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Show No Answers H A LEARNED writer in tho east declares that M the soul of Frederick the Great dominates M the Germans in the present war and that it is M being conducted along the same lines as those M old Fritz pursued in the "Seven Years War." H That sets one to thinking. If old Fritz is still H the master spirit of the Teutons, how about the M other nations? Where is the ghost of the great WM Corsican He in life always insisted that artil- M lerjr was the decisive agent in battle. Is his soul M behind the! French batteries? And then how M about the Iron Duke? General French resembles M him in his sour, cold face, as seen In the pic- M B tures. Is his soul materialized in General Hj French? l Then Von Moltke Is he directing the trench K building? M And where does the iron soul of Bis- Mi marck come in? What love he had was for j Prussia, but not a ibit of It for the present kaiser. 1 And what of the souls of the Russian fighters i who through the centuries fought and died with M- imperturbable calm? Is the fiery soul of Skobe- K leff watching and wishing that ho might by his B presence stop any further Russian retreating? K1 Going still further back, how about England's Mf long line of heroes Nelson, Marlborough, Drake, m Howard, Richard the Lionhearted and the rest, V and then the terrible Goth and the still more H terrible Hun? ' No voice comes back to give us reassurance H that nothing after all is lost. There is no re- m sponso to the wireless S. O. S. from eternities H profound long distance. |