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The British cruisers fired many shots at the Zeppelins, and it is reported that por- tions of the under works were struck. At all events, the German found the fire too hot for them, and cleared off.
She must. land an army in Northern Schleswig-Holstein, march it down to the protected harbours and the canal where the German Flest is. The Fleet must protect the Army. The first Army would, but once it had gained a foothold, the no doubt, have a hard time in landing, The submarino attack on our ships was dislodgment. Troops could then be land- Navy on the outside would prevent its rendered abortive by clever seamanshiped for weeks, and a great army built up. I The Germans never got a proper chance to strike home, and the torpedoes they launched all went wide..
All the men who took part in the fight agree that it was an exciting encounter, in which the British Navy once more came out on top.
It may indeed happen that one day Europe will awake to the roar. of clashing armies, only because in the soul of this great dilettante the burning desire to than reason, counsel, or pity for his "know war," to enjoy war, was stronger subjects.
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miss to his faithful retainers of Branden. Not long ago, indeed, he gave this pro capture or destruction of the German splendid and glorious destinies!" What The Kiel Canal once captured, the burg: I will lead you," he said, "to Russia could then also be strengthened in Fleet would only be a question of time. destinies! war munitions from outside.
THE COUNTERFEIT MOSES"
REMARKABLE ANALYSIS OF THE
KAISER'S CHARACTER.
At the first disaster-whether it be in ficted by his burghers or by his people in the streets of Berlin, or by allied armien at once conclude that his much-raunted on the plains of Europe-Germany will alliance with God was the trick of a wily despot,
Then will there not be stones, anaugh from Lorraine to Pomerania to stone this counterfeit Moses.
OUR PILOTS FIGHT WITH ENEMY AIRCRAFT In spite of German denials, there is excellent reason to believe (declares the Times special correspondent in message from the East Coast) that considerable damage was done by the British bombs, and that a Parseral shed and airship were
The following are passages from a destroyed and a number of Zeppelin sheds recent Times artide written by the Portu-against Fate those terrible" irea dice to William II is in very truth casting and their contents badly knocked about.
guese author, Eca de Queiroz, the which the now forgotten Bismarck once While our men were busy the Germans regenerator of his country's prose in 1891, and without the frontiers altars such as discovered the presence of the escorting
alluded. If he win ho may have within cruisers and destroyers, and two Zeppelins
were raised to Augustus; should he lose, with some seaplanes and submarines set
exile, the traditional exile in England, off to attack them. The Zeppelins were the first to get to work, but they did not
awaits him a degraded exile, the exile make good practice.
who deny his infallibility. with which he so sternly threatens those.
For some moments they dropped bombs incessantly without striking any of our ships. The high-angle fro from our cruisers soon drove them off, and one was andoubtedly hit, and hit badly. Both the "Arethast and the Undaunted managed to get in successful shots.
A far greater danger to our squadron was the enemy a submarines. They made constant attempts to reach our cruisers, but were baffled by the masterly seaman ahip shown in the handling of our des broyers, which manoeuvred at high speed round the larger vessels and successfully repelled every attempt to torpedo them.
Meanwhile our airmen were returning to their ships, and were soon engaged in a conflict with the enemy aircraft, which had been groping for them in the fog off
the coast.
The German account talks of damage done to British ships in this amazing con
It is the most penetrating and caustic analysis of the Kaiser's character which has appeared up to date.
In the course of years (may God make
True it is, says the article, that sings he and King, has never ceased to attract and mounted the throne, William II., Emperor hold the curiosity of the world; an the slow and lengthy) this youth, amused and expectant curiosity awaiting ardent, pleasing, fertile in imagination, surprises and events as though the throne of sincere, perhaps heroic, soul, may be of Germany were nothing but a gaudy sitting in calm majesty in his Borlin stage set up in the centre of Europe.
Schloss presiding over the destinies of
from his exile's handbag the battered Metropole in London sadly unpacking Europe or he may be in the Hotel
double crown of Prussia and Germany.
incarnations of royalty One day he is In this Sovereign what a variety of the Soldier-King, rigid, stiff in helmet and cuirass, concentrating the glory of Germany in the mechanical precision with which his recruits march
Suddenly he strips off the uniform and dons the workman's blouse. all unawares, he becomes the King by Then, Divine Right.
Mankind is agape, when lo he is the Courtier King, worldly, pompous, think ing only of the brilliancy and sumptuo sity of etiquette, regulating festivals and masquerades
The world smiles-
THE GANGES BRIDGED.
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fict. It is undeniable, however, that and, presto l'he becomes the Modern King Sara is being crossed by train for the first
the Nineteenth Century King, regarding
every cruiser, destroyer, and submarine has returned to its base without loss of the factory as the supremo temple, times to-day and will be opened for goods life or material.
dreaming of Germany as worked entirely traffic almost immediately and for by electricity,
HOW A DESTROYER DODGED A HAIL OF DOMES,
The noise of the explosion of the British ing the Dardanelles in his Fleet, he is the
On his way to Constantinople, navigat passenger traffic in March. bombs brought out the German air fleet in artist who, in telegrams addressed to the twenty years before it was finally sanc Proposed and discussed for more than hurry (says the Mail correspondent). Imperial Chancellor and signed Imperationed in 1908, it has taken six years to Two Zeppelins floated out and three ortor Rex, describes in language charged four waterplanes. They came very fast, with romanticism and colour the azure of complete, and the cost has exceeded three then dropped bombs at a desperate rate.
millions sterling. The second largest constructed by British and six land apans-three at each end, engineers, it consists of fifteen main spans the total length being about a mile and an eighth..
".
One of the Zeppelins came right over Oriental skies, the languid softness of the bridge over
118, says a member of the ship's con- pany of a British cruiser. She looked
..
Asiatic coasts.
In the North in the Scandinavian seas like a great big grey whale, far bigger he is the mystic, he preaches on his dock than us. She dropped bombs all round of the nothingness of human devices. On us, but we had the good luck to dodge his return from Russia he is the jovial them."
student, recalling the good time at Bonn tious social centre and becomes the dandy, In England he finds himself in a luxu his fingers sparkling with rings, a huge carnation in the buttonhole of his light- coloured overcoats, he hovers and firts with the splendid verve of a D'Orsay,
Thus William II. has become a contem
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carried on wells sunk by open dredging to The sixteen main piers of the bridge ars water level. They are the deepest founda a depth of 150ft. and 160ft below lowest tions of their kind in the world,
The stone for the bridge was quarried at three bridge quarries about two hundred steamer. Most of the steel work and the miles away and transported by train and cement was obtained from England.
MAGNITUDE OF THE WORK.
The battle was fought on threa planeз--- between the whirling seacraft above the soa, between the cruisers on its surface, and between the secretive, submarines beneath it. The fog bothered both sides. A Zeppelin chased a British destroyer, found her in a rift between the fog banks, and pelted her industriously with bonibs,porary They fell like hai around her, some as regarding him as there are regarding close to her beam as twenty-five yards; magnetism, the influenza, or the planet but by a happy chance not one hit he, Mars. and by ratlike dashes she escaped into the refuge of another bank of fog....
At one period of its construction the Meanwhile s battle in the fog, rather a dilettante of activities I mean a man numbered as many as 24,400, and the like a snowball match in an extensive dark strongly enamoured of activity, compre-plant, which tells its own story of the Geld, was raging between the Saucy heading and feeling with unusual inten magnitude of the work, consisted of: Arethusa and the enemy. Torpedoes
sity the infinite delight it offers, and were fired at the Arethan by German desiring, therefore, to experience and
Two erection travellers; submarines and could be seen. Not ons enjoy it in every form permissible in our hit its mark.
state of civilisation. Whenever they could sight a Zeppelin the British cruisers fired at her with their Gin. guns at high angles and with shrap nel. Good firing was difficult owing to the deceptive light, but it is believed that one of the Zeppeline was hit in the cradle -- German airship dashing through the fog bank into the open air-and that was the end of the engagement. The Germans turned tail and made off for home.
A member of the crew of one of the British ships engaged says, in a letter quoted by the Jail:-
It is my opinion that he is nothing but labour and staff employed on the bridge
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Two of their bombs came pretty near, Our fellows treated it like a football match, and kept banging away at him (a seaplane) with rifles, but he was far too high to hit.
The Zeppelins are practically useless against our ships.. We never saw
one German warship.
He can give the reins to his insatiable. dilettantism of activity with the licence) with which "the young steed (according to the Bible) gallops in the silent desert." Does he desire the pleasure of command- ing vast armies, or that of ploughing the waters in a fleet of steel?
In him we have among us in this philo sophical century a man, a mortal who, more than any other expert, prophet, or saint, lays claim and appears to be the ally and intimate friend of God,
The world has never seen, sines the days of Moses on Sinai, such intimacy, such an alliance between the creature and the Creator. The reign of William II, seeins to be, as it were, an unexpected resurrec tion of the Moism of the Pentateuch
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RAID'S STRATEGIC VALUE. The character of the raid appeals power- fully to the American imagination, says the Times correspondent in quoting to God in terms of greater equality as The importance of the bridge is that it New York ress comment. There is much he might allude to Francis of Austria or connects the broad gauge system of the diversity of opinion cercerning the prac to Humbert of Italy. tical value of the raid, but the following Formerly be spoke of Him as the Master Ganges with the railways north of that. Eastern Bengal Railway south of the observations by an eminent military who is in Heaven, the Almighty who river, thus affording direct connection engineering expert in the United States orders all things; latterly, however, while between Calcutts army are of special interest: ---
The raid on Cuxhaven is the beat strate vassals of the Mark of Brandenburg, he railway at Sara and take a steamer Berass haranguing with flowing champagne his Hitherto passengers have had to get off the and Darjeeling. gical move made thus far by England, speaks of God familiarly as My old the river to the railway on the other side. The effect of this single raid may be in Ally am and God as a new traffic, the new bridge will be of immense consequential, but it has proved the
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