Show sh E E I it t f 1 ac F t c WHOLE WORLD WORL AT WAR s K k sF 1 4 rH k Hs sl sK a j More than tha one writer has baa recalled a n. famous passage In Macaulay I where In referring to the action of or Frederick the Great In seizing Silesia he says that as a consequence war ar broke out in lands In which the tho th name of at Prussia was unknown red savages scalping scalping scalping- one another in American forests and black men engaging engaging engaging en en- in battle on the coast of Coro- Coro mandel Two writers one In the New York Evening Post the other In the New York Times showed how Fredericks Frederick's work worl becomes relatively a small matter when the magnitude of at the tho present war comes under survey sur- sur vey vey- As they pointed out black menti men ti In this war pave fought each other In Nigeria f on the Gold coast and on the Kongo in Africa Dutch Burghers broke Into revolt In South Africa and were suppressed by the s sword ord Turkey Turkey Turkey Tur Tur- key came into a conflict which cost costher costher costher her thousands of or lives ll made her treasury more bankrupt than ever and still further contracted her domain domain domain do do- main in Asia as the Balkan wars ars had contracted it in Europe In great waters from Patagonia to the Malay peninsula from the North to the Yel rel Yellow low Sea from the Andes to the Dar Dardanelles Dardanelles a hat half score of battles battJes were fought by great ships one of these battles ort off being the most tremendous na naval al conflict the Seven Sevell Seas ever saw Not alone in Belgium Fr France nce and Russia but In African jungles in the mountain passes of at Caucasia among the highest peaks of ot the Alps in Karpathian defiles In the traditional cradle radle of at the human race even on the called so site of ot the Garden Garden of Eden and where the Tigris and Euphrates mingle their waters before entering the Persian Gulf Gult successive campaigns were undertaken undertaken undertaken un un- in one of which Bagdad with her shrines of or fretted gold H K X X Hf K loll fell into British hands Off Oft the coast of oC Ireland more than 1200 noncombatants noncombatants noncombatants non com men women and children were drowned by the sinking of or one ot of the worlds world's largest Atlantic steam steam- ships Constantinople the ancient city of oC Byzantine Greeks imperial Romans and Ottoman Turks suffered Buttered bombardments from airplanes and at Gallipoli resisted one of at the most memorable struggles In combined naval and military warfare the world has lies known Russia for several centuries centuries cen cen- the most complete autocracy in Europe was wholly transformed politically politically politically po po- po- po and socially by a revolution only less remarkable than the French Revolution Re in that it was effected with smaller loss of life and with only only on on- ly lr temporary disorders With the completion of oC three years of conflict Germany and her allies find arrayed against t them lem in addition addition addition addi addi- tion to tho ten states which went to towar towar towar war with her In the first months of ot the conflict ten others great and small Including the United States and Brazil while six others In con consequence consequence consequence sequence of submarine operations severed relations with her and at at times seemed ab about ut ready to declare war and ancl three more declared themselves themselves them them- se selves ves In a state of benevolent neu toward the United States Following Following Fol lowing Is a lI list t of the three classes At war with Germany GermanY Servia Montenegro Russia France Belgium Belgium Bel Bel- gium dum Great Britain Japan lapan Portugal Italy Arabia San Marmo Rumania Monaco United States Brazil Cuba Panama Bolivia Greece Sla Slam Siam with Germany severed severed- China Liberia Haiti Honduras Nicaragua Guatemala Benevolently neutral toward the United States States Chile Chile Uruguay Argentina Ar Ar- gentina 1 |