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THE KAISER AT VIENNA.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VISIT..
AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRESENT SITUATION,
EY A. G. GARDINER, EDITOR OF THE DAILY TEWS AND LEADER."]
**CENTRAL EUROPE."
CANALS SEA POWER.
of a lecture delivered by Herr Dernburg, The Vienna papers publish the full text It is a most interesting exposition of the view that Germany can destroy the Bri tish Empire first, by disputing or per. suing other peoples to dispute the Bri tish possession of all those strong places which block the freedom of the seas," and, secondly, by undermining British prestige.
when it can least be spared. Th's country, with its unparalleled industrial resources, is converted into a vast munitions factory France Italy, and Russia are working with- in their various limits at the highest pres sure, and behind all are the immons, re- sources of the North American Continent and Japan That the Central Powers can keep pace with the production of the Allies is a demonstrable impossibility. It is true that they are in possession of great manu- facturing resources that do not belong to them in Franes, Belgium, and Poland; but even if those resources were adequate they From all the rumours and speculations have not the huroan power to realiza thom of these days one act stands out with un-such as exists in the great neutral countries disputed significance. It is the visit of of the United States and Japan. In a the Kaisor to the Emporar Francis Joseph word, on this essential point of munition-claimed that in the long run the naval That visit had no military meaning. The conduct of the war is in the bands of Bering, the Kaiser knows that the cards are in, and in any case the Kaiser would not the shock of Germany's superiority and against him. The Allies, having survived travel to Vienan to discuss it with Franci preparedness, are now reversing the pasi Joseph. Nothing but the gravest politication with daily increasing emphasis.
INTERNAL TROUBLE,
Herr Dernburg would like to see Gibral- tar claimed by Spain and Malts by Italy. He made capital out of the recent offer of Cyprus to Greece, referred cheerfully to the German hope of trouble in Egypt, and
interests of the United States will he antagonistic to those of England.
But perhaps the most interesting pass. age is that in which Herr. Dernburg ex- plained the connection between these anti- British hopes and the new German theories about Lentral Europe.
6. After a refer- ence to the German-Austrian-Hungarian fiscal negotiations, be said:
This war will put an end to English not only because, ak supremacy at sen. we all hope, the European Central Powers will be victorious, but because in this struggle they have the support of all neatral countries, and even the support
crisis explains the meeting. It has been suggested that the old Emperor, wearied with the appalling failure of the great ad- not less clear that the factor of ventura into which he was plunged sixteen the interual politico-economic position has We months ago, its begun to listen to sugges-turned decisively against the enemy. tions of a separate peace and that the oh- are not exactly a nest of singing. bird, in ject of the Kaiser's visit was to avert that this country. "We have our plots and our disaster.
panies and we make the most of them. We There is nothing improbable in this inter-like to wash our dirty linen in public and grief-stricken man. His share in the maslackers and can't possibly win. That is as a matter of fact, England's unya). pretation. The Emperor is an old and we love to tell the enemy that we are of England's present Allies (sic). Bat.
four way. But these national babits of ing of the war was doubtless only formal, depreciation have nothing to do with the To sees the ruin which threatens the realities of the position. They are no sot- pire that his parouality alone has held off against the ominous deficiency which prevails in Germany. About that do together for sixty years, and it is not un- natural that, before he dies, he shouldficiency there may be exaggeration, but wish to see the end of the tragedy in which there can be no doubt about the fact. The his tragie reign is closing. His country food riots of the womes, the alarming rise has been stricken far more heavily than of prices, the shortage in essentials like ar Germany. Its losses have been far greater, fats, rubber, wool. etc-these and similar its failure on every front unqualified, its things are no longer matters of question. He The Frankfurter Zedung dolares that misery almost beyond description, was perhaps only a tool in the making of what is happening is the breakdown of the war, but in the making of peace he German organisation. If that statement would have behind him the agony of his is true the tempte itself is rocking for what remains to German efficiency if or ganization fails? She is in a far worse case than a country like ours which, with small genius for organization, has a rear gening for improvisation. And war ufti mately is improvisation. That the economic situation cannot improve goes without saying. It cannot improve unti the British Navy is defeated and Ger many, we may assume, has ceased to cul. tivate that dream.
I said
fisillusioned and desolated people. long ago that Berlin would have to look to its back door, and it is possible that it because the back door is vieding that the Kaiser has hastened to Vienna to look to the fastenings
!
VISIBLE FACTS.
THE SOCIALIST RIBING.
This internal economic pressure is reacting very markedly on the political situation. Little attention has been given
But it is more probable that the meet ing was concerned not with opposed aims but with a mutual object. The Emperor may desire peace at any cast on sentimez- tal grounds, but the Ka'ser desires peace no less on practical grounds. He knows that the tide has turned against him, and hot this moment, when the diversion in the this country to the significant my Balkans temporarily conceals the fact from ment in the Socialist party, With th exception of the Extreme Left under Di superficial view may be his last chance Liebknecht, tot party has hitherto con for bargaining, if not as a conqueror, at doned the war, even if it has not formalis least as the holder of the stronger hand. Supported it; but row the ntellcctual The visible nets are still with bin. We Centre of the part, under Herr Kar, may conceive him suuming them up. He Kautsky, is moving towards open opposi has failed, it is true in all his objectives.tion to the war credits. The gravity Paris and Calais are still ungaken, the great this tendency is evidenced by the state- thraxe at Russia has earled in futility, thement which comes as I write that, owing armie, of his enemies are unbeaten, no to the action of the Socialists, the Ger single decision of first rate consequence has man Chanceller will discuss the pos open won. But on the other hand his soil sibilities of peace in the course of the next
few days. The statement is accompanie from from the invader, he has made n
ahou coup in the Balkans and he is in posses-by much leather and pruna ion of Belgium, of Serbia, of Northern the triumph of Germany, the failure of France, and of Poland. If the occupation of the Allies, and the course of the war. enemy territory meant victory he is victori But the significance of the fact is un- vus. But wars are won, not by the occupa tion of territory, not by the defeat oʻ armies. And it is this fact that bringe the Kaiser to the other side of his calculation.
THE RIG GỤN,
mistakable.
י
THE BREAKING POINT
Hore the
supremacy is already crumbling. A year ago the Austro-German advance to the Dardanelle, would have been described as a dream. To-day it is a reality. Now in Central these extraordinary times we Europeans do not need the sea-way as our road right up to the Indian frontier. such times, we can get along without it, and so a great part of the world is fred from English supremacy, if not from Eng- ish pressure, and English supremacy is itself threatened.
In
But the great advantage of the sea lies in the fact that enormous quantities of goods can be carried at extremely cheap rates, and that the railways cannot con
If, therefore, 3 LESE pete with them, upon the strength of my experience make any prediction about the development of the now world constellation, it is this that, not only in war-time, but also in peace time, there will be an effort to attain the utmost possible independence of the The development of the Austro- 80R. Hungarian Monarely will presumably tend towards the identification of industry and agriculture. For this. there will be noed of enormous transport resources, and transport ought, if possible, to be ther than railway transport. This leads to the idea of the development, of the Central European Canal systean, and to the n provement of waterways which are 10
avigable. In this way we can to a cm- siderable extent, although by no means entirely, obtain the advantages which belong to sea transport
RUSSIA AND INDIA.
"WE CAN LIVE AS NEIGHBOURS."
Interest way excited by the lecture on India amf Russia, given by M, Alexia Aladin, ex-member of the Russian Duma, at the At Home of the Northbrook Society
ан-
Sir Horatio Shephard introduced the lecturer as a missionary who had come to dissipate the ignorance prevailing in Eng....
and about Russia. M. Aladin was xious to press upon the audience that he spoke as a leader of democracy in tienlar stress was that Russia's 170 mil- Russia. A point on which he laid par-
And behind these considerations there another which must be weighing on the Kaiser still more heavily. The informa- tion we have on the munitions question What of the invisible facts of the the economic aspect and the poiition) posi FORBOAST
struggle There nny be said to he five tion is strong but not absolute. We dions of inhabitants were not dominated
by the will of one mas, The case is excellent work done by the self-governing He spoke of the elements in war-men, money, materials, well to discount it heavily. ¿N. Ewinds,fresh;
municipal bodies, and said that the heart Haugkong & Nuuhtourhood, cloudy, probably politico-econonic conditions, and diplo. otherwise in regard to me,
improving later.macy. In the first year of the war he had facts are within certain limits ascertain
the, unquestioned advantage in all these able and absolute. At their best, from of the Russian people was not in the Russo-Japanese war and that trailoads ¡N.E... winds, respects, except one, money, and the im the German point of view, they point to of soldiers arrived in Russin from the | Formon Channel -
**strong.
portance of that factor only arises in the inevitable lefcat. The brocking strain at
front without orders and before the con- Bouth Count of Chinn between | The
final stages of exhaustion.The Southern the worst will come early in the new.
clusion of peace. In this was Russia, year; at the best it will be delayed unti Hongkong and Lamooke
States were always inferior in the matter
despite her great losses, was determined if money, but-the-fact-did-not-operate until the beginning of 1917. But it cannot be the third year of the Civil War. We may escaped. Mr. Bell's calculation and to fight Germany to the bitter end. Dent- therefore nagine that the Kaiser in his no one in this country has devoted aaying specially with India and Russia, be thing like the careful attention he has spoke of their point of contect in Central calculation is leaving money out given to this vital aspect of the struggle Asia Russia advance in Asia. had been immediate consideration, The four that it is imminent. Germany he for colonisation, not for conquest, he de elements that concern
hins are mate says, began the war with an efficient mobi.clared, and the fears of the past were due rials, men, diplomacy, and the internal con."
lizable force of a little ever eight millions to lack of knowledge. We can live as dition of Germany. In all these respects he she has lost at the net rate of a minimum neighbours was his dictum. India was finds his ascendancy gone. It was his supe of 220,000 a month in all three and a happy is being able to pursue her pack of progress under the agis of the British riority in material perhaps even more than half million men. She has to keep over
race M. Aladin said that the democracy his superiority in men that gave him his three million in the field with auxiliary
of Russin desired nothing more than to sen serviere needing hardly less than a mil. overwhelming initial advantage.
In other words, to maintain her India strong, and that there was lion,
she needs practically shadow of danger from Russia. present activity every available man. Her only margin consists of boys of the classes which mature in 1916 and 1917.
Hongkong and Hainan.. No. 1.
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DJEMAL PASHA'S AFFRONT TO GERMANS.
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When we look back upon the history of the past fifteen months one great military fact stands out in clear relief, Te is the fact of Germany's appreciation of the valve of the big gun in field warfare. It is so hig a fact that we may almost wonder that It was not decisive. We certainly cannot wonder that Germany believed that conpled with her other advantages, it would figures. These show that the monthly less dont states that Djemal Pasha was recently be decisive The Allies were caught nato duty) has been nearly 150,000. But the in Constantinople settling questions con- ping and Germany expected to destroy them before they were awake.
FAILURE OF THE EXPERTS.
This is not the highest estimate of the Eterman losses, but that it is not excessive may be inferred from the official German (deducting slightly wounded and returned' German lists are known to be very much
The Petit Journal's Athens correspon-
Rected with the Egyptian campaign. He ra
in aricar. They include casualties of fused to have Germans on his staff with the months, ofter many months, ago, and are
exception of ons General without a com in other respects gravely suspect. But mand and with pure advisory functions taking this lowest term, the German loss up to the 1st of December was not much shirt of two and a half millions Assum
In this respect wo were all alike culpable -ne one more culpable than the French General Staff. It was obstinately opposed to the idea of the use of Jeavy artillery in ing this wastage, the collapse would come Allies diplomacy to their true propor- the field. There are few things which show at the beginning of 1917. On the most tions. To-day we may fairly regard the more conclusively the conversation of the conservative calculation therefore, Ger- profesional mind than the facts in regard many's man-power will hold out for
In 1911 M. Caillaux's year; on a moderate calculation it has to this matter, Ministry asked for a grant of nearly ten (save for the margin of the '10 and 17 millions for heavy artillery for use in the classes) reached the breaking point. I held, but when the Caillaux Ministry "ell speak only of Germany, because Germany the keystone of the arch; moreover, the b. B.
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peril as overcome, The agreement against a separate peace his been ratified with the addition of Italy, Many attempta have both in the case of Russia and of Franco, been made to get behind that agreement I have reason to know that quite recently a great bid was made to France only to be The Kaiser knows promptly rejected. to-day that there will be no separate peace and no breach in the ranks of the Allies.
But against all this adverse tendency he has one card-the Balkans. It is B powerful card, and it would be foolish to under-estimate the gravity of the perils which confront us not only in Bervis, but the also in Gallipoli. In both places Allies are in obvious danger of unfavour able developments But at the worst those developments cot divert the re- morseless trend of the war as a whole. The Balkan phase is a big incident, but
Finally, there is the doplomatic element, winds Our own experience was the same. The Kaiser's pre-war calculations rust Long after the high explosive shell had have allowed very largely for a rupture it is an incident only. Its value to Ger- proved to be the most devastating instra-among allies whose interests were so in many is as a means of bringing the Allies ment of the enemy, the professional soldiers,dividual and conflicting. It was the great to terms before what I have called the of the Alliance. That it has been invisible factors of the war are revealed in all their significanoc. The advantage with incurable unteachableness were stili
at ded is one
those negative triomphs, like the triumph of the British Navy, must be realized soon if it is to be realized
peace,
the insisting that shrapnel was the thing.
which are so easily overlooked and so all at all. Henes the rumours of important. It is the triumph that we owe denials, the debate in the Reichstag primarily to Sir Edward Grey, and in henge, too. perhaps the meeting, of the the vast perspective of the war it reduces Kaisers, Germany hope to get home on all the real or supposed failures of the the Balkan wave before it breaks.
MUNITIONS
But this is a digression. The point is that today that original and vital advant ege of the enemy is gone, and gene at a time