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Show No End of The War in Sight rl THE allies are meeting a most stubborn resist- It I ance on the Bosphorus. Still we suspect that 1JI the feeling in England is that Constantinople III must be taken, no matter what the cost ma'y be, III for until it is neither Egypt, the Suez canal nor II India is safe. gfl Egypt is filled with Mohammedans, in India IB there are seventy millions of them; it is clear II that if the war continues until all these forces are ! combined and shall have learned their power, IH nothing in southern Asia or northern Africa will ffl be safe against them. And Germany has stretched Jfl a railroad from the Mediterranean as far into l Asia as ancient Mesopotamia and should a peace l be patched up before Constantinople is taken and fl a clear way made for Russian ships out from EH the Black sea, the situation will be a cons'tant jjl menace to both Great Britain and Russia. This W is so manifest that it is not impossible that the jH next great drive of the Germans may to be secure jjfl a hold on the Balkan states and to try to raise ffl the seige on the Bosphorus. As the war develops, H the difficulty of estimating when it will close, fl grows greater and greater. Unless a pesti jfl lence comes, or the people in desperation rise )H up and demand peace, it is clear that there will H be no cessation until "the fiery hosts, now rol- ffl ling on the foe, shall be mouldering cold and H low." jfl |
