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PEOPLE AND STATE IN SPAIN | ASSAULT FROM THE CLOUDS
CAUSES OF RECENT DISORDERS.
Air fighting in the Ypres battle area THE LESSON FOR THE ALLIES,
during the past four days has been of the usual thrifling and varied character, writes Mr. Percival Phillips under date [By The Times Barcelona Correof August 10th Airmen are becoming spondent, a distinguished Spaniard of more and more closely identified with recognized authority, though not scouting, ahead of them and engaging operations of infantry during an advance, politician.].
bostile redoubts, as did their leas mobile It would be wrong to estimate the in-predecessors, the horsed troops of other portane of the recent disturbances in day. Spain by the material damage done or by the number of the dead and wounded, which, fortunately, is not very great. We must look deeper, md realize that the life of a nation cannot be suspended for a whole week except for some very power-Thursday ful motive.
When we attacked Langemarck aero- plano machinegunners were constantly diving at the German infantry and raking their trenches.
One
ALSACE-LORRAINE. WHY SHE' REJECTS A PLEBISCITE.,
Ye RONDOLPI, PRESIDENT, LIGUE PATIO-
The
violence.
than ever.
(4)-In 1911, a new constitution (made in Prussia) was bestowed. It was repro- sented by Germany nis conferring autonomy on the two provinces, but its hollowness was immediately perceived TIQUE DES ALSACIENS-KORRAINS,] ··· and as the discontent increased instrud of diminishing, the Kaiser threatened that, Many a time of late the question has if the natives did not show a keener ap of ascertaining the will of a people, can-culture he would smash their constitu- been put: A plébiscite being a sure way preciation of the blessings of Prussian not the future destiny of Alsace-Lorraine Lions to atoms." be settled by such an appeal to the in (6.)-In 1913, tho Saverne affairs reveal- habitants 1
ed the dire failure of the German plan, Newer is not a simple "YFR it in a nutshell when he said, "The two
or
though M. Ribot put which was to have turned Alace-Lorraino provinces have never ceased to be French; a German province. A new governor, a Prussian of the worst type, was appoint- They belong to France, and not to thosed to break the stubborn spirit of Alsace. who took them by
When a plébiscite for Alsace-Lorraine is Bat in a very short time, early in 1914, discussed, it is generally forgotten that had a confess that French influence The sirike began on August 18th and
Germany has never failed to tell the world and French sympathics were stronger lasted the whole of the following week in
for her there has been no Alsace-Lorraine, through
her statesmen and her Press that
These are conclusive proofs of the deter most of the great industrial towns of Spain Barcelona saw her economic life
question since 1871, when by the Treaty nation of Alsace-Lorraine to remain of Frankfort the two provinces were coded French. But these proofs were given in paralysed and her streets and open places
to her: France signed the treaty, and
penes time. Did the present war produce converted into fortified camps for the
A daring battle-plano sailed up and therefore the question cannot be reopened a revulsion of feeling? Did the Gevaran purpose of repelling by rifle and artillery down the main street of Zonnebeke and This apparently logical German argument enthusiasm of 1914, whetted by prospective fire the attacks of small groups of revolu above Polygon Wood, scattered an infan does not reveal that, unless France wished victories; spread to the people ek the an- tionaries, who fired from the windows of try column among the cellars, dispersed to be strangled by the for who orempied nexed territory, who were told that the houses at the tramways, the troops, and working parties on the railway, and filled the best part of her soil, she was forced deum of France was at hand at last, and the polle. The working classes, as a rule, the fields behind the village with fugitive to append her signature, to a net which that no further hope of a escape from took no active part in the conflict, csudden, deadly assault from the elowis.
soldiers, who were demoralized by this was violation of
of all principles of
man power need ht entertained? A
A wenk fining themselves to leaving work as soon
morality and humanity. Bat the black- knerd race might have been intimidated as their Syndicates gave the word. The
mail is shown in its must hideous form by by the hosting of a Power whose
rapid Barcelona workmen, warned by memories
the German claim to Alsace-Lorraine, progress in every field of #ctivity of 1909, were Wood, harassing the enemy as the London the German Confederation consisted- of could leave the country crossed into
The airmen kipt circling above Polygon At the time of the of the Bloody Wiek
followed from day to day. War Franco-German
Lorraine was not intimidated. Everyotic content to wait upon events. It is to be
states, all of which saw in the France, at great personal risk to himself. ers struggled through mind and wovinces a happy hunting-ground for noted, however, that they looked with towards the race course, and they repres pleasure upon the attempt at revolution,ed the approaches to the wood and the dregs of their hoping that, if successful, it would lead group of concrete redoubts defending its Badly, and Bavarigation
to a change in the relations of the people
to the Suite.
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They began with a barrage at dawn on
morning.
Aeroplano attacked the Steenbeck riverside fort. known as Au Boni Gite, in the semi-dack ness, going through our barrage several times. Others came down within a hun. dred feet of Langenarek and fired it the German reinfoæements.
HELPERS IN THE SKY.
DRIVEN, TO-COVER.
Empire).
Prussia,
stats
and knowing that his purest relatives would be exposed to Gerinan savagery The Germans themselves had no doube as to the feeling of the natives in the case of a war with France.
Scener is
the
the
laimed them in tum, Hanks. They were quick to detect parties | livenaso deir frontuers were nearest to the of Germans in shell-holes and along conquered territory, but jealousy betwan The divorce between the people and the edges.
the north and south of Germany was then Slate is general throughout Spain, and
as strong as it is to-day. The thre Their reports repeatedly deserile the earld my agree, and the other states main of the leading citizens of the country were Even before war was deeland hundreds ts especially pronouned in Catalonia. Jesses inflicted on froops caught in the Realization of this fact is essential to how men were left lying on the shed its blood in the struggle: Alsace ternment camps of Germany. Men and
tand that the whole of Germany, had wized and sent into prison and the i proper understanding of Spanish public lenin Read: others on the Routers Road, Laine must belong, not to care, but to women from 10 to 80 years of age have
pinion The central regions of Spain, how lorries were ditched by their frighten where ble is luigid aari anamic and ed drivers, and columns of transport all; because it was the symbol of Germin bern interred in Prussia for nearly th often rembles death, lock the strength sheering off aimlessly into the meadows or broken into naby fragments, the wagons.
unity, and this unity was the result of years. and it is unknown how many are the combined forces of the Fatherland, to day alive or lingering in
in captivity to protest against the admination racing madly to the shelter of farm solidated, and the lost provins were this
In no other wing could the unity be co Even now men and wounen, especially of the State, and therfore accept it as buildings.
women, are still being imprisoned because. |a necessary évil. Madrid, the seat of all
assigned to the entire German Empire as in spite of all threats, they refuse to re the orguists of the State and living among the German aerodromes. Chie of one of Reichsland (Aorstory of the they make
Airmen had many exciting adventures a sos of indivisible property under thefrain from spiking French or cause chielly upon them, pays no heed to the them started at a quarter to five in the
Temarks on the official grievances of the provinces, and is con-morning-at the beginning of the attack
Viaries. T ming the publie con- stantly in favour of eaving things as
The pact concluded yielded a harved
which they are on Langemarck and picked uji " a well which exceeded the dust sanguine expecta charged. In the Strasbourg, Colmur, and they are Madrid wishes the nation to known aircraft base, which he attackeditions of the Prussians and their Alfies, for Mulhouse Prisons, which the people hav remain in a state of passivity, fearing with his machine-guns. that any change may scan a dimination
all the best Government posts were given significantly christened Hotel do He then turned his attention to three to the immigrants; the industry.
the boards House Full are of power, influence, and material prospe Albatross machines on the ground, and in Lorraine, fell more and more under never taken down, and sentences can only rity for the capital. On the other hand, put 500 rounds of ammunition inte turm German control, and as German pra-be absolved many weeks or months after the regions that border on the sea ardent which, in the opinion of the observer, did sperity increased
French car
capitalisis wee
they have been ly desin the renovation of Spanish life, then no good."
pronounced. No people were visible, driven out; even Alsatian muagers of the The above reasons for the rejection of and of all these regions Barcelona is the so after sinking more ammunition into factories who displayed Frøneophile Lean- n plebiscite in any shape or form belong spiritual head. For his reason every the living quarters near the sheds be snildings had to resign, and were replaced by to the realm of history, but there is an Spanish question must be looked at from along the main road in the direction of a
Germans The most profitable investment other side to the question: that of con the Barcelona standpoint as well as from large Belgian town:
of Bisinarek's policy will never be given mon
Justice
The tearing of Alsares that of Madrid, and it will always be
up unless Germags is reduced to in Lorraine from Frauen in 1971 was every- found that the two points of view are
potente, bat even then she will squeal, and where regarded as a crime: Gladstone wast diametrically opposed,
Passing a transport wagon he fired at it.
by talking of common ethnological in- not afraid of saying so; that view has been. Thus, the present rike, the distur-Both horses weit down, ul the driver rain is German solf. Her professors have his fellow Socialists, who went so far as
terests, will try to prove that Alsace-Larstrengthened as the years went on, banees that accompanied it, and the con- was seen to hide under the hood. He
to call it a lunder. It has driven from sequent repression mean to the Madrid Ped a railway crossing and shot at the otorgotten the saving of Frederic 11.; German sentry, who dropped to the
first take what I want. Enough the native soil nearly half A million Anarchy; while to the Catalan mind they
ground,
learned pedants can be found to justify the inhabitants (ermans. These imori- who were to great ex by title to the conquest.
cent replaced by signify that the Spanish State consists
Continuing along the rod, he fired at The doctrine that a people should grants are strangers merely of a number of oficial personages some horse transport itntil his ammunition allowed to be the auster of its own destiny cannot lay claims to to the only they was exhausted. No drivers could be seen, is not, so new as politicians (and Social a habit of discipline and for no direction. The whole attack was made at From a general point of view, a plebiscite defined by Article 2 of the Treaty E fres Alsatians and Lorrainers were country with Catalonia at their head are just an hour.
be & proper test for races whose Frankfort) ur descendants of such sub- unanimously agreed that a system of government characterized by maindinis. German aerodrome, saw seven machines lished by a large majority of the inhabi- 1570-71 and its lines! successors. Yet, han Another adventurer of the air flow to another people has never been firmly esta eras only the indigenous population of claim to either home role or union with give an opinion on a ruatter which con- tration and depending for its existence and dropped bombs on them. upon the support of artillery and in- fantry can no longer be tolerated.
wore no signs of life, so he left." He tants, but such a plébiscite or referenduming acquired the Alsace-Lorraine Have these somewhat delicate problems siding and fired at it. Two iners jumped and opposed to the well-known will of the German one, they would
crossed a railway line. saw a train on a is entirely inconsistent with the traditions ionality which exists concurrently with of Spanish politics any interest for Eng-out of the engine. One fell flai land Undoubtedly they have. Remember other bolted.
while CHA in election after election, rejected every the other hand the emigrants and therr that Barcelona is the most European city in Spain, the most progressive city in
of the Government), and voted only for the fate of the land of their origin. This Bro-German candidate (who was in favour descendants would not be consulted as to every sense, the city in which industrial
all, the former protests against the Ger- surmountable obstacle to a plebiscite, for those who bound themselves, to maintain would be the initial injustice and an un life is minst developed. It is also the city whose sympathy is strongest for the coun-
it is hardly thinkable that on this point tries that are 5ghting Germany. But, in
an agreement could be reached spite of this, if England and France
made for the crime which, like most Justice demands that amends should be remain indifferent to Spanish policy and Spanish business; if they avert their gaze politically and commercially from Catalonia, they will find that after the war fermany will profit by their mistake, developing close relations with the coun
1,784 HOURS. try. not only for the sake of the direct
During Thursday's attack the fliers in of France was politically more advanced it require that the thousands of Alsatians advantages which she may obtain thereby, the pres-Langemarck region fired nearly was therefore fully qualified to deal with and Lorrainers who flew to the aid of but also because Spal is the natural ground. They few a total of 1,784 hours cession of the two provinces was demand died in the struggle) shall not suffer for 10,000 rounds at enemy troops on the the German claims in 1871, when the France in 1914 (many of whom have since avenue of approach to Latin America. in the twenty-four hours ended. at six ed from France. If the events that hap their patriotism. For these reasons I feel that readers of o'clock that night, and seventy-three pened between 1871 and the present time a
know to which side- During Wednesday night and on Thurs become manifest that the considered res
and conscience called them. day sixteen tons of bombs were dropped sons which were put forward for the sibility of a plebiscite as long as there is Finally there is the absolute imposs on aerodromes, railway stations and jection of German rule in 1871 are equally one sidings, and enemy depôts..
German valid to day.
official in Alsace- Boldier Lorraine. A plébiscite under the benevo historie traditions of which Alsace lent (1) supervision of a Prussian police. Loraine has a clear record, and which are man would be nothing but a tragedy. The its unfading glory, are confected only inhabitants, who are already now being. down from mother to child, and shine with terrorized to a worse degree than any of added lustre when contrasted with the the other victims of the Germans, would. German colonisation
"of the past
forty he secretly warned that by soting for
and of the armed forces which obey them and the transport stampeded in everyists) of to-day would have us believe. Los hailing from the reded tyri-
Irant
other mason. The living forees of the į a height of less than 100 feet and occupied ity is not clearly defined or whose jects, and therfore cannot be allowed to
There
na-
The population of Alsace-Lorenzne, which, on taking part in a plébi try to insist
He then visited another aerodrome, set tents. The last not of the morning was to a hangar on fire, and destroyed its con engage a railway engine.
the
man annexation.
Another airman flew to a German nero. drome in the dark, bombed the hangars that goes back to the fourteenth century. Alance has a record of self-government and a railway siding, which was full of when her ten chief towns, cach one a little troops, attacked two Albatross roachines autonomous republic, combined under the crimes, proceeded from brate strength. in turn and destroyed both, silenced a nachine-gun, and wounded or killed many against hostile attacks.
name Decapole" for mutul protection But would it be justice to compel tho Germans.
This spirit of victim which never left off struggling in first
characteristics of the Alsatian race, and in the nineteenth century no provinco
indendence has always been one of the self-defence to affirm the sincerity of its
though they lasted for nearly Justice and humour Alike
years? ifty
The Times have a direct interest in hostile batteries were sucessfully engaged, are stated in chronnlogical order, it will discite. furth did not wait for
studying Spanish public opinion from the point of view of Barcelona, whence things assume a very different colour from that which they wear when een from Madrid.
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five
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to France they would compass their own
tho era previous,to the war of 1870-71; it destruction, and if Germany were in will suffice to resanse briefly the history ession of the country who would prevent of the German annexation down to the her from carrying out her threats 7 Out- present day in order to show the gulf beside the Central Poivers all nations are tween Pan-Germans and Pan-French (the agreed that Belgiura and the northern pro- latter name was given to the Alsatians by vinces of France must be evacuated before Bethmann-Hollweg in 1010).
peace can be made. Just as these (1)-In
regions at Bordeaux, the deputies were occupied by force, so were Alsace and 1817, of Alace Lorraine asserted for themselves, Lorraine occupied and held by force, and and their descendants the right of remain for these two provinces the proclamation ing members of the French nation, and issued by the National Assembly in 1792: proclaimed nufi and void any treaties, of No proposals can be entertained anti! plébiscite which might sunction the cession French soil is entirely free from Prussian of the whole or any part of the two pro troops, is as valid to-day as it was then vinces
No plébiscite is admissible in any of (9)-In 1874, at Berlin, the representa the occupied districts: it does not matter tives of Alsace-Lorraine recognised only whether the occupation took place three- Frame as their mother country, declaring or forty-six years ago. With special re that the annexation had been made with gard to Alsace-Lorraine, the mere pro out the consent of the population, and posal of a plébiscite implies un acknow had no legal force. They asked that the ledgment of a German right, which has people of the two provinces should be never been admitted by the
inhabitants to give their opinion on the forced To talk of a plebiscite mean: setting at allowed to incorporation with Germany, but this de papuha the pasionate protests of the
was refused.
population, which, in view of the utter (3.)--In 1887, after sixteen years, of the reompatibility between its own and the new rigine, the progess of the conquerors
mentality, is fully determined to having been absolutely negative, a reign resume in the French family the place it of terror began, which has not its equal in had to abandon temporarily and against the annals of the nineteenth century. Every society, artistic, sport leanings unanimously agreed that the Rhine was In 1913 the Fowers opposing Napelcon scientific, suspected of
even! was dissolved, prosecutions for high trea- one of France's natural frontiers. son and similar offences were a numerous day the Allies are equally agreed their as the pebbles on the shore; and com- statesmen have said so on many occasions munication with France was rendered that, at least as far as the lost provinces practically impossible. This era, the so are concerned, that natural frontier which called" Stillness of the dead," when every existed before 1871 must again be sot up." voice was silenced, and every movement The deliverance can only be effected by watched by the secret polico, lasted for an unconditional reunion with France. fifteen long years
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