Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-31
To TAKE BELGIUM
IF ENGLAND WINS
ITALY AS AN ALLY
Kaiser Utters Stern Warning "a
Foe Not to Bring Other
Nations Into Strife. ~
WHIP HAND OVER FRAME
Germany Endeavoring to Draw Turk.v
TO Its Aid-country Appears
Eager to Join. -

Washington, d. c., Aug. 31,-ce,.
many, victorious In the initial ensssA
ments of the great European war Ia.
uttered stern warning to its enerp,ss
against drawing other nations into III.
| conflict.
| 1t became known in official Quarter.
| here that the kaiser has served en-
ultimatum upon Great Britain ana
France designed to keep those roT.
ernments from seeking further to IA.
duce Italy TO join the fray on the sSss
of the allies. The German emrsror
has solemnly declared that he never
i will give up Belgium if England ana
| France persist in their efforts to arrsy
| other nations against him.
With Belgium annexed German
would extend along the entire north.
ern frontier of France and would Dos
sess a seaboard at the lower end of the
North sea right at the threshold OF
invasion has been growing for q de-
cade. With the Germans Just across
the channel this fear would develop
into positive terror.
Whip Hand Over France.
With Germany in possession OF Be-
GUM, France would be completely az
the mercy of its ancient enemy The
Germans would be a constant menace
along the entire northern border and
would at all times be within easy
striking distance of Paris.
For these reasons the kaiser could
not have delivered a more potent
threat of punishment for a continual
ton of the pressure exerted by the
allies on Italy to get into the fight on
their side. Whether they will desist
in the face Of this threat remains to
be seen.
That the allies have been seeking
the help of Italy has been known here
for some time. Italy virtually has re-
pudiated its alliance with Germany
and Austria and has appeared to be
on the verge of casting its lot with the
triple entente.
To the demands of Germany and
Austria that it fulfill its treaty obliga.
tons Italy has replied that it is not
ny lH0 compact " dlQ It's dl4ies
in an aggressive war.
Germans Seek Turk Help.
While Germany is taking steps to
keep Italy from joining the allies, I'll
is endeavoring to draw Turkey to its
own aid. Turkey appears to be eager
to help the kaiser and even has had
agents at Bucharest seeking TO induce
Roumania to declare war on Russia
in the event the sultan joins Germany
in the struggle. Roumania, so far, has
SHE'D at this proposition.
Turkeys attitude is an extremely
important one, for the sultan is the
supreme head of the Mohammedan
faith throughout the world.
There are millions of Mohammedans
in India and ether Asiatic possessions
of the British. If Turkey should go
to the lid OF Germany the British
would face the possibility of an up
rising of the Mohammedans unde3
their flag, particularly in India. where
the unrest Of the native population IN.
der foreign rule has been noticeable
for some time.
Cite Menace to England.
This possibility was touched upon in
an official German dispatch received
by wireless from Berlin by the German
ambassador here. The dispatch feI-
lows:
Former Minister Burns John
Burns, the British labor leader and re-
Gently member of the Asquith caoi-
nett, in a speech against the present
policy of Earl Grey, has caused deep
throughout Europe, ana
in England, by his hints OF
possible fatal consequences TO Great
Britain through the threatened upris
ing of the Mohammedan subj;o's OF
the crown in view of news from Iul'
Key which foreshadows active partlcF
patton by the Mussulman empire
against Russia and Great Britain.
AT Berlin. Professor Delbrueck has
explained the unheard of unanimity
among Germans as based upon patri'
otic conviction that the present war
a struggle for the exist
ence of Germanic civilization. when
has been forced upon the two German
peoples"
There was but a single reference 70
the war situation in the German as
patch, and that was embodied IN us
asst paragraph, in which il was stated'
''The government authorities in Eass
Prussia have recalled the fugitive citf
lens Of that section of the empire ioF
owing the prodigious German victory
over the Russian invading army a.
Love OF the brother we see will help
is 20 the love OF the Father we do MOI
zee William Watson