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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.
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tung bin bat cr (Sir (fbmarb @rerj)
obne SMitmiffen bcr 'JWajoritdt feiner
IfoEegen im cnglijd)en Sabinett
Cruglanb im Sabre 1912 311 einer
uueingefcbranften Unteri'tiifcung
Sranfreid)§ Derbflidjtet.
21m 2. 2tuguft 1914 unb smar be
bor nod), belgifcbes @ebiet bon ben
beutfdjcn Zrubpen betreten morben
tear, gab er bein franjofifeben @e
fanbten in Sonbon bie fd)riftlid)e 33er
fidjerung, bag bic cngliidje g-lottc ir
genb meldjes beutfd)C5 Sfrieg*fd)if)
engreifen miirbc, ba§ fid) in ber
Siorbfce feben liege — mas glcidjbe
beuteub iit mit einer Hriegeerfldrung
gegen Seutfdjlanb.
©nglanb batte abfolut feine 3u
langlidjen ©riinbe, um an bent Slrieg
gegen $euifd)Ianb teiljunebmen nod)
mar bie uationale ®tme irgenbmie
terlegt ober englifdjer '-Mis bebrobt
morben unb bie 'Berliner iRcgierung
mar budiitdblid) big 311m allerauger
ften gegangen, um foldje Scrfidjerun
gen 311 gebeit, bie jcbe ucrmiuftigc
Ulnforberung GnglaitbS befriebigett
fonnten.
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.