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Neither sido loses sight of any argument their orders, so numerous are they Are Adapted to depict the weakness of the ad these the omens of an approaching famine, versary in vivid colours and to increase and do they not know in Paris and London confidence in victory, that the Central Powers, if they only It wil be renumbered that after the fall; As far as the first of these is concerned, think the matter out well and are a little of Warsaw a large crop of suggestions that namely, confidence in one's own victory, it soonomical can
hold out until next pence should be made on terms favourable cannot be denied that the language of the harvest to themselves came from the Central Pow-Central Powers, in spite of their splendid
If, then, the chances of the Entente de situation, is much calmer and less challeng-finitely to defeat the enemy are anall, it Among the advocates of peace wasing than that of their adversaries,
does not follow that the cause of the Cen- who selected the mysterious writer
AUSTRIAN CONCEPTION OF PATRIOTISM, tral Powers has been gained for good. Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant as the Everyone, whether he has to do direct. Since the march on Paris failed the mili acdium for the publication of his suggerly or indirectly with the war, regardless tary situation of the Central Powers has tons. The substance of his article was re of which belligerent party to belongs to, considerably improved, with the exception produced in The Times of August 10 last is compelled by duty towards his Fathers of some pieces of ill-luck. The initiatave and attracted wide attention mainly from land to ding his opponent through the in all the theatres of war is at present the fact that the Nieuwe Butterdamsche wire, to ascribe the lowest, motives to him in the hands of the Ceneral Powers. They Cuant stated that it had received the to believe him capable of every bad action, dictate their will to the aneway. But there article from a diplomatic source through and of rejecting every stand point which is to-day so talk of bringing them to sub- does not tally with his own. In many,jection, and now is more convinced of one of its foreign correspondents, article concluded with the words ! Quoque perhaps most, circle, people go no far as to this than the Higher Command,
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regard departure from this fixed direc- and would seen that the writer, undis. tion as the first step towards high treason. The submarinis 855 20 Bswered all 64-fcouraged by the unanimous repudiation of
We hear from St. Petersburg how the expectations England's predominance at big advances by the Press of the Allies, is Tar announces that no pesco is possible ca is intact, and English trade activity still under the illusion that the Central as long as the enemy stands upon the sacred increases steadily. These are facts which Powers are in a position to dictate to their soil of Russia France fights until she it is true hold good for one only of the adversaries. The mysterious diplomatist is shall have driven the enemy over the Rhine members of the quadruple aliance, but that now supposed to be an Austrian--at any and conquered Alsace Lorraine. And Engenemy is also the toughest of all and, so to rate the Nicure - Rotterdamsche Cour-land will not lay down arms until Belgium say, the soul of the opposition. The opinion ast in a recent issue published, under shall have been liberated and Prussian of Germany about English policy has un- the heading " Quasque tandem?" a letter militarian stamped out, which in other doubtedly undergone a change in this evidently from the sure hand which it had words mean, that Germany must again be course of the war. Competent judges think "received from its Vienna correspondent
made an impotent country and her army that the danger to Germany comes not from disbanded. One involuntarily asks one's the West, but from the East, that the self. Can people seriously believe such world is large enough to afford to England things?: Does the public orator or the and to Germany suticient room for ecoso journalist believe this Apparently not mic and commercial expansion, and that it Those who launch such phrases reckon on is to the interest of both to proceed to do the patriotion, stronger than the intelli. a good trade again s, before, gence, of those to whom they are addressed. The correspondent of the Courant bere In London and Paris everyone who will interjects I believe that this is fast and hair know that since the great at what England does not with and that the Since the writer hos chosen his own tack in the autumn failed the prospects estested writer is too optimistic mains metto it is not inappropriate to recall the of a decisive victory have taken wing.
The ignorance of England, in regard to conclusion of the tag which, as every school Germany then had her hands full with the the thought of the Continental Powers and. boy knows, runs, Quoique, tandem abutere enemy in the East the time to break the circumstances and motives there eziste Boatca patientia, Catilina However, through was well chosen by the Englishing is almost proverbial, and it is quite here is the article in all is beauty and French, and it was not without dan possible that in England the deduction Is
After heavy artillery fire we succeeded gerous moments. If this attempt failed in made from a conciliatory and moderate in a hand-to-hand fight in capturing such favourable circumstances why will titude of the Central Powers that their strip of trench 120 metres wide. An as they proceed to sacrifice new hecatombs on forces are running low. This view would tack by the enemy was repulsed with heavy the body fields of Flanders and Chambe lamentable blindness which would cont Josies. That has become our daily readpagne with such poor prospects
thousands their lives without altering the jug, and we read the same reports in the A new attack, which Russia in co-opero final result. The opinion will slowly begin bulleting of all the belligerent Powers. tion with her Allies will undertake in the to take root with reasonable, men of all Must such a situation, which must touch spring, is undoubtedly conated upon farting that a complete bringing down of every friend of the human race to the Everyone who comes from the Austrian the adversary is out of the question heart, continue? Is there no means of theatre of war know that the Russian If England persists in the standpoint making as end of it
officers, in spite of their great bravery that any compensation of Germany to are compelled to stand revd.ver in hand be regarded as a sign of enervation behind the front in order to drive their (verslapping), we then, the war, alas! young and a yet not well-trained troops will sull last a very long time and the advancing to the attack in close formation nations will continue to tear each other. against the hostile fire of the machine guns, to pieces al majorem gloriam of Amorisa Possibly, and even not improbably the En and Japan. Then, finally when new moun tente will have success here and there, but tain, or corpses shall have boon piled up no one believes that it will be able to break and blooming regions laid waste the ingment through the walls in the West and in the wil cone when the peoples themselves will East. Not even if the adversary could be take their fate into the bands over the exhausted by hunger heads of their Governments in order to Exaggerated pictures of the distress în make an end of this murder. The fear of the Central Empires are disseminated the pesce it only to by sought among the while in reality the restancants and theatres statesmen who go bent down by the hurdest of: Berlin: ure crowded and in Vienna of the responsibility. The purples, on the the jewellers, and the shopkeepers who leaf c'her hand, know only one feeling the in articles of luxury arz tuuble to execu'e, desire for peace,
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English and French newspapers write with evident mischievous satisfaction about the increasing deficiency of provisions in Germany, about the stoppage of industry, about the people finding more and more that they have had enough of the war. The Press of the Entente speaks little about Austria, and when it does it is an a score fultone which tallies badly with the achievements of that empire in the military field and with its power of holding out. On the other hand, the Press of the Central Powers daily relates every kind of details about the Ministerial crisis in England, about conflicts in Parlimers about the in- creasing discontent in Ireland, about re- volutionary agitation in Itdis, eto