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Show Is The "War Lord" to Grasp the Earth? W. G. Fitz-Gorald, in tho North American Review, Re-view, discussed the question: "Does Germany menace tho world's peace?" and he makes a startling showing surely. The world knows about the German army, with its 5,000,000 of men, including reserves; but it will be an astonishment aston-ishment to read that Germany is hurrying to completion four battleships vastly superior to tho British Dreadnaught, and proposes as swiftly as possible to add fourteen more to tho list. That these ships will carry half as many again great guns in their main batteries and a host of smaller guns in their secondary batteries. Then the guns of the Dreadnaught are 10 and 11 Inch, while those of the Germans will be 13 inch, fir-" ing 735-pound shells, with a force which will penetrate 12-inch Krupp armor at 7,000 yards, or over four miles. Then it is claimed that the perfected German guns are the most destructive over conceived of. In addition Germany is building 15,000, 17,000 and 19,000 ton cruisers with a speed of twenty-five twenty-five knots, and all fearfully armed, and also a multitude of Smaller craft, including G00-ton tor- L pedo boats, while in submarine boats sho excels fl the world. fl And the Emperor frankly asserts that he Il wants his navy for offensive purposes, and again declares that Germany must keep on until sho shall become as "authoritative as was the lll Roman empire." H The writer declares that when Germany's ffll navy shall bo complete it will be iti more scien- P tific hands than even the Japanese. L- At the same time she is deepening her har-bors har-bors and changing her ports to accommodate her ships; and more significant still, her population is increasing more than twice as rapidly as that of both England and France. It Is known that this is intended to increase her colonial power, and as she cannot do that ll with England in the way, the conclusion is that il Holland will be the first country to be taken in ll and then England. The hato between England ! and Germany is already most intense, and the estrangement increases daily. This writer thinks it would bo easy for Ger- 'jH many to make a descent upon the English coast and land 250,000 of her veteran soldiers, under protection of her fi is expected that it will jH require from five to to mrs to perfect her navy, and possibly In that she will, by the wish of ! the Germans in Austria, annex that empire, which would give her some more millions of fight- il ing men. Then again the writer thinks that Germany jH has longing eyes upon Brazil If she can but get llH the United States to waive her Monroe doctrine Jk lnsistance. jH Surely thero is nothing small about the pro-gramme pro-gramme that is marked out. Wo wonder that the writer did not include the fact that the German il Emperor is the oldest male heir of Victoria and ' has always had a belief that he should of right be King of Great Britain. 'H Of course no one knows what the future holds 'k in waiting for the nations, but before the War i'H Lord of Germany could accomplish all that he i'l would have the French and the entire Anglo- Jl Saxon races to subdue, and that looks like a large lH undertaking. Ho may have superior guns and shells, but he ull I cannot build ships any faster than the British can, and then there Is a good depl in the nien behind the guns. By the way, this wU ho a situation for the Peace Congress to- consider when it meets at The Hague next : week." In its door will stand the War Lord insisting that there must bo no limitation put upon armaments until her gets his eighteen greater Proaduaughts completed and the rest of his fleet in preparation. |