Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-12-21 | Page 13 | Futility of War is Book's Lesson

FUTILITY OF WAR IS BOOK'S LESSON Spoelal Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Doc 20. Terrific slaughter and destruction by land and sea In a war 'between England and Germany aro described in a sensational volumo Just publlshod. written by an anonymous German Ger-man naval ofllcer. Tho author thlnlts neither aldo would win such a war, vhllo both would meet appalling ruin. War was declared on Christmas eve, and at ouco the news was rocolved that a British submarine had attacked and sunk the Gorman protected cruiser Gnel-senau Gnel-senau in Chinese wator.s, wlillo tho German Ger-man battle cruiser Goebon, scouting In Danish waters, detected the presence of several Brltlsb ships. Tho next two chapters relate some courageous scouting lights mado by British Brit-ish military airmen, trying to find the German home fleet, which was anchored ofC Wilhelmaliaven. Airman Dudley Hob-son, Hob-son, acting on the first lord of the admiralty's ad-miralty's Instructions, llles over to Germany Ger-many from Salisbury Plain, passes un-headed un-headed over the great German military nort. and Is ablo to roport with perfect precision about all tho enemy's resorvo ships. He then attumpta tho second part of his mlsslon-the destruct on of tl o Wllhelmshaven docks In which ho also la ClThesJofUhapponings are, only a prelude the climax of the war being a peat sea hn ttli when tho German and British noeta meot between Borkum and Heligoland Heligo-land Tho battle ends In England's victory.' vic-tory.' owing to her fleet being more pow-erFu pow-erFu both In numbers and efficiency. "Ac" a day of fierce lighting, tho Gorman Gor-man commander, seeing several of h e filiMt shins silenced forever, plucoa his Sst hopes in tho smaller craft, and displays dis-plays the following signal: . P "The admiral will not return to harbor before Uio homo seas aro cleared of tn enThoy'followlng reply comes from every n?None VlSTcennan ehlps Id able to offer tho slightest resistance. Germany having lost the first move In thn pame tho Zeppelins como on the etta. Four military airships are secret-?y secret-?y Sent to England, ilylns at night with Ihrhts out. Each, succeeds in fulfilling: lt mission, one pouring explosive over the Snellen reserve lloet anchored in the Solent, So-lent, another settlnc the PortsmpuUi wharves ablaze and .dropping a ""PP,1" montary bomb on Nelson'sVlctory, and a tnlrd bombarding Uio Hanvlck doclca. Tho laat waH intrusted with tho task f blowUir up London. It appears at C a S, over oxford circua. 3000 feet In tho nir and drops bombs, destroying London bridge the Tower and Greenwich ob-servltory, ob-servltory, and on tho way homo showery mHlnlto over Dover. The four airshlpe return to Germany undamaged. Now the war Is practically over, England havinff won on the sea and Germany in the nir. In a dramatic summing up In the last chapter, the English premier, speaking In tho houso of commons, announces that noaco has boon urranged. and Bays; P "Nothing has been gained by otther nlde", and the loss by both has been ap-nalllng. ap-nalllng. Tho war has proved that we cannot wlpu Germany out of existence, nor can tho Germans ellmlnnto us. Tho lime has como for a last understanding, j and on these hopeful worda Hie book ends. J