Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-07
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CANADA AT WAR-1914-101s. BY J.
Castell Hopkins. F. S. S., F. r. G.
s., author of 1.-THE Canadian An
nual Review of Public Affairs, 1901
1918" illustrated. New York:
George H. Doran.
n ONE of the allied troops has
! nj aroused by their heroic wal
! record a greater general en-
/ thusiasm and pride than have
the Canadian soldiers. Their story,
therefore. comes home to every reader
as a precious personal possession
And this story is told here in a
spirit that measures in salts
flying adequacy with the splendid sub
first part of Mr.. Hopkins narrative
deals with the outbreak of the war
with the spontaneous Canadian re-
Spouse to the war CALL with the var
ious preliminary activities of Great
ing and embarking the c. f. F. Be-
yond this point one reads OF the
| Canadians at the front for the four
years of warfare. COMFORTING them
selves in an undated splendor of
(
members of the c. L. F.. who won the
Victoria Cross within this period. A
=, diary of war events expands the field
/ around the Canadian fighters them
! selves. Then comes the STORY of Five
Cities. '-Amiens. Arras, Cambria.
BILE City. the Bivouac of the Dead"
This story of the five cities is by Rob-
ert John Renison. chaplain, 4th Ca
madam Infantry Brigade Fine and
splendid throughout, something to stir
the blood of men and women every
where.
THE PRISONERS OF MANI. BY
Alec Waugh. author of THE Loom
of YOUTH" etc. Illustrations by
Capt. r. T. Roussel. New York:
George H. Doran Company.
Surprising and important is this
story by Lieut. Alec Waugh of
his eight months in the citadel of
Mainz as prisoner of war. The as
tonishing point is the genral light
heartedness Of this account-truSt-
worthy evidence that the prison was
not torture chamber, that the pc
Rod was not one of hopeless misery.
To be sure, it tells of hunger as the
chronic condition. But everybody in
Germany was hungry, young Waugh
amiably comedies. To be sure quar-
tiers were cramped and dark and damp
but this was prison. not a parlor.
To be sure. annoyances were thick as
flies in summer time-but, again, this
is war. And there are sketches here
of every manner of device on the part
of the prisoners themselves to relieve
the burden of the situation. Clever
fellows were in this group. SO the
collective cleverness went into schools
of one sort and another. into dramat-
les for the general entertainment, in
to such other recreation and work as
might contribute to the wholesome
object of making the best of things.
speakable behavior of the German
toward prisoners of war that we have,
from so many sources, come to accept
as the truth. This constitutes the oc-
casion for surprise to one reading
Lieut. Waugh's story. He speaks
German for his enemies. But he
speaks. too. of the collective hatred
of the allies for his enemy. But. man
to man-German to EngIshman. or
American. or another-there is no
hatred. That must be true, but no one
else appears to have seen this and to
have accepted it in the matter of fact
way that this writer does. Herein.
also. lies the Importance of this
cheerful tale of being prisoner of
war in Germany. The book, not by
intention. but in effect, is calculated
to give pause to precipitate conclu-
sions, to hold off hatreds while evil
dence is being sifted Apart from it's
value as much-needed evidence. this is
most readable account Of what
really stands as the prison life of a
group of captive allied officers just
prior to the signing of the armistice.
GERMANY's NEW WAR AGAINST
AMERICA. BY Stanley Frost. New
York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Germany has already declared an
invisible war" Even before the old
war ended the enemy began the war
after the war. While the allies have
been almost in panic over the specter
Of bolshevism in Germany the Ger
man trader has been attacking allied
trade" This, in substance is the text
upon which Stanley Frost. the New
York Tribune writer, projects little
chunks of concrete evidence, by the
hundred, all bearing upon the sinister
intent of Germany to imperialize the
trade of the world to her own glorifi-
cation. Mr.. Frost has to perfection
the art of condensed writing-not a
word too many. and just the right
word in this astonishing series of in
dictments. The effect Of these straight
blows of accusation is rather terrfy-
ing. If half the charges are true
and all Of them have what must be
counted as official reconsideration it
behooves the allied world to come out
of it's long talkings and turn to bust
less. The German industrial machin-
cry is waiting for the button touch
to set it in motion. The German in
dustrial forces are mobilizing. The
German industrial assault on America
is mapped and planned in minutest
detail Trade spies, German allies in
this country, espionage, propaganda,
trade weapons camoufiaged under all
sorts of innocent-looking social
groupings-these are some of the
means of penetrating into our trade
secrets and capturing our comm ercial
opportunities. An introduction to Mr..
Frost's amazing disclosures by At
torney General Palmer and a COM
mandatory letter from the alien prop
erty custodian give additional sup
port to an already well buttressed eX-
posture Of the trade war that is al
ready under way against this country
at the hands of Germany
GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY DUR
ING THE WAR. BY Edwyn Bevan.
New York: E. p. Dutton & Com
pany.
This chapter of German politics de-
fines the position of the German So
cialist during the war. At the be-
ginning Of the war there was. out
side Of Germany, wide conjecture as
to what this position really would
government by voting the funds upon
which prnSecntjOp Of the war de-