Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-03
BY M. P. SHIEL.,
THE STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST WAR.
Copyright. 1899. by R. F. Fenpo & Co.,

ably harsh frown OF England The Joy of
the whole earth was about to perish
England herself. In her tough, silent way,
was in the grip of bitter suffering The
government had established public gran
aries over the kingdom. But the price OF
bread was prohibitive. Whole villages per-
ished.
Singular as Il now seems, she had had no
separate cable connecting her Biographical
ly with South Africa, which was to a large
extent her life. When she was Disconnected
with the continent she found herself discon-
nected also with her most important colo
MES. 1t was necessary 10 adopt the method
of sending a dispatch vessel round the cape
In order to recall the Australian and Pacific
Squadrons. The SueZ canal had long Snce
been blown up by the French officials at
Port Said
At the cape a naval battle had resulted, by
some few ships. in victory for the a.lIes
In consequence OF overwhelming odds Cape
Town and the British seaboard of South
Africa had been sheiled. Sierra Leone had
become French.
But Australia and the seaboard of India
were already safe, The enemy needed all
their stu floating navies nearer home.
On the strongly fortified German coast
Englands success had been hardly less than
| marvellous. small fleet of British war;
| ships and troopers had appeared at the en-
trance OF the kiel canal and captured from
| ming.
There the two great branches of the Teu-
tonic race measured strength. Englas had
sent 100000 men to fight a nation boasting
world has ever conceived, and capable OF
placing In the field an army approaching
| three millions.
The first result was mere disaster for the
| inyaders-but not moral defeat They re-
| tanned Ironing. and by a coup the REM
| nants of the scattered army under Sir
| Evelyn Wood possessed itself OF Stralsund
they ald II under cover OF bombardment
by British fleet, among the British ships
| being the three Swedish cruisers Gotta Syea
and Eanadfs, which suddenly appeared and
| joined in the action
| Nor was this England's last word 10 Car
| many.
1t can never be that guns and swords
alone can rule the world The nation with
tne stoutest heart and the hardest brow she
| Is the mistress
What happened at Havre happened at
| kiel and Stralsund. England with aston:
ishing' steady pertinacity sent men to fight
| only, here. the rigor of the thing was
| greater. the fame hotter
| IN all that low-lying tract OF land between
| WIsmar Neu Brandenburg. Anclam and
| Stralsund series of murderous conflicts
took place, Wilhelm himself directing the
course OF the campaign. and the English
| being intrenched for the most part behind
| semiclrcular line of earthworks stretch
| ing east and west with Stralsund for base,
! Inc three lines of railway. west to Luz
| Deck and Hamburg, east to Stettfn and
south TO Berlin. were in the hands of the
| BRUSH; and after day of fearful car
| mage In the neghborhood of Neu Bran.
denburg, In which the German army was
routed with a loss of 10000 men, a
successtui rush was made for Stettin.
| Which, In the course of night attack fell
| Into British hands.
The same night nearly the whole of Ber-
I'm was destroyed by fire. a catastrophe at
| trlbuted TO the action of socialists
| And ever England came TO Germany-rav
| leVies, meager Cockney-born lads. Doors
from the Downs. Lancashire bodies, per-
sons In kits: not terrible to look at: ter
| rfble to meet IN battle
| Their chief characteristic is not that thew
| are brave, and agile, and cool; but that by
some unknown national quality of mind
they really contrive TO do what they try
| to do. Their results always produce q
| certain effect of surprise
Before these nimble invaders the tapfe-e
hrieger or the fatherland slowly receded.
From Thorn, that Metz of the east. from
hongsberg, and Dantzig, and the great
military depots of the northeast. troops
were drafted to repel this obstinate, rock
proved small. unseasoned foe.
| But the more the English poured their
levies upon the German seabosrd. and tho
| greater the draughts by Wilhelm upon the
| as yet Inactive corps, and nearer the pos-
| sibility of a call upon the Teuton shop
| Keepers and burgherS of the reserve, so
the more socialistic seemed to become the
opinions of the German nation.
| Socialism-wth its absurdities-with It's
| heavenly gospel of salvation for the world
| had, for ultimate good, or ultimate III,
| got into the blood of the nations during tho
| latter half of the nineteenth century, far
| more than any one Of them supposed.
| Men who most hated the word, thought
socialism. and did not know II. 1t was
| bound to come out when the great mo-
| ment for its birth arrived.
| Wilhelm walked on an abyss. and the
| ground beneath his feet was parchment
| He had no sooner withdrawn a large por-
ton of the army OF the Vistula. than Dam
zig was sacked and taken by the Swedish
| feet.
| Go be continued tomorrow
|