the week of Sept. 6. according to a statement of their condition September 10, issued by the federal reserve board. * * * Exports fell off sharply during the week ending September 11. They amounted to $33,593,708, the lowest for one week this year, and a drop of $27.,000,000 from the week preced ing. The trade balance for the week fell to $6,677,742, according to com merce department reports. BRYAN FAVORS IDEA TAKES UNDER ADVISEMENT SUG GESTION TO VISIT EUROPE. TO 60 IN INTEREST OF PEACE Nebraskan Declares if He Makes Trip He Will Be Spokesman for No Special Group. Washington, D. C.—William J. Bryan announced that he had taken under advisement a suggestion from editors of foreign language newspa pers published in the Vnited States that he make a trip to Europe as a private peace envoy to the warring powers. In a statement to a commit tet of the editors, who headed by Dr. Wlliiem Fargo, had urged him to un dertase the task, Mr. Bryan indicated that he might at least visit neutral European countries in the hope of finding sentiment, to aid America in “the maintaining of neutrality and the prevention of a preparedness that provokes rather than prevents war.” Mr. Bryan's references to military preparedness attracted attention in the capital in view of the possible ef fect of his attitude on some elements in the house when the administra tion’s program for strengthening the national defenses is considered. \nother work to be done on such a trip, Mr. Bryan said, “Would be the furtherance of peace treaty plans in augurated by him. Existence of peace treaties with Great Britain, France and Russia," he declared, “enables us to carry on our diplomatic disputes witii them without any of the sensa tionalism that has attended our cor respondence with Germany,” and the acceptance of such treaties by Ger many, Austria and Belgium, “would silence the jingo press and to a large extent relieve the excuse which has been used for the propagation of the plan cl greater preparedness. Having great faith in the plan and having ne gotiated the other treaties. 1 might be able to present the case more strong ly in personal interviews than I was able to do by diplomatic correspond ence. and now that the advantage of these treaties has been made appar ent it is possible that Germany, Aus tria and Belgium might be willing to enter into such treaties.” Mr. Bryan saiu that if he decided to make the trip he would go not as a spokesman of any special group, but as “repre sentative of the peace sentiment of the United States, which includes the vast majority of our people.” Boy Victim of Severe Torture. Council Bluffs, la.—Juvenile court authorities of this city are investigat ing a remarkable case of juvenile perversion and have developed an as tonishing tale of youthful depravity. A little boy of 6 is the victim, and a bo> of 9 the perpetrator of an out rage. Owing to the prominence of the parents of the victim and the fact that the mother of the other boy Is dangerously ill, names for the pres ent were withheld. The older boy enticed the younger into a vacant house, took him into the cellar, stripped his clothing off and beat him with a barrel stave, inflict ing a number of dangerous wounde on his head and body. Then the young fiend, apparently with a dull knife, tried to carry out a threat to skin his victim alive. Several serious in juries were inflicted during this opera tion. Finally the older boy threw his victim on the floor of the cellar and turned a heavy barrel over him and fled, apparently frightened away by the cries of the tortured lad. The victim of the dreadful mistreat ment managed some way to liberate himself and make his way home, where he is slowly recovering from his terrible experience. Germans Lose 20 Submarines. London.—The Germans have lost twenty submarines since the begin ning of the war, according to an edi torial note in the Motorship and Mo torboat. while the British losses have been only seven, including the E-l, the destruction of which was announc ed. When the war commenced, the paper declares, Germany had eleven seagoing submarines and sixteen of a smaller type, while up to June 1 ten new boats had been added. The asser tion is made that the Germans now have only fourteen seagoing under, water boats. 100,000 Political Prisoners Released. Turin, Italy.—The Gazetta Del Pop. ola says it has received a dispatch from Petrograd stating that Emperor Nicholas has granted amnesty to 100,000 political prisoners. Need 200 Men to Dig Potatoes. Hemmgford, Neb.—There is a great shortage of farm hand3 here to assist in getting the potatoes out of the ground. Unless at least 200 men can be employed in this vicinity the larg est potato crop ever raised will be lost by frost. / - Champion Penny Consumer. Chicago.—Chicago is the champion consumer of pennies. Her supply ot 180,000.000 coppers ran short recently, and an extra 15,000,000 were sent here from the U. S. treasury. Flood Does Heavy Damage. Bartlesville, Okl.—One life has been lost, property damaged to'an extent estimated at $500,000, and train serv ice demoralized on three railroads, the result of the worst flood that has overwhelmed this section in twenty live years. Red Men to Erect Statue. Chicago.—The Improved Order of Red Men. meeting here in annual con vention, has voted to erect a $20,000 statue to Chief Massasoit in Boston In 1920. CONDENSED NEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL. The Lindell hotel at Falls City has reopened. Over 2,500 attended the Farmers' elevator picnic at Pickrell. The German Family club of Lin coin will erect a $30,000 home. A new $30,000 school building will be built in Grand Island soon. Application has been made for a Carnegie library building in Blair. Exeter's new $40,000 high school building was dedicated last week. Butter was lower in the Omaha market Sept. 14 than for eight years. November 7 will be observed throughout the state as Sunday school lay. The contract for Bridgeport’s new high school building will be let Oct. 7. Tekamah’s $7,5110 public library will be ready for occupancy January l, 4916. Contracts have been let for seven new bridges in Burt and Washington ■ounties. A tennis tournament will be held it Kearney by the boys of the Indus rial school. Odd Fellows of Broken Bow laid the cornerstone for their new build ng last week. Officers of the state aerie of Eagles lave selected Lincoln for' the 1915 .rieeting place. The cornerstone for Polk’s $10,000 lodge hall and auditorium will be laid September 22. The First Methodist Episcopal con ference will meet in Omaha from September 21 to 27. DuBoise at a -pecial election voted bonds for the construction of an electric light plant. Fire completely destroyed the Wal ter Sapp meat market at Lyons, with a loss of over $1,500. The Nebraska Library board will hold its annual meeting at Fremont September 29 to October 1. 278 people responded to the first cell to “Hit file Trail” at the “Billy” Sunday tabernacle in Omaha. About 2,000 people attended the first annual community reunion and old settlers' picnic at Wausa. The Thurston county fair, to have Ixrn held at Walthill last week, has been postponed to Oct. 6. 7, 8 and 9. J. A. Novak of Weston was killed and J. Shanda was seriously injured in an automobile accident near Wa hoo. One of the largest theater signs in the west will be erected at the Boyd theater in Omaha. It will be over six feet high. The State Normal at Chadron open ed last week with 300 attendance, larger than on any other first day in its existence. The registration in the Fremont schools for the first day of the school year was 1,824, an increase of seven ty-six over last year. At the tri-state fair at Crawford in a running race two horses bolted the track and ran into the crowd, injuring two men seriously. The new Polish parochial school at Duncan was dedicated last week. The school when completed will cost $20,000 to $25,000. Machinery for the dredges to be used on the big drainage project near Tekamah has already arrived and work will begin soon. The 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Fredericks. Fairbury. sustained a broken arm whik? playing basketball at school. Felix Ferin. a Richardson county farmer, reports that three horses and three mules were killed by lightning durine a recent storm. Charles E. Harless, a farmer resid ing near Polk, was killed when his automobile ran off a bridge on the outskirts of that place. Harry Pettendell, a former Omnlia brick mason, was instantly killed while at work on the new Miller & Pa'ne building in Lincoln. The Nebraska Public Health asso ciation has selected Omaha as the next meeting place. The meeting will either be held next month or in Jan uary. Miss Laura Maver, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. J. W. Mayer of Beat rice, has been appointed stenographer for the supreme court commission at Lincoln. It is estimated that, the annual loss from hog cholera in Nebraska for the last two years has been at least $5,000,000, according to a recent bul letin of the College of Agriculture. W. A. Glasson, an Omaha maehin ist. was painfully injured when an automobile gasoline tank, which he was in the act of welding, exploded in the Junkie & Biler garage at Fair bury. Omaha brewery workers have or ganized an association which wili take in all the allied trades of the state for the purpose of fighting the prohibition question that will come up at the state election next fall. Adolph Rexroth. an old resident of Frmont. who did recently, left fifty four children, grand children and great-grand children. He had been a resident of Fremont since 1889. Hastings has launched the biggest paving campaign in its history. The construction already assured will to tal more than $.100,000. About eight miles of paving will be laid. The big electric sign bearing the word “Welcome” on the state house dome at Lincoln, is now the property of the state and will be left there and lighted when the occasion requires. Potato raisers in Dodge county are unable to harvest their crop, and the yield, which promised to be a bumper, is rotting in the ground. The National Futurity and Conso lation coursing meet will be held in Sutton beginning October 12. Grey hounds from twelve states will com pete In the races. • Seven graduates of the Beatrice high school, class of 1915, have en tered Grinnell college, at Grlnnell, la. The City hotel at Falls City has been closed and will be remodeled perhaps for a store building. 10 RAZE FIRE TRAPS STATE FIRE COMMISSION WILL SOON BEGIN CAMPAIGN. WILL HEME OLD BUILDINGS Those Believed to Be Menace Will Be Ordered Wrecked—If Owner Re fuses, State Will Do It. Lincoln.— Parties who have old ana decrepit buildings around theii their premises which are nothing but fire traps will now have to look out lor Fire Commissioner Ridgell will soon be on their trail. Judge Ridgell has returned from at ti tiding the national convention of lire commissioners at Chicago and while there satisfied himself as to the right of a fire commissioner to order tlie tearing uov.n of structures which are a menace to the neighborhood sur rounding them as lire 3tarters. Here tofore there lias been a question as to the right of the commissioner in the matter and he has discovered that every state which lias had a test in the courts of the matter lias decided ttiat tiie buildings must come down. Some states give the tire commission er the right to tear down the build ings himself, but in this state the owner of the building is first notified and if he does not do the work the commissioner can order the same done and the expense charged up to the property as taxes. Apples for Nebraskans. The t entral Fruit Growers’ associa tion is well supplied with apples this year and lias at present about P'O carloads of bulk apples ready for ttie market. The early apples were an abundant crop. hut. according to members of the association, the late apples will not be as abundant. The ,'isociation intends to follow out this year the system started last st ason of giving Nebraska people the first call on Nebraska apples, instead of letting the eastern speculators come in and carry off the cream of the orchards, leaving local people to lake tlie culls or buy from (’dorado. Oregon and Washington. The plan panned out so well last year that it. will be continued this year and Ne braska people who desire to get the real Nebraska apple can get in com munication with any of the appl" rrowers. or with the association at Nebraska City. Suggestion On Seed Corn. because of unusual conditions this vear. many farmers will find it de sirable to practice early field selec tion of seed corn. Seed corn may ba Eafely selected in the stiff dough stage, if properly cured. The vitality of com selected earlier than this is likely to be uncertain. Early picked seed corn must begin drying rapidlv at the earliest possible moment. If left lying in a pile for as much as a few hours the growTh of mold is likely to start. In drying immature corn, it is important to keep the ears from close contact. While drying rain-proof buildings which provide a free circulation of air and a temper ature above freezing are highly deslr able. Well preserved seed corn a year old is very satisfactory.—Depart mrnt of Experimental Agronomy. Col lege of Agriculture. Students See Changes. With the return of the students of the College of Agriculture for th? opening week of September 20. they noted important changes and modifi cations in the course of study and in the appearance of the campus. The most obvious to the observer was the tearing up of the grounds incident to the construction of the new dairy building, horse barn, and heating plant and the entrance of the Rock Island and local traction lines to the campus. When they registered they also found that they were permitted to enter a two-years’ course in agri culture for the first time. Require ments for graduation have also been modified. To Pay Fire Commission to Sept. 1 One chapter of the hold out of Treasurer Hall against payment of running expenses of stale depart merits was concluded when he an nounced (hat he would pay fire com mission vouchers dated to Peptembe J. Beyond that date tie will not go. however, and his stand now puts the food commission and the fire commis sion on an equal footing. A suit will now have to be started to have the supreme court determine the questirn affecting these two departments. Horses Dying at La P atte. The state veterinarian received a message from Fred Iske at La Platte, stating that his horses are dying at the rate of three a week and desires the veterinarian to make an investi gation. Dr. McKim wiH visit the place immediately. Chamberlin May Remain on Farm. Cornlitisker football rooters are dis heartened at the announcement that Guy Chamberlin, dashing halfback of last season. may not return to college this fall. His 'ervices as manager of his father's farm at Blue Springs are said to be needed. New Buttermilk Company. The Dray Buttermilk company ds a new corporation organized in Omaha which hied articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The com pany has a capital of $25,000. Honor Dr. Bessey. In memory of the late Dr. Charles Bessey of the state university, federal government officials decided to change the name of the Dismal River forest reserve, the I-oup division, to tho “Bessey division,” and the name of the Halsey nursery to Bessey nursery. News of the change has been convey ed to tiie state forestration commis sion by A. F. Potter, acting forester at Washington. Practically all of the members of the forestration depart ment at the national capital are fa miliar with Dr Bussev’s work. Dtefe 2lbteUung tft fiir bic ^amtltetiglteber, u>dd?2 am Itebften Deutfcf? Icfcn. (Btglunb ift fiir ben SSeltfrieg DEratittDortlid). Scit 45 ^afjren mar £eutfd)Ianb ba* einaige Saab, bae in pflidftge* treucr unb unabiinberlidjer SBcifc frieblidje ©eaiefjungen mil brr gan jen SBelt aufred)terhieit. 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Xas englifd)e fiabinett mar, ale e£ fid) fiir ben Slrieg entfdjieb, buret) bic jclbeit mofelofen ?lnfpriid)e bemogeu mie tit ben 60er Sabren bee ucrfloffe ncit SabrbunbertC' als es bamals fid) beranlafit jal), bic ffiudjt be* eitgli fd)en Breilige unb Qnnfluffeg in bie SBagfdiale be§ Siibeug gegen ben 9? or ben 311 merfen, nanilid) fold)e Sliicffiditcn, bie ein^ig unb allciit be .tedjnet liitb ben englifaen $anbel 311 crmcitern unb 311 befeftigen, fofte e5 maS ee roolie. Sir U'Muaro i«ret) reprufeimert feineetneg? cinen boberen 9tang enfl Itfdjcr Siaatsmattnfdjaft al§ fcincr 5cit SBiilliain (ftoart ©labftonc, her bem Siiben supielt in ber (frbaltuitij ber ineufdjlidjeu Sflaueret, locil eben ber Siiben bae fltobinaicriai liefertc fiir bie reidie unb politifcb nicidjtigc eiiglifdje SPaumlroU - Snbufiric. premier Sfiguitfi’S ©rflarung im fj?arlainent, ..baft tnir f*'r c‘”c ^e'er* lid)e internationale 2?crpfl icfjtimfl rampfen — fiir bie Jlufrcditeriial* tung be? 'fSrinjipe?, bafe bie fleineren SUationalitiiten nid)t untcrbrucEt roer ben biirfcn" ift eitlcr rbctorifdjcr SBombaft. gnglnnb fampft im ©egentcil tneil | c? mil S>orbcbad)t ntit granfreid) unb SRuftlanb fid) uerbiinbet fjaite, nm bci ber erften befien ©elegenbeit feinem finbigften unb ftarfften §an bcISriualen ben JobeSftofe ju per fefeen. g§ ift eitt alter Sniff gnglanbs, fid) in bie SoHe ber biidjften fittlidben gntriiftung sit tnerfeu, tneitn e? fid) artfdbicft eineit befonber? flagranteu gtreid) impcrialiftifdjer Slggreffion au§gufiUiren. ®er 93erfucf) ber englifdjen ffkeffe unb ber 9tegierung?organe ben beut fd^en Staifer nor aHet SBett an ben granger ju fteHen al§ ba? tinge Verier be§ brutalften fKilitariSmu?, al§ einen unaii?fpred)Iid) blutbiirfti gen Slttila — ©otte? ©eigel — ift etnc? jber grofjten Sdianbflede unfe rcr Scit. £rofe ber fd)iinblid)ften 2JerIeunt bungen, tneldfe ibm jugefiigt toerben, field SBilbelm II. beute ba unb roirb cud) in ber ®cfd)icf)te baftefjen al? eine ber bcrnorragenbiien ©rogeu in ber ©oHerie bcr foniglictjen SHcgeit' ten. £cr bcutfdje iPtilitari&mus in fet ner fdjlimmften 't>bafe tft feine gro Bere ©cfaljr als ber fraii3u|ifrf)e il/ii litammus, rocltficr ben fdjmtiljlidjen ireijfuB • Sfnnbal crjcugte, als ru}> fifdjer JWiliiarisrmiS, roeldjer bie .gauptftiipe bcr brutalften burcaufra* tifdtjen SRegierung bcr SSelt iii, al* bie englifdie Jvlotteiunarine, tneldje in fredber SQ^cife fid) bie abfolute .£err fdjaft ber See atimatji. Xic eitgliftfie 2?ebauptuna bee Hit DorbereitetfeinC’ ifi eine plumpe un begriinbete tJrfinbung, ba bie engli. fd)e ivlotte, toeidje bas einsigefitnupi mittel ift ba§ (fnglanb in einein i eoentuelleii firiege gegen ®eutjdilaub j nt gebraudjen bcabfidjtigte, in bod; iter ®ereitfd)aft baitanb. Qrngltfdjc Staatsmiinner, iRnbliji [ten unb militdrifdje SadjDerftanbige baben oft unb immer roieber im '}>ar lament unb in ben bcbeutenbften eng iifcfien Seitungcu betont, baf> ©itg lanb e§ nidjt nbtig babe, eine groRe Sfrmee ju organifieren, beim fetnc folofiole Slrmicrung 3ur Sec miirbe meit fdiroerer in bie ©agfcbale fallen al§ mililarifdie Stiiftuugcn gronf reirfje unb diuRlanbs, feine Serbiin j beten in ber Entente. Gfnglanb prablte man offent iid;, baR Seutfdtlanb luie eine flfuR j im fWufjfnacfer fid) befinbet. i>fij iHuRlanbc- unenncRlidbem £eere an ber oftlidjcn ©renae, granf reidjC’ groRcr ||lrmcc im 2Be ften, unb Don ben Seen burd) bie grbRte 3eemad)i ber SBelt Der ; triebeu, tciirbe cs gar balb befiegt j fein unb um Jricben antjalten. ©emaR biefer Entente * '-RerfdjtDb I rung gegen bie „bcutfd)en '-Parbaren" tourbe bie ilauffraft biejer brei ftnanjictt madjtigen fidnber bie- aufs fleuRerfre angcfpaunt, um ibre re fpeftioen Strmcen in bie iiogc 311 oer fefceu, cinen fdjneflen unb entfdjeiben ben Sdjlag gegen $eutfd)iaub ane-jn fiibren. fHuRlanb patte fd)on 12 Sabre oor 3lu?brud) bee- &ricges mebr ©elbmit tel angetoaubt an feinen militdrifd)cu Slusriiftungen unb Untenu’bmungen true I:eutfd)lanb. $n biefer fclben 3eitpericbc roaren 6nglanb» Jluslagen fiir i'iiiitar nub Jlotte beinabe fo groR mie jene 'JJur lanb». Sttlfo mar £eutfd)lanb, als ee- 311m Scbroertc griff, roeit mebr burd) ben Selbfterbaltuugstrieb ba^u gc3ttuin gen tnorben al§ irgenb eine aubere europciifdje 2b'ad)t mit ber eiii3igcu Jlusnafjme Ungarn, bae- fd)on lange bon ben 33alfan - Jlufriiljrcru 311 let ben battc. Teutfdjlcytb toarb fcficn fcit uit benfbaren S^itcn pcriobiidi non Gin bringlingcn uberlcufen, uttb ftctg Don miicbtigeii uttb aggrcffipen ^cin ben untgeben, eg tear Hun nerboten, fid] ausjubefjiien unb ale baiin bic .ftrift?, ouf bie ganj (Furopn iauerte, eintrat, roar ee gcjmuitgrn anjugren fcit um fid] 311 Dertcibigen. Tie beutfcfje iRcgieriutg tat allcg in ibreit ftrdften Sieljcitbc uin cine frieblidjc Sbfuttg ber Hcifjncrttanbnij fe ^mifdjen Cefierreid) unb 'Jhiblanb bcrbetiufufjrcn big bie fortgefefcti Diobilifierung an ber beutfdicn Giren 3e es jroangen, bie aufeerfletj milita vifdjen Sdjrittc ju tun um bie Grt fteitj ber Nation 311 fdmtHii. Tie SBaljrbeit all biefer -tatfadjen mirb uon si>i. Te £’Gfd)a;tic, bent bel gifd]cu Otefanbten in 21. '|;rtcrsburg, !bc3eugt, roddjcr feiner JRcgiermtg am 29. Suli 1914 fdjrieb, 3»ei Tage beuor bie beutfdie iWobilmadjung an georbnet mttrbc, bat? bag eittotge mi* leugbare iWoment fei, baf? Tcutjd] laitb bier unb in SBicn bcmiitjt mar, einen I’luemeg 3U finben um bem all geineinen ftonflift Dor3ubcngeii, aber brute ift iebermattn in St. 'Utters burg baoott iiberjeugt,, bat fogar bie .jitftcberuug, bafe Gttglanb JUonfrcicb beifteljen uttb bafe biefc Grmunterung einen geiraltigcn Ginflufe auegeiibt unb iiidjt mettig baju beigetragen bat, ber ftriegspartei bie Cberbattb ju geben. Teutfdjlanbg Cffcrie, iPcIgtcn fdbablog ju balien fiir bic (£cman rung beg freien Turd)inarfcbre bent fdjer Truppen burdi ibr Terrain, mar prin3ipieH nieftto fd)linimerrg ale ber IBorfdjIag GJrofjoritannieng, fiir feine llebcrgriffc auf anterifanifcbe .§anbelgred]te nadt SBcettbigung beg ftriegeg 311 aablen. Teutfdjlaitb mar ftetg ber aufrid) tige uttb treue fsreunb ber SHereinig ten Staatcit, berett Ginmobncrfdjaft faft 311 cinctn iUcrtel mit Siclj feine ,$erfunft uad) bem altctt ll'aictlanbc 3iiriicfleitet. 21iit Teutfdjlattb in ben firieg ge ben 511 molten megen ber 3crf!bning leiniger SBaffen unb SJhinitien tra* genber englifdjer Sdjiffe bunt'brut febe llnterfeeboott in ber ftriegemne, mare ein ?llt itnglaiiblidjcr uationa* ler SSerblenbttng llnfer 2anb irgenbmie in biefem ltnermefjlidien ettropaifebett ftonflift ju oermidfeln. fjeifet clle bie unfd)ii&. bar mertnoflen interuaticnalen unb ofoitoittifcfjen Sorteilc bran geben, bie natiirlicber SBeife ttng alg ber grofeen neutralen Nation ber SSelt pfliefien roiirben.