The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-05
WHERE GERMAN LEADERS FAILED
Figured That England with Its Many Problems Was
Out of Running and That France and Russia Could Be
Whipped Easily

would be able to try conclusions with
| England.
The German plan was 10 take the
European countries ono AT n time. The
| German information was that every
| country except herself was unprepared
and the German information was true.
IGermany was fully prepared except in
her navy.
Where Germany Fails.
| One Of the leaders among those
| great business Lords OF England who
sit with the Commcners in business,
but in the House OF Lords as respects
Legislation, said to me when / spoke
OF the wonderful intelligence of Ger
many in research and data, scientific
and Political, But, don't YOU think
that the Germans had too much infor-
nation and TOO little judgments''
In other words, they had a stomach
full of facts but no capacity to digest
them. They knew as much about I'll
ster and perhaps moro than London as
respects facts and information, but
they were in no position 10 pass judg-
ment upon Ulster or tine unity of the
, British Empire the moment there was
, an attack from the outside. The Ger
mans have dealt in materialistic facts.
i'Ht WITH tnc Ni'lIlI LlIIL iNbilS anu
e makes history they are all awry. With
: the Germans, individuals are units and
: are counted from the outside, never
e from the inside. That is why her
t diplomacy is not only a failure, but
: offensive. 1t never differentiates
: among nations and peoples according
: TO that which is within the mind and
!. the heart of the people.
d The German emperor directed the
{ Austrian ultimatum to Servia, insist
r ing upon stronger demands than were
at first proposed. Then, turning his
f back upon the scene, ne was able to
> protest that he was not responsible
= Yet the published correspondence
. from every capital in Europe now
= shows that the German emperor fenc-
Y ed off every attempt to get Austria to
= modify or postpone or discuss her de-.
e m:inds. Germany was ready for every
thing except the interference of Great
Britain.
p A Thunder Bolt
~ \ private telephone rang at five a.
m. one morning in Berlin and an
- American lady was INFORMED from a
= social quarter that Something dread
y full has happened Something aw-
q" full; something undreamed OFF, The
American lady quickly asked, ''Has
:. the Kaiser been assassinated! as the
~ tone over the telephone indicated
~ nothing less.
= The response was, England has de-
:, clared warl -
sh That was the most unlocked for
- step in all the German calculations.
~ ~ Every spy report, every diplomatic
agency, military and civil, had report
ed that England WAS out of the run
81 ming, Ireland in revolution, India in
- solution, Canada, Australia and South
" Africa just ready TO break away from
ns the British yoke.
:? The conception OF the British en-
:, pire as a federation of free people
le governing themselves under a consti
VI tutienal monarchy is something incom
prehensible in the German idea of gov
eminent.
,e- The German idea is Of colonies at
70 taehed to and paving tribute to the
I'D crown, something to be ruled over
oct governed, taxed and maze TO serve
M. Russia might go to war exposing heI
mi weakness in the field which was al
FOR ready spread out on paper by Russian
: authorities with copies in Vienna anC
nal Berlin; but that England or Grea
ria Britain could or would fight at this
,si- time was an inpossibitity, although
The later England was TO become 9Th
30 | vassal of Germany
top The wondermen..
!. And the wonderment OF German,
~ has become tine wonderment of tn
eN world. 'HRoll up said Kitchener, an
u, 2,000,0oG men sprang T. arms. Thre
" hundred thousand OF them are on tn
'ol Continent; 100000 are In training.
.iiis '.Ron VI" said Lloyd George, tn
'ao chancellor OF the British exeheguei
.hc and $l,70O,000,000 in war loan sub
ION ION description IS rolling intc-t the BIRTHS
treasury, a sum chair the nations
us ,' debt of England and nearly twice tn
= sh national Gebt of the Uaited States.
90 Ii necessary the number of men
ioh arms Will be doubled to 100000 an
the enormous subscription. Just mad
to England war loan viii be doub
svs- ed and quadrupled.
nh- The life of the empire as respect
and money and men is at stake and no sa
,ese rifce is too great. If treaties al
,ila. scraps of paper and neutral stat.
and are to have no rights or protection
her there is no safety in the world, II
ont sacredness of contracts; the world
md at an end and chaos reigns. = C. v
owe Barron in Boston News Bureau.
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mil Spanish army olhcefS nave Aoun
ullv bomb dropping from aeroplanes q
loft cub .rin furb