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THRICE IS HE ARMED.

[BY IRVIN 8. COBB].

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 39гa. 1917.

oyster, without any shell, in a son full of potential or actual enemies, all clawed, all toothed, all hungry. The oyster may be the more popular, but it is the hard shelled crab that makes the best life in

THE BIG "STICK.:

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I believe it to be my patriotic duty as zen American citizen to write what I am writing, and after it is written to ensurance risk. deavour to place it with a magazine hav-, fing as wide a circulation in the United States as it is possible to find. In making this statement, though I am not not be brought to bear the idea of going 60 along, that any consideration of mercy tier vay scrawled over with the names of wide areas where scarcely one stone had directed efficiency that was ever created

etting myself up as a teacher or preacher; neither am I going upon the assumption that, because I am a fairly frequent contributor to this magazine, people will be the readier or should be the readier to read what I have to say

And when I read the utterances of those conscientious gentlemen, who could

feared. Besides, I was a neutral citiren But nerer-until after Antwerp-did | dubitably were instigated on a wholesale ality of its ruling classes--not necessarily of a neutral country.

there seem to be so many of them, and basis by order of officers of rank, and its Kaiser, but its real ruling classes- "I am not a neutral

any more.

I am an never did their plight seem so pitiable. must have been carried out under their has been jealously striving to perverti American! My country has clashed with Over every road that ran up out of personal supervision, direction and ap- every native ounce of its scientific and its foreign Power, and the enemy of my Belgium into Holland and that in this proval. Briefly, what I saw was this: Inventive and its creative genius out of country is my enemy and deserving of no Populous, corner of Europe meant a road I saw wide areas of Belgium and France the paths of progrees and civilization and to join it into the grooves of the greatest more consideration at my hands than he very little while they poured all day in which not a penty's worth of wanton

in thick, jostling, unending, unbroken destruction had been permitted to occur, autocratic machine, the greatest organ- deserves at the hands of my country. Moreover, I aim to try to show, as we streams, I marked how the sides of every in which the ripe pears hung untouched iam for killing off human beings, the wayside building along the Dutch from: upon, the garden walls, and I saw other greatest engine of misbegotten and mis-

in the world. Because we have an ad- miration for out of these two Germanys is no more n reason why we should abate eur indignation and our detestation for the other Germany than that because a in loses a cheery blaze upon his hearth-

or charity or magnanimity which wo

Aside from a natural desire to do my of saioke by day and a pillar of fire Lyportunity comes will not show us, anyway and read what was there written, before our own eyes, and buttressing it stone he should refuse to fight a forest

own little bit, my chief reason is this Largely by chance and by accident, I hap “pened to be one of four or five American tanewspaper mon who witnessed at first

night, with terror riding before them an their herald, and death and destruction and devastation in the tracks their war- shod feet left upon a smiling and a

of the opinion that their sentiments would then have undergone

the same in

more than he showed it to Belgium or to France, or to Edith Cavell, or to those

women and those babies on the Lusitania.

ments were

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with the statements made to us, not only

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fire.

if our oversea observations of this war We have got to remember another thing. abroad have taught us anything, they should have taught us that the German mean, in in the German Army the officers are this case, not its men but its officers, since essentially the brain and the power and

is an even more important consideration ing, blindly obedient mass beneath them that the German Army is not an army of good sportsmen. And that, I take it, upon the field of battle than it is upon the athletic field. As the saying goes, as inconceivable to imagine Germani off- the Germans don't play the game. It is

cers going in for baseball or football or cricket as it is to imagine American volunteers marching the goose, step.

to war with any nation for any reason,

hundreds of refugees, who already had been left to stand upon another; where I wished with all my soul they might might show him would be misinterpreted. have stood with me in Belgium on that Being what he is he would not under passed that way; and, along with their the fields were ravaged; where the male names, the names of their own people, villager had bad in my caus; where August day, when I and the rest of the stand it. He would consider it as an party to which I belonged saw the Ger-ovidenes of weakoces upon our part is from whom they were separated in the the miserable survivors had been left to man Jegions come pouring down, & clans is what he would not show us, and if on haste and terror of flight, who by one dio in holes, like wild beasts,

chanco in a thousand-might,come that Taking the physical evidence offered and follow on.

This was the larger picture. Now for by natives but by German soldiers and German officers, we could reach but one He did not make war cruel--it already small corner of the canvas: I remen- ber a squalid little cowshed in a little

conclusion, which was that here, in such hand the German invasion of Belgium, fecund little land Because I am firmly that; but he has kept it cruel. Warutch town on the border, just beforeand-such a place, those in command had Army--and when I say army and one of three who, a little later, wit

not a time for bysterical lip service to Under the dripping waves of that cowshed and these people! And there they had with him is not an emotional pastigousk of a sety row sutumnal night, said to the troops: Spare this town "messed some of the results of the Gor

his flag; not a time for fass and feathers stood an old man-a very old man. He said

Waste this town and shoot these manic subjugation of the northern part stantaneous transformation which the And, most of all, it is to him not a time must have been all of eighty His gar people And here, the troops had the motive fores directing the unthink- of France. Likewise I was inside Gar-feelings of each member of my group

award feet, Cied up in the tags of an old ance with the word of their superiors

sopping wet and all that be discriminately word is world's goods rested indiscriminately wasted in exact cecord anny at the time the rush upon Paris underwent was checked and the retreat from the

red tablecloth. In one withered, trembl Doubtlessly you read the published ex ing old hand he held a box of matches tracts from diaries taken off the bodies one hand he scratched match after match; the Brat your of the war. Didn't you and in the other a piece of chalk. With of killed or captured German soldiers in and with the other, on the wall of that often read where this soldier of that, set- little cowshed, he wrote, over and over ting down his own private thoughts, had and over again, his name; and beneath it lamented at having been required to put the name of the old wife from whom he his hand to the task of killing and was separated-doubtlessly forever, destroying But, from this same source Possibly these things might have come did you ever get evidence that Bol.

any to pass in any war, whether or not Ger- dior had actually revolted against this mans were concerned in making that war campaign of cruelty, and had refused to probably they should be included among burn the homes of helpless civilians or to the inevitable by products of the institu slay unresisting non-combatants You tion called warfare. That, however, did did not, and for a very good reason not make than the less sorrowful.

Because that rebellious soldier would nover have lived long enough to write down the record of his humanity he would have been shot dead by the revolver of his own captain or his own lieutenant

I saw German soldiers marching through a wrecked and ravished country side singing their German songs about and the Rhine maiden creatures so full the home place, and the Christmas tree, of sentiment that they had no room in being all their souls for sympathy And, by the

Maras took place, thereby having oppor tunity to take cognizance of the feelings and sentiments and the impulses which controlled the German populace in period of victory and in a period of re versals.

Speaking for myself, I confess that, un- til that summer day of the year 1914, Thad thought such infrequent times as I gave the subject any thought at all-that for us to spend our money on heavy guns and an augmented navy, for us to dream of compulsory military training and a larger standing army, would be the con- centrated essence of economic and na tional folly.

I am in the advantageous position, therefore, of being able to recount ag an eye-witness and, as I hope, an honest one I remember when Colonel Roosevelt

something of what war means in Its then, I believe President Roosevelt-de- livered himself of the doctrine of the -effects upon the civilian populace of a Big Stick, I, being a good Democrat, row country caught unawares and in a men-garded him as an incendiary who would sure unprepared; and, more than that, which had for us only kindly feeling, by the ill will of great Powers, what war particularly and especially the shaking in their faces of an armed means when it is waged under the direc as, no doubt, most Americans had said tion of officers trained in the Prassianas, school

Having seen these things, I hate war with all my heart. I am sure that I

hate of you, reader, who never saw its actual workings and its garnered fruit

For, you see, age.

saw the physical to tell you that I have no words with which halfway adequately to describe it for you, so that you may have in your

to themselves—

for any display of mawkish, maudlin for bearance to his foo; but, instead, it is a deadly serious, deadly terrible business, to the successful prosecution of which he hidhesteu of life bays rest earnest and his rulers, and his government, and ly and sincerely dedicated throughout generation of preparation, mental as well a physical.

We are a peaceful nation; not con- corned with dreams of conquest. We have the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans hate it with a hatred deeper than the 1 for our protection. We are never going were an unconsidered part but which, to say that I can conceive them as the same token, I saw German soldiers divid

to make war on anybody else.

Nobody else is going to make war on us. War is going out of fashion all over the planet. fashion of the world, The lion and the lamb lie down together.

GREEDY WINNERS, BAD LOSERS. The Germans are not an outdoor race;

wide of it; and, having seen it. I want A passion for peace is coming to be the populace of PRIEST OF LOUVAIN.portunities, and I can see Holyoke, Mas-trary, Had there been an order to the is a bad loser most remarkably bad:

mind the pictures I have in mine. It 15 the most obscene, the most hideous, the

sometimes the most necessary spectacle,

THE WORDS. OF THE

of Louvain, who met us on the day we first I see again the little old bearded priest entered that toxin; who took us out of

most brutal, the most malignant and he had the mangled caresss of the lamb the panic of the street where the inhabi of Baltimore being put to death by drum.feelings, would have dared to offer to goal, good sportsmen would not have

tants fluttered about în aimless terror,

When I think back on those first stages and in some respects the most tragic stages of the great war, I do not see it as a thing of pomp and glory, of splen-

they are not given to playing outdoor did panorama, pitched on a more impres-

sports and abiding by the rules of those sive scale than any movement ever wae in

sports, as Englishmen and as Americans all the history of mankind. I do not, in

are. And in way that biggest of all out- retrospect, see the sunlight glinting en

door game it stands proved against the long, unending, weaving lanes of

them that they do not play according to the rules, except they be rules of their bayanets; of the troops pouring in gray PADRE THE SAOK VU

BLACK VULTURE'S WINGS. all those gray highroads of Northern

own making. It may be argued that the streams, like molten quicksilver, along

The point I am trying to make is this:

French are not an outdoor race or Europe; or the big guns belching; or the That, seeing such sights, and a thousand

sport-loving race, is we conceive sports. But, on the other hand, the Frenchman actillery horses going galloping into more like them, I could picture the same action; or the trenches; or camps or things and a thousand worse things

is essentially romantic and essentially the hospitals, or the battlefields, I see happening in my own country. With

dramatic, and, whether in war or in vic- it as is reflected in certain small, better reason, I own country; and

the magnanimous and the generous I to-day con picture them

tory afterward, he is likely to exhibit detached pictures--small-focussed, and in as happening cidental to the great horror of which they in all fairness I go further than that and

virtues rather than the cruel and the un- kindly instincts, because, as we all know, it is easier to dramatize one's good in- me, typify, most fly of all, what war the more likely to happen weung when waged by the rote and rule invading forces come at us under that

They divided their rations with these of Prussian militarism upon the civilian design of black vulture which is meivations with hungry Belgians pulses than one's evil ones,

Now the German, as has recently been an invaded country.

known as the Imperial Prussian Eagle famished ones because it was not verboten shown, is neither dramatic nor sports- Given similar conditions and similar op-because there was no order to the con manlike. He is a greedy winner and he

olina, rated in smoking ruins, as Louvain scrawny children might have starved, and broken Belgium into bloody bits becaus sachusetts, or Charleston, South Car contrary, those poor women and those loser Good sportsmen would not have oz na Dinant was I can see the mayor no German solider, whatever his private Belgium stood between them and their head court-martial because some inflamed them a crust of bread or a bone of beef

sung the Hymn of Hate, or made civilian of his town fired from a cottage of that I am very aurone of best and judges and G. A. R. veterans held as for all the peoples of the earth, and a Good sportsmen would not have packed

Wager Arufe England!! their battle c window at a Pomeranian grenadier. And it seemed to me then, and it

se in Pennsylvania, congressmen

sportsmen would not have shot seems to me now, a most dangerous thing Edith Cavell or sunk the Lusitania, hostages and as potential victims of the But if war has to come-war for the

firing squad, in case some sonor some should come a scheme of military govern end & prostrate land off as captives into most evil thing, that into the world the helpless men and boys of a conquered preservation of our national honour and

grandson of old John Burns, of Gettys- ment so hellishly contrived and 50 sanctly an enforced

worse than African ved servitude our national integrity; war for the decountry to quit being one of the laden grape arbor at the back sat four his shotgun in defence of his homestead executed that, by the flirt of a colonel's slavery

Burg, not regularly enrolled, takes up

would not wantonly have wasted Tence of our ing and our people and our lambs, not because the lion was, a pleasingmore old priests, all in rusty black I can see price put on the head of thumb, & thousand men may, at will be La Fore and Chauny and Ham and as ciples of representative government the first time I realized that, so long as gowns. They got up from where they some modern Molly Pitcher, and a mill transformed from kindly, courageous, hundred other French towns, as they did among the nations of the earth-I would there are lions, sooner or later must come to a little cellar room, where they Barbara Frietchic. For we must remem executioners and incendiaries; and, by than that they must surrender these towne sat and came and spoke to us and took tary prison waiting for some latter day manly soldiers into relentless, ruthless last month, for so conceivable reason rather that it come now than that it come oppression and annihilation for the na- later. I have a child. I would rather tion which persists in being one of the gave us a bottle of their home-made wine her that what we Americane call patrious rogant thumb, be converted back again not, while ostensibly at pence with us. back into the hand of the enemy; would that child, in her maturity, might be

to drink and handfuls of their ripened

have plotted to destroy our industrial assured of living in a peace guaranteed.

pears to eat, and tried to point out to by the sacrifices and the devation of the As though is happened yesterday, in- us on a map, where they thought the in-

plants and to plant the seeds of sedition men and women of this generation, than stead of thirty months ago, I can recreate that her father should live on in a PC stage settings of that moment 1 can entering the next street hit, one. As of. its operations in the opening months may be a virtue, as we reckon racial

Germans might be, none of ns

among our foreign-born citizens, and to in my mind: the physical and the tweetal Cookie mechanically to dismember nur ou

∙to a brown race in Mexico and a yellow carious pesce, bought and paid for with

race in Japan. Good sports do not do cowardico and national dishonour... thut my eyes and see the German firing

those things, and Germany, did all of

them. That means something. against a brick wall. I can smell the tarist mass meeting was held in New odours of the burning house. Yes, and York. It was variously addressed by a the smell of the burning flesh of the dead number of well-known gentlemed regard men who were in those houses. Isgan ing whose purity of motive there can be hear the sound of the footsteps of the no question, but regarding whose judg fleeing villages and the rumble of the ment a great majority of us have an tread of the invaders gning by so count opinion that cannot be printed without lessly, so conâdently, so triumphantly, so the use of asterisks. And it was attended magnificently disciplined and so faultless by a very large representation of peace ly equipped. loving citizens, including a numerous con-

I veritably believe, that over the eve of mortal man has rested on since the world

began, and I do hate it.

* A COINCIDENCE,

Well, the lion and the lamb did lie down together over there in Epropes and when the lion rose, a raging hon, beneath his blood red paws. And it was like frightened fowl in a barnyard and his jewsitdrip, coming million lighting wooden gateway, set in the face were in the day when I first saw the lion, with who led the way for us through little roads, typified in half a brick wall. It was as though we were med--men whose sole business in life was another world then, instead of the little

fight. to other people even have known if that world of panic and distress we had just I in one fast of time, decided I wanted quit About a neglected tennis court grew a row of pear trees, and under a

and knew their business,

soil; war for the preservation of the prin- figure before mine eyes, but because for

lamba.

rane

the anointed War Lord calls franc treurs, meaning bushwhackers,

I do not believe I personally can be charged with an evinced tias against the

another flirt of that supreme and ar

into decent mea

In peace the mental decility of the Ger man, his willingness to accept an order

A few nights ago a so-called 'anti-mild shooting. two Belgian civilians me by the coat lapels and, with his kind, for the courage and the fortitude of thein war this same trait becomes a vice: In

we were leaving, the eldest, priest book of the war. Because I had an admiration traits of pop at me yet faded old eyes brimming and his gentle German common soldier, and because I peace it makes him yet more peaceful: ole face guivering, said to me in broken expressed that admiration, I was charged in war it gives to his manner of waging

Having spread the gospel of force for English

so long, Prussianized Germany can un- it 18. not right that war Beemingly did not understand or want to It is that very menace which must con force. We must give her back blow for

ot right with being pro-German by persons who ar an added sinister menace

derstand but one counter-argument should come to Belgium,

My son

We had, no understand that a spectator may admire front the American troopers who may be purt in the quarrel of these, our great the individual without in the least sym sent abroad for service. It is that very blow a harder blow in return for each neighbours. My son we are not bad pathizing with the causes which sent him menace which must confront our people

blow she gives us Thrice is he armed people here-do not believe them should into the field, And at a time when this at home in the event that the enemy shall that, bath his quarrel just and they tell you so. For I tell you we are country was filled with stories of bar get near enough to our coasts to bomba' quel is Just All the same, to mako & good people. We are a very good barities committed upon Belgian civilians our shore cities, as undoubtedly he would war giccessfully we must make it with Most of all, I can see the eyes and the people. All week my people work vary by German soldiers stories of the seek to do; or should be succeed in land war, we must preach a jebad, re- heart. We must hold it to be a 2. whole holy hard, and on Sunday they go to church mutilating of babies, of the raping of ing an expeditionary force upon Ameri and then perhaps they go for a walk in women, of the torturing of old men-1 can soil P

membering always, now that the Chinese and potapachy Ben; in within was, one of ive experienced newspaper. When I first came back from the wa, Empire is a republie, now that finspis by men who, all of our own free will and front I marvelled that sensible persons so autocracy, that we shall be fighting not so agreeably reconciled if a break with faces transfigured as though by a splen- know of life. The KAN MAN not ander duress or cocreion, signed & often asked me what sort of people the only to punish the enemy for wronge

My son," he continued, you con statement in which we severally and Germans were, as though Germans worn flisted and insults overpatiently endured from a great country you come from the jointly stated that, in our experiences a stranger race, like Patagonians or the not only to make the seas free to honest

faces of sundry German officers with whom I spoke. And when I do this I prom in chin vibe of and the

tingent of those peculiar patriots who, for the past two years, have been so very distressed if any suggestion of hostilities with the Central Powers was made, but

the Allies, or any one of them, seemed a Mas possible contingency.

did vision; and I can hear them not proclaiming the justice of their cause

tions among them, deploring the unatter- fact that, from the time of the dismissal able misery and suffering their invasion of Count Von Bernstorff onward, the of Belgium had wrought, not concerned average pro-peace meeting was pretty with the ethical regrets of helpless, and enre to resolve itself into something innocent non-combatants-but proud and rather closely resembling o pro-German swollen with the thought that, at every on ruthlessness and determination Over Persons who hissed the name of and being our Président behaved with, respectful victory, conquest, spoils of war. Why, decoram when mention was made of a these men were like beings from another vertain Kaiser.world--a world of whose existence we, ou However, I am not now concerned with this side of the water, had never drenut those weird: Americans, some of whom ed. part, their Americanism in the middle with a hyphen. I imagine some of them may be going to jail when this article

MRICY MISTAKEN FOR WEAKNESS.

commerce; not only for the protection of our dag and our ships and the lives of Germany were like the Germans they slong with England. France- yes, and felt like telling them that Germons our people at home and abroad-but knew in America in the main, God-fear Russin shall be fighting for the pre ing, orderly, hard-working, self-respect servation of the principles of constitu ing citizens. But through these interventional and representative government

would say, to him who asked that ques.

unitions; we

It may have been only a coincide not seeking excuse for the reprisals, they greatest of all the countries. Surely when travelling with or immediately be South Sea Islanders, living in some re but it struck some of us as a significant ad ordered; not, save for a few excel your country, which is so great and suhind the German columus through up-

strong, will not let my little country ward of a hundred miles of Belgian termote and untravelled corner of the globe. perish from off the face of the earthritory, we had been unable to discover Because we had no answer for him we good evidence of a single one of these went away. And when, six weeks later, alleged atrocities. Nor did we.

returned to ruined and devasted

THE CRIMES OF AN ARMY, demonstration before the evening was ward step dy had brought to them hideous wreckage of the streets to the What I tried to point out at the timing months I have changed my mind: toagainst those beads of the few remaining

Louvain, I picked my way through the little monastery again, Behold!,

the -in

the fall of 1014 and what I would day I should make a different answer. Igreat Powers who hold by the divine brick wall was a broken heap of wrecked, point out again in justice to those who on now that the same, tractability of wal of kings and who believe that man was not created a self-governing creature charred mason-work; and the pear trees now are our enemies, is that identically temperament which under the easy but a vassal were naked stumps, which stood up out the same accounts of atrocities which going, flexible working of our American Morely because we are willing to give of a clay waste; and the little cellar were told in England and in America as plan of living makes the German-born room, where we ate our pears and drank having been perpetrated by Germans American so readily conform to his phy of our wealth and our granaries and our our wine, was a hole in the ground now, apon Belgians and Frenchmen, were

steel mills, we cannot expect to have an sical and ful! of ill-smelling rubbish and fouled simultaneously repeated in Germany as

metaphysical surroundings And it was then I promised myself, water, with the rotted and bloated corpse one heen perpetrated by Belginna and here, and makes his progeny 80 soon honourable share in this war, and to share is printed. I am thinking now of those. I bad the Juck to get back home again of a dead horse floating in the water,Frenchmen upon German puns and Ger amalgamate with our fused and conglom as an equal in its final settlement. We national advocates of the policy of the with a whole skin and a tongue in poisoning the air and giving promise offered in Germany

man wounded; and wore just as firmly rated stock, has the effect, in his Father. must risk something more precious than barned cheek those professional paci- head and a pen in my hand, I would in

land, of all the more easily and all the

more than money; something a in America and more firmly filling his mind and shaping pect England's navy to stand between us

must risk our manhood We cannot ex ficists; those wavers of the olive branch my humble way preach preparedness for pestilence. And the priests who once

who addressed this particular meeting Americs; not preparedness with a view bad lived there were gone, and none in Britain, and had, as I veritably believe, his needs in conformity with the exact and harbi for our coasts, and France's and similar sectings that preceded 1 acessarily to melting way upon anyone al the town knew where they had gone. just as little foundation of fact in one and rigorous demande of the Prussiaofem little brothers to the worm, and the sheep else, but preparedness with a view Be Always, too, when thinking of the war,

querter as in the

other Indeed, I am willing to still further that has been shackled upon him since his worn legions to bear the brunt of the any because of the sigorous diser

trench works of mili

Knowing nothing of military expedi preached not defence, but submission; not making war upon us without counting of those I saw after Antwerp had fallen line by which the German common and frequently discordant petty States

in the early days of October and I was soldier is bound, that in the German o MEN THAT DON'T PLAY THE GAME

ency, I, yet believe that, for the moral not action, bat words, words words In my own humble and personal way skirting Holland on my way back out t of

effect upon the world and for our own Every right-thinking man, I take it, I have been preaching it,

We have got to remember, then, that the position, when the time for making peace. In my own

Germany to the English Channel. I had beg for the individual btr opportuni and realizes, humble and personal way I am preaching knows men and women and children,

ties for the individual brute or the in Germany with which we have broken is comes it would be better for enough refugees before then,

1187 rather too, that we shall have universal pozes in it right this minute. And if my narra

dividual degenerate to commit

not the Germany of Heins and Goethe than the securing of our own soil against that fair day when three human aftri-

an American flag tive is so very personal it is because I old men and old women and little child against the individual victim were great butes now reasonably common among in know that the personal illustration is the ren and babies in arms, fleeing by the reduced. Of course, there must have and Haeckel nad Beethoven; not the Gor attack or invasion, that dividuals and among nations, have been best possible illustration, and that one glare of their own burning houses, perheen sporadic instances of hideous acts many that gave us Steuben in the Revela- should wave over American troops in eliminated out

Vast there always have been where men went Civil War and the Germany of true should lead a forlorn hope in puncher being greed, jealousy

fouw bo

may drive home his point by telling the rainy, wind-swept, muddy roada vast way but I have never been able to entimental, chivalrous, lovable Baxon, that & Connech will blunt the fanga clockmaker should re bera marched on and on unt

until they drop of universal disarmament to me the facts which have come to him at Every sane American hopes for the time than by dealing with the impressions and and from exhaustion FOLEY There was plenty of the frightfulness birthplace of the kindly, honourable in bont, and who know perhaps

on. And when they could have been a part of a systematic or yet of the music loving home loving vent a device reservation: indulges in one

road or organized campaign of Rightfulness. Bavarian not the Garmany that was the of that stinging adder of the sea, the had rested a while at the

acoteb He secondhand. wants all the nations to put aside their

dustrions, patriotio German speaking the poison snake altogether. but he hopes his own nation will Also, it seems to me, now the break ice, with no beds beneath them but the without these added horrors. SAMAAN neighbour round the corner from you maybeat is true that, in our

But I was an eyewitness to crimes but the fanatical, tyrannical, power mad.

and forbearance, we have failed and which, measured by the standards of blood-and-iron Prusianized Germany of short. Maybe we have endureil too lon humanity and civilization, impressed me Bismarck and V

Von Bernhard, of

of the and too patiently we can strive for as worse than any individual exces, any Crown Prince and the Junkers that that ___ But ————- individual outrage, could ever have been passionate Presinized Germany which Without the shedding of blood there or call ever be because these crimes in for forty years through the instrument no remission of sine.

a firm stand, but a complete surrender;

the risks beforehand,

believes in universal

arma

-peace

these three

meantime

and no shelters above them but the

earth be the last to put aside hers. But not come, that I am free to use weapons which black umbrellas to which they clung they every American-thanks be to God has I did not feel I had the right to and got up and went on again, with in in these months and years of our cam before that break did conie Befors, destination in view and no goal ahead paign for preparedness favoured leaving was a newspaper reporter, engaged in but only knowing, I suppose, that what his country in the state where she might describing what I saw and what I heard might lie in front of them could not be be likened to a large, fat, rich, Habby-not what I suspected and what I worse than what they left behind them,

to

OX CORSES

mistaken