The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-08-04
SPEAKS UP FOR
THE UNPOPULAR SIDE
Dr. Won EngeIken Presents the Ar
gument for Deutschland

Editor Star: You asked me the
other day TO write some comments
on current events. l know little or
nothing about current events so l
shall have to confine myself to some
remarks concerning current rumors,
war news and the noble art of lying.
The times of free information to the
enemy by way of the press and of
the brave war correspondents are
gone forever. Strict censorship is
now the rule. But the public is
hungry for news and the want has
to be supplied in some manner. In
consequence the great news COM
panies are keeping the cables hot
with rumors and manufactured news
which they do not even take the
trouble to sift and to edit and make
plausible.
Most of them contradict each
other. In the same issue of the pa
per we read that the Germans have
invaded France and the French Ger
many. The Russians have occupied
German territory and the Germans
Russian territory.
The English and the Germans
have fought a naval battle in the
North Sea; the English lost two, the
Germans seven ships. 1t seems that
the two nations are not at war at all
so far.
Il Heavy firing was heard in the
North Sea. This reminds me of our
Spanish-American war, when every
flew days, heavy firing was heard
foff mole ST. Nicholas" Nobody ever
had an idea where this mole was,
somewhere in the sea or on some
bodys face.
AZ day after the naval battle the
German fleet was bottled up in the
harbor of Kied. 1t is impossible to
bottle UP a fleet in Kiel because it
can go out the other way, through
the Kaiser Wilhelm canal into the
North Sea.
a solitary German cruiser is re-
ported TO have bombarded Libau, a
Russian naval base Naval bases
are protected by forts and shore bat
teries and would make short work
of single cruiser. The same cruiser
bombarded the town of Libau and
set it on fire. Not customary in
modern warfare and not dfkely, be-
cause the town of Libau is inhabited
mostly by Germans.
And ait the same time when the
German fleet was bottled up it was
chasing the Russian navy into the
Bay of Finland.
Germany has invaded Switzerland
Impossible. The Swiss have a strong
and very efficient army which on
their own territory would be match
for any of the big powers of Europe.
With Luxembourg it might be diff
ferent. The army of this little SOW
ereign state consists of 60 men, do
| ing police duty and the Luxembourg
ers are diving under the gentle rule
of a young lady of Is years, not oi
the elderly and portly Queen Will
jhelmina, as the editor of the Star is
telling u.s.
The only news which sounds
true is the destruction of German
Zeppelin. Disaster has been predict
ed for the ZeppeEns even in Ger
many. They are unwieldy, easily
damaged, dangerous and very ex
pensive The terrible explosion of {
Zeppelin on the Berlin trial ground.
is still fresh in our memory.
In 1870 the Germans of the Unit
ed States were complaining hftterl!
about the Associated Press being
partial to the French by suppressins
news favorable to Germany. This
seems to be changed now. There i
good and pleasing news for every
body If the yellow bulletins do no
suit you, go over to the white one
and you will find what you are look
ing for, and vice versa.
What has become of poor littl
Servia which started all this trouble
and the 100000 Austrians? Tn
answer is they are too far from new
headquarters and their geography i
rather difficult, so the news manu-
facturer is running the risk of put
ting their armies into the wrong ter
ritory or of getting them off the ma.
of Europe altogether.
Since we are discussing Austria,
: wish to make a few remarks regard
, ing the article in the Star on the his
tory of that country. 1t is not dc
ing justice to the Austrians to Ieav
out some of the main facts and her
they are.
The only battle ever won by an
nation against Napoleon when h
was at the height of his power be