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siderable mechanical equipment. At the present juncture it may be of interest to note that in spite of its seanty soa- board, Roumania pomenus the gorm of a wavy. Beside one skitiquated little cruisor there are half a dozen gunboats, as many torpedo-boats, and four moni- tore. But most of these oraft are in- artended for work on the Danube, It may
be added that there aro elaborate fortif cations round Bucharest, and song or tensive works in the north-west Dear the Translyvanien frontier.
The problem of the Balkans is further complicated by the configuration of the peninsula. The natural geographical divisions have little or nothing to do with the divisions of race. For example, the monin range of the Balkan Mountains, which com destined by nature for a racing Frontier, runs east and west through the very heart of Bulgaria, dividing appulation united in blood, language, and sentiment. The boundary between Austria and Roumania along the cline of the Carpathians seems the most natural of frontiers. Bat, in fact, it waves under the Austrian yoko a large population essentially Roumanian. It would be easy to multiply such examples,
ROUMANIAN PRONTIERS.
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THE FLEET PUIS, TO BRA.
summons to battle had come?
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in such a slippery element as the soa, be made to obey their masters with such fine precision f
The answer again is sheer hard work! Drills as arduous in the engine room as at the guns; machinery kept in tune; tradi- tions in manœuvring in all weathers, which are kept up with tireless practice- Though all soomed perfection to the lay oye, let it be repeated that this was not to the eyes of admirale. It never can be. Perfection is the thing striven for.. Officers dwell on faults; all are critios. Thus you have the healthiest kind of spirit, which means that there will be no cassation in the striving.
Look at that 1" exclaimed an officer in the destroyer. They'd better try an
do better."
"But look now!" said another officer. She was out of the patch and seemed miles farther away to the vision, a dim- shape in the sea-hage.
You can't have it right for every at. mospheric mood of the North Sea, I sup- pose mattored the critic. Still, it hurt his professional pride that a battleship should show up as such a glaring target even for a moment
Flutter
"Thoro is the old Dreadnought,” said: an officer
The problems of Balkan frontiers are
There is another test, besides that of gun bewildering in their number and com-
drills and target practice which reflects Hongkong rainfall for the ko nomen ending at 10 mm: 30 day, 000 fanberra Jawa wapoplexity. Every State in South-Eastern
the efficiency of individual ships, and the The forecast for the 24 hours anding at soos Europe can claim plausibly, and per
larger the number of ships the more im hape with justice that the existing
portant it is, For the business of a fleet boundaries rob it of citizens naturally.
is to go to s35. At anchor it is in garrison Bougkong & Neighbourhood (N. winds, freat and to it by race and rucial sen- timent. Every State can argue with reason that the last settlement leaves it Black Sea. Sixty years ago the name of floating forta. Navies one har seen which other painting on her and see if they can't. Bulgaria ako kog an outlook on the rather then on campaign, an assembly of at a disadvantage strategically and Varna wae famiar enough to English med excellent when in harbour, economically. Every State, in a word. care, for there was the base of the Cri
Ever changing that northern light. For looks beyond its borders to populations on Expedition. Varna passed from when they started to get under way the an instant the sun's rays, atrained by a and territory under alien governmont. Thus Boumacia must think of Roums. Turkey to Bulgaria under the Treaty of result was hardly reassuring. Some erring patch of peculiar cloud, playing on a
Berlin. As a port it has considerable nians in Transylvania and Bessarabia, natural advantages. Ita situation at sister fouled her anchor chain; anothor Dreadnought's side made her code ap
pear molten, exaggerating herize till she Bulgaria of the Bulgarians in Mace donia, Serbis of Sorbians in Bonia, the head of a deep bay affords protection had engine-room trouble; another lagged: soomed as colossal to the eye as to the
from the dangerous north-easterly gales Grow of Grocks in Albania. The catof the Euxine Grem efforts have been for some other reason there was fidgeting thought logue might be elaborated and complicat-made for its development. Twenty years on the bridges. Then one asked, what if ago all trafic was worked by lighters. The primary reason for this entangle Now there are quays with 25ft, of water
Our own officers were authority enough ment of races is the Turkish invasion of alongside, and a milion tons of shipping Europe. Just as when the Roman Em-use the port in a year. Trado is chiefly that the British had no superiors in any pire fell and its territory was divided in cereala. Varca has a population of of the taste. But strange reports dedged înto independent realms centurios elapsed 45,000 people, and is the third town in before States were formed upon the Bulgaria, for which it serves not only in and out of the alloys of pessimism in the company of German insistonce that the principle of nationality, so in the Bal- as port, but as chief watering place, kane, the collapse of the Ottoman Power The other port on Bulgaria's Black Tiger and other ships which one saw offat Het been followed by a period of con- Sea ecast, Bourgas, is of much less im had been sunk. We the Blot really held dict and intrigue from which truly portance. Its bay is even better pro prisoner by four of submarines
The power of the Fleet was more patent astions powers are only now beginning tected by Nature than that of Varna, could go and come freely when it chase, to emerge. When a number of races and something has been done to improve the harbour was the place for it while it movement thun at rest; for the sea-lion. have for long been subjected to the the situation. But at present Bourgas waited. If not, then, indeed, the sub was out of his lair on the hunt. government for some alien Fower, it is only about a quarter of the size of the marine had revolutionized naval warfare.ng with flags at a review at Spithead the not to be expected that they can swiftly more famous port. We have, of course, Admiral Jellicoe might lose some of his battleships secmod but of their element; consolidate themselves into harmonious to remember that since the last Balkan battleships before he could ever go into giants trying for a fairy's part. Display is not for them. It ill becomes them, as independent units,
war Bulgaria has a window upon the action against the Germans a pink ribbon on a bull-dog. Irresistibly Wagoan as well as the Black Beats Oh, to hear the hoarse rattle of the ploughing their way they presented a pio one Egean port, Dedengatch, is, how- ever, a stall place, the trade of which anchor chains!" I kept thinking while I ture of resolute utility-guns and turreta has not responded to rather ambitious was with the Foot,Oh, to see all those and speed. No spat of bright colour was efforts at development Anchorage of monsters on the move
visible on board. The crow was at the A vain wish it seemed, but it came true.guns, I took it: Turn the turrets, give the share; cargoes worked by lighters," sums
A message from the Admiralty arrived range, lay the sights on the enemy's ships, up its importance. It is, however, in time of peace a port of call for the Mes while we were in the daghip, Admiral and the battle was on,⠀⠀ sageries Maritimes steamers between Mar Jellicoe called his Flag Lieutenant, and Like Rou spoke a word to him, which was passed in seiles and Constantinople.
The old Dreadnought-all of 10 years of mania, Bulgaria has the rudiments of a twinkling from fagship to squadron and navi, a handful of small craft. division and ship. He made it as simple age, the senile old thing! What a mystery The frontiers of Bulgaria with Serbia an ordering his barge alongside, this send she was when she was building! The mys and Greeze are, as we all know, matters ng of the Grand Fleet to for,tery accentuated her celebrity-and almost From the bridge of a destroyer beyond forgotten now, while the Queen Elizabeth of bitter dispute. Perhaps it would para the wit of man to find a line which should perfectly divide Bulger and Serb and the harbour entrance we saw it go. I and the Worspite and others of their class Hellene. The existing frontiers do not, shall not attempt to describe the spectacle with their 15in. guns would be in the pub except in certain sections, follow any which convinced me that language is the lic eye as the latest typo fill a new type marked physical division. But the con- vehicle for making small things seem great came. A parade of naval types was pass formation of the country makes this im and great things seem small. If you ing. One seemed to shade into the other wish words invite splendid and magnifi- in harmonious effect. But here was an out- possible. The mountaine decline to ac commodate themselves to racial distine cent and overwhelming and all the reliable sider, whom one noted instantly as ho tions. In the extreme north-west-that old friends to come forth in glad apparel studied the rugged silhouettes of steel. from the dictionary Personally, I was in She had 12 12in. guns with turret piled on corner to which attention is inevitably directed the boundary between Serhin articulate at sight of that ses march of turret in an exotic fashion-one of the and Bulgaria is merely a mall river, ul-toned, unadorned power.
two Turks building in England at the out- the Timok. The country beyond, on the First came the outriders of majesty, the set of the war and taken over by the Serbian side, is, however, difficult and destroyers; then the graceful light cruisers. British. mountainous-Daily Telegraph.
How many destroyers has the British Navy 1 om only certain that it has not
"One division, two divisions, four chips, as many as it seems to have, and which would mean thousands. Trying to count eight Dreadnoughts even i squadron com them is like trying to count the bees in the ing out of a harbour numbs the faculties garden. You cannot keep your eye on the with a sense of its might. Sixteen Individual bees. You are bound to count twenty-twenty-four-it was the unending. some twice, so busy are their manoeuvres, numbers of this procession of sea-power Don't you worry, great ladies! one which was most impressive. An hour pass- One sat down imagined the destroyers were saying to theed and all were not by. The ruthless Inst of blood which on battleships, "We will clear the road. We for a few minutos behind the wind-screen The line of the Danube is an important. obstacle. Where the river enters Rougendered the massacre by the Turks of will keep watch against snipers and as of the destroyer's bridge, only to look back and see more Dreadnoughts going by. Cite mania it runs through a gorge shadowed nearly a million Christians is bringing aassins by mountains more than 1,000 feet high its own retribution on the nation which And if any knocks are coming, we will has not realized that there were so many The stream is less than 150 yards wide, had already steeped its brands in innocent take them for you great ladies ! said the in the harbour. He had a suspicion that and of great depth and speed. At the blood in Flanders and in France, and cruisers. If one of us went down, the Adminal Jellione was a conicter who could Roumanian end of the gorge are the found it therefore an easy task to aid loss would not be great. Keep your big toke Dreadnoughts out of a hat.... famous Iron Gates," a rapid so named and encourage the Turks in their foul guns safe to beat other battleships into The first was lost in the gathering dark and revolting bitchery of hipless and scrap. to the kineness far out in the North Sea, and still the from a number of submerged rocks. Once out of the mountains the river unarmed Armenians.
For you may be sure that Fritz was on cloud of smoke over the anchorage was as rapidly expands, and runs through flat The Turk is a Turk, and his furious the watch in the open. He always is, like thick us ever; still, the black plumes kopt and marshy country. It is, therefore, hatred of the Christian has impoled him the highwaymen hiding behind a hedge and appearing around the bond. The King a formidable, but not an impregnable to wallow in crime of this kind for cen- envying people who have comfortable beds. Edward VII. class, with their four 120. * Jason or WINZ, Mooring 30 for Combarrier as the Roumanian army showed turies. But the German is professedly a Probably from a distance he had a poop guns and other ancients of the pre-Dread- BTATE OF WALTHER, 5 blue sky, o desobed in July 1913, when a swift and easy Christion, and the spectacle of a Chris-through his periscope at the Grand Fiest nought era, which are still powerful auth- Blood, didrissling salo, fog, gloomy, h hay crossing was made at Silistria, tian nation deliberately and of set put before the approach of the policeman degonists, were yet to come One'a éves lightning, o overcast, p pazzing anowens, g squa), r rain, usnow; 4 tirander, 'w visibility" w dow (waki
The Austrian frontier of Roumania, pose co-operating with infidels in the etroyers made him duck beneath the water sched Those who saw a German corps the ☞ Bátar în indlus, é festhi and, hundredthr,
Carpathian and Transylvanian wholesale murder of Christians-for the and probally he tried to count the num-march through Brussels said that it seemed mountains, formis a line which offers far facts concerning German help and con- her of hips and identify their classes in irresistible What if they had seen the more serious obstacles. There are severa nivance art beyond dispute has filled passes of little more than 1,000 feet, the word with anspeakable horror. order to take the information home to whole German Army Bere was the coun crossed by railways in the Translyvanian It is just barely conceivable that Ger- Kiel. Besides, he always has his fingers terpart of the whole German Army in sea- range, but the Carpathians to northward many, in the course of generations, might crossed. He hopes that some day he may power and in land-power too. are less accommodating, and it is com- have lived down the shame of her bestial monly held that the frontier is strong excesses in Belgium, but even her own against attack from either side if reso people will not forgive her for those lately defended with adequate forces monstrous crimes against civilisation and The boundary between Russia and Rou the Christian faith in which the Turk mania is the River Pruth and the north has found her so willing an accomplice, ern mouth of the Danube,This must be called a convenient rather than a well marked frontier. Moreover, it leaves to Russia the Roumanian population of ftin.
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The Government of Bucharest, though it has to consider the problems of a Boumania Irredenta, has at least from tiers which follow physical divisions. On the mouth the great stream of the Danube forms the Bulgarian boundary, until at Oltenitza the river barrior is replaced by an imaginary line running in a south-easterly direction to the Black Sex a few miles north of Varaa. The Danube has been the frontier throughout the existence of the two States. The present imaginary ling in the eastern portion of the frontier was drawn by the Treaty of Bucharest, which THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES added to Roumania nearly 3,000 square mileg of territory, and a population of 288,000. As for racial claim to this eastern district, we may note that neither Bulgaria nor Roumania, had a very clear title, w
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HOW THE GERMANS SEEK TO EXCUSE THEM,
It is in this revolt on the part of her own people, as well as in the consterna- tion with which her apostasy has been viewed by all neutral Christian coun- tries, that we must seek the reason for the new and infamous campaign which has been engineered in Berlin with the object of spreading the shameless tie that Germany's fees instead of her friends are responsible for this appalling slaughter
The Fossche Zeitung, the organ of the Berlin Radical party, roundly de- clares that
The English, and they alone, are re sponsible for the Armenian massacres. Talaat Bey, who is saddled with the responsibility for them, is not a man who would resort to such measures unless they were absolutely indispensable.
They wers, rendered indispensable by the English, who had made careful pre- parations for the rebellion.
The Armenians had been plentifully provided with arms and munitions, and were even furnished with police uni- forms, to be used during the existence of the provisional Government which the Armenians were to establish under Eng
ish rupervision.
A-PROCESSION OF SEA TOWEL.
get a shot at something more warlike than The destroyer commander looked at his
merchant steamer or an auxiliary only watch. that prospect becomes poorer as life forTimes, he said "I'l put you on him grows herder. Except a miracle hap-shore," poned, the steaming Fleet with its cordons of destroyers, is as safe from him as from any other kind of fish,
MAJESTIC STEADINESS-
He must take his place in the Fleet at a given moment. A word to the engine-room and the next thing we know we were off ́at thirty knots, cutting straight across the bow of a Dreadnought steaming at twenty knots, towering over ua threateningly, with a bone in her teeth
The harbour which is the Flent's home is landlocked by low hills. There is an eclipse of the sun by the smoke from the ships getting under way streaming, sour- ing coluions of smoke on the move rise above the skyline from the funnels of the battleships before they appear in sight around bend. Indefinita masts as yet they are, under their night-black plumea. Each ship seems too inmense to respond to any will except its own. But there is something automatic in the regularity with which, one after another, they take the bend, as if stop watch had been held on 20,000 tons of steel for a second's vario- tion. As they approach they become more distinct and showing less smoke, thers seems less effort. Their motive-power seems inherent, perpetual,
on trial in battle with the Prussian system There is some sea running outside the--and as one is going to bed the sound of entrance, enough to make a destruyer roll But the battleships disdain any notice of its existence. It is no more to them than o ripple of dust to a motor truck, They plough through it
Ono's imagination sped across seas where he had cruised into harbours that he knew and across continents that be know. He was trying to visualize the whole globe all of it except the Baltic seas and a thumb- mark in the centre of Europe. Hongkong, Melbourne, Sydney, Halifax, Capt Town, Bombay-yes, and His and Valparaiso, Shanghai, San Francisco, New York, Bos ton, these and the lands back of them where countless millions dwell were all safe behind the barrier of that Fleet.
Though you were with a 20 yards of Unfortunately for the Armenians, the them you would feel quite safe. An ex- rebellion broke out prematurely, and the press train was in no more danger of jump- principal among the initiated in Coning the track Mast in line with mast, stantinople betrayed the entire con- they held the course with e mujestio steadi- spiracy to the Government,
ness Now the leading ship makes a turn Turkey is acting purely in self-defence at a few points. At the same spot, as This is not the question of a local plot,it were marked by the grooves of tires in but of a great conspiracy which throat- a road, the others make it. Any varia ened the very existence of the countr and which was organised for the sation of speed between them would have nurpose of playing. Constantinople into been instantly noticeable, as one forged the hands of the Allies bows and sterns did not change. A line ahead or lagged; but the distance between
The lamentations about the cruelties Armenia which now resound through England arise merely from political 240d-noirves, and the Armenian haleod that has
been shed falls on the heads of the Eng lish, as can be documentarily proved,
Then back through the land where Shakespeare wrote to London, with its glare of recruiting posters and the throb bing of that individual freedom which is
guns in the heart of the city! From the window one looked upward to see, under, asearchlight's play, the silken sheen of a cigor-shaped sort of serial phantom which was dropping bombs on women and chil dren, while never a shot is fired at those sturdy men behind armour
When you have travelled far, when you think of Bethe and his Boers fighting for England when you have found justice and fair play and open markets under the British flag, when you compare the vociferations of von Tirpitz glorying in the torpedoing of a Zuritania with the quiet manner of Sir John Jellicoe, you need only a little spark of conscience to their sea-power to the way that the men prefer the way that the British have used
of one length would do for each interval who send out Zeppelins to war on women far as one could discern. It was difficult and children would use that power if they to think that they were not attached to bad it. Ties of race and language aside, some tant moving cable under water. How one cannot be a neutral between right. could sudi apparently unwieldły monsters, and wrong