The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-11-26
DISARMING OF GERMANY ONLY
HOPE OF ABIDING PEACE

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, on the boundary between Austria and
Seryia have become so worldwide and
50 manifold both in form and signih-
canoe as to tax comprehension as well
as the Imagination With japanese
and Australian warships rushing
across the Pacific to the aid Of British
war craft on the western coast Of
America. with another British squad
ron waiting al the Atlantic entrance
TO the Panama canal fer the removal
Of the latest slide in the Culebra cut
so they can join sister craft on the
Pacific side Of the isthmus and destroy
the German squadron supposed TO be
bound for the Puget sound and the
British northwest, with the Beers Of
South Africa engaging in a sympa-
thetic rebellion, with the khedive Of
Egypt leaving Constantinople attend
ed by a suite Of fifty aides to take
command Of the Turkish armies about
to invade the historic country Of the
Nile and of the pyramids, with Anglo
German combats in West Africa, with
Turkish forts firing on American craft
engaged in errands of mercy, with
Turkish forces knocking at the doors
of southern Russia and Persia, and
with India and Afghanistan and China
contributing their share to the field Of
hostilities, if not to the warning
armies, we gain some slight idea of
the world-encircling nature of this
great struggle.
but no man dare say today where it
will all end, and to what extent the
maps of the whole world may be
changed by the terms of peace which
will eventually close this terrible chap
ter in the worlds history.
If one nation can thus plunge the
entire globe into war and involve the
whole race in hostilities or in the dire
results of hostilities, then it becomes
manifest that so long as that power
endures, the shadow of repeated war
fare will hang suspended over the
earth like great sword of Damocles |
1t follows as surely as the sun dis
sipates darkness that other nations
cannot stop the great conflict now be-
gun, until Germany has been deprived .
of the power thus to plunge the entire !
human race into war, and there you
have the key to the final outcome of .
the war which now has its chief CEN
ters in Europe. How peace will come,
is not now so much of question as
what must be done before peace is
possible.
The Kaiser is smart enough to rea
lie all this from the other side, and
the desperate efforts he is now making
to smash through, first the British and
French lines in the northwest and now
the Russian lines in eastern Prussia
are an illustration Of the terrific
the Germans will wage when
they are eventually forced upon their
own soil with their back against the
wall, facing the inevitable.
In the meantime while the Turks,
through their secret treaty with Ger
many, have been forced into the
against the will of their own
indications point to the
failure of the German Kaiser to incite
a holy Mohammedan war 1t would be
one thing to follow the green banner
Of the prophet, but it is altogether an |,
,ther thing for the Moslem world to
rally under the German flag almost
concealing the flag of Mahom-
It within its expansive folds and with
he Young Turk party discrediting
heir religion.
If Turkey alone comes to the aid Of
Germany, then the Kaiser in addition
o the expiring dual monarchy of
Austria-Hungary will have merely the
Sick Man of Europe" on his hands,
md he will be leaning on two broken
'eeds instead of one as at the outset
The Khedive of Egypt, who has been
to luxurious trips between
Jonstantinople and the Nile by boat,
will find new task in marching an
army across the desert from the Turk
sh frontier; and in all human prob
lbility he will awake from his dream
# conquest to realize that he has seal
d the fate of the land of the Pharaohs
md that Great Britain, which has 9
'eally ruled Egypt since 1882, has
assumed ownership Of the dark contin-
mt east of the French possessions
rom the Mediterranean to Victoria
AXE.
Austria plainly is fighting in its last
Ieath throes, and if Turkey with its
wo German battleship navy cannot
meet the little Russian squadron in
he Black sea alone, Germany will d
nanifestly soon be fighting virtually y
lone with the end plainly in sight q
hough seen from afar. The question a