The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-04-02

nails of Vienna oyer the ruiDs Of The
EupWe Of the Emptre aud the uascent
! STAY state OF the BALKANS.
In October the Al centimeter guns OF
Germany had leyeIed the walls Of Ant
werp, crushed the gallant but imp0tent
Belgian state, and carried the legend OF
Teutonic might to the shores Of the
North Sea, to the very gates CT Calais
and Boulogne. Now it was the l5.inch
guns OF the Queen Elizabeth which took
up the response along the shores which
had seen the hosts and fleet of XerXeS
pass forward on the crossing OF Alex
yder the Great as he, carrying back the
COnQuering message of the West, had
set forth on his tremendous expedition
In a single day; too, the world turned
from the contemplation OF campaigns
OF the Twentieth Century to one more
combat in the lands ana waters forever
memorable in Homer'S song.
Nor was the new phase less appealing
in immediate political sjgnidance than
II histyrical challenge Russia, heav.
lily beaten ABOUT the Masuriu Lakes,
brown back upon the defensive from
the Baltic to the RumanIan frontier,
was proclaimed by German reports to
be on the point Of giving up the c nhict
in a measure beyond the expectations
OF the civilized world. st TannenDerg,
at LOdz, at the Masurain Lakes, she haQ
sacrificed her hundreds Of thousands,
While French and British troops re.
manned idly in their t enCbeS or failed
III their local OifenSiVes.
But even as the German forecast
as proclaimed, the guns of Admiral
Garden fleet at the DardanelIS sounded
the coming OF new day for Russian
hope The dream of Peter the Great,
the enduring purpose of the RonanOffs,
the deep and potent emotion Of every
Orthodox Greek Catholic, all these
were reused to new life, not merely by
fresh attack upon StambOul, but by
the exchange Of assurances between
Russia and Britain across the interVen
ing distance Of a continent at war. In
Petrograd SergiuS Sazonotf announced
the approach Of the day when Russia
would realize her great ambition OF an
avenue to the open sea. From London
Sir Edward Grey responded with the
seldom assurance that England and
Russia were at one on the question of
a warm water gate for the Slav.
. Thus in one single hour the Eastern
Question changed its whole appearance.
Thus England at last and unmiStak
ably, however guarded the diplomatic
phrase, renounCed the policy of Bea
COnSfeld, with the policy which had
provoked the Crimean War, and sent
the British fleet to the Sea of Marmora
to destroy the Treaty of San Stefano.
In IN hour Of Russian detection Ger,
many had sought to draw the great
Slav state away from her allies and
those allies, through England, had
answered with the promise of the prize
Tor which three centuries of Russian
history had been filled with war and
effort.
Once more sea power had demon.
strated its tremendous advantage, its
supreme power. At the first crisis in
the relations of the Grand Alliance the
battleShips Britain and France, keeping
the seas, while Germany'S fleet lay idly
in home waters, had restored the
threatened solidarity of the K3iser's
enemies From From Dover Straits
to the Golden Horn" by Frank H.
Simmons, in the American Review of
reviews for April.