The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15

thing, stopping street traffic and rail-
way trains and ships on the river.
Inc new forecaster defines a light
haze as one in which a street lamp
can be seen 440 yards away; in a mod
crate one the lamp is hidden when so
yards distant, and a thick mist OBJ
scures either street lamp when the pc
desrian is midway between the two.
During the last forty years the
yearly expenditure of Russia has in
creased enormously. Thirty years ago
It's budget was less than SOC, 000, 900
ruoles ($25O, ,000; twenty years ago
1t was 100000. 900 ($45o, 900, OOO); ten years
back it amounted to 1000, OOO, 900 (S50O,-
00OO00, and at present 1t has reached
nearly 100000 900 Isl, 000, 000, 0O0). These
figures explain the misery of the peas
antry and the Industrial classes, who
form 80 per cent. of the whole popu-
lation and who alone have to bear
this burden.
Carefully compiled statistics of the
population of the British Empire, pub
lished by trade paper, bring out the
rather startling fact that out of a pop
ulation of nearly 400, 100000 about AS,
$4,000, or less than one-eighth, are of
British birth or descent, nearly 1900, 900
are non-British white men, and the
colored races number 34S, 100000
Mr.. Brodrick, the British Secretary
of War, said in the course of a speech
last Friday night that Great Britain
now had $4,000 Beers in custody in the
concentration camps and various ISL
ands, and 1000 more had been killed
or wounded or had left the country on
n9rnld hn1iaUod fho Of
Beers now in the field was about TO-
900. He said that the country in
tended to go through the process Of
wearing down." and that four bat
talions and two cavalry regiments
would be sent from India to South At
RIGA.
Baron Won Edelshe1m has published
pamphlet entitled Oversee Opera
tions," in which he discusses Ger
many's prospects of success in a war
with Great Britain. says the Liverpool
Post. Baron Won Edelsheim contests
the generally accepted opinions that a
war between Great Britain and Ger
many would result in the defeat of
Germany owing to the impossibility of
bringing the army into play on a large
scale.
He writes: I'm purely naval war
with Great Britain we should be able
to count on success only at the begin
ming of the operations. Within a short
space of time Great Britain would be
able to bring into action naval forces
of such magnitude, that we should be
forced to adopt merely defensive meas
ures which could scarcely lead to a
happy termination for us. The weak
ness of Great Britain lies in that
which constitutes our strength-the
army. The British army corresponds
neither in strength nor in quality with
the position of a first-class power, nor
even with the extent of the country,
for Great Britain proceeds on the con-
viction that every hostile attack would
be repulsed by the navy. This con-
viction IS in no wise justified: for,
though Great Britain would be able
after some time to gather together a
mighty naval force, yet the force which
she would have ready in the first few
days would not be so overwhelming
as to exclude from all chances of tenn
porary success an opponent who,
though very much weaker than she is
at sea. had her forces in a state of
mobilization.
THE measures which Germany, In
the event of a threatened war with
Great Britain, would have to adopt
may be defined thus. We should en-
deavor to create conditions which
would render. it possible for US to
throw portions of our army on the
English coast. and in this way to
transfer the decision from the sea to
the enemy's territory, where our troops
would be far superior in quality to
the British troops, and where Great
Britain's powerful navy would be I'M
able to exercise the slightest influence
on the result.
-Four. German divisions and a cav
airy division would represent a force
superior to that of the British field
army. But we are in a position to
transport to England in the shortest
space of time six divisions of infan-
try or five infantry divisions and one
cavalry. division. The passage in toll
cradle weather could be effected from
our North Sea harbors in little more
than thirty hours. The English coast
offers extensive stretches suitable for
the landing of troops. The country is
so rich in resources, that for a time
the army Of occupation could live ex-
clusively on it. When once London
had been captured, the invading army
would merely need to take possession
of one or other large naval ports In
order to create basis for food sup
plies and for further operations, which
would have every prospect of leading
to the subsection of Great Britain"