The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-26
WOULD ROUTE GREAT BRITAIN German Opinion of Eng lands Strength. VIEWS OF PRUssIAN OFFICER The Russian Navy is Terribly
 Weak. Recent Maneuvers In Black Sea Demon- strated the rnsbslity of onicers.
 Crews and the Entire Rus
 sian Arnament.
Recent Maneuvers In Black Sea Demon- strated the rnsbaI,tx os om..v.
BY wALTER puNkrRk.

her -helplessness in face of her pres- ent isolated position has come to
 naught if one is to judge by the ex- perts.
 Colonel Gaeke. one of the greatest German naval and military authorities
 in an article in The Berlin Tageblatt
 openly says that if any power Is help
 less 1t is England and not Germany
 and that in case of war the former country would be defeated as conn pletely as was France in 1s70-71. Says the Coionef:
 Tt certainly does not appear that the British Minister of War, Mir. Haldane, will achieve success with his territo- | rial army. There can. be no doubt whatever that this new army which is
 intended to protect England from in- vasion will be, apart from it's numeri- | cal weakness, a citizen army of no military value whatever" | MT. fHaldane's army reforms are bas- | ed on the supposition that Great Brit
 ain has absolute command of the sea. It is true that Great Britain can the
 oretically at any moment oppose a fleet of twenty battieships. twelve first class cruisers, thirteen protected cruie- \ | CTS, sixty-two destroyers and torpedo
 boats. and kthirty-six submarines to the German active. fleet consisting of six | teen battIeships, three cruisers. six
  boats so that England is safe it her
 warships are in perfect fighting con- | dition.
 "But there appears to be many de- fects The Admiralty, does not keep I the fleet fin proper fighting condition. perhaps from motives of economy. | Wealthy England can always outstrip us in the speed with which battleships are built But there Is another ques- | tion, whether England can find the l necessary number of men to provide
 crews for the fleet. Germany Is in I conscription but England will certainly
 experience great difficulty in finding men."
 Russian Navy is Worthless.
 Nearly ali the officers of the Russian
 Black Sea squadron are to be dismissed from the service at the order Of the l Czar as a result of the recent maneu- vers of the squadron which most con | ciusively proved that the Russian Navy | is as worthless today as it was dur l ing the Russo-Japanese war. The fleet which the Car had been l told was in first class fighting condi- l ton consisted of two battleships. five | cruisers. and dozen or so terpedoes. l Tn the preliminary cruise from Se- l yastopoI along the coast towards Odes-
 sa, which lasted thirty hours, no few 1 CT than i've mishaps occurred Inere | l ent vessels. one explosion due to in- 1 eficient handling of macpinry, ana l one gun accident due to the careless | firing of a gunner.
 Tn the subsequent cruise south
 wards there were more misnsps, sr on. any single ship succeeded In nit- | ting target. - Tn the boat drills six upsets occurres.
 due to the lack of seamanship displayed 1 by the bluejackets In handling them. | On one of the cruisers, whose name 1 tenant who was not entirely soper aL | the time, fell down the steep steps | leading from, the bridge, and was severely injured.
 On two other ships there were riots
 among the sailors. due to discontent with the food supplied.
 1 Frequently flag signals flown rom
 the flagship were either not under
 stood at all or were misunderstood, with the effect that all sorts of diff ferent movements were made by dit-
 ferent ships
 One of the larger ships had put to
 sea without having one of her com passes adjusted, none of the officers
 having thought of this important de-
 tail
 Mother Murders Children. | A terrible quadruple murder is re- ported from Ekaterinburg, in Russia | A workman's wife--a woman S4 years l of are-attaeked her four younger sons during her husbands absence from 1 home. and killed them all by cutting their throats with knife.
 The unfortunate lads were all quite young, aged respectfully nine. seven. five and two years The woman then
 went to the field where her eldest son was working. with the intention of kill 1 ing him also; but the lad after strug- gle. managed to disarm his mother, who was arrested.
 When she was questioned as to the motives of her terrible crime. she re- piled calmly that she had too many children, and she added, if God knew how we have to live, He would
 wish them to be killed" It is be- lieved that. the woman must have. lost her reason. though up to the time of the tragedy she had been perfectly rational in her manner.
 Notorious Thief is Caught.
 The thief who duTing the night of November 12. 1906 broke into the museum of the Castle of Herrenhousen in Hanover, and stole sixty costly orders belonging to the late King Ernest August. among which were the star, cross and chains of the English order of the Garter the order of St.
 Patrick. the order of the Bath and the order of the Black Eagle, together with A number fof swords encrusted
 with diamonds vlued at S0.0o0 marks has at last been caught by mere ac- cident. He Is a highly respected dealer in antiquities Papeuberg of Hanover. A few days ago he gave himself away while talking about the theft with friends in a Hanover restaurant I'm mediately after his arrest he confess ed and said that he had sold the orders in FEance while an American tourist whose name he does not know. bought the swords from him in London
 Couple I1il Their Offspring.
 John and Elizabeth Goehienau, a married couple of Friedland. SiIesla, have been arrested on a charge of wholesale child murder.
 An infant child belonging to them died recently under mysterious circum- stances, and police inquiries have re- vealed the fact that eight of their eleven children have died in infancy The police declare that they have incon- trovertib1e evidence showing that the children were all killed by their parents
 A large crowd endeavored to lynch the couple as they were being taken to prison.
 Georgia Man Drowned.