The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-01
KAISER AND KING
|. IN NEXT BIG WAR
100000 COPIES or WORK PRE-
DIETING WORLD STRUGGLE
SOLD nv GERMANY.
AUTHOR is NOT KNOWN
But Many Believe IL to b. Emperor
WilIiam--Book Sees Russia and
America Profitin9 BY the
Gigantic Fight.

l~onuOh, MafeH - hc " hsh1
naval struggle between Germany afi
Great Britain which most students i
foreign politics believe incyitah q.
gwil reduce both to the second rank
lamong sea powers That Ii the main
slconcIllsion Of a writer who calls hlFI-
gtself Star of the Sea.
! "Armageddon. 190-" Vi the tltle of
his anonymous work. published in
Berlin.
II is the most brilliant effort to con
/ stiuct history in advance that this
age OF speculation has seen. More
lthan 100000 copies4have been sold In
IGermany. aud Admiral Sir II. r., Ffa-
mantle has written an introduction M
the authorized English lranslatlai.
Iby Mr. r. G. Herring, publ shea ts,-
lday in London.
This books authorship has even
been ascribcd to the Kaiser Ilnt
VIII ever wrote II plainly regards with
lgenuine horror The profpe II of an IN
! ter European war. He chiefly II gef
lnpon his countrymen \ pacific spirit
land a stronger fleet.
! And patriotic bias does not pfe@eat
constant references to British pluck
and skill "The Briions showed that
the men under the Union Jack had
not forgotten Their old traditions.
occurs In description of the first
naval engagement.
Britain as Americas catspaW
"Seestern or aStar on the Sea
discards all idea Of an INVASION of
England. instant readiness for war
he reassurngly imputes 10 our Asef
| and general efficiency TO the per on
Incl Of both services. But he re1re.
cents britain as the catspaw Of the
I huiteds Statea, wlaach ehaAN@Als hef
| with innnccnt Germany. AMI ultls
mately shares with Russia and Japan
| The Profits OF this Machlavellian not.
| An incident OF Samoa causes
blaze OF hostilities on March I9 and
till Nov. I Europe and the s ven e4s
are involved Austria and ltfly SIP
Ipa,t Germany: France Spain and
Portugal ioln with England: Belgiusn
helps France. and by the treaty nt
Bordeaux III ultimately divided nt-
tween Holland. Germany and France
The other powers ar neutral
put the main feature of the "peaee
terms" is the payment Of a war in
demnlty to Germany nv Great britain
and France of 81 ,25o0OO.9oo each.
Britain guaranteeing the Whole In
cidentally Austria gets Mace ionia
and Italy Nee ana Crete.
The story is usrrativefd
The story is triumph OF direct mar
ratiye. English troops are landed at
various points, under cover of our
naval supremacy, and there are land
battles that eclipse Sedan. Tremea
dons naval battles are fought n He'll
gcland at Naples. and at Spezzia.
The Lucania. full OF troops, is sent
To the bottom by the ram Of the Ger
man cruiser. Friedrich Karl and
Cuxhaven and Kiel are hombarded by
Pritish ships
Is Masterpiece of Realism.
Though the tone is ,oolly historical
tn such a degree that very few refer
erces 10 the British might net have
been written by patriotic English
man. there are several letters and
short narratives interspersed. which
give thrilling actually and are wholly
admirable
A chapter called In the Torpedo-
Room" describing the great battle
oG Helieoland as Il appeared - those
below the deck on the haltlesnp
woer h. Is masterpiece Of reilism-
The German navy IS DESTROYED. but
Az the heavy wire guns en- the Ers
Iish shins have nearly reached their
firing limit and the tubes cannot te
replaced for six months.
Submarines are proved infcsnea-
sable for the defense OF esfuafies and
PORTS. but Of little use in the open
sea.
To iefest the Anglo-Amefican hle
rontroi. Cerman rnerchant and pas
,enrer steamers officers cut cab g
In every 4 re-tien. oncthird OF eeT-
raBys coating national property Is
-apfured. but $50 British fserchant
.hius are taken. and written on It
-loyds n a less Of $4,000 0eo havsng
zen uniformly sunk hy the Germans.
\ no have no harbors to take them 10
italy and Other Nat ons Involves.
ltaly's navy makes a poor show.
nd that q France comes OF scarcely
after. Russia ss a resnlt of stani
NJ aioof. is left the supreme Military
,3wc- in Europe The In ted States
nd japan sre she hrs naval powers
4 fhe future-aH fheg come 10 bioxs
contingency VIII 0hich the author
oes DOT deal
How IS peace rezforeas There are
-ish,fui orgies q receIlspa ard say
- fury fhronshcut Afriea ard Ia