The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-06
THE NEXT WAR
By Professor Dr. K. Duesing, KieI.


 The war of nations is still raging fn Europe; not yet may victory be definitely claimed by either side, but already the signs are growing more and more distinct as to where the next war will be. Surely not in Europe! In the ter rife battle raging there which is without an equal in the history of the world the European powers are being bled to within touch of death. The losses of the Russians amount ed at the end of January to over two million men, not counting the sick The French loss may be some what smaller. The total loss of the ] allies is already about four million men.
 1 France is sending to the front all ready their youths of IT and t1S years of the world, and even populouS Rus sia, has with the reserves from Siberia exhausted her last military resources.
 Germany's losses are said to be half million, including the wound ed as in the figures above. Ger many, unlike France and Russia is sues official casualty lists from which the losses can be calculated. There are still extraordinary large reserves but Germany neither is inexhausti- ble, able as it is, as proven in the wars of independence, to put into the
  already. ' The present combat for the trenches is no less bloody than the open battling of the first months. the dead are more numerous than in the beginning. In six months the losses will have doubled, and in Ger many they reckon on still longer duration of the war than that:
 At all events there will be through =. z.z. weariness excluding the possibility of a war for many years to come. The new danger will not come from Europe, but from another quarter, Asia With malignant grin Japan watches the battle of the Europeans The longer this war lasts, the fiercer it is, the larger the losses are, and the greater the depression afterwards the greater will be Japan! These Asiatic islanders follow in this the same policy which has al ways been followed by England to- wards the continental powers. She has profited by every war on the con- tinent.
 The longer the European war lasts the greater will be the gain for Japan. The first booty was Kiauchau a surprisingly prosperous colony en- dowed with rich coal mines and equipped with, railroads. Japan is turning it into a, strong military nar- bor.
 After the fall of Kiauchau Japan put herself in touch with France, the latter clamoring for help. But the price asked by Japan the East Asiatic colonies, was too high. The negotia- tions failed leaving certain i'll feel ing which found expression in the press of both countries.
 But now that the general offensive e proclaimed by Joffre on December IT 1 has come to naught, and the French have been beaten at Soissons and re- pulsed in the Argonne and at other places they are calling for help from Japan.
 tile; she knows only too well that what is denied her now will be hers as easy booty after the war.
 America at first believed to, be able to profit by the war. commercial boom was hoped for. It has not ma terialized. On the contrary Ameriz can trade Is under English control even. that carried on with neutral | countries
 The trade in ammunition from America is enriching a few individ- uals only. As is shown by the great humber of unemployed the Ameri- can people as a whole would be bet ter off if peace were soon declared. By furnishing arms and ammuni- tion to England and France the war l is prolonged which works in favor of Japan's policy, the weakening of the white race.
 AS soon as the depression of Eu- ope is great enough Japan will bring China and the whole of eastern Asia. under her influence and be the actual ruler there.
 The feeling of the Japanese very. clearly showed after the naval bat tie off the Falkland Islands. The Japanese papers reported that their fleet proudly refused to be put un- der the command of the British ad- miraI. and that they haughtily claim ed the victory as their very own.
 England has realized long ago that