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Show Interesting Paper On The War IN the current Century is a short, but most interesting in-teresting "and instructive paper from the pen of Major John Bigelow, HJ. S. A., retired, on "the 'Call to Arms in Europe." .Many things are explained in the article that few civilians know much about and the article is a gem in styla and diction, so both for pleasure and Instruction Instruc-tion it should be read. The writer believes the cause of the war was really the long-continued rivalry between the Slav and Teuton; that the real principals are Russian and Germany, the rest being merely Allies, and that the final decision of the Avar must take place on German or Russian soil. The writer gives no opinion as to how or when the war will end, but in the conduct of the war he thinks Germany has the vantage ground, because of the geography which enables her to make quick combinations and because of the homo-genity homo-genity of her people. He does not believe that the lack of money on either side will stop it. Nor does he 1 e there will be a lack of food unless un-less the combined fleets of the Allies make what will be equal to an effectual blockade of the ports of neutral countries through which Germany Ger-many might desire to obtain food. From the article one obtains a new idea of the labor and skill required in the concentrating movement and handling of the gigantic forces engaged, and the final thought is that the utmost ut-most limit has been reached; that henceforth the nations must seek other means beside wars to adjust their differences or drift back into barbarism. bar-barism. The most striking thought awakened upon reading the paper is that, after all, the determining deter-mining factor may be the sea forces of the contending con-tending countries. But really even civilians have been straining their ears for days to hear of a naval battle the most fearful in ocean annals a battle of huge steel monsters on the waters and of those assassins as-sassins called sub-marines beneath the surface. It is claimed that if a pebble is dropped in mid ocean the vibration it starts will continue to the ocean's shores. If the full navies of iBreat Britain and Germany over meet In battle, the vibrations from It will shake far off continents conti-nents to their bases. |
