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Ä PROTEST AMD A WARNINC. . Th.i Aonenl of nn Endlftl.mnri to tho llonor of hl öountrymcn. - A Million llc trnycd ti ntl Dccolved ! 1 1 r A UTIIIJ II 1 1 VIltM.ANH. -.- it r !:.f"i'! 1 ,,, im i. tt ifiMiA et if . rr r' IP J-"- I ,. I !,, e.p.iM i i ii'i , H,,. M; ..1 ei '! !'!', jr t(HHIfl' fH) i ti I .. ( i- r i N n.m I .! M .,'. ) N f I .-.(;-' tM.ifn, 1 I '', II. it.fm'v, futrf M!. .......... , i'ff 1 .l'? M ? ' I I ,' i ' 4 ir:,,isi ttif i , ! I if .'..Mtiti' i tn ;)! -- ! f; .? 1 i'' I I .'. r ) i ,! tt'l Hiiht i nHii' t'l i! i'tjltr 'ic'ti ti ili l .j-rl l-vr luri"'.l i ( c . iiif I t ' ' y (i kn-. I t'. it'n ii,''i,i,x ftf ih ! n t-f t-'mtl t " t , , !', i t '. h;i ftff ' ;, !flnh 's! t'tti!r h i, ,!,! n I K"'lü!t f l l Bill f'i cm rii ll.r C'tur t (''3! t nfff t I tnuVe unrj fr lr!h, rsitt tut jnt iri tiri Uf h nn Ittinn. I M ..! -'if r f liVs iiirti i hfrott ;-n4 wi'l jret lifioni ttr,. II . to l'ifir oic that l;.!itflnl nullt listen to-iüj, lor th .rrat Mi'takf of a Cm.trilla I 1 iisr ti'n ('.sey, A"tmitt O.iirehill und Lloy-I C.rorii bfeoni lii ttffüt Lnf:tf, iiot only ainvt (.crri)ny, bist auain all Luroic im hidtng tufir own conntry. JU ii (or thu reaion, too, tftnt I, an Amff ii.m rittr nith a (um and im- ,,Iicii faith in the )utic of Uermany't rinne, have not ffaseil to maintain that the Hrttinli nrople- wliich in it,e!i had "clierished no ili-w ii I agitinst Gcmany, wcre as inuch the vic- tun and the diipes of diplomatic trickery a the untartunate Heleian. Their hate ts lome tliinü artisiciall? engendered Jirir Ifar and rancotir have iheir roots in an unsorUiriate Htid wide spread ignorance of a reat pcople. Their very virtuc were cunningly played , upon in nder to enliit their Hympathiti in an tvil emse. The greatest nemies of England to-day are iliose in! whose dishonest nd tritky hand she conf'tded her ilcstiny and prosperity and the live of Million of her soas And now these men- pressmen !d politicians strive trantical !y, dcspcrately t pile wrong Hion wrong in order to hide the norrihlc initial blunder. Surely if the will of the .eople be still a power in Eng land, or f Parliament be still i ifnsed Iwith the bpirit of liberty ml frec ppeech, the hour has . i'umt sor ICnifland to patie and - W11Y and WHITHER? The Continental 'sinics is premd u publish She following brilliant !,d thoughtful article by an ,nl!I,Mä,i. Mr. Arthur F.. Yol land, and its sole regret is that ,, copy of it cannot be placed into the hands of Svery man and , svoman in the British Empire K. 1 Oahelle. Jn AtiRUst, 1914, the Eritish For ign Minister, Sir Edward Grey, re olved to plunjze Great Britain and th ßritish Empire into the most tc-rrible war the world ha ever een. The final Step the füll consequences of which hav at last become evident to Europe and the hole kuman race. cam a a surprise to everyone except the unhappy fcw wbo- being initiated into the niysterie of Grey' s'ecret diplomacy, have to bear their share of responsitulity tor tne awtui havoc and carnage wronght by the v.hirlwind of international hatred brought into play by the heinous miscalculation of an insignificant minority of arm-chair politicians. Why wag the perfectly loyal pro poal of Germany, communteated to Üir Edward Grey by Frince Lich novsky before Mr. Asquith' notori ou phiüppic, branded by the lattcr at nfamou"? Why was it held back even from the British Par liament? Because those immediately responsible for the policy of Great Pritain were convinced that a more favourable opportunity for the over throw of Germany could not well be imagineH Ve, th! was the ole reason for the Intervention of Great Britain in a Conflict which wa no concern of her. The reanon adduced by Grey the breack of Belgian neutrality by Ger many wa a . mere pretext, for, thank to the diplomatic machina tion of the "Entente", a coalition brought into being by Great Britain as an Instrument for the suffocation of the German empire, the neutral ity of Belgium wa, already a thing of the pat. The watchword, employcd by the English, French and Kuhbian pres to popularise the cause of the "En tente" were chosen with a nice re gard for the peculiar ympathics of the . British public. "Liberty", "na tionality", "the anctity of treatie," these and the deterniination to rid Europe forever of the "nightmare of Prussian militarisra" and to preserve the integrity of the Balkan täte, by vverthrowinz the "Germano-Magyar" hegemony which threatened to en gulf them- were the will,-o-the-wisp that enticed the flower of Britain' rnanhood into the miry awamp of a bitter enmity and rancour ai'deplor able a they are unreaionable. Never in the history of the British Empire have the allurement of a momentary, unthinking opportunem induced British tatesmen to take o fatal a "leap in the dark." Had those responsible for the policy of the British. Government realised that the cynically rash ventu'e on which they were about to emhark wa fratight with consequence o ter rible and o fatal to the prestige of the Empire, they wonld iurely have hi.-'-i str fJ- The fr of a tion-exist- ''...' 11 itt" .-h I1' ,,,, I i t f ' -.f 's t M ( . "! "" !" ' ,,.., ('. IN 1 tt' it ' l Plf tz7,'K'e s.'"' Uf in th ".!.,, .. i. th ,. tf ( ,j.ti( ' fn ',- ' ii i?i ,, ': f I ' .. t !( I ,,! '!' ",,, !,. I i , t IH ,!,O " ! ' n tlit . - t tt'-i tif.cif'.y f t!iif t.rrrmn rt-i t t .- !! !' j ti'' ! f t ,,,,,,! .i-hi-f ( ,., t'1 1 ,... ..,,,, I ,, I, 4,1 I " ':" " T ' " ' I ' tr tie k t'' nniFi ,?,,. nie tht teil;! ! ih t! i tt h-t ! I -4t it(i.iu t mirs N ,,!, n ii !",,, ! m ,,, . , , lütf A ("! N I V tl'Utkt I f t rm , k f f ' n i! ittlf li tit!M! !i , mt'A rh ! K.itir V Hl f!'lr piO.i-ril f,l 4x ,,,,'.,,,' !,"', '. , ; et i..f. Th 'T.cfnuri i)iifc-f" r.n. 'rd In the d ist iniittiinii ( (ifiiinrvy 1 1 ciim '!rt in the II N, th ,!t t' de,e!,.p her se, on th da,, rt ht fjUiltsy h . h h.i ty been im ul (,ret lititam i lii")t thernlied tthwuti.!. Th I ti'ifer 1 hu i evee beeil ", I otie, inef'lr the ntt of lower tliv idrndt and e,, t iniit in, rte I by a n,! m,nk,ty ui indntiriat captt.it iit whti nioDopoly of ceitiui wörfd-nurket threatened by th eitnrmiiu progir tnade of Ute jear by their Gtman cotnpetitort. Thi i th, r.l itittnn wliy jiie who! tif Europ ha been et on tire. The world-war, o lar a Great Britain i concerned, i purcly !Ui itnply a buine,si war. Th iellow Press, which I entirely de voted to erving the intereit of the bnine world, unfortunatcly for it seif, l' t the cat out of the bag be fore the war wa a weck old. It mstituted a campaigti" for the cap ture of German trade. The tmselly watchword with which the British nation had been cajoled into ap proval of the action of the Govern-mer-t were for the Moment forgot-tf-n. The naked conitnercialisrn of th nterpris wa exposed to view. Unfortunatcly, however, the British public did not grasp the ituation. I he road leadingto the shanibles contiuued to be thron ged by stal wart youths. Britain failed to corn prehend that the tnillionaire had once more asserted hirnseif. Wa it in vain that the great, pure-rninded Laureate cried: "Tho' inany a light hall darken, and rnauy hall weep For those that are crusbed in the clasb of jarring Claims, Yet God' just wrath hall be wreak'd on a giant liax"? Yes, for Brituin today is in league with the "giant liar," and the "lust of gaiu in the virit of Cain," niarches relentlessly toward, it sjoal over tue dcad bodie ot the flower of British manhood. "Made in Germany" -that is the key to the present atruggle. The foreign policy of Great Britain ha become the play thing of com ercialism: national intersts have been subordinated to the momentary interest ot a ' JMortlicline or a Churchill. "Remove that bauble!" thia war ha, given British Par liamentarism the coup de grace and threatens to dig the grave of British demoeraey. "Peace ctting under her olive, and glurnng the day, gone by, Whea the poor are hovell'd and hustlcd together, each lex likc wine. Whea only the ledger live,, and when only not all men Iie: Peace in her vineyard yes! - but a Company torges the wine. Wa the consciousnes of the rot tenness of the social fabric ii) any way responsible for the final resolve of those who hesitated to plunge their country into the unfathomable abyst of a Conflict a unreasonable a it wa unprovoked? Were they conscious of the anomal, of the social order prevailing in Great Britain? And the Uianr.e with the "giant bar" has it o infected the British character with the poison of political unscrupulousnes that the glory of Britinh manhood i driven to the shanible to conceal the festering ores of ocial injustice? Wa thi one of the ubordinate airns purtued by those who re olved to plunge Europe into the horrorg of a fratricidal war? The history of the world-conflict provoked by the short-ighted rash nes of an Opportunist Gabinet ha yet to be written but the questions I have asked niust be an.wered now before it i too late. The ans wera must be given by the only forurn entitled thereto the British public. If the answer are in the affirmative, the eystem responsible for the preient critical position of the British people must be awept away, to make room for one which shall regard private interest, as en tirely aubordmate to national wel fare. The British statesmen who al lowed their country to be plunged into the whirlpool of a truggle the consequences of whicli--whether re garded from the moral or the pol itical point of view are incalculable, based 'their calculation on know ledge which has proved to be the tnost atounding ignorance. We have only to recali the boastful word not distinguished by any particular evidence of good taste tittered last August by the British Boanerge Mr. Winston Churchill. It must be admittcd that Mr. Lloyd George and even Mr. Acquith für nished an admirable ehorus. We were told that the- Russian "team roller" would oon clear the way for the allies to dictate terni of peace to the vanquished German in Ber lin, that the poor "ramshackle Em pire" (Austria-Hudgary) would oon fa'1 to pieees, th.'lt tl'C n'.u Gelin.lM and non-Mgyar tkniciits of iliis ""I "4 t , !. r. f I t l i 1 " w l - f 1 ' r " . i' if hi ii h .1 ' 1 l-f ,.1 hv m ts 1 1 f ) ' M I ' t I-, .If f- i . i f. . h (.. r .I !, I'i i.t'l i iMI. t-st ! I . , t ' " H I I I I, fi l'B , I ,'., ) ii ! .I ('-., ! :i't U ; M !'! ,,.., ,. ,.., o,,.e ee,,, "'-'"' 1 " I . ')'!' eey lw -'.' J-.tt ii 1 1 i , i Ui !, ,,, i, ,e r , I,' Mjl.tie , I t 5 e .. I1' "fi t--'e I r f "t.,i',tx ' ! u , th if I ' ,,' , il ' f hl ! IS ' d -if'He ' I f. , I I l' e s,,,, ! ,,, , t i,, , pi.bli, i i .!', ihr lf (..- , , , n,, !, ,, fir t. t '.' - I My.eT bv ,., bitlSf.J d',M- , I a f,"i!i,Ii ! . v,bh!e. I,.,s,'.!e ,.ur edd fi . ii may t I n ii Kibb'e at l it.' Tb lrMi!l I',.,ve,,"r! !,,! ni. ( ton'prehe n I tl e U",II , .f l.rs. ,! erg )t i,iti'' n: tln y m i H' t nn fferitatnl ih i'it (I tl t.ciiniil p-,il'le. Th i.im !urt-ii.;litf 'ine niiuh tiiuli mini l!e trrnvth "I th Gtrivun riniiiie dmimed the vni in and warped the jiZ Inient ol ttul rmiafit nl l!k,t,!l Com niTu.ilii'iii who hd been tntnuted with t he wotk id ,'n, dm the pi ilnlMic cd iKiiitKil troubie in tlie Ihul Monarchy. They failed to fathom the deptH of jiubhc feeliiiR, nd took tlie fabln political ) venturer , representative cf uui verti! mtutiotis. They refu-sed to learn the Icssoti of imtory, and on their ignorance of the past and present huilt up fantastic visions of the future tavnnraule to the aiuhition of Iheir political leader. Event have proved clearly enough the b urdity öf the Vision of that arch dreamer "Scotu, . Viator': the un- swerving loyalty of the Croatian Nation and the prowes of the Croatian soldier ha been one of the outstanding feature of the pres ent fcuropean Conflict. Hutigary was chosen a the das-. sical mstance of a täte in which the principle of "nationality pro fessed by the "Entente," (on paper, of Course: for in reahty each. mein her of the "Entente" is a living denial of that principle) wa, con sistcntly tramplcd under foot. To day it i to Itungary that the fcn tente" appeal, for aid, while admit ting what everybody knows that a strong Hungary is a European necessity. The appeal certainly in volves a Suggestion that Hungary should enter the path reserved in history for the one country whose code of political morality is in har monv with the ecret aims of the Triple Entente. But the appeal has been Made, and that fact of itsclf is ufficient to discount at its proper value the political Programme with the aid of wlnch the Entente en deavoured to blind the neutral world as to its truc object. We were told that the Central Power, were doomed to starvation, that the iron ring with which they were encircled would soon bring these . farnished nation to " their knees. The moral objection that sueb a policy involved, the suifering of innocent civilians was waived aside with a sophistry as damagmg to the prestige of Britain as it is charactenstic of the cynical un scupulousness of the politician who invented it And the result? Today food i, cheaper in Berlin than it is in London: while the inhabitants of Austria and Hungary have not only ufficient for their own needs, but are able to srive over a Mittion Rus sian prisoner of war the time of their live. The policy of tarvation based uoon an entirely one-sided and immoral Interpretation of the code of international political moral ity ha proved as complete and lamentable a failure as the attack on the Dardanellen, Curiously enough, both freak, of arbitrary dilettantism can boast the aame parentage: and thi may prove the alvation ot Britain a prestige. The political disintegration of the Dual Monarchy having failed to come off a prophesled by the seif- avvointed arbiters of rintish public ouinion, the "walk-over" to Con- stantinople having cost Britain more men, more money and more los of prestige than the "giant liar" will be worth as a commercial ettect even a hundred year hence, the "ilvcr bullet threatening to be come article of Import, the "Eir tente" (for thi tep Great Britain will have to bear her füll bare of responsibility before the' tribunal of history) ha recourse to dibhonourl True, the dishonour , is that of a third oartv: but von cannot mix with thieve without incurring tue risk usually run by accomplices,- especially if the gang is run on fund supplied by you. Italy's part in the present war is that of the as- assm hired to tnke trom behind and nothing will ever clcanse the good name of Britain from the tain imoartea to it by tni association with a nation devoid of the very element, of political decency. "The anctity of treatie"? Why the "Entente" ha shown that the ole object of an international treaty it to enable easy-going mernber of an alliatice to Intrigue with impunity with the enemyl In their despair at the titter failure ot their rnilitary plan, and not possessed of the moral courage to contess that tail ure, the political bankrupts of Europe had recourse to the drown- ing man traw to tue denn ot infarny and eternal disgrace sjoari.ng on the ocean of moral and political dcgeneration. , This "forlorn hope" of those pol itical desperadoe who have. not hesitated to bring; Great Britain to Ihc brir.k of political aud moral 1)?.iikriiiitc" teniind us ot au in t t i .' r -4 ' . .. .,, - . . i f )l I t.: y t I ! Kl ,..'. .. I Cf' ,.., . .:i t.j i.l l . '.Id ( ,.,.,! I 'f. ' l '.""' ',. ,i ! f. ' I (.,-., (I '"' '. '! , ! . , h , . I' I'! l ' I im r ( I KV : i I ( i i i ' ' '! t -r 1S , ll i l!l r . t - I 's II' I 1 ' -1 -'-'l f t .) f'.e t " lil..;).ff I Ii , i ,,!,, ', I ,.,,,',,' !, I t'l , t .'. I M I . ,,! i't, I !, - ( i (lli I -jtIi ,, tun.. K l i I I ! ' i" - !! I - n. i t ! 1 ' 1 I ' ! 'i I ! "ii '!'! e f In Ii- f ! ! t i t ' i"j ' l.v ,n ii.. i ,,', I niiifi e, nie ,! ni ! ii.--l "dir I ) ntr !' ' iitl th e,i,!'I,,' 1 i n,..ti"'h f n , , t ,I'h Ik, . I in. , ni neiifftl , nt'ie. Tb i " t T tb ,i. df l th t 1 1 I '!''" I" '" er, i'iil Ö tt ' 'I t -ni l iiL-tiil, t' e.ii I fi! ih- w.ik it In ) iir- feri "teil by fir n t h'ii(vjf h itiesn. "J;fir ,!. Kintt n. C"iil'!f't' It 'Irifrli: b'll it V,nld b e been ir be'ier tn tue Iittle inre diuretion. l'eli,on ha nolliin in C'IIIMNII eii!-er I1 the 1 or wUlt the tiiethod of tl? "Entente; in Ict, they re in eaier,c ibiu.iU of the very ecnc of Christ' te.iehilig. 1 lisnk to the rynic-l ophitry of men like Mr. Winiton thitchill. mt the litter iincrupn!ou-nes f tho; resoniible for the policy of biiying aid ry pick Mg et her people', packet,, thin war i like to prove the deh of Christ ianity a power in the world, and tbi, action on the part of täte wlnch have alway claimcd a prom inent place among the leader of Civilisation is n open justisication of all forms of private crime. A state which descends to the eptn of encouraging theft and dishonour cannot well expect its private Cit izen to respect the laws. "Do your best to chann the worst, to lower the rising race of men: Have we risen from out the beast, then back into the beast again?" HaS the world receded two thous and years? Is Revcrsion dragging Evolution in the mnd that Evolu tion which is ever clinibing after some ideal good? Why? The selfish interest of an all powerful clique rise triumphant above the public weal. O the pity and the sbame of it all! "Russia bursts our Indian barrier, hall we light her, shall we yield? Pauset before you sound the trumpet, hear the voice from the sield. Those thrce bundred millions under one lmperial s'ieptre now, Shall we hold them? shall we lose them? take the suffrage cf the plow. Nay, but these would feel and fol- low Truth if only you and you, Rival of realm-ruining party, when you speak were wholly true. Plowmen, Ühepherds, have I found, and more than once, and still could find Sons of God, and kings of men in utter noblenes of mind. Truthful, trustful, looking upward to the practised hustings-liar: So the Higher wiclds the Lower, while the Lower is the Higher. Here and there a cotter's habe is royal-born by right divine: Here and there my lord ia lower than bis oxen or his swine. Chaos, Cosmosl Cosmos, Chaos! once again the sickening game: Freedom, free to slay herselfi and dying while they shout her name. Step by Step we gained a freedom known to Europe, known to all: Step by tep we rose to greatness, thro' the tonguester we may fall." The eloquence of the market place is the privilege of the dem agogue, and demagogy in the Ser vice of privilege is a national danger. . The purchase of Dishonour as an ally may be a profitable Investment for those whote dividend, well in Proportion to the duration of tlie war, but the bürden both moral and Material of the Investment will rernain as a national liahility for generations to come. Valuable lives are being sacriliced by the thousand, the national resources are being squandered by the hundred Million, the national prestige the nation most cherished treasure, is being wasted on the desert air of a hope less atruggle, and why? Because none of the politicians responsible for the national disaster has the moral courage to confess that "aomeone has blundered," to cry in a voice of penitence "mea culpa,"! to in form the British public of the enormity of the crime committed by the Cabinet when it resolved to et Europe "on sire. From the rnilitary point of view the hopcless position of the "En tente" is evident even to the amateur oulsider: the British fleet has done nothing to justify it claim to the command of the eas, the German submarine have revolution ised naval warfare, the "team rol l,r" has fallen to picces, the Situa tion in the West is a favourable to Germany today at it wa eight months agor the expedition to the Dardanclle has proved a lamentable failure, the Intervention of Italy has mcrely erved to increase the enthusiasm of the Austrian and Hungariast soldiers, the brilliant successe of the German, Hungarian and Austrian armies in Galicia, Bukovina and Poland have proved the invincible uperiority of the military Organisation of the Central Powers, The "test of trength" between the two groups of Power has al ready d-.n decided; the "Entente" hui been wcijjhed in tlie bulauce , I --". I ...'(- f.' ! 1 ZI 1 I ' ' . M " . 1 1 i " -ii ( ' ( t ' ! 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O' !, s l!',i - t'i if.'ffi!l th It'-vil-äI.I r ''' - ' i Im , , ' '., in, i, l, ,' ii l - ,'i I i ' I I . i "I the nn ' i i' e ii o i e tt. i m i. un-d-tp-tte-I H'-Bre f lief p--j-!: t i-itiit s ie ler M in pr. V.k t'?e I. Th.t ,,.. it.I, tue Nie f ., nii'e, ,,f i'tT !t linu.n hmili! e t il thit Ii tuttiui l,i II bes. -f the fin.il Bit! The iltesm ! , triumphal manli lo Herlm U'M? "'' inoo, bed nd maile t'biill by tiie "team roller iitut be tmniilnd t tb plus heine they cniiited, th train us tho, poliinai ddettanti whAne inor.l nd piiliin! i'hilnttiiiism ha brotiftbt thur cnnntty to the blink of a diMMer unknor to their Im tory: nd tlie foolish cmpin of calumny and pervernon initiated ro compentate for the lack of justitira tion mut be et aide with the con tempt which it deserve. Ay with the tnask of Hypocriiy that dirn the vision of it, wearer but warp, not tlie judnient of the ttnbiased pectator. We must ec thing as they are, in the light of nakcd truth. And then perchance we may live to experience the blessed Millennium foreseen by the prophetic eye of the poet: "I dipt into the future, far at human eye could ec, Saw the Vision of the World, and all the wonder that would be: Saw the heavens sill with comrnerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, drop- Ding down with costly bales: Hcard the heavens sill with shouting, and there rain d a ghastly dew Frora the nations' airy navies grap pling in the Centra! blue:" how astonishingly correct, this picture of modern aerial warfare! and then "Far along the world-wide wliisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the Standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm,: Till the war-druin tlirobbed no lotiger, and the batüe-tiags were i urled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the' world." The poet goes further still: he saw the final ccssation of the destructive jealousy of commercial privilege-monopoly, and the triumph of national and populär interests over that ever-present canker gnav ing at the roots of the international brotherhood which wa the essence of Our Saviour' teaching: "That the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realra in awe, And the kindly earth hall slumbcr, lapt in universal law." Is it to be merely a vision? Pcople of Great Britain, it depends on youl Demand "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." The rest will be plain sailing. Arthur B- Vollst, 6. (The Continental Times.) Erderschiitterung und Grschützfeuer. Von der Jsonzo-Frout wird be richtet: Der Leiter de? Laibacher Erdbebenwarte. Landesschulinspettor Belnr, hat durch einen Erdbeben messer die Erschütterungen aufzeich nen lassen, die durch baS Artillerie feuer in den letzten Tagen dr Gör zer Schlacht hervorgerufen wurden. Es ergaben sich deutlich große Un terschiede nach dem Kaliber. So soll es im Bereich der Möglichkeit lie gen, die Kalibergröhe und auch die Geschützanzahl der feindlichen Artillerie zu messen. Der seismo graphische Beobachter muß sich der feindlichen Artillerie auf 15 bis 20 Kilometer nähern und mit der eige nen Artillerie telephonisch verbunden sein, damit er die Aufzeichnungen des Erdbebenmessers kontrolliert. Einen solchen, für den Felddienst geeigneten Apparat hat Professor Belar herfiel len lassen, und die Näh? der Front wird es erniöglichen, zunächst ein reiches Material an Diagrammen zu gewinnen, deren Lergleichung praktische Verwendung des seismo graphischen Beobachter bei der Feld- und Festungsartillerie ermög liehen soll. Belar beschäftigt sich auch mit dem Problem eines Unterwasser Lewa chungsmelderö. der, bei einer Hafen einfahrt angebracht, ein unbemerk tes Einschleichen von Unterseebooten verhindern könnte, da deren Propel lerwirkung den Seismographen in stürmische Bewegung versetzen wür de. . . Beider grirchischen Kom munion wird in den .Wein etwas wiZtnieö Wosser g'gosstit. Ut:t tz''H tfyj'irfel, ? eNtzi'iKe !-. I bt.itti Kl.tMltllf. ?''', ' , j y, I' ' I t v , i ( , j i i -l t ' 'I V ' l ' 1 -4 s,, f "l ' I t t 'I ' f ' I t I " . I r 1 r- t ' ! i I' ii' i . - ' ' !'r f ( f- l'llf t t ' n i ( 'i t t if t t kf'ft 'II i ' " i r ' vi l't ;v -I, rt '. j' I . . f ' - II t '! ! ?'t ht i! ij ,'' ,"i t I , ' . ''i tfil'f?-!; -f!f V i i!,i i''1. ' ' h " I -4 t , ,.,,., j 1 " ) i f, f f i 1 1 ! n l'i ' i.i. ( ' t'l I ' k " f tt i,' j r. , I, ,t ' ! . I 1 ( 1 t t ? ? t ' tr -h ci ist it t i ilil'.f tiMl-'l'! '.,!. I ,', t I t r.v-,'jt Z'i:k Im ifVfirt Wuirn M.a, IfU j! beim 2 irr, .inzlUi.h ttil tftt l. ,! !. ")ln ti-Mtn iffid l;' Ui jil-n n!i.iiv'fftt WiM ftf'rt iritb, t! if il't fflnl sonst sg iir't V.Ulf ftftib.tt vvt luptb.r'r. I.jtsirn hab, I b v'i Sekten, fcif Distb tun jtten 'jttns t-Ux mit ttt (nifcfit U'tStü.ftr u!l ikne tut" iiflüüf.t 3isf;V'tl ur.siifi'n, ituf rf'i.ji. (et WtiiüH.tiie gclülkl. :. tftt er ftrttii pkhöteit die ZhngS, wählend dteiknigen Bereinigungen, die vn zUi'.Zst'kist den Kiiiüps geqen die EZ' lunder bi zur BemidMung predi 3n, früher durch die Gübi bfttre ttn waren. Miüe der ochiziger I.ihre aber, nachdem der mächtigste ihrer Führer, LiainTinghi, gefallen wZk seine Leibwache, etwa ÖJO Mann, wurde nach englischem Akzept vor Kanonen gebunden und in Stücke ge schössen, änderten die EikhS ihr Pro gramm und wurden england-freundlich. Tie gefurchteten Gegner der Eng länder auf indischem Boden sind zur zeit aber die Wahabii. Von Abd el Wahab gegen Mitte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts gegründet, eroberten sie, die sich von dem Koran losge sagt hatten (nur Mohammed wurde als höchster Prophet verehrt) einen großen Teil Arabiens, wo sie, mit Al Ryad als Hauptstadt, ein eigenes Reich bildeten. Selbst Mekka und Medina waren durch die Wahabis den Türken eine Zeit lang entrissen, bis diese, 1817, Arabien von den Eindringlingen gänzlich frei machten. Nun zogen die Wahabis nach Ja dien: hier gelangten sie unier Füh rung eines merkwürdigen Schwär mers, Seid-Ahmad, bald zu großer Macht, und bereits 1823 gewannen sie zu Patna eine bedeutende Schlacht. Jn Indien sahen die WahabiS als Hauptaufgabe den Kampf gegen olle Andersgläubigen an. ?amentlich die Herrschaft Großbritanniens erschien ihnen als der größte Feind des Islams. Als 1857 Bombay, Bengalen und Madras zu ei nem indischen Reiche unter bri tischer Herrschast zusammengefaßt werden sollten, begann daS erbitterte Kämpfen der Wahabis gegen Eng land, das eine Zeit, lang noch von den SikhS eine Unterstützung fand. Als am 8. Februar 1872 der Vize könig von Indien, Graf Richard S. B. Mayo der frühere konservative englische Minister von einem Wa habi ermordet wurde, nachdem die Sekte kurz vorher den Oberrichter Norman in Kalkutta getötet hatte, versuchte die - Regierung den offenen Kampf gegen ihre schärfsten Feinde auf britischem Boden. Im Laufe der letzten vierzig Jahre sind . von England über 20 blutige Feldzüge gegen die Wahabis geführt worden. Ohne Erfolg. Kenner der indischen Verhältnisse versichern, daß die At tentate der letzten Jahre lediglich auf das Konto diefer Sekte zu setzen sind, und so dürfte in der gegenwärtigen Zeit der heilige Krieg auf Indiens Boden nicht zum wenigsten durch die fanatischen Wahabis eine Unierstüt zung erfahren. Drahtlose TVelegraphie im Kriege. Godfrey Jsaaks, der Direktor der .Gesellschaft für. drahtlose Telegra phie Marconi" in Lonvon hat in der Jahresversammlung dieser Ge sellschaft u. a. erklärt, daß Deutsch land als erste von allen Mächten die Wichtigkeit der drahtlosen Tele graphie erfaßt und mit unvergleich licher Tüchtigkeit Telcfunken-Sta-tionen in allen Kolonien errichtet habe. So habe Deutichland am 4. August, am Tage der englischen Kriegserklärung an Deutschland, nachmittags gegen 5 Uhr, an alle seine drahtlosen Starionen eine Depesche folgenden Inhalts ge fandt: England hat uns den Krieg erklärt. Versucht so schnell wie möglich, in einen neutralen Hafen zu kommen." Dieser Funkspruch wurde sofort von allen Stationen in den Kolonien auSgesandt mit der Absicht, die Handelsflotte Deutsch lands zu warnen. Der ganze Vor gang nahm nur wenige Minuten in Anspruch. Es gelang aber Deutsch land dadurch, den allergrößten Teil seiner Handelsschiffe vor der Ver nichtung zu retten. Selbst - wenn Deutschland aber nur ein einziges sehr großes Schiff, wie z. B. .Va terland" gerettet hätte, so hätte es bereits dadurch vollkommen die Ko steii aller Telkfunkenstationen gedeckt. iia,',s,?. t, -,?'? t ft t it t'l l't 1. t, I' ..,!.)":! i" ' V V. , t I . - -,'' ' ! ! I ' I 11 , .1 ,.z s ,. , . ',i i n v t rff 1 'tt tt 1 t i- ' fi l'it l't' '' I v 1 t .'-,, 1 fi u "k f' tn ,! Ii t $ .i-, tu" h t '!!. , I ! i-i -r t t ! ' i r ; in f i, fi i.i i' i i t 1 fi ' t s j f ? f ' t ' ' t'i I' ' n. t, .'., , i4 ti, r'" ffc.'it l'i'r) t l t 1 . I I' "1 I l'!",! f'H .. .-1. f . i... ii t t h 4 xl f , ' l'n . ! It' ii ' t f i ' 1 r( ' l'""k l",'".'. t tz t -i - t'T (''; i i ,i ji ii , ) f i' ' i i t, i't I' 'i f l. 1 SU II ,s f ' V. f f!"'tl, Ni i,tt UnIfttl.U l'iii'rl itirt itjl U.il 'J'ff.f. '.flii!-- ii" Unltfhil !ü!-. (pfifn .itri(r,M. l.omln, T.nvt, C.t.'.S,'rrftut?ti,,il !., V blinde s-.'t der i,ik!!ttnkr L'Nf " vt:'( Z I f';rif;rf;t. ;-;i firlU ifert Uii!m!At ttlfrnert die Ls!dt,a mit Hilf einet resondeten Lstkich liii'g ihre biNk;,ze H,ü;ds?risi rtiiil f ki Heilet (chrtidtn, sie ü'eN eir.l Schtift, die sowobk der gehend 15 auch ttt tH'mlt lesen taun. Die ti acnllihe ölirenfchtift, die Punll schlisl. wird fast rn vücn bisher Un terrichteten berei! ziemlich put gele scn und fast sicher geschrieben. Ja verhältnismäßiger kurzer Zeit wer den sie die Blindenschrift so geläufig lesen, daß sie sich mit Hilfe der Bim denbiöliotheken auf verschiedenen Ge bieten des allgemeinen Wissens unter halten bczw. fortbilden können. Die wirtschaftliche Aufgabe des Ausbildungskurses hat IS Ziel, die dem Handwerker und Arbeiterstande angehangen Kriegsblinden vorerst in Ikichten Handarbeiten, wie Stuhlflech ten, Bürstenmachen und, in dek Her stellung von Körbchen aus Peddig rohr zu unterweisen. Dann ist es Aufgabe, die Kriegsblinden anzucis.7l und ihnen zu helfen, daß sie di' aai ihrer bisherigen Berufs und Lebens tätigkeit gewonnenen Ztenntnisse und Fertigkeiten erhalten und, wo eg nur immer möglich ist, weiter verwenden lernen, daß sie nichts, waS sie bisher an Geschicklichkeit erworben haben, preisgeben. Im Handwerk läßt sich wie m der Landwirtschaft vielfach dort wieder anknüpfen, wo die plötz liche Erblindung die gewohnte Arbeit abgebrochen hat. Tüchtige Schuhma cher, Schreiner, XI Vierer, Buchbin der können ohne :- ' st3 Augenlicht, wenn uch in besch.unktem Umfange, weiter arbeiten. Auch auf anderen Berufsgebieten können sich die Kriegs blinden mit Erfolg betätigen; so be reiten sich hier zwei Schüler höherer Lehranstalten, die im Kriege das Au genlicht verloren haben, auf das Ab solutorlum vor. um sich dann .dem Universitätsstudium widmen zu kön nen. Für manche Kriegsblinde bürs te sich die Ausbildung zum Masseu empfehlen, andere werden als Sprach lehrer Erfolg haben. Eine wichtige Frage ist die, ob alle Kriegsblinden, die im Felde den Willen zum Sieg hatten, nunmehr auch den Willen zur Arbeit, zum Um lernen, zu neuem Lebenskampf ha ben. Dazu ist ein gewaltiges Maß von Willensstärke und Ausdauer not wendig. Schädlich wirkt, wie Di rektor Schaidler im Jahresbericht der Landesblindenanstalt ausführt, die oftmals zu weitgehende Verwöhnung der Kriegsblinden in den Lazaretten, wodurch sie zu einer Unbeholfenhcit und Abhängigkeit erzogen werden, die für sie und ihre Umgebung unerträg lich wird. Nicht die Blindheit on sich, sondern die große Unbeholfenheit, Hilflosigkeit und Abhängigkeit von anderen macht unglücklich. Auch nicht in der Eng von Asylen oder Versor gungsanstalten sollen die Kriegsblin den ihr Leben zubringen; in der Hei mat, in dem Kreise ihrer Lieben mo gen sie mit neuem Lebensmut an die Arbeit gehen und wieder zufriedene Menschen werden. Süße Anerkennung. Die erfolgreiche Goldsammlung an dtt katholischen Volksschule in Pleß gab den Schulkindern Anlas;, an den deutschen NeichLbankpräsi dtnton Haoeiistein ein auf den Gold fuchs bezügliches Gedicht zu senden. AIs Antwort darauf schickte Haben stein, wie die Verl. ?iencst. Nachr." mitteilen, ein Postpaket mit Schoko ladcnzwanzigmarkstiicken und eine PhotogrcN'hie mit folgender Begleit schrift : ,?alt Dankibr Zungen und MädclS, Tast, ihr mir hclscn wollt. Mit diesem Handgcld nehm' ich i Ei,ch gern in meinen Sold. Mr reiht euch nn den Kämvfern. . Tie draußen in Waffen und Wchr stiir unser Vatcrlnnd ringen (5 luckauf, mein kleine Heer! Wie sich für dieses Ringen i ai Gi'Id dem Ei'en gcsesst, tteigr, daß mich dentiche gend Mit Männern Buche hak. Holt nur heraus die ffilchse, Tie Füchke von lauierm GoldI Ihr ,agt damit die Wölfe. Die uns cmS Leben gewollt. Mit herjlichem Cituf; an Euch und Smt Lehrer Hadnsti.t, i r 1 . i . - . ' . . ' 1 - ( ,