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The official Bussian organ, the Govern- “ment Messenger, has a notable article on In consequence of their method of roteresting conclusions as to the effect of
The most profitable frontiers for a presenting the position to the people, the the European War on these nations which
stato,"
This war has revealed the in- Nearly Ave months ago I wrote a de German Government are now faood by the same difficulty as in other days. Then, emerge from it as losers. These concluscription of a smuggling village on the adequacy of many accepted views of life, and the utter fallacy of some. «Napoleon'a when the Kaiser boasted of innumerable sions are based on a brief statement of Dutch-German frontier as it looks from division of frontiere the order of
the Dutch side. what happened to America's Southern victories and conquered enemies, his sub Staten after the Civil War. He remarks
An accidental but not quite uninten- under, the last being included sen coasts, value, into deserts, mountains, and rivers, jects naked: "Why not pouco!" Now that Southern white people imagined at tional acquaintance has enabled me to still remains correct; but none of theta • TJIMANOEK in these later times, they have been told that time, and those who still survise obtain at first hand a description of is any longer much of an obstacle in the French and British have broken their beads against the iron wall at the Ger keep on imagining, that they lost a similar village as it looks from the other these days of inventive mastery ovor
freeing of the slaves. The writer con enormous amount of wealth through the
Nature. This war baa tested every pos+ My story begins at Dissoldorf on a Satur sible kiad of frontier, and not one hus tends that, as a matter of fact, the South day morning. The station is packed with proved an adequate defence against
modern ·War machinery. in that way lost almost nothing." The People of both sexes and almost all
gods were worth in the aggregate, just platform is drawn up a long train com-tained the reputation it had enjoyed classes except the wealthy, and along the Vauban's idea of artificial frontiers sus what their inbour was worth," and that was not taken away as a result of the posed almost entirely of those fourth-
for ages before this war. The dowers war. By this the writer-means, not effect square boxes on wheels with piank values, but with the progress of aerial cluss so-called carriages" which are in and the sea retain most of their accepted thing from the reeing of slaves, but that though there is yet half an hour to wait, certainly in the next great war, also lose that individual owners did not lose some seats usually along two sides. Already, science they will, if not in this, almost the negrocs were still there, able to work in the hoxes old men and young women the South as a country lost nothing, since the train is packed to the very last place all their age-old prestige.
Natural frontiers, in short, tend. to dis
man armies in the West. The Allies, say enemy military crities, have sought decision on the Somme, put forth their full strength to achieve it, and failed; therefore they must realise that the defeat of Germany is impossible. Then why
-* TJITAROEM....
Nor has TJILIWONG ..
does not our own 'Government offer them peace terms" is the question now en the lips of the deluded people. An answer to this cry, ever growing in volume, is attempted by Major Moralit. Feace can nover be offered "so long as the enemy
as before. Individual owners lost in the ad even children are packed far more appear in peace time, and to lose al sees a chance of victory grinding na down Penco can only be achieved, he sense that when they had occasion to raise closely than Germany allows her pre-value in war. Something is to be said of defence. Quotations from this remark negroes. To that extent only they had scarcely breathing space and reue has nationality of the population predominat- argues, by Germany, continuing her warmony, they could not do. sa by selling eigns cows to be packed. They have for drawing frontiers according to the such losses, Any planter who wanted elbow room. And still there are all those ing in given areas, but again this prin- negroes to work in raising cotton or tobacco could still have them do their people from all parts of Westphalia wait-ciple is valueless to a State during war. work after the war as well as before,ing to get into the train.
Higgledy piggiedy, packed they lie, The only safe frontiers for a modern "and free labour cost little if any mom than slave-labour." In fact, it proved more effent, as the increased production in the South has since, shown.!!
able article are:
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REMARKABLE STATEMENTS.
State are those drawn according to ciples must be fundamentally understood economic principles. But economic prin- and not interpreted, us has been the case so widely of late years, as signifying
MINERALS AND WARFARE.
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The industries of peace, and conse quently the wealth of a State, depend to an astonishing degree upon the mineral resources of a State. Modern war is almost wholly dependent upon mineral wealth. It is a very significant fact that first Prussia and next Germany as an Empire have recognised that the only safe principle
which upon frontiers in modern days can be drawn is based upon the value in peace or the need in war of mineral wealth. It was England who, in 1815, very short-sighted- gave to Prussia the rich coalfields on the left bank of the Rhine, in the basin of the Saar. Prussia and Germany promptly learned the lesso0.
All the richest Polish minefields went to Prussia. Russia got the second best, and Austria the remainder. Germany, after, 1870, secured the rich minefields of Northern France. Germany's frontiers, when the present war began nowhere ran on the hither side of any rich minoral regions. They ran mostly on the further side and only exceptionally through the middle of such regions. Germany's first act of war was to rectify these lost positions, aud to-day she holds all the mineral regions of A
Northern France, Belgium, and Poland Coal and iron are the basic elements of power of independence nay, of existence itself-in the life of a State."
"Whilst the guns are never completely silent, there are from time to time pauses
Rots in a hamper, pigs in &uty. here and there along our long fighting
And in that condition-train-load after front. It is as if for a drawing of breath
train-load will run three or four hours by the millions under arms, and the
journey or more to some point or other question lies on all lips, How long yet?' The South, however, had great losses, near the Dutch frontier. They are in all This is also naked by our people at home. but they came in other ways. The South-sorts of custumes, but they have one item methods of hoarding up wealth and mea- They rejoice over the bravery of their ern people had lent their money to the of their outôt in common every one ofsuring wealth in gold. argite, their success in defence and at Confederate Government, for which they them, man, woman, and child, beare on tack, ut invincibility on all fronts, near had received bonda, and had given their his back a Rucksack, one of those sacks and for. But still they ask How long services and their goods, for which they which in England we are accustomed to yet!' There could be no more bonest received Confederate notes in payment. connect with ice-nxes and Alpine Club witness that we Germans love peace more Had the Confederacy won the war, it rupes, but which the practical German then war, not from weakness, but on probably would have been able ultimately has long since discovered to be the least account of the absence of bloody instincts to pay the principal of these bonds and fatiguing method of porterago of all which seek a quarrel, lightly thrown redeem the notes, but when the war wad Train after train pulls out with its themselves into it and carry it to such over and the South was the loser, it could load of humanity, all on their way to the fury as we have lately seen among the not redeem its bonds and notes, and its Saturday market somewhere on the races in Wallachia. We wish for peace, people soon found that what they had frontier. I would observe that I am not but we must be known so as not to be l'invested in them was total loss; their talking of a period when the Dutch frontier misunderstood. Our enemies reckon upon money had been destroyed on battle-arrangements were still in their child tiring as out in a war of arms and star fields." By this process the South become hood or when the Germans had not yet vation. Two years they waited for the impoverished, and it took twenty years nominally forbidden this frontier traffic, critical moment, and now they set their for it to recover from ite losses. The but of the Saturday before last. My hopes on a third winter war.
writer points out that experiences of this informant came to buy and decided that "In the meantime, out there, with un. kind will come to those European nations things were cheaper the other side, se exampled self-sacrifice, our mon have which lose in the present war, whether she came to Holland. How, I must not fought against their own hearts and feel they be Teutonic, British, Latin, or tell. ings, against pence and home desires. Slavonic:-
At the end of the long journey the train They have disappointed the enemies' hopej "If Germany shall be defeated, the pulls up at a small halt well away from of our exhaustion, and our officers' corps, economic loss will be realised in this way. atation. Nobody throughout the journey now taken for the greater part from wide The Government will remain in existence, questions the travellers, though in other circles of the population, does its duty but it will be impossible for it to redeem trains plain-clothes military police will in deadership, the execptions only affirm all its notes and its bonds, The wealth badger your life out for passports and ing this rule. Our people ask when there has already been destroyed on the enorm papers and information. Here the fuck will be peace. The man who is not swayed jus battle-folds but so long as the Govern sack is passport enough, because every by lus feelings and is hard against binment can pay interest and the notes cir- German official knows that a man or self, as the times demand, when thus culate, though at a depreciation concealed woman or child with a ticksack on appealed to, will remember it does not lie in the rise of prices, the people do not Saturday morning is assuredly on his in our power to offer peace as long as the realise the loss. But the loss has been or her way to the frontier to buy food enemy sees his charos of victory in grind incurred, and the people will find it out from the smugglers. ing us down. Who of as is able to find out whether or not Grey and Asquith have not compelled to pay enormous indemni- Chilled in the unheated earringes, half- a completely united and confident nation ties.
stifled in the close air, and weary with behind them, as the English Press says?
"Net long ago a German writer stated long standing, the marketers tumble out Who would dare to announce with aposto-that it would be impossible to conclude trudge of an hour or even nearly two when the halt is reached and begin a long lic certainty that in the Russian or the war without the payment of indemni-ross the desolate country just beyond French views of the war anything haz really altered. It is true that they must ties by the Allies, because without then the Dutch frontier. Sometimes they pass on the outbreak of war. Germany's realise in those countries the bad results very person and corporation in Gera little cafe by the roadside (but it is tremendous efforts against Verdun were of Europe's suicide, but with this they the indemnities cannot be extorted; suptor, a cup of acorn-brew or nottle-ten, but fortress guns of Verdun hinder the peace
many would be bankrupt. But supposépelt Kaffee), and a few may turn in solely dictated by this necessity. only wish to heal their own wounds, and are quite agreed to bleed Germany to pose. furthermore, that Germany cannot most of them just walk steadily on inful working the minoral wealth in death. The eyes of the enerny must learn to see before they can grasp the narrow to the Allies, then the bankruptcy will all weathers down the winding country the neighbourhood by the Germans and connection between their salvation and simply have to be confessed. The losses road between marshes that conccal patrols -and others--until at last they reach the have already occurred; the only chance uure, and this can only be brought about of recouping them is by extorting the any village which is the frontier. by our victory and holding out.
Along the road are strung out a few "There is no other recipe.
German housea, three or four tiny Kaffees, once beer-houses, and beyond! them, by the roadside, a sentry-box and al fgood-humoured sentry.
says:
If
"We cannot be satisfied with such hon- our. It is a question for us of air and space to live, and we can only gain this in a victorious war of defence."
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In the meantime, the Serene operations continue to be treated in an utterly mis leading style. The motif of every despatch and comment is the same as that of the Germa. official communiqués, unly the key is pitched higher. If half what has now been said were true, there would be nothing left except for the Ger man armies to walk to Paris, over the corpses of French and British soldiers. Every little fight of the last week--at
at the end of the war if tho. Allies are
obtain peace without paying indemnities
money from the Allies.
Į TUVENNÉ,
THE FRONTIER HOAD.
Germany long ago recognised the great auth that the frontiers of a State mast the worst, be drawn so as to ensure the include adequate mineral wealth or, at capture of mineral wealth immediately
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RUBBER AT ANY PRICE. we should act on other grounds the dip for a generation the people had been as lomats would never reach the end, and the sured that war would cost the country
Some idea of the price Germany is time at which the war cases would only nothing: the vanquished enemies would
prepared to pay for rubber was indicated be a new period of armament. The Eng-pay the bill. This explains why the who have come this way to their market Prize Court, when the Crown asked for It is afternoon, but all these hundrede in the course of a case in the London Fish and French are dissatisfied with the Government did not venture to impose ad know that there is no husiness to be done the condemnation of sixteen tons of rub hättle of decision" on the Somme. We ditional taxes till the war had been going atil next morning. Where are they to her, seized in three Danish ships, on the must admit it would be a thorn in our on for a year and a half; as long asleep? Well, there are barns, sheds, ground that the consignees in Gothen flesh if during the slow advance of the possible, the admission that the enemy stables, cartsheds, and all manner of burg were agents for supplying Germany. English pence were suddenly to cozitie.** wasn't going to pay the bills immediately shelter down to a disused pigsty (turned The rubber, of the total value of £1,800,
After quoting a recent remark of a
was postponed. The French indemnity, into & bedroom at a considerable profit), had been chopped up small in New York, Danish journals, that, however the war forty-five years ago, was bigger than the which are available for a consideration. packed in twelve or thirteen hundred ends, history will speak of Germany, as costs of the war, and Germans had grown Rushes more or less clean, if you are parcels, and sent by post at a cost of a whole nation of heroes, Major Moraht up in the belief that war was a source of lacky, a coverlet of sume kind (often an 369. The ordinary freight would not
ancient tablecloth), or even a real bed huve exceeded £43. -- "On the other hand, France and Eng- if you can afford it, are to be had at land have suffered enormous losses of a price, and here the men and women,line you will hear a shot and know that capital. This is concealed by the pay-but mostly women, will step off their the Dutch guards have fired upon, some ment of interest. But if Germany should jutter fatigue.
band. Or it may be a shot by the conquer, all the money France and Eng- A few of them must return the same German sentry, and then its import is Innd could raise by taxation and new fuight because they come from so far off, Joans would be demanded to satisfy the and they will chaffer and barter here But presently the night of these indemnity extorted by Germany, and the and there among the local inhabitants voyagera is ovOT. It is still dark when defeated Governments would have to re-who have bought up certain goods es-they alak from their rushes or beds or pudiate their war debts, and their people pecially for such customers.
from the warmth of a pile of wood-shay- would suffer universal bankruptcy. The Along the frontier runs a narrow readings and go out into the night to find the defeated side is in for a long term of and at the side of it a criss-crossed seher of sausage or of bacon or of lard grinding poverty."!
barbed wire about five feet high. At in or even of coffee or sugar or butter. tervals of 200 yards or so are posted Whatever is portable in small compass is German sentries with fired bayoneta. for sale here in the frontier-market of Beyond the wire is a series of little the night. And this pries, for German The Canadian Government declares cottage gardens, and then the cottage conditions, are by no means extravagant. any rate, all those in which the Allies that German agents, with the intention themselves.
These
are the smugglers' You can get a pound of best Dutch fresh have gained ground--has been exaggerat of infecting Canadian cattle with foot cottages.
Now and again a German, butter for 68 6d. and a pound of bacon ed into a last great attempt to break and mouth disease, have offered bouillon auxious to slip away before he can be for as little as 78. or B., and for through. Pictures are drawn of British cultures of this disease to Swiss omi-ent to Verdun or the Somme, bas ar chossolate in long, thin wafers you will and French soldiers marching to death grants.
The Canadian immigration ranged to obtain smuggler's clothes and not pay more than 2a 6d. for a quarter in ten deep columns along miles wide of agents have been warned.
to join the happy hand going back with of a pound. front-of course, mown down in bespa
the silver or paper reward of their Of course whoa the buyer has carried by the German infantry. Here is one
labour. But the price is high because the the produce in his or her Rucksack to example, appearing by order in nearly
magglers are very unwilling to show some Westphalian town or village far all the latest German papers :-
and cheering masses stormed forward to anyone at say price the neat little from the frontier the price rapidly rises to come and you may be asked 10%, per pound for Further particulars of the last few wards what they regarded as certain vic byways which enable them days' fighting show more and more clearly tory. All the more shaken were they by and go undisturbed by the benevolent snuggled bacon.
There is very little bargaining, for that the attacks between October 8th and what followed. Death had a rich harvest. German sentries or the Dutch frontiers. 18th are to be classed among the greatest Notwithstanding days of the heaviest men who have latterly become much less there is a fixed price for every commodity As much as £50 has been and there is never enough to satisfy all operations of the whole Somme battle. bombardment, want of sleep, the impossi- benevolent. Bapaume and the Peronne- those were bility of receiving sufficient supplies, as paid for the right of the Smugglers' Way would-be purchasers Every Bunday some the objectives of these stupendous efforts the communications behind them were into Hollend.
who do not know the ropes" go away of the English. The extraordinary extent threatened, the German infantry had held
with their Rucksacks emply, usually to of the enemies' expenditure of ammuni- out, and still had strength to continue to Now it is right. For rises malarial wait another long day and most of tion showed clearly his intention to make hold out. Great was the determination from the marshes on either side the rond
is arranged. By beg D'elock оп a decisive attack. Apparently in the hope with which the enemy, notwithstanding to the frontier. By rights there should the next night until a further supply of having levelled by this exercise of artil. most bloody losses, stormed forward be a marm in the early part of the night, Sunday morning, when the procession tery an easy road to victory for their anew. In superior fire of the German then the smuggler waits until it has gone starts back along the road to the | San. infantry, the English and French ad infantry, machine guns, artillery, the towards its setting. But to-night there station, every serap of available food has vanced on the whole-line in thick masses-tek columns of the enemy were in some are heavy, banked clouds and all is been sold and the smugglers are back Mon.
It is be-favourable for the passage. six to ten waves une behind the other, places literally mown down.
again in their Dutch cottages sleeping If you lie awake on your rushes it may the sleep of the just and behind them again thick columns led yond all doubt that on October 12th the by officers on horseback. The shouting enemy sought a great decision, namely, bo that somewhere far down the frontier
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