Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-22

the warm lands Of
Europe, much as
William H. dreamed
of sacking Bombay ,A2t
and Calcutta. His stEay---~k>
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had served in the xaagi{ HNE
legions Of Rome, I 4 g&
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the weaknesses OF 0S.bsssA E.s,:
the enemy, and who saMnifHi E..,,t |
urged a policy of fH:3Stiy Sr& =
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great supply base in '.s.-..~,,,,,x,s
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Genseric as Crown
Prince was early mi
tiated into this plan
for world conquest,
and cultivated ASST The Royal
duouSly the arts by Palace at
which he could en- Potsdam. This
courage the pacifsm Mecca of
of his neighbors Prussian "KuItur"
while concealing his Was the Royal
own programme of Domain of
military efficiency. Genseric, 1t
lie lost no occasion Is Now of
for proclaiming to the Kaiser.
The ENJOYS of neigh
boring States that peace was his only aim
that he maintained an army only as a
means OF ensuing this worthy-not to say
Chrstian-object,
For Genseric and his Vandals were all
ChrStians-at least in name
no wonder that German scholars to- day
honor Genserc as the first of the great
pioneers in Welt Politik. if not Prussian
kultur. Military Germany honors In this
great Vandal Of Potsdam soldier who
would have applauded the murder of Edith
Cavell or the sinking of the Lusitania-
in other words. who conducted war as q
worthy ancestor of the Hohenzollern
spirit"
Genseric led victorious army of Ger
mans, Moors and disaffected Christians
from Tangiers to Hippo Uhe present
Bona) in little more than one year; and
after the conquest Of this place il was
eight years before he could enter Carthage
t430. If You will consult your map you
will probably feel the rough analogy be.
tween the rapid raid OF the Vandal and tho
astonishing rapidity with which William
H. overran Belgium. Luxembourg and North
crn France nearly fifteen centuries later
Genseric was checked at Hippo; William
III. at the Marine. HIPPO Is but two hun.
drcd miles from Carthage, but one thou
sand from Tangiers-and the rapidty Of
Genseric's initial raid was made possible
by the same perfidious methods that en-
abled Prussian troops to menace the cap
ital Of France in 1914. The initial raid
succeeded because Genseric had prepared
the way by an advance army of spies, who
spread the Gospel Of Pacifsm and Vandal
kutur. and who promised with the de-
structon OF Rome would come an era of
liberty for the oppressed sect Of Donatists
and redistribution Of land in favor Of all
who aided in the holy war.
Hippo finally fell, and the usual Hun
procedure disposed Of the inhabitants. The
soldiers were first let loose upon the help.
less civil population as reward for the
dangers through which they had passed
and after that the more systematic pillage
was undertaken with prudent Prussian
efficiency. Every house was emptied OF
its human occupants, who were camped or
interned outside the city walls. All men
OF military age were disposed of by the
sword. unless they proved their desire to
become recruits in the Vandal army
Young women and craftsmen were placed
In second camp and sold into slavery OF
apportioned to the soldiers.