The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-11-15

I id5t MOnde3 night we're good exam
pics OF tbe attitude Of the British
thought it must be said that tn,
statesmen Of the empire and, Ear
ticularly the responsible ministers
have shown from the beginning theil
realization Of the tremendous tasH
TO which the country is committed
in the struggle it has entered into
with the greatest military power Of
the modern world.
Earl Kitchener has never had any
illusions. nor has he wayered in his
view of the grimness of the conflict
Upon his assumption Of the post OF
secretary of state for war, he de
ciared his belief that the war would
be long and desperate, fixing three
years as the period for which the de
partment under his direction would
prepare, whatever estimate might be
made of the duration OF the struggle.
At the Lord Mayors dinner Ear-
kitchener, whose mere appearance
and speech at a public function is con
yiDcing evidence Of the weight he at
taches TO the obligation of his office
in the crisis the country faces, de-
clared that the British empire is now
hghting for its existence ! want ey.
cry citizen to understand this cardi-
of blunt speech, not given to any sort
Of exaggeratiOn, nor resorting to ar
tliice of oratory. of which, indeed, he
has no better acquaintance than he
has opinion. When he says the Brit
ish empire is fighting for it's exis-
tence he believes just that, and his
belief is a solemn fact. There can
Dt no Disgusting the nature OF the
European struggle. Either Germany
or Britain must go down, crushed and
burdened for many generations, at
the best, and perhaps, utterly de-
stfoyed. The latter fate is almost
surely reserved for the British en-
pire in event of Germany's triumph.
II Is hardly conceivable that Great
Britain, as mistress of the ocean,
holding colonies and conquests be
yond the seas. barking and carry,
ing the greatest portion of the worlds
commerce, the practical arbiter OF
Euror can politics. could survive de
aeat. even If she were not syste-
rooted out by her conquer
or The empire that britain has
around the globe would
iall apart Of it's own lack OF cohesion
were the clasp that it holds it but
loosed. II is well that Britons should
understood exactly that. and such
expressions as that made By F;al
Kitchener seem TO bc bringing them
to realization of 1t. Something
more than the earnest words of
their responsible statesmen, however,
has brought the situation squarely
ho1Es to the British people. The
nearness of the Germans to the chan,
mel ports of France and their actual
Occupation of those OF Belgium, the
threat of an airship raid upon Lon
don. and the actual appearance of
warfhips in British waters, the latest
neing the daring raid of a submarine
practically into the harbor Of Deal,
these are the thugs that have brought
home to the British the reality OF the
peril that faces them. The sound of
the cannon engaged in the battles
nj Belgium can he heard in England.
FOR the first time since Napoleon
there Is serious threat of invasion
Of Britain. and with the cha Iel
ports in the hands Of the Germ 3,
an attempt at invasion of Ems rad
is almost certain TO be attempted in
oae form or another. already lrspa-
rations OF some new design on the
part of the Germans is going 5r-
ward at Antwerp, and it may be taken
as practically certain that il has to
10 with attempts upon the British
coast. following the expected plant
ing of the German power firmly on
the channel.