The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-26
WAR ECHOES

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The inter view with King Albert of Belgium, printed in Mondays Post-Dispatch, would be a remarkable publication II I it merely showed that in his daily He, his manner and his appearance, this man is every inch King, sharing after the ways of long ago the dangers of his men in the field.
 If happens also that what King All l bert says is much to the point. Par ticuIarly is this true when he tells us that he personally had the matters of which it is now sought to make so muche-those covered in the letter of General Ducarne to the Belgian min 1 ister of war detailing the discussions of Belgian defense with a British mill 1 litary e-"communicated to the German military attache in Brussels;'' I so that "when the Germans went l through our archives they knew exact- 1 ly what they would find. and all their present surprise and indignation is as- , sumed."
 It is impossible to state too strongly  his Reiehstag speech of August Chan cellor Von Bethmann- -Hollweg ad- nitted that Germany was wronging Belgium in passing through her terri tory but said: Anybody who is threat ened as we are threatened and is fight ing for his highest possessions, can have only one thought--how he is to hack his way through" Only after the German government became aware that cation as sufficient was the Ducarne letter laid before them as a recent find in the Belgium archives. Now King AL bert assures us that the discovery was known.
 It would be hard to make out of an 1 incident so described an excuse for the sorrows that have been wrecked upon Belgium. There is, in fact, and can be, no adequate excuse. Crushed between contending armies, victim both of force and false pretenses, Belgium in- of being universal
 Philadelphia Evening Ledges: The
 
 of thousands of them will never return home In all the warning nations, when industry begins again to summon it's recruits, there will be great gaps in the lines The volume of work to be done, making up for lost time and repairing the prodigious damage wrought will be greater than ever before and the number to do 1t will be smaller This means a new summons to wom- en. Already, in Edinburgh, they have been called on to serve as trolley car conductors. Woman-labor and child labor must be drafted. In all sorts of industries in which they have mot here- tofore been employed women will serve. They will be driven by economic pres- sure out of their homes into the work. shops, and into practically every phase of human activity. There will be no talk then of where their place is and no captious criticism of their compes tency.
 result of the war, most trehendous in its importance and far-reaching in it's influence on the trend of world af- fairs, will be the enfranchisement of women.
 Pittsburg Dispatch The dropping of bombs from air vessels into cities are not in the area of the fighting naturally finds it's chief victims among the non- combatants. Thus the record of one Zep- pelfn raid upon Warsaw on October 19, 1914 has been published by the Kuryer Polski of Milwaukee. It gives the names, ages and occupations of the victims A summary shows that of 46 killed and wounded, one was soldier. Of the other 456 there were 17 men, nine women and girls seven boys and 12 infants With equal detail the killing of non-combatants by Zeppelins in French and English towns could be made known.
 It Is, however, exceptional that unde- tended towns are shelled by airships. It is civilized war for airships to dump shells on the armies of enemies and fortified towns which are involved in active opera tions. But to throw them on cities that are not engaged in action and without notice is coming close to the practice of savage warfare. It seems entirely possi- ble that such practices in Poland explain the general adhesion of the Poles to the cause of Russia.