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Show j Europe Secret Peril -Anafligr AfftU I Ifc "The Horde," Painted by 0. D. V. GUloumct. Drhing Irresistibly Across Europe, the Huns Burned and Scared the Land, Slaughtering the Hon and Forcing the Women, Like Beasts of Borden, to Draw Their Hugo Carts. "T" H If) There is ono terrifying question It which Europe, afraid to speaic it llj aloud, yet continually preyed upon P by its horriblo significance, whispers It; to itself, "What of the eastern IP peril'" ' In Western civilization is constantly contemplating the appearance of L some new Attila, another "Scourge of God," who will marshal tho savin sav-in age tribes of Asia and lead them in (' ono tidal wave upon war-weakened If, Europe. II' The Germans are already UBing (he my. Turks; hundreds of thousands of the Moslems are attacking Egypt under . export Teutonic guidance. Hordes li of them are being schooled and dis ciplined in tho most modern military science preparatory to a gigantic onslajught upon the allies. The Mohammedan Mo-hammedan is whipping up tho fury of the African, slowly and artfully. The wild tribes that still roam over the Himalayas have never been civilized in even the manner of the Hindus. The interior of China contains con-tains some desperate peoplo who spring into armed activity as the occasion oc-casion offers. Only recently tho rebellion re-bellion of the lawless clans under the "Whlto Wolf," a native bandit leader, was put down, but its successors suc-cessors are .according to tho last reports, re-ports, threatening the Chinese government gov-ernment and the Japanese influence within tho empire. It is estimated that 6,000,000 Asiatics Asi-atics could rise in a short timo and come swooping down upon Europe. This war has brought out one very disconcerting fact before the eyes of the Christian nations. Tt Is that Turkey is not tho "sick man" which they so fondly pictured, and imagined imag-ined Tho Young Turk movement seems to have given tho ancient country renewed strength and to have made Its fighting forces at least serious items in world affairs. Twico have the trained forces of England been seriously repulsed by tho valiant va-liant Moslems officered by Germans. At tho Dardanelles the allies ro ll m. fliir Van of Europe" has become young again and tho despised Turk has proven himself to bo tho best of IB fi Stamen armed with up-to-dal implements of slaughter, his defeats of England at the Dardanelles p i-atBagdad baring surprised tho world, WJKr i v--v H ceived tho most serious reverse of tho war because all their undoubted bravery and resources could not dis-lodgo dis-lodgo tho intrenched Mohammedans. Always a desperate and hardy soldier, sol-dier, tho Turk has learned how to shoot, as the pitiful casualties fiom tho Aegean regions testify. Again tho Britishers attacked, this time from the southeast. A force came up from the mouth of the Euphrates across country to take historic 1 lag-dad lag-dad and a few miles from tho City of Haroun-al-Raschid they were defeated de-feated openly and severely. Another Anoth-er hugo army of Turks and Germans is threatening the Suez Canal and Egypt. Tho Hindu, too, is well armed. Tho first of what is feared to be a long series of revolts was discovered to bo composed of fanatics who used modern rifles and ammunition. At each manifestation of this savage sav-age power that still lurks In tho East tho thinning ranks of Europe shudder. Romo did not dread the Huns. It sneered at them. It did not estimate its weakness as Europe now does. Europo is beginning to understand its danger. Germany is using tho anti-Christian forces as a desperate resort It, too, doubtless senses tho danger, but is staking its every effort to defeat tho allies and is too far into tho maelstrom to retreat re-treat and to discard tho all too-efficient power of tho savages. Romo attempted to "pooh-pooh" tho peril of the Hun until it was too late. In 201 B, C. tho Huns had conquered con-quered China and wero flooding the West Historians differ in analyzing analyz-ing this horde. Some call them Tartars, Tar-tars, others Huns; in any event thoy woro short, hairy, ferocious horsemen horse-men who knew neither tho meaning of mercy nor tho fear pf armed onemles. When they had como as far as Persia they divided, half going go-ing south into Mesopotamia and half into tho upper regions Just east of tho Carpathian Mountains. Tho southern kingdom lost much of its savagery and finally In tho third century fell apart, but tho northern tribes held together and camo west slowly, steadily, irresistibly. irresist-ibly. They ruled Siberia, Persia and India. By tho year 375 they had overcome the Goths who lived west of tho River Volga, and had absorbed ab-sorbed many of tho lesser tribes of that people Into their own polyglot poly-glot race. Tho main body of tho Goths fled to tho shelter ot Rome, and tho next few years were consumed in tho Gothic-Roman war. In tho meantime mean-time tho Huns, content to spread their influence to the northwest, went to tho Baltic sea and covered upper Germany. Tho lower regions of Russia wero conquered by them and the Cossack tribes of today bear strong evidence of tho Tartar blood which theso invaders left Attila came to the seat of power in -133 A. D. Ho organized his nomadic no-madic followers into a solid army, created tho domination of tho Hun whero before there had been merely raiding, and inaugurated a system of organized terrorism which ovorawed in turn Rome, Greece and tho By zantine Empire of the south. He undertook to make a completo conquest con-quest out the oft-raided districts of western Germany and of Franco and completely devastated tho country coun-try until met at the battle of Chalons by the allies, who put up tho last stand of civilization. Theso Greeks and Romans were aided by the vigorous vig-orous German tribes, who, themselves them-selves regarded as savages by the Romans, in their turn looked upon tho Huns in the same light Attila with consummate skilly however, drew off his defeated wild men without losing their devotion or without permitting their dipersal, and, returning to Italy, laid waste tho land in bloodthirsty fashion. ' His reputation suffered little from M tho reverse at Chalons and his namo H grew in terror-Inspiring attributes H until he suddenly died from the ex- M cesses of an orgy in 453. At his re- M linquishment of tho reins of govern- H ment tho kingdom of tho Huns fell H apart and they woro overwhelmed M in their turn by the Avars. H Such In brief is the tragedy of M helpless Europo in an earlier day. M That it may be duplicated is Eu- H rope's dread, and a dread that M seems moro and more possible with H each succeeding month of wasted H wealth and destroyed lives. M (Copyright, I91C.) jH I GPP . I "The Invasion of the Barbarians," by H. LouTet. This wild, ferocious Mbe was disorganized, crudely armed, yet M it -vanquished tho trained legions of Home; their modern prototypes will appear in tho near future, Europo M fears, coming irlth repeating rifles, IH LroMladf nifln TOUT !S!BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl |