Evening star., 1917-03-18

roic resistance Of the Belgian people. in
stopping for more than twenty days the
march of the German armies. which per-
mitted French mobilization. England.
which had been vainly tempted. arrayed
herself with Russia and France. forming
what is known the triple entente Eng
lish troops landed in haste on the conti-
nent participated with the French in
the battle Of Charleroi. after which re-
treat was effective on French territory,
yielding little by little and systemat-
ically before the German masses. which.
invading France by the north. were
5oyously marching on Paris. That in
tervention of England and the resist
ance of Belgium had baffied the original
calculations of Wilhelm. Nevertheless.
he felt himself so assured OF victory
that he announced his success in ad-
vance.
In the last days Of August, 1914 the
Illustrated journals OF Germany pub
Hshed photographs obtained in work.
shops and destined TO deceive the pub
lic and recourse was had to the ami
mated images OF the cinematograph.
Thus all Constantinople, we may read
IN certain publications. were regaled
by accounts Of the taking of Paris by
the armies of the kaiser. who figures
therein as passing under the Arc dc
Irlomphe. America. north and south
In turn. were furnished with lurtd pic.
lures OF the destruction of Paris.
raise documents were found to be tho
bases or numerous statements Of tho
general staff Of the German army. The
cnancellor or the empire for example,
basing a statement upon a document
as mnicn ne knew to be inexact. publicly
asserted that Belgium was the first
70 violate her neutrality The Sd of
august, 1914. the German Ambassador
AT Paris. demanding his passports, de-
harsu ha,i,h that trench aviators had thrown
bombs on the railway near Karlsruhe
ana Nuremburg, and at the same time
the foreign office was Informed that
eghty French officers in Prussian uni
man O.ris nau attempted to cross the Ger
nian frontier in twelve automobiles"
put II was the kaiser himself who de-
cared, IN a manifesto to the German
peopIe year after the war: "I declare
oeiore God that did not wish for this
war" But If there was no other evi.
oence to the contrary MaximiIian Harden
may be cited as having written. in No
vemper. 1914: This war was not inn.
posed ra s,1 upon us; we wanted the war and
we should have wanted it,"
A method peculiar to Germany TO rem.
DER war particularly terrible to tha.
people invaded is to ter
Frlghtfulness rorize the invaded by
Ma+Lol. pfllage, destruction on
villages. monuments, the
massacre Of the people. Nor is this de-
MED. The most noted German military
writer is Gen. Won Bernhard, who has
declared that for "humanity's sake war
should be inhuman, because IT would
thus be rendered more short" The
kaiser. according to NJ Francisco Mel.
gar. discovered in a document at VI.
emma addressed by the Emperor of Ger
many to the Emperor of Austria: MY
soul ls torn. but 1t is absolutely neces-
sary to reduce all by fire and blood.
XIII men and women. children and the
aged. and leave nothing standing,
neither tree nor house. With these
proceedings of terror war will finish
before two months. asu certain"
| This absolute disregard of pity is not
new in this war: 1t antedated Won BERN
hardi. for Bismarck had the habit Of
saying that "sentimentality was weak
| ness and that nothing useful could
come of it." Other German philoso-
| piers have maintained that "evil Is the
creator of good" with bare mention Of
| the famous manifesto of the ninety
three manifestants published in Oc-
tober, 1914: The elite OF savants leg.
lists, writers and artists who agreed to
approve brigandage and all the atroci-
ties of which unhappy Belgium had
| been the theater."
The events which marked the close of
the year 1914 on the occidental front.
tnc bdtlieS Oh tnc MaTne, the ser and
on the east of Europe by the great
victory of the Serbs over the Austrians
need not be recalled. The year 1915
was no less auspicious. While on the
western front the French and British
united with the Belgians, formed an
impossible barrier to the German ad-
vance. the Russians invaded oriental
Prussia and entered Galicia and ap-
preached the Hungarian plains The
Turks. who had been induced to enter
the conflict. We're defeated in their at
tack against the Suez canal An Anglo
French fleet combined an attack with a
ing Constantfnople. In May, 1915. Italy
entered the conflict on the side of the
entente.
In the second part of 1915 the entente
continued to hold fast their western
front: the Russians. on
Setbacks for the east. for lack OF
+ho Au;. war material. were
tAe 0uies. obliged to abandon
their positions in Galicia. and in Au-
gust to evacuate Galicia and Var
sovia. Not only the Dardanelles ex-
pedition was unsatisfactory. but Bull
garia Joined the German forces and fell
upon Serbia. which Greece abandoned
despite her solemn treaties. The troops
sent by France and England to Sa-
loniki in the emergency arrived too
late to succor the betrayed Serb army.
which was obliged to abandon Albania
to the eternal shame and dishcnor Of
Greece.
If occupation OF territory by Ger
many in 1916 is alone considered. the
pan Germanist plan of 1911 nearly
realized as to Europe. but wholly lost
in Asia and Africa. That Germany was
of that mind il must be concluded be-
cause of her desperate efforts to con-
clude separate peace with Russia.
with Russia for special reasons. But
there were barriers specially provided
which prohibited anS which had been .
renewed On the adr<sion of Italy and
Japan, No~sMhz. 50. 1915.
Germany appears at this hour to have
placed all her hopes on the "U-boat
terror" and against
All Is Staked nm which the genius
and skill and devo-
ouunoiAues' tion of the Ameri-
can naval officer and gunner is to be
now and henceforth a policy of defense
against the threat of pan-Germanism.
The fall of Bagdad, announced at this
writing, IL it does not strike terror to
the pan-Germanc soul in Berlin recalls