Show IS THE UNITED STATES JUSTIFIED IN ENTERING THE WAR WAH AGAINST GERMANY BY J P F gibbel part II 11 the standing ing army of engird numbered but about men jand they were scattered in id egypt south africa india in lief her colonies and other remote places as against germany and aus well trained soldiers the product of the law which compels each able bodied man in those empires to take a prescribed service iii ih training each year Er england gland france franca and russia were in a close defensive alliance and the first two named were pledged to the neutrality of belgium Belg iun a small I 1 nation of very lettla more than 12 souls belgium lies between germany and france hence frances anxiety I 1 for the neutrality of Belgium which is known as a buffer statland state and whose neutrality germany was also solemnly pledged to respect OF RUSSIA since the russia japanese war the russian government had permitted her army and and arnis arms plants to so deteriorate that she was totally unprepared for war in ad addition altion the cias wife is a cousin of tile the kaiser and the entire russian government was honeycombed honey com combed ed with german agents and spies I 1 degenerate FRANCE owing to the gay gay pleasure loving nature of frenchmen suicidal policy ot 0 bl birth irth control ekich agich has held the french nation down to t population of close to souls led the german government to believe that France had degenerated ae jt poa that the tha old f fighting ight ing blood and spir spirit lt had been vitiated hence franc frances es army ot of some 4 soldiers would offer bat but slight comparative resi resistance resist stence enre GERMANYS WORLD EMBRACING AMBITION such suell were th the conditions condition when austria began the invasion of serbia german officers had trained train od the turkish army prior to the turkish balaan balkan war and led the turkish irmy army during the struggle germany also furnis furnished tied the 4 major part of the arms hud and ammini ammunition tion consumed by tte te turkish armr arav and which as a neutral she lid had a right to do and which for the ibe same thing illing nearly every german on earth has been cursing the people of f the united states bee because a u s e of f the dose close relations bet betheen VP yeen ell germany and turkey during the balkan kanaar war the former nation knew that hat turk turkey ey when re requested e ted would enter the impending conflict as hn an ally bahe oahe of the Teu tons y thus germany was vas prepared for her j world embracing war of conquest As proved by her strategy during the first weeks of the grat gedat conflict gerany germony would invade france through belgium A to whom sloe she had made offers of rep reparation a ra 0 of f ail all damages kamages that might be incur incurred through the easm passing i ng of the german hosts bests brough her neighbors territory she would beat down france disarm disarm her soldiers and then turn on england and R russia asil with those nations nation also salso at her feet the remainder of abb ana pro gramme would be easy 6 germany has for years fretted under the restraints 6 of 1 tho the monroe ottrine doctrine oc trine which prevented her from gaining a foothold in this western hemisphere read repeatedly germany has mada proposals to Den denmark nArk to pui purchase chase tite the dan ish india islands and through through aj di 1 i ahad had defeated the purchase of those wall I 1 blands aby b the united estates f states old aldr for and in con consideration de ration of bf 9 Q 0 I 1 coo paid to denmark now nowa floatie joau over that group u po of f othen i i wage ape worthless yorla les olcan tc island landaL is As an i t t ac Q the monroe monroa darine it germany cabeen been industriously luid pe ka I 1 colonizing armentina Ara entina h J M n sub atil there a are re about f man ninny n germans in that as there are in the united states THE FATEFUL HOUR HAD STRUCK that an understanding existed be I 1 t the kaiser and francis joseph regarding the immediate beginning of the he worldwide conquest is now self ev ident desiring to avoid tile the terrible burden burden that would forever rist rest on the kaiser if i it t could be bd proved that he precipitated the awful conflict hi h c D went on a yachting trip to the coast of oi norway A wireless apprised the german war hordof the beginning of the invasion of serbia under forced draft he ha hastened his return to derbany Germany the fateful hour had struck which would plunge europe into info the most deadly murderous inhuman uri unnecessary necessary and insane conflict of all time the military machine of germany was in f perfect condition with every prussian butcher at his exact position waiting for the eagerly watched for signal the invasion of serbia a was quickly followed by the mobilization of russ dussias Rus sias las army in his anxiety to have the world believe that germany had been attacked by the allies he wired the czar asking for the reason for the mobilization during more mode than corf forty years english statesmen had 8 spent bent weary days dabs and sleepless nights preparing plans plan ifor for the defense of england while the li people eople dimly sensing the danger shuddered as they contemplated the enormous and rapidly increasing military strength of germany their only hope for peace or deferred conflict was based on the hope that a daughter of queen victoria was the mother another of Willi Wilhelm elm the kaiser but they also knew that the most degenerate descendant of the I 1 berns had in his youth cure cursed ed his mother because she was english that war might be avoided or deferred france had yielded to germany in 41 a depute over then respective south southa african possessions po sessions english statesmen shuddered as they sensed the rumbling of the volcano of passion hate and greed of power upon which during more mor e than forty years all europe had been slumbering A personal repeal was made ib to tile the kaiser tta that all questions pertaining to the invasion of bf serbia be submitted to a european court of arbitration the hour toward which the war hungry kaiser had looked forward had arrived and his reply re ply I 1 no it is too late forever gives the lie to his persistent claim that the war on the part of germany is defensive that thai they are fighting for the existence ol of the Father fatherland landl 1 when ahe ahe call to arms rang through throughout fit germany i very every man to whom thic the call yas was made ceased his p peaceful pursuits went to the place of rendezvous took from his neck the small ke keyt 7 y unlocked unlock ed his locker ex excean changed 9 his civilian suit for the uniform of death shouldered his gun and was ready to take his place in the mighty struggle for the I 1 survival H of the fittest and his r place in afi the wn stin within twenty four hours from the time ame the kaiser gave the signal the fatherland echoed to the piercing notes of bugles bugle A r and to the tramp 0 ot marching mill millions igns millions toward the russian frontier frondi f er and other millions toward the belgian boundary the french army was waa concentrating within five miles of if hernor her northern than fronti erand and tensely watching to see what little litile be belgium lium 9 would do every school boy and girl knows what belgium did god bless bleas her and her heroic sons and daughters daug hiers the remainder of the awful story y of the t two wo years and nine months since august an gust first 1914 is so recent that it is to more than point out a few incidents of that which is ineffaceably burned into our memories me moriea I 1 excepting a very small portion belgium is prostrate under the ille iron heel af pf the german despot her cities towns and villages razed her industries ruined her people it starving arving notwithstanding americas efforts to feed them an and d from 0 i the ahe alq bloodstained blood stain stained jin ed h homes 0 n ls the r aids cries I 1 atti It ti ail t 4 J V alf of women ana a rl girls gir s outraged butr F agea uy by moal j frenzied by wine and the taste of blood stridently aly n lse se to the god of 16 nations t for X separation e 1 ar aion and the only satisfaction is thre there is just now in sight is Is that the fiend von bissing the murderer of edith cavell and the brutal supervisor of torture is dead died on the lath dinst peace to his ashes note its it was believed beli eyed last week by the writer that the story including the part the united states will play in the war and her here destiny stiny in n eventually bringing ing peace to the world could be ba condensed into two contributions but it will require ti another nother article which will appear next week in the chieftain J F G |