ns + > PAGE TEN THE DAILY BRITI3H WHIG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1914. EE GERMAN NAVY LEADERSFIERCE COSSACKS ATTACK ENEMY'S CONVOY| i ADMIRAL YON TIRP TIRPITZ, THE MAN E WHO MADE KAISER'S NAVY. ING S-- Albert. .Ballin's Job----Has Been the & Building Up of the Fatherland's Merchant Marine, § Fréderick Willlam Wile . # When the history . of Germany's v mighty naval development comes to be written one pame will stand out ~in boldest relief--Von Tirpitz. To ® this giant, fork-bearded sailor-states- - a magnificent specimen of Tou of the old school, must on's share of the credit for persistent aggressiveness wilh > which the Fatherland has rushed | to the front rank as a sea power, He is he réal creator of oe kaiser's ¥ kg Eternal" they call hin in' Berlin Mor nearly fifteen years hy has oo unbrokenly at the helm No other German minister but Bis watck ever survived the vicissitudes of politics so long. lmperial chan eellors have come and gone. War winifters, foreign secretaries, chan ¢ vellors of the exchequer, home secre oe kot etnd postmasiel general have and disappeared by the it dozen. , . i the man who designed launched the naval law thas gone on forever--an enduring embodiment of the Fatherland's determined and con sistent bid for power at sen It was my privilege to i Anglo-German naval "policy with Von Tipitz. He is suavity word frankness ¢ incarnate. He conlessed unreservedly that His idea of German sea power was that the Fatherland must iteeli cas soon 'as pos wile is throw' decisive weight into the political seales wherever its vital ititerests were concerned t itz the and discuss Two-to-Three Standard, Spaeifically, 'he favored the two-to ¢ threo sstandard as the only gonl com patible 'with Gesman necessities, as far as Great Britain was concerned He believed that the possession of a o-thirds as powerful n offen er ak the British navy would "preven combined Anglo operations against i id making naval war { fare, in the spirit of the fleet law's ble, a grave risk for Britain. He beliov: religiously in the in- yincible superiority of the German 4 _gune--that they would decide the is duo to Gesmany's imperishable glory on the day when the kaiser's Trafal- ar was to be fought and won. Hc nied. Germany's culpability for the inous competition in naval arma ments. Me averrod the author of the . or tL 'was alope guilty. He dis- claimed nofion that the German fleet wassbuilt for aggression, and he was irrevoeably opposed to limiting ils development by agreements of an kind. Albert Ballin, Creator. ' What Von Tirpitz has done for the German fleet, Albert Ballin, di- + rector-general of the Hamburg-Am- # erican line, has done for the German * mercantile marine. He bas made it . Ballin, of Hamburg, stands in the # shme relation to the kaiser as did £ those counsellors of another genera- tion to those sovereigns and govern- § ments--Rothschiid, of Paris, to Na- poleon Iii, and Bleichroeder, of Berlin, to Emperor William I., and Bismarck. Having tried and failed repeatedly to- make him a cabinet 4 minister, William Il, advises with the director-general of the Hapag. , Ballin always insists he can be of ! more service to the fatherland on the Alsterdamm than in the Wil | helmstrasse. On one of the various occasions when the kaiser sought to saddle a ministership on Ballin, or tack von _ on to his plebian name, or give him i+ hereditary membership in the Prus- sian House of Peers, Ballin com- promised by accepting his majesty's The guards. Cossac an at Russian picture shows famons The photograph The kaiser inseribed it: "To the far-seeing and tireles pioneer of our commerce and export trade," GEN. SIR JOHN FRENCH. Who Is In Command of the Forces The chief command of the English forces in the field has been allotted to Field Marshall Sir John French, who is leading the troeps despatch- ed to the assistance of Belgium. Un- til a few months ago he was chief of the general staff of the army, a post which he resigned owing to his dif- ferences with the government in con- nection with the military disposi- tions for dealing with any disturban- ces resulting from the armed move- ment in Ulster. When the European war broke out his appointment as Inspector-General of the British for- ces was announced the same day as that of Earl Kitchener as secretary of state for war. Sir John, the son naval officers, was originally intend- ed for the church, was sent against his will into the navy, and after at taining the rank of lieutenant, quit ted the sea in order to join the army as a hussar officer. He enjoys the well merited reputation of being the most able cavalry leader of the Bri tish army, and won fame as such during the Boer war. But with all that, he still rides like a sailor, that is to say very un- gracefully. Indeed, he is not a goed British and grandson of Tt a et A A A Pg et At at rete ks ave at their best when attacking tack on a supply trai rider, which is all*the more astonish- ing in view of his prowess while a young subaltern in regimental stee- plechases, French first saw active service in Egypt, and took part in the unsue- cessful Nile expedition under Lord Wolseley for the relief of General Gordon at Khartoum. Later on, while stationed at "Al dershot, he incurred a good deal of criticism, and even censure, on the part of his military superiors, for embarking in cavalry tactics that did not commend themselves to generals of the old school, and his career was regarded by many, in consequence thereof, as ended. But the late General Sir Redvers Buller gave him his chance when the Boer war broke out, selected him as a member of his staff, and ended by placing him in command of his cav- alry It was at the head of the latter, by means, of a forced march, that French relieved the siege of Kimber- ley, and further assisted Lord Kitch- ener in the crushing of Cronje, and | in the capture of his entire force Sir John is. a very.short, stout man, ofiparely five feét, with a white moustache, is net ofer popular in the service, where he has been accus- ed of undue favoritism, where officers of birth and title are concerned. A man who can dispose of his trou bles for a consideration §s a genius. The tastes of a millionaire may be imprisoned in a pauper's purse, At home, or travelli sugal and cream. Postum has a rich; 'Bess, sleeplessness, indi solving a teaspoonful of the soluble caffeine, the poisonous dimg in tea an In Goes a "in of Instant Postum have this delightful beverage, bv dis- to ng, it's aasv Powder in a cup snappy Havowr coffee. Some people find that both tea and coffee often ¢ gestion, ete,--and that sue with a change to "There's a Reason " Canadian Postum Cereal Cu. Lids Windsor, Ont. and is pure and absolutely bh. tronbles usuallye vanish of hot water, and adding free Trem ause headache, nervous- especially | J the enemy's' supply trains, or his rear |" THE THREE AUTERNATIV For the German Fleet In the North Sea. the, Kiel Canal, it:has only three oth: operate with any degree of safety. These places are Heligoland, Cux- haven, and Wilhelmshaven. The last- named place would appear to offer the greatest advantages, and the fact that the Germans veceatly have made very elaborate additions to the harbor, constructed an outer and an inner basin, guarded by several mol- es, inside of all being a torpedo har- bor, with the whole situation domin- ated by powerful forts on the main- land, indicates that they expected to turn it to important use some day. Wilhelmshaven ig easily 70 miles south of the island of Heligoland and about 50 miles south west of Cuxhaven, whieh is at the mouth of the Elbe River. } A glance at the map will show | that the forts at Cuxhaven are in- | tended to dominate the entrance to { the Elbe River, and therefore to the Kiel Canal. The river is 20 miles wide at Cuxhaven, and it would ap- pear that it could be navigated at least 12 miles north of the Cuxhaven forts, which makes it very question- | able whether daring fwarships could {not run past. | The island of 'Heligoland, whieh | Britain foolishly ceded to Germany few years ago, after having it in ther possession since 1807, has been | converted into a most powerful fort- ress, with guns of tremendous pow- er, which are invisible from the sea. The island is only a mile tong, and it is high and roeky, and probably could 'not be reduced much easier than Gibraltar. It has a new artifi- cial harber, 'which could hold the centre German battle fleet. But al Heligoland the German fleet ebuld be absolutely surrounded' by hostile fleets and starved into submission. The last place to which the German fleet should flee would be to this is- land. There it has uo chanee of get- ting its back agaimst the wall; the enemy can get behind it. So that eof the four places, Heligoland, the Kiel Canal, Cuxbaven, and Wilhelmshaven the last named 'would be the natural choice as a (Ferman base of opera- tions against the British fleets. Great Britain Kept Her Word Lreiruit News: A little while ago a large num- her of Americans were sneering at our government because it thought it ought to keep faith with Great Britain in a. little business matter concerning the Panama canal. This was dalled truckling to England, howing down to erowns and. baubles. 't was said that Great Britain would very soon throw the hooks into us if she got. the chance, and that all this talk about "national honor" was bosh, anyway. Honor between na- tions? Pooh! Well, just the other day & ques- tfon of national honor was put up 'o Great Britain. It didn't concern a cent or two one way or the other on & ton of freight. It concerned the lives of men, the expenditure of fabulous sums of money--it meant seething pot of War as a 'precious stake. Great Britain had given Ber Word-- her primise--no more bind- ing whatever than was our eanal oromise to her--that in the event' of tronble «he would ciand by ane-of he neighbors. For a on ous siitesmen consider gk to back ot of that pron oth~ roomates mon fried: zo back on her werd! on earth would distrusi that." Th . the ablest strategist, J Ing | If the German main fleet is not in er possible. places from which iv can' the casting of the empire into the! MEN AT THE WEAD OF RUSSIA'S ARMY. ' ------------ I Sukomlinoff and Grand Duke Nicholas Both Brilliant Cavalry- i. men, Russia's gigantic army---which on its present war is 'estimated as numbering over six million men is under the chief command of two men, namely Gen. Sukomlineff and the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaio- vite. The latter is to direct the op- erations in the field as generalissimo whereas the former remains at St. Petersburg as minister of war. Unlike most of his predecessors at the war department, Sukonilinoff is a Slav and a Russian Nationalist. His work, until summoned from Kieff a few years ago to assume the task of reorganizing the military for- ces of Russia, ax minister of war, was Sutil concerned with the stra- tegic problem of the western fron- tiers of the empire. He took part in neither the Chinese nor Japanese wars, nof In any of the Asiatic cam- paigns, but fought brilliantly in the Turkish War of 1877, lebrated Gen. favorite lieutenant he was and whom he au ed in command of t south-western provinces with head- quarters at Kieff. Till he came to St. Petersburg 4s minieter he knew little or nothing' of court circles, but reached the ca- pital 'with the reputation of being the most clever organizer, and the most capable commander of the catre army, as tined to play an important role in the war with Ausitia and Germany Of course he has encountered nun. erous obstacles in nis task of plae- the Russian army upon a Pghi- ius, basis, sinee it wus nocessary for rank and political influenc> in order to make way for men more capable, The czar, however, and Grand Dulte Nicholas Nicholaiovitch, realizing the excellent work which the was doing, backed him up through thick and thin, and not even the sensational scandal in connection with the divor- ce of the lovely Mme. de Butkewitch in 'which he played a leading role, and her subsequent marriage to him, were ablé to shake his position. By profession he is a cavalryman and if Russia is to-day in a position {o show a hold front to Austria and | Germany, instead of being compell- {ed to comply with their demands, as in 1909, when, owing to the unread- ness of the czar"s army the empire' world, it is wholly due to Gen. Su- komlinoff. As for the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaiaviteh, he is probably the | tallest. member of the reigning house of Russia, and looks what he is, 'a born éavalryman, spare of figure and of exceptionally distinguished bearing. . He won the St. George's Cross for conspicuous gallantry om the battlefields of the Turkish war of 1877, is the eldest son of late Grand Puke Nicholas Nicholaieviteh, who commanded the Russian army in man war department at Berlin, and by the military experts of Europe, as the most clever and brilliant cav- alry leader now living, and has for several years past been at the head of the military district of St. Peters~ burg and of the capital, and as such responsible for the safety of the czar, the reigning house, and of the goverament. Like Gen. Sukomlinoff he is married to a divorcee, his wife, Grand. Duchess Stana, one .of the daughters of the King of Montene- gro, having secured a dissolution of her union to_ the late Duke George of Leuchtenbery, in order to wed him. Canada's Business Outlook. Toronto Star Most of the business done in this country is deme ameng - ourselves; and itis not-well to overlook the fact that in all the lines of business that Have to do with the home market, the American market, and the Brit- ish market ----- except where berrow- ing and'Jending capital are concern- ed -- there is likely to be not a less- ened, but an ddcreased activity. Half the world has quit work and must be fed and clothed. .and have many things done for it that it-used to-do' for ftself. More than that, we will be commissioned to do for that halt of the world -many things that it used to do not only for itself, but for us This is an agricultural country, I the one man, above all otherg, des fii him to remove many ofhicers of high Fo wads humiliated in the sight of they that eampaign, is rated by the Ger:|' PR 'it's built of nickelled steel. 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