Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-23
OF EUROPE
CONTINUE RUSH
FOR ARMANENTS
All Countries ON Continent
Busy Preparing for War
That Is Not in Sight, Arbi-
tralion Sentiment Grows,

tsrrcist coRFrspoRpEHce TO MORNING JOURNAL
London, Dec. 22-The first lorl ot
the British admiralty said recently
that when he thought of Europe to-
day with every nation mingling more
freely with every other nation, with
every government protesting the ut
most friendship for other states, with
every sovereign linked by Relationship
and interest with the heads Of other
powers, with every foreign office ut
tering accents of supreme correctitude,
and yet the whole held and gripped in
the thraldom Of armaments on a scale
uneXampled since the beginning of
time, he could not help being remind
ed of the story Of the Spanish prison
or who was confined for twenty years
in a dungeon until one day he hap
pened to push the door of his cell
which had all the time been unlock
ed. and walked out free into the open
air.
The strange European calm already
noticed still continues az the moment
of writing. The little differences left
over from the great struggle are one
by one being settled and the cloud
banks of coming issues are still below
the horizon,
1t is at a time such as this, how
ever, when the din and clamor OF in
cident has died away that one be
comes conscious Of other sounds tina
have always been there, like the hum
note to the peal Of bells. The clash OF
the sword and the roar of the field
gun may be no more heard in Europe
even the diplomatic saber rattling
of the riyeter's hammer is heard day
and night from one end of Europe
to the other, and the glare of the blast
furnaces lghtens the night sky II
every land. Europe is at peace States
men vie with one another in express
sions of mutual good will. but tn,
race still continues The two keels t,
one" Of the British Navy league Il
answered by a still more concentrated
effort on the other side of the Nortf
sea, whilst from st. Petersburgh. VI
enna Paris and Rome come echoes
whose monotonous burden is dread
lnQughts and yet again dreadnoughts.
When it is not dreadnoughts it is
l men France hurries through a return
to the three years service system
I Germany adds steadily to her ALREADY
1 immense army, and carries her army
/ bills through the Reichstag on The
crest of the wave Of an appeal to pa.
itriotism which silenecs even the so
lciolists Austria-llungary spends mil
llions she can i'll spare from her de-
pleted eXchequer on adding to the
deficiency Of her forces, whilst Rus
sia, with that machine-like ponder
business which turns neither to the
right hand nor to the left adds bat
ltalion after battalion TO her greaI
host
Winston Churchill was truly .righi
enough when ne described these prep
arations as unexampled since the be-
ginning Of time. How far he was right
in his simile as TO the Spanish prison
er ana how long it will be before the
prisoner makes that simplc move
which is to mean 40 auh 10 q b
tao luturc a-5ac can show
One thing is certain, that in every
country in Europe there has come in
Ito being a public opinion whose growth
IS sturdy, which has already seen the
prisoner as a prisoner. and has recog-
nized why aad how he need be so
no longer. The peace movement
grows every day, not only in respect
Of the numbers Of lts adherents, but
what is much more important, in un-
derstanding. It is fast becoming a