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-HALONIKA AND TORRES
VEDRAS
STRIKING PARALLEL rocked with. If the Serbiane and tha Allies affect thal junction it will mean a proportionata inerösse af danger for tho prade, But avan if they do not offret |tholz judotion, so long as the Serþínum remain a robarent mass, they will cantīnu. | ta manxes the lavatter's dank and paralys
his meramenta against the allien Thor, | an tegazda rasources, the Aitios a: Salonika see more invoured than were the British at Turros Vades.
We take the following very interesting parallel from the Paris edition of the New York Herald of Docamber 5th me?
Polybe happily inspired when, En one of his scuta somi historical, nami philosophical studies of the war, he draw a parallel between the situation of the British Torres Vedras, near Lisbon, in 1810 and the situation of the Allies at Saloniks Lo-day
It was happily inspired, because the Torras Vedras operations were a decisive saccase for the British As the Allis at Salonika are in a situation almost identical, a study of the Torres Vedras campaig creates a strong feeling of confidence regard the final rosult of the Salonika expetition. And confidence is sorely needed at prament, to judge from the dependent tone of some comments in the French press
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SHAKIRA KIT TURF THE TWO PENINSULAP. Wellington magaitent position at Torres Vedras, was not stronger than is the position of the Allies at Salonika and the peain ula of Chalcidicu. Topographically, the two pentaulas are abka mass of casuaisin easy to doland. The defunsira works with which Wallington made Torso Vedras impregnable will render, probably have already rendered, Uhalcicico im- pregoable. For his supplies. Wellington had to rely on slow muling ressala dependent
variable winds. The Allies at Saloniks Feceive their supplies by rapid steamships. with mathematical, machine-like Wellington. at his best, had under his
regularity The parallel between Torres Vedras Demand at Terres Vedras only 40,0 and Salonika is curiously scalplate. The British and some 30,00 Portuguese and. Spanish. The Franco British ferves at Therio peninsula, Spain And Portugal, wa orun by the French in 1910, just a to-Salonika already number close upon 250,000- day the Balkan peningala is overran by them. The Serbians still in the fold mum-
ber more than 100,000. Austro-GormaDE, When the invada:e, The notlook, in fact, is as encouraging. sweeping everything belge show, arrived for the Allies as the outlook seemed gloomy in front of the lines 'ch Tairos odis for Wellington. Tet Cadiz was about the only cost will hold had no thoughs of withdrawing from the Fet Wallington not only by the Spaniard, and the French, to be Penigaul, but even foo.ht against such an absolute masters of Portugal, had only to break through the lines and drive idea. The British Upposition in 1810 wan not mora stubborn than in the opposition of Wellington's contemptible little army'
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an icipated with fear that the army would POLITICAL SIMILABITÝ
ba enmpelled to ra-embark, and there wa A general desire that it re embark spon Adresar's Portugal, the situation of the British grontly resembled the existing tabou-ly instead of waiting until forced to
do so." xituation of the Allies as regards Greece.
Hus Wellington had not only a cienter view of the situation, but also a The Partaguess were friendly. So are tho Greeks. But the Portuguesa Court party further reaching riow of the future."! tood in fear and crembing before the we leave the Peninsula," he wrote, the invincible French jest as the Greskotemal submission of Spain, perhaps of Conft party to-day stock in four and which is refused for the ccatiuuance of the Europe, will follow. The expenditure rambling before the "invincible Ger
war amand Lisbon will have to be incurred. The Iron Duke could couns upen_sa_much practical help from the or the carrying out of a war beizeen Portuguese Regency and on as much er and Loudor." stability of policy in the Portuguese aristo crney as General Sarrail is likely to receive to-day from the Constantine So ulmudis. Khallys Dragoumis Theot kis junta and the Greek Court party.
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How vacillating was the conduct of the Portuguese Government, and how hepales did the British aitustion appear not only to possimists in England, but oven to 36285 of Wallington's officers in Portugal, may be read in the diplomatic correspondence of the period and in the Iron Duke's despatches. All the messures taken by Wellington-the requisition of supplies, the destruction of material that could only benefit the enemy, the removal of civilians wars protested against and furtively op posed by the Regency. Is not the freeduta of action which the Allica demand in Saloniks receiving just as little, encourage ment, to put it mudly, from the Greek Government? It is amusing to note that complications with neut als wero Ing for the
United Storested:
against Wellington's embargo on shipping in the port of Lisbon. The protest was received as President Wilson's protest against the blockade measures of the allies has been received: with polite infexibility,
PERNIKIAM IN 1810,
So be remained in Portugal. The result, is too well known to need recapitulation is duil Madga found it imposible to buk sugh the Terres udmartinus. His retreat followed, with Wellington hanging doggedly on his heels. The
war party
in the British Parliament encouraged by the success of Wellington, gained the upper hand; the entire forous of the nation sure. haried
against Napoleon, and be was doomed to cert in defest
There
Napoleon's fortune Was shattered before the lines of Turres Vedrus." is every reason at to hope, but ärmly to believe that the Kaiser's fate will be scaled in the Balkans, before the lines of Solomke.
BOY BABIES.
DISPENSATION OF PROVIDENCE"
AND THE WAR
i.
A surprising prepnadętance of walė over female babies born in England and Wales turing the war pariod is shown in the Registrar-Generalë returns, just published. No fewer than 1032 males were born to 1000 females during the first quarter of the years in the socised quarter there were 1043
La for some of Wellington's officers in the field, they were almost an despondent ane L'Homme En hafné to-day. Spencer and Stewart wrote to Lard Liverpool in such despairing terms that he sent their boys born to 1000 girls, while in the third letters to Wellington with what was virt-quarter, ending on September 30, the boy ally su appeal to the Iron Deke not 65 be births to 1055 to 1000 girls, thus. rash. The Duke in reply, showed Liverpool establishing the high st ratio of male to that the rashness would be to withdraw female births or record. from the Pesinula. The struggle would have to be taken up at some other poin Ta not this the situation to day. If the Allies were to scuttle cut of Saleniks, would that end the matter? Not at all The conflict would
**Tais phenomenon," "eaid "Dr. W, B. totally inexplicablü Culquhoun,
en any of our current theorice. For the last fifty years or thereabouts, the per have cantage of gel, births over boys has sway
is the
to bi taken up at some other point been far greater. Now the opposite is
Cast on every band. The matter is pro in Asin Miror, or Syria, or t The withdrawal from Salonika, which is foundly, mysterious, and would room to impregnable if the Allies choose to hold it, suggest that this in a direct dispensation of would merely complete the enemy's halod's providence to preserve the equili
brium of Naturo, socing that so many men. on the Balkan Peninsula and give him a magnificant base for submarine roing out to the fro t are being killad.
otion in the Mediter soon. Despite the querulous opposition of the Greek Court party, no active opposition is to be lested from that quarter. The Greek Court *. alizes fully, as the Portuguesa Regency realized, that without the Allies it is lost. Its peevish complainta ars like the pecvich. complaints of the Regency-the outcome, not of snimity, but of lagratitude. They are regrettable, but naimportant.
Another point of similarity: Wellington was not efficiently supported by his Govers ment The halp he demanded was doled out to him parsimoniously, in petit paqueta, The English, says Thiers, trembled at the ides that their soldiers would be driven into the sea
The
st cf. whimpering prese the dag alarmed the people; the people pastered the Cabinet and the "Cabinet, acted ac
** I am told of an average, since last May, of three boys born to one girl. Three busbands were killed in the trenches, their wives gave birth to saby boys. A still more remarkable case was that of. Eve brothers, threa of whom were doctors, and They were all killed, and the fire wives all of whom were married and had enlisted. have each given birth to a baby boy recently."Evening Standard.
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A communication received in Singapore, carding to the virging mood of the mosties that Germany has bought four to five thousand tour of rubber in Brazil, and about five hundred tons in New York for delivery siter the war. These purchases have been paid for in gold, and it is supposed that the abject is to assure supply at Lime when Grany may still Bod it difficult to purchase through British houses, sa in the pre-war days.
It is not easy to determine what effort. the transactinus have had on current prices, but the latest masangus from London are to the cffect that anmach na 4/6-is being paid
FAX from souding Wellington ment resources proportionate to the danger in which he anod, the Cabinet supplied them sparingly for fear foncouraging him to keep up the struggle in the Peninsula. Is not the picture picture of to day? The military experts of 18 10 were convinced that Napolarn, having reduced Spun and Pertug, would conbentrate hii forces and crush the British. Is not that precisely what the military critica of to day are predicting? The Kaiser, thuy any ving reduced Serbis, for assured delivery of highest grade about to concentrate his forses against the Allies and drive them back to Safonika and into the sea," k **The critics have merely overlooked the fact that while Sorbis is invaded, just as Spain was invaded, the Barbian army zalike, the Spanish army and the Portuguese army; is riil a fighting force to
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