THE SINS OF GERMANY,
ECCLESIASTIC'S POWERFUL
INDICTMENT.
The late Professor H. M. Gwatkin, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge, just before his death in December last, wrote a valuable letter to which, was printed Swedish clergyman, in full in the Cambridge Review. This letter was evidently in answer to naother in which the Swedish clergyman defined his attitude to England and Germany with regard to the war. Here are me of the sentences from Professor Gwatkin's
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THROUGH SWAMPS OF CRATERLAND.
EGYPT AND THE SUEZ CANAL AS CEASELESS AND TERRIBLE WORK
NERVE CENTRES
Dr. Hans Delbrück, Professor of Modern History at the University of Bor- lin, and editor of the Preurezsche Jahr. bucher, has written an interesting and fairly temperate article in this review. The Position of England. The fol lowing are extracts from the article:
England is not
is not only England, but the centre of gravity of a world-empire stretched over all continents. There can be no doubt that this war has given splen- did testimony to the construction of this Empire. The great Dominions Canada Many times I have longed for the voice Australia, New Zealand and South Afric
are almost independent, and are subject of a prophet, not to tell us what the to no compulsion from the Mother Coun end of pride shall be for that was never doubtful but to speak the Thus saith try. Even the Boer Republics have been the lord of a man who sees the things supplied with a full and free constitution a difficult and sanguinary war of time in the light of eternity, and can
This magnanimity has justified itself show us the slow procession of the age marvellously. All the daughter lands and in their courses, gathering round the ever-even the Boer lands are fighting Eng living Person of the Lord who loves no
land of their own free will less the sinners of Germany than the sin
he
ners of ally doquit us, but surs I am, England. not hope that unless truth and mercy are a mockery that he would not lay on us the heavy bur den of the hugest crime in history.
I claim to special virtue for my own country. I say only that we never sought the war, that we could not honourably avoid it, and that, to the best of my judg wet, we have it to be ashamed of our conduct of it. When we assured Ger- many, in 1912, that we were not, and never would be, parties to any hostile design against her, we were officially told that this was not enough that we must pro- mise to be neutral in any case, if
after a
They are, however, laying burdens out theory burdens which will force the quese themselves Which will be heavily felt after tion. Are the interesty of all so identical that the international policy of the Ea pire can be safely entrusted to a majority of the London Parliament and not only the Canadians and Australians have fought for England, but also numerous Indian regiments. For a long time the Indians have been demanding considera- Lion for their special interests, also autonomous government. They demand the right of free emigration to South Africa and Australia. The sadne right is demanded by Japan, and Australia clings all the
EGYPT NERVE-CENTRE.
OF BRITISH GUNS
HITTING THE ENEMY.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY – 28th, 1917.
ALLIES TASK IN MACEDONIA.
ENEMY'S VITAL RAILWAY,
[BY Q. WARD].
What will the New Year have in store for the Baloniks Forcet To one who has been with it from the beginning no Mr. Philip Gibbs wrote from France on fortune would seem more desirable than January 11th
better understanding among the public at home of the aims and importance of this expedition and fuller provision of mesta to accomplish its end. The cont monest chew of the Balkan campaign is that it is an altruistic enterprise intend. ed to redeem our pledges to Servis.” This is felt to be a sentimental under taking to which we are committed in honour
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The successful attack made this morn ing by our troops to the north of Benu mont Hamel, in which they have pushed the enemy off some high ground from whic which he had observation of our trenches, and have added another hundred or prisoners to about 200 previously taken is the continuation of a serice of exall encounters which have happened in this our endeavour here must clearly be to part of the line during the past ten days cut the railway which now connecte They have not been big fights, They Berlin with Bagdad. That line is the are not very important as military events, sophagus of the Central Empires. Along though important in a local way. But Germany brings foodstufts and men they show very clearly the character of from the great reservoir of both that she this winter varfare, and the spirit of the possesses in Asia Minor. Turkey in mon who are up in the firing lines, and Asia is a granary which Germany is the effect of our definite and deadly developing for the first time on scientific Poingly, with high explosives, giving hard nas pointed out of two million
of hammering at the enemy, unines, while it is also the home, as Bero: On the 27th at 1220 No veturna from his no rest, no silence for a nerve cure, of some of the finest oghting men in this distalots, xcept over N.E. Chias, where Japan. Pressme has decreased slightly in all no kind of truce, whatever the weather world, who are being trained by German Ithu (merassed alightly. may be
officers and drill instructors, eventually to be used against us in the West, ny they are already being used against us here and in head Calacia.
The ground in the country between Berre and Beaumont Hamel is as bad as anywhere along the battlefield. Behind the German lizen there is a series of lakes through which their reliefs have to come up and their transport. The front lines on both sides are not trenches in more than name. They are strong points thrust out into the swamps in advance of ditches which were once good trenches and may
be again if over the rain and the snow and the aleet stop falling and silting down the parapets and the sandbags,
ENBEY'S QUÄOMIRE.
QUIRE
broke out. The only case our assurance Japan to England from fear of d. Pot cover was that of a wanton attack - Bayer OUR REV2-CY on France or Russis. As to our want of Professor Delbrück proceeds to point preparation we simply refused to believe out that in his opinion the rule and pre that a professedly civilised and friendly stige of England in distint continente is nation could be guilty of this infamy. At owing to victories gained by former gen- In this quagmire ten days ago the all events, the more severely you blame erations. It is his opinion that our enemy made the first move which led to us for the more you are bound to failures in Mesopotamia and the Dard- all his recent trouble, and worked up a grant that we had no aggressive designs anelles have greatly shaken this prestige big fire of "hate," as our soldiers call in Asia, and Africa. The nerve centre of such business, out of a spark or two. The DAMNED BY DATES.
our World-Empire is Egypt and the Suez first move was made on the night of the Take a few Canal, and the writer looks Brward with second day of the year, when the enemy hope to the time when Turkey will emerge jumped post one of our advanced
and
regain its cat One of our officers went up to inquire there dead, but no other men. It was decided to take two of the German posts and link them together as a protective barrier, but four days passed before the attempt,
Now look at Germany. facts out of many:-
Only by cutting that long railway line can this process be stopped, and this, indeed is the only justification for maintaining our expensive, but hitherto inadequate, force in Macedonia. The present New Year finds us in the same
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position here at last, except that we are in closer touch with our enemies, both in front and rear of us, than then. It Can only be hoped that the reinforcementa that will arrive in 1917 will make it impossible by next New Year to have Burghong to Gap Beek got astride that vital trans-Balkan railway,
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May, 1914.Reservists called-up from from the war a State strengthened and full strong points in front of Serre Balkons in such a way that the German, South Coast of China between / The same m of future possibilis will be all the into this affair, and found a sentry lying over thwarted. The war began in the
the Far East.
Early June-Arms for cruisers sont out to Buenos Ayres.
June 15th-Contracts in America for coaling cruisers at sea at specified places Bad dates in August and September
June, late-Reservists called up from Natal (On my personal knowledgo)..
Last instalment due of the great War Long,
July-Bills on London far in excess of trade requirements drawn by Germans, such hills falling due after August let
July 31 The Kronprinzessin Cecil in Mid-Atlantic receives message in special cipher. * War has broken out with Eng land, France, and Russia. Return to New York. Now (a) the cipher was delivered sealed to the captain two years before; (b) war had not broken out. The Englisht ultimatum was not sent till Augnst ith Germany was still negotiating.UN
Is all this innocent precaution! Do not all the items converge on the certainty of war early in August a month earlier nothing would have been ready a month later the reservists would have been idle, and the bills would have had to be paid. Now how could they have known that date before May if they were not themselves planning the attack!
It seemne as well established as facts can be, and that not simply by French' or Belgian evidence, or that of neutrals, but by the avowals or admissions of Germans, that they have plundered the country, barned towns, committed wanton mas-
ancres, dishonoured women, slaughtered women, slaughtered: "hostages," and re duced the population to practical slavery enforced by deportations and barbarous punishments, and that these outrages are not due to the passions of nudisciplined soldiers, or even to the connivance of brutal officers, but to the direct commands and systematic policy of the highest nu- thorities. IEANE
power on the
easier should Turkey build railway which would connect distant provinces and permit the entire military power of the empire to be swiftly concentrated in Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula.
Should the Suez Canal be lost the bonds which unite the different parts of the World Empire will be slackened. And what probability, anyhow, is there that the central Government in London will not totter? There are the Irish question, military service, electoral problems, ques tions of finance and economies which will split up the old parties and prevent the ship of State from steering a steady course)
A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH
Alan Seeger, the gifted young writer of the following poem, was an American whose love of France prompted him, carly in the war, to take up arms on her behalf. He was killed in battle at Belloy-en- Santerre in July, and these beautiful and strangely prophetic lines, which were published in the North American Review, are, perhaps, the last he ever wrote:
have
th rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes round with rustling Manshinde
And apple blossoms all the nar
Then after dark, on January 5th, two small parties set out on the adventure to the left post and the right. It was no officer, a sergeant, and about 10 men who advanced to the post on the lefs. They advanced on their stomachs, crawling through the mud, lying low, when flares made the ground white about them.
They were careful to make no roise. One man's husky cough might mean the death of all of them. They were very near to the Clerman sentry, almost near enough to leap, upon hing, when he saw them, shouted out a word of right, and fired. He fired three times, then dropped his rifle, and ran down into a dug out
HANDS UP IN DUG-OUT. -
It was a dugout with three entrances Our little party of men had seen such places before and knew how to deal with them as men with ferrets stop up rabbit holes, leaving one way of escape
Cut of this way, finding the other doors and trembling, and quick to surrender. closed, came a few German soldiers, white
Others stayed down and would not come up.
The officer he was a Boot went
I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and down to find them
fair
It may be he shall take my hand And lead me into this dark lażd
And close my eyes and quench my breath. It may be I shall pase him, still
I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When Spring comes round again, this
year
.
And the first meadows Bowers appear. God knows were better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to
breath
Where hushed awakenings are dear, But, I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring Trips north, again
year,
And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.
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There is another and much greater end, however, before the Albed armies in the Balkans than the ins immediate one of serving Germany From her Eastern allies. It is to refashion the
schemes which "centre here shall be for Balkans because the German peoples have for years been pushing down to CHINA COAST METROPOLOGICAL wards Saloniks Rs & stepping stous to new dominions in India and the East. If they had reached Saloniks they would have built there a Mediterranean Kiel, and Egypt would have been threatened with a lectus strong as this in the North Sea ---Daily Telegraph
MR WALTER LONG ON ECONOMICS,
Station.
Isfully believe that we shall not be Vladivost content to renew our old as-faire Nergure policy towards trade and industry after Hakudlába the war. Already we are proving that Tokio we can manufacture articles for the
Koobi supply of which we were previously, de Nagasaki pendent on foreign countries. We are Kagoshim already looking forward to broadening Ushima All our standards of life are changing. Ishi'ima she is of our industries and commerce. Naha The nation is going back to the simple Boni Is life; to the less luxurious methods of Chetoo
our ancestoJE,
FEWER THAN THEIR PRISONERS. Early yesterday morning small detach- ments of English soldiers followed the barrage as far as the German dug outs, and gave the enemy hiding there the choice between death or capture. đạp
None of them wanted death. They were wet, cold, miserable men, serve broken by the long crush of shells above them. They wanted akape from this hell their mud-
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It was dark down there, but he could see a group of men there in the furthest gloom, and could hear their hard breath ing They made a rush for him, but hề was quick to kill first. He shot two of them, and then held his revolver up be cause the others had fallen back and held their hands up asking for mercyst holes.
So more prisoners were put in charges officers, Dine N.CO.'s, and 109 of an ework, which was not strong, be- cause a number of his men had gone off men surrendered out of one pest of dug Mono
outs on a front of 200 yards. I think to block a trench on the left and clear back prisoners, and at inst there were 44ing force, which was only a raiding party. out a dug-out there. They, too, brought there were more of them than the attack- Germans is charge of our 23, two of whom were wounded
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On the right the other strong point had toro been taken, and wine prisoners brought outdated men, who had got expected en of English county regiments, of some Dagup this attack and were trapped suddenly, local importance, having the object of Manila
that high ground high enough Lega seizing Presently the enemy discovered what for observation on the plateau, had happened, and got one gun to fire. The morning was thick with mist
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No doubt there has been some exaggera tion, as there always is when devilish deeds are done, but a very large discount will still leave the Germans below the level of savages, for unvages are not in the same way sinners against light. Now Ict all this go for nothing. "Les no more anention be made of outrages, from the deliberately repeated massacres of Lou vain to the hellish jeering of the German crowd at the bodies of English officera done to death in their starvation camp at Wittenberg. Let silence cover abomina
on the left pug, which was now in our Later, after the glimmer of dawn, snow Surigao nations that try to heaven like the cry on
hands. The shells fell rapidly, so that fell, whitening the ground, smudging the Labuan of Sodom. Let the Kaiser's hands, be Coming, however, to caces where we the men left to hold the post retired for trunks of broken trees, falling lightly pure as snow, his preachings of hate and have had to follow the enemy's examplo, some way until the shelling ceased. Then apon the litter and foulness of
battle frightfulness forgotten.. Let his lying we never defended our towns by nirchoft they went forward again in time to mest field, so that each strand of broken wire ministers pass for men of honour, his till they had been attacked while unde a body of German bombers, who came was touched by this whiteness. Under- heit, on the level of the men in inches, weathe ferocious officers for refined and courte fended, and our own raids have aimed grenades. Our advanced post a handful meu went ankle deep, and old gaping
down in some strength, flinging their math there was the quagmire, cus gentlenen, his brutal soldiers for at military positions only. Gas we never chivalrous enemies, his reptile press, hir used till the enemy had used it against us, of men again withdrew, until supports shellholes were water-logged. spies, his incendistics, for generous and and we have not maliciously chosen a gas and sent out patrols to wire between the fight. Our men were over hip dug outs
reached them and drove the enemy back The enemy was not quick enough high-minded patriots. What thes which permanently ruins health.
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Do not some broad facts come out above they decently complain paris, and tried The enemy hated to have our men there. Be the same choice as on the day Daneri ar Winn, to two polata, voi ADS LAYO aystematically used foating war and we did not limit importe of lines was resolved to get back his those who had gone before 6. STATE OF WEATHER, b blue sky, a detached
mides, poisonous gases, aircraft on unde fended towns, torpedoed even neutral mer chant ships at sight, and forced Belgian
to work for them in municion factories—all which things they promised by The Hague Convention not to do. Are these method of civilised warfare?
TEX DIFFERENCE,
blockade of a country differs only in scalo from the blockade of a town, which is confessedly lawful.
the chatter of lies that bewilder you in
plan Sweden? It is not disputed that the Ger to use it on us at the beginning of the Some hatision commander in the German
and the new men surrendered as food by neutrals till they had threatened tions and launched two counterattacks. again (February, 1913) to starve us out It was a sentence of death to many of his them. Some of their officers tried to terally them, fought rather than surrender, submarines. But after all, the young Bavarians,
In the first attack twenty out of fifty fore daw-to-day
and were killed in the we darkness bo- were killed by our fire, and the rest. All told, the prisonera, in this two The most horrible feature of this war is The second attack broke up at once, and
crawled back leaving a trail of blood days fighting anmber 300 not the destruction of property, or even
DING BIRD WITHOUT RESPITE of life, but the utter impossibility of could not get near, Bat, say you, there is nothing to choose trusting a nation which will not be On the morning of the Tth the enemy between Gorman and English methods. 1 bound by treaties.
be turned his guns or to the position, bom The future is am not so sure of that. I think you will hate us like hell, and will only despised, but could not get back the posta
These men barded heavily, and again counter-attan find that most of our alleged offences which give so much nanoyance to neutrals us in addition if we fail to crush their There were more of his dead lying out in tions of old airs to the deve sa read apps their children in all their schools to hate to the &ghting became more grits, behind this infantes, lying clons had
for evil, and they are teaching the swamp, where the bodies settle deep
in the mud and the water pools, H us, too. They the wrong they have done us, and the widened to greator length of front, hidden in the web earth until they rise and echoes of the Hymn of Hate will not worked up to a real strafe. Our guns 36 be soon forgotten. Yet we never hated were bombarding along a line of some into the mud again so that nothing is seen forward to attack, and the geo down the German plast of sinking it at sight
1 parcels, and if they send rubber
before the there
war; and even now there thing like two miles, ploughing up them, are the massed guns, which day may well be some delay over your inno is for more among us of anger than of trenchen already laid low, and flinging after day and Althrough the nighte, can- ent Christmas presente from America. settled hatred gen
England makes no war upon the doadough explaires upon the rising ground tinue their work of destruction upon the Texatious as these things are, you cannot
whence on quiet days German eye
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Entrly compare them with what the Ger. mans have done.
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very dark
There will be friendship as well peace with Germany whenover Germany is dead to the crimes of the past — but not Bil then.
These are the facts of the fightin Behind the facts is the spirit of
a foul weather and in foul soldiers, who in spite of great hare
there is the swamps of crater-land weakthed, nor lost the grim, spirit which has come to them se
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