Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-29

tween Fruuce and Germany H is hatred; between Ger. many and England h is policy
 England's existence depends on the sea- Her ocean commerce is her life blood With the sea lanes closed Londons millions would feel tho pinch of hunger in a week The farms and dairies Of Denmark and Holland the cattle of Argentina the sheep ranges of traa the wheat lands of the Canadian Northwest the fishing banks of he North Sea and Newfoundland are as essential England as the corner procery to the city aatdweller
 That is the primary purpose of her sea patrol-to guarantee food supply And H the basic explana. ton Of her naval policy Of maintaining strength any possible coalition of two rival powers But there is involved in it than bread and meat
 The greatness of England is her colonies The Brit. ish Empire, the largest held under scepter is bound together by sentiment and salt water England herself is but a dot in the sea Let any hostile nation girde the tight little island" with wall of steel ships and her world empire would fall to pieces like wheel without hub. John Bull would be Samson shorn and powerlcss.
 And what of Germany? Forty years ago she had no navy and merchant marine She had only the finest army in the world It of the chief glories of the present Kaiser that during reign of 26 years there has been created navy only to Great Britans In tonnage and guns and many experts believe superior to 1t in personnel
 At the same tme Germany has built up an inter national merchant fleet likewise second only to Brltaiu and her chief competitor on every sea.
 And between Germanys merchant marine and her industrial life there is the closest bond She has be- come in generation, the greatest manufacturing na the world her exports said to reach the tre nendous total of S25OOOOoOoO year carried almost wholly in German bottoms.
 Obviously the German fleet threatens Engand's life, while Germanys commercial expansion if con .nued with its recent vigor, may stihe her trade.
 Germany has almost as valid reasons as England for lesiring the mastery of he sea- Her teemng millions are cramped, and there little Europe to ex end her borders If there to be great German Elm li-e in c.. future, Germany must colonize Colonies mean ships-merchanmen fetch and carry and dread thoughts to guard them And so, though her seems primarily directed against France h is Britain that stands in the way her ambition just it is Germany hat threatens Britains present status.
 The British fleet has already driven German mer hantmen from the seas captured hundreds of then as prizes of war It has sent scattered German curryng to cover bottled up the main German feet of warshps and is now patrolng the North Sea ana he English Channel
 Maybe the Germans will stay secure under the guns f Heligoland the mouth of the Elbe, and behind he moIes of Wilhelmhaven. If they do, their commerce. win be destroyed when the is and their future put to jeopardy even though the German land forces ar
 ctorious.
 But perhaps the German fleet, under Admiral Tr piz the acknowledged naval genius of his generation yin rise up out the horizon day with leppelin overhead and submarines at its heels and give bauu ! to the armada commanded by Admiral Jellicoe as Ad nraI Togo attacked the Russians at Tsushima in 1905 or as Nelson assaed Napoleons at Trafalgar lo years before On that battle if 1t comes will turn th sovereignty of the sea.