Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-29
Correspondent Declares Cars
Officers Have Shown Mag
nificent Strategy"

The following extracts from a letter
from Glasgow, Scotland, TO resident
in Honolulu makes interesting read
ing: r s
Your last letter received and
should have been answered some time
ago, but reading war news, war nom
sense and war surmises with con-
stable duty and drill seems to keep
me so uncommonly busy that I have
great difficulty in finding time to
write.
''You say you had just got disap-
pointing news of the capture of Lodz
by the Germans You will know now
that it cut no ice whatever. To hold
LODI inconyenienced the Russians and
they left 1t at their leisure. Germany
has not been able to make any profit
able use of it to this day. Neither
have they been able to go any further
than Just where the Russians want to
hold them. There they fret and fume
and waste ammunition and valuable
lives, and they have to bring up
everything they need from Germany
across the stretch of Poland they de-
gvastated On their last retreat Russia
drove ahead Of themselves every use
full animal and took all they wanted
before retiring on their chosen posi-
ton.
II really believe that but for senti-
mental reasons Warsaw itself would
have been evacuated at the previous
invasion and believe that If Russia
had allowed the Germans to occupy
and pass Warsaw to the neighborhood
of the Russian Aldershot beyond, very
few Of them would ever. have got back
over the Vistula again.
The Russian game strikes me as
simply magnificent They seem to
have such a tremendous reserve of
power when they apply the brake to
the movements of the opposition, and
hit so hard and so cleverly when they
do let out. The spectacle of this inn
mense country, too, with all its mys-
teries, its tragic history and tradi.
tions, its murderous nihilism, its 81
berian prisons and mines and official
intrigues and cruelties such as we
have read of, knocked out by the lit
tie japanese and laughed at by, all the
world in the days of its humiliation
only few years ago, now standing
erect, valiant and masterful, absolute
ly united. self-disciplined and reliant
is to me the most wonderful feature of
the war.
1T seems to me that of all the mis-
and illusions that the
kaiser and his war lords have made
and labored under. there can be none
more CALLING and humiliating to them
than the hard knocks and the eye
openers they have received from Rus
STA. It is difficult to keep from moral
izing or philosophizing on this terrible
war with all its cruelties. barbarities
and wholesale destruction of life and
and waged with such a ruth
lessness by a so-called Christian coun-
try in the ayowed interests of Chris
tian civilization and culture.
The very word culture seems to
have become utterly repugnant to us
at the present. time Scoffers may say
at the sight of SO many Christian ma
lions engaged in war to the death
that surely here is the bankruptcy of
Christianity. but it is nothing of the
Kind. Rather is 1t the bankruptcy of
everything but Christianity, as it
seems to me impossible for any one
who has read the British White Paper
md the French Yellow Book, not to
recognize that, real, true, simple
Christianity was the only thing want
ng in the actions CT Germany and her
diplomats. Had this been present,
instead Of the devilish lust of war
md conquest, and the possible dread
IF waning power on her own part, or
he increasing power of her despised
there would have been no
war The news from the front varies
very little from day. to dag or even
rom month to month. It is from the |
lea mainly that we look to receive
he real thrills Last Sundays per-
ormance 1.-THE North Sea engagement)
vas most inspiring and cheering and
ust such as we are all expecting from
he navy whenever the chance offers.
rhe general regret is of course that |
We hadn't been a couple of hours later
,r another hundred miles or so nearer
,ur own coast / feel certain that IL |
3eattie had once got his fleet between
hem and the German coast none Of |
hem would have got home again. We
evidently had the speed Of them and |
llso the gun power or at least ability !
o use it effectively. We feel proud |
i and perfectly confident in our navy
nd our men behind the guns. The