Daily British Whig (1850), 20 Jan 1916, p. 9

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12 PAG E 3 YEAR 83, NO, 16 ONLY WINNING ON THE MAP But The Map Is a Liar, Says Palmer, KAISER 1S HEMMED IN BY SUMMER GERMANY "SHOULD SUE FOR PEACE. Fredevick Palmer, the Great War Carrespondent, Points Qut, Where- in the Conflict Favors theNAllies, Frederick Palmer the American war correspondent, who has had an exceptional opportunity to gauge the trend of the war by his personal ob servations, writing in Collier's Week 4 ermany winning? On ~the map she is She has all of Belgium except a sliver; the richest portion of 'France; the best part of Poland, and Serbia is overrun Except in: her oversea colonies, the foot of noi for eign soldier is on Germany's soil. She is fighting entirely on that of her enemies, her old frentier intact. The Italians hold a small portion of Aus iria; a thin slice of Galicia is still in Russian hands This at the end of seventeen months! When are the Allies to begin their offensive , Say all you will about "attrition" and "exhaustion," those snake lines drawn on Russian and French and Serbian soil stare the Allies in the face Germany goes on advancing When will the tide turn? Still the Allies are fighting to hold They are not gaining not enough =o that you can see it on the map 'Germany must be winning, the wise neutral, thinking the hordes of prisoners Germany has taken, and with his dispassionate eve on that map But in, this war the map ig the greatest liar in the world For Germany is not winning says of The Map is a Liar. The map is a lar unless it covers the whole world abd includes the seas and continents. If it does, England is winning too---by the map But perhaps nobody is winning Per- haps everybody is losing I knew a man who won a thousand dollars in Wall street, but it cost him five thou- sand to win it He was judging by a land map and not a world map In common with Germany, Eng land has not a single foreign soldier on her soil. Her empire is intact She has annexed Egypt and Cyprus, taken German West Africa and Togo land and German Samba and. a Tew other bits of outlying domain In order to win, all that England had to do waw to' hold what she while Germany; in order to win, must gain territory It is really a war hetween England and Germany--on one side to hold, on the other to have. England holds Germany does not have. She strangl for want of what England pessesses. Take your map of Europe, extend (1% line from Flanders, following the British bhlock- ade, to Iceland, and you have only half the map fact. That line from the Channel to leeland the most important of all. Yet none of the newspapers ever publish it Extend it across Italy, blockading the shores of Bulgaria, and Turkey to Suez, and vou have more of the map fact EN Only Chance. If Germany does win, it will not he due to her advance in France in the summer of 1914" or to her ad- vance in thé East in 1915, but to hav- ing brought Turkey, and Bulgaria into the war. Her campaign in tre Near East is her big card The sick man of the East is the weight in the balagce against the Brétish and the Russian empires, the kingdom of It aly and the republic of Franca. - The Mohammedan may settle the future of Europe and Christian civi ligation in Europe. If that is not satire enough on European polities, then the entrance of Bulgaria on the German side fills the gap Four possessed, is OLD FOLKS NEED "CASCARETS" FOR * LIVER, BOWELS Nalts, calomel, pills act on like pepper acts in nostrils, howels Enjoy life ! 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They work while you sleep. whip extends her lines in Serbia and garia she needs correspondingly more! > a jash ES years ago Bulgar, Serb and were fighting under the Crossagainst the Crescent for religious liberation Germany's last stroke is toward the East. It is her last try for a knock ont blow \ Though she is on foreign soil, ev ery campaign she has made has fail- ed, Not one has gained ite object. All her major plans have failed. So perhaps, too, have the Allies' major plans. But it does not, therefore, follow that Germany is winning, | "Oh, then it's stalemate," you say. "Nothing like it," would be m; | answer. "This war will be won 112} its last three months. It is going to! be won between now and the first of | November next, 1 think test is to come." While Germany is giving the im-, pression to the world that she is win-| ning, her statesmen and her staff, have known from the 4th of. August, | 1%14, that she could not win. From] that day they were fighting to hold] instead of to have, just as England | was fighting to hold--fighting for the | stalemate on European soil which | meant that Germany was "held." | England may be on the defensive, but when shie went into the war she put Germany on the defensive also and Germany's only successful defen- sive, as we/shall see, must he a suc-| cessful land offensive England | knew that she had her stalemate! when the German attacks of a year 180 on the Aisne line failed and when her naval superiority was definitely established { Cracking Under Strain. 1 Germany ins that ghe win- | ning She te her people that she, is But have you ever looked: through the.German papers for co pies of letters by French ar British soldiers, or of letters from their rela at home, which sufgested any | thought of yielding? Yet with every hatch of German prisoners captured scores of" such letters are found in their possession The German sol- diers are showing the strain Their efficiency is decreasing; that of France and England increasing. And, make no mistake, those snake lines on the map indicating German sol- diers on the soil of the Allies, have been burned into thé brain of every | Englishman and Frenchman ! Suppose that all next spring and summer Germany throws herselr | against those lines of steel in vain. Suppose that a line of steel is across | her path in the Balkans as well as in Flanders and in Russia For ifeshe | Bul- ts is tives men to keep them intact. Suppose that, instead of being abl to take*the offensive, she uses her magnificent railroad system for rushing bodies of troops here and there in order to halt the offensive of thé Allies --what | will be the effect then upon German | sentiment? What would have been | the effect on Japanese sentiment if! the Russians had held out for another year and let the Japanese stew in! front .of their army? When Lord Kitchener told the ministers of the British Cabinet that the war would be long they were skephical But now\hey know that' he knew what he was 78 He counted upon winni hattle, That is the bat that Eng- | land has always had to Win, and usu-| ally has won, though we reversed ihe tablés in the American Revolution» She has always started in confi- dently, only to be beaten at first be- cause 'she was not ready. But: you may be sure the amazing brain trust which governs Germany, which | kitows how: to inflame the emotions | of its own people to its purpose,which unites great military leading with pery skillful statecraft, is never go-! ing to give the world sign that ghe is losing' , - Allies' Silver Bullets. { The once chance that Germany has | of winning is the chance that gave Japan victory Though beaten, she | may keep her- secrets 'so close, con ceal her wounds well, that she wil give the appearance of victory | and. deceive her enemies into com I promise, But if the Allies keep on for another eighteen months, and if they hold together, there is no doubf that Germany will be beaten. * And if their money Watch and see if it doesn't The Allied troops may never get to Berlin; they may never cross the Rhine; none of them may again enter East Prusia. But it will be Germany that will have to sue Yor terms because she is in a state of siege. Even rebellion in In- dia, of which she fondly dreams, could not change the event. The Sritish hold the sea They have the superiority in dreadnoughts and bat- tle cruisers whose guns can smash anything above water. The methods they use ih holding down the subma- rine campaign in the North Sea ought also to serve in the Mediterranean, Germany is in the position of a man who strikes for want of air, for | want of room. He lunges this way | and that with the craving for breath for his lungs and space for his limbs, He pushes the wall back a little, but it is still there, dashing his own blood back in Mis face, He breaks through one door, hut there is an- other beyond. The mental strain of such a' battle is as devere as the phy- sical. Next summer, if Russia comes back strong, and Turkey and Bulga-, ria 'are tamed, the walls will begin tol fall in on the Germans s0 lasts! | - IN NEW ENGLAND MILLS. 3 . Te 22,000 Operatives Assured crease th Wages. Providence, R.1L, Jan. 20, --A raise in pay for 22,000 operatives in virtu- ally all the textile. qgntres of * the state was assufed yeéstgrday through the posting of notices to employees in mills throughout the Buickstone and Pawtucket valleys, While the mount of the increase is not named, t is understood that it will be shout five per cent., to conform With that fir dther New England mills. | The movements began mills in this state last wee announcement that an ad be effective on January 17 to-day most of the other taken similar action: of Ine » in a few » With the ce would h and by ills had | are that the Arabic was deliberately | escape from it, e Daily KINGSTON, ONTARIO, " wr - ---- - . Pil sh THURSDAY, JANUARY 20 1916 NEUTRALS AND BLOCKADE, The great! . . HEARD BETTER Enthusiastic Recruiting Oratory: -- why aren't vou at the front Ar in mm ERMANS FEA AN ENQUIRY Into The Baraorg Case Lest Tney Lose. BRITAIN GIVES VIEW OF THE CASE. AND THE . HUN | SAATROCITING, i imei. Humane Sailors Laws Broken--British | Were Fired On While | Swimming Ashore To Safety. London, Jan. 19 I'he British of ficial view on the German note garding the Baralong wis out as follows "The Germans claim that their ar my and navy have observed, during the present war, the principles of in- ternational law and humanity, and and that the German authorities take care that all violations will b carefully investigated and punished. "Some surprise is expressed thal the nation whose armed forces have been respousible for the sack of Lou- vain, the murder of hundreds of un offending men, women and'echildren on the Lusitania and other ships, of execution of Edith Cavell, the intro- duction of poisonous gases, the pois oning of wells, attempted torpedoingz of hospital. ships and countless other atrocities, should describe their me- thods of warfare as humane How Many Punished, "It is further pointed would be interesting to many German subjects, been punished for these atrocities. The, Germans claim that the Arabic was torpedoed because the command- er of the submariné had the convié- tion that the Arabic was about" to ram the submarine The true facts | | re- given | caste that it know how if any, have out sunk by d German submarine with out warning, and that she neirzher at- tenipted to attack the submarine, nor "With regard to the destruction of the British submarine E-13 in Dan ish waters by a German torpedo boat destroyer, it is claimed that it eame to a 'fight between the war vessels and that the submarine defended it sell with gunfire The true facts are as follows: "The Germans found the submarine stranded in neu- tral waters and incapable of either offense or defence. The German de- THE NEWEST REMEDY, FOR Backache, Rheumatism and Dropsy. Kidney, Biadder and Uric Acid troubles bring misery to many. When the kidneys are weak or dise: i these natural filters do not cleanse the blood sufficiently, and 4 the poisons are carried to all parts of the i i body, There follow depression, aches Md pains, heaviness, drowsiness irrita- bills, headdiches, chilliness a rheu- matism. In some people there are sharp ns in the back and loins, distressing adder disorders and sometimes obstin- ate dropsy. The uric acid sometimes forms rave! or kidney stones. - When the uric acid affects the muscles and Joluts, it causes lumbago, rheumatism, gout or sciatich, This is the time to try ® Anuric." Send 10c. for trial package. During digestion uric acid is absorbed into the system from meat eaten, and even from some vegetables. The poor kidneys get téred and backache begins. This is a good time to take *Anuric," the naw discovery of Dr. Pierce for Kid- J]. uuble and Backache. Neglected kidney trouble is responsible for many deaths, and Insurance Company examin- ng rs always test the water of an applicant befors a policy will be issued. Ave yon ever set aside a bottle of water for twenty-four hours? 'A heavy sedi- ~~. | imports and starve the German peo Renmark is. Doing all Possible to Prevent Leakages, . London Jan. 20 In connection with foodstuffs reaching the Central Powers through neutral states the British Government recently sent a specially-qualified husiness man on a mission toy; Holland and Scandinavia to investigate whether the legations at the various capitals were doing their work efficiently in supervising agreements and contracts for pre venting leakage fo, Germany On his return he reported to the Gov ernment that everything possible w being--~done to prevent such leaka In behalt of the Government, it is jargued that, although in the rly months after the order-in-council large amgunts of contraband did suc ceed in reac hing Germany, the blocks ade since June has been very add is ever growing | Moreover, it is added jagreement only hecame operative in | November, aml if the statistics of trade since Nov€mber were published {they would show how the blockade 1 say, young man, way back there, |is continually tightening p as © g oa { | striet, more efficient the Danish WHERE HE WAS, { The Wonld-Not-Be Recruit: =--"Oh, | can hear well enongh where | RUMGRS ABGUT EGYPT an" TC MASK FOE'S Alm. | Germany 'Seeks to Divert At- tention From Campaign With India As Goal. Pe tro®au. Jar | dent of tha Rus | German designé Tn Agia, argues that | the German high command is delib- érately Spreading rumors of a pro- jected campaign in Egypt in order to { mask the trbe direction of the blow { which is aimed at Asi- | atic frontier and of E-13 her des stroyer fired torpedo The torpedo exploded At the time the rover with her guns, and of the E-1 whose submarine Was afire tore and aft, and! who was unable defend himsel owing io bejng aground, gave orders the. crew: to abandon her. While the men were in the water they were fired on by machine guns and with shrapnel at the close to German r a same fired commande the \' cerrespon to ovo, discussing to --e Case Of Ruel Fiendish. 'The Germans defend their action | India n the case of the Ruel on the ground | The correspondent cites that {it was a measure of 'reprisal in | changes cordance with ineasures anneunced | flux German instructors for the the German Government in Feb- | Turkish Army, and the persistent ruary, 191: It is claimed that |reports of the appearance of German hese reprisals are legitimate owing | units southeast of Urmiah Lake. Af- to the action of Great Britain in at- | ter the rupture the Serbian front tempting to cut off from Germany all Germany despatched troops to the Russian Asiatic frontier. the the Russian boundar the recent in Turkish generals, the.in by of ple. The Germans thus maintain their submarine policy in econsequen ce of the British German trade "This is, of gourse, quite untrue, exact opposite being the case As.far back as December, 1914, Ad miral Von Tripitz foreshadowed the submarine blockade of Great Britain and submarine attacks were made on a merchant ship and a hospital ship on Jan. 30th and Feb, 1st, respecti- vely. Moreover, as far back as Sep tember, 1914 ,a- Dutch ship, with a cargo of gr#n for Dublin and Bel- fast, was sunk by the Karlsruhe, and the Americall ¥hip Willlam P, Frye similarly was sunk on Jan. 28th. - "Further, on Feb. 4th, the German Government declared their intention of instituting a general st@bmarine blockade of Great Britain and Ire land with the avowed purpose of eut ting off all supplies from these - lands and this blockade was put into effect on Febtuary 28th, WAR "WILL END IN 1916. measures against -- Premier Asquith Expresses This Be- lief in Message to Russian Press. 'London, Jan. 20 the Russkoe Slovo Times" Petrograd cor mier Asquith expres that the vear 1916 will witness the consummation of the hopes of the Allies-in the final overthrow of the common enemy The death occurred at Thorold on Jan. 14th of Margaret Gallagher, wife of Capt. John T. Towers .~> the - : Lr In a message to quoted by Blockade Reprisal Measure. "It was only on" March 11th that the British Government put into | force, a means of reprisal, mea- | sures 'against German trade, which the German Government now try to maintain 'were the cause of their sub marine policy. "The Germans maintain that the cases of the Arabic, the E and the Ruel, they were only aiming at the destruction of hostile shipping | and in _no wise the destruction oi helpless persons The death roll of the Arabic, the shelling of British sailors they were swimming as- hore after abandoning the E-13 as 3 and the firing on the crew of the Ruel, who were attemting to save themsel- ves in the boats sufficiently answer this claim F . ¥ Know Untruth Of ('harges, "With regard to the German re- fusal to submit the Baralong case and the three cases put forward by the British Government for investi- gation by an impartial neutral tri- - bunal, this action seems hard to ex plain if the Germans are really so convinced as théy say of the guilt of the British commander and the inno cence of the perpetrators of the three outrages cited by the British Govern- ment, "So far as Great Britain is con- cerned, it .is entirely untrue to state that the British 'Government have left unfilled a just-demand for inves- tigation, They have roposed it, and it is the Germans who have re- jected it, doubtless Wecause they know fuldg well that the cases in which they are defendants would be decided against them by any impar- tial tribunal." RACE CLUB LICENSES ARE NOW IN DANGER. License Board Has Little Sym~ pathy With Sale of Liquer There. Toronto, Jan, 20.-~Unless the rep: resentatives of the the racing clubs Pp Russian Pony Coats China Lynx ment or Settling Somel; mes indicates kid- @ true nature and char- act dissases, especially those of the neys NAry Organs, cam of be determined bya carefu) chemical & sis and microscopical examination 8 Med! by ex chemists of th ch) Stat of the Tava 1 you Ww your cond! water wo scribe symptoms. It ex- amined touts te - Stl of > Hotel. I on a sample of Doctor Plerce's Ihde otel, Buffalo, N. Y., and de- will be Pierce' or bis Ban of ysictans will inform you trushfuljy. * in the' Province made an impression on the Ontario License Board, it is { probable these institutions will -lose | iheir liquor licenses. = Chairman { Flavelle explained that the board, in | discussing the matter informally, did | not view with much favor the grant- {ing of lcenses to various jockey i clubs. The board's position was that the whole granting of licenses .was restricted by the Government, jand certain restrictions were placed to protect men who could not pro- tect themselves in the matter of self- | indulgence. At race meetings, where | there was betting being done, where | men were more or less excitable, he | did not believe it was in the public. | interests to unnecessarily augmen | that by making liquor freely obtain- able. 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Ottawa, Jan, 19 'arliament not playing politics these da Las more serious tasks and b Whatever may to Henri Bourassa ergnes. may in®the party game, there is" evident a resolve upon the part leg iors to give their per- formances secant consideration in this time of-real stress and national con- ern Parliamentarians wera not! talking for votes yesterday. They were solemnly stating convictions Hon. T. Chase Casgrain, the Post- master-General, in the course of a telling and earnest speech, pleaded with the other Provinces of Canada 10 gauge the spirit and the heart of 1 Quebec hy Lauriers rather than Bourassas, Mr. Casgrain sting- scored the position of the Na tionalists "1 nsk," said he, 'that Quebec be judged by its Laurier, its Lemieux, its Marcil Patenaude, its Blondin, and its Beaubin Q0t by o£ miserable, small \_ group that | Would misinterpret its spirit and its { heart.' is It sponsi- fhe use and the put by ities. which Armand politicians be be Olggthe its its the Canadas' Splendid Unanimity. The Postmaster-General gloried in the splendid unanimity with which | Canadians were putting their great | | task first The speeches of Sir Wil- frfd Laurier and Mr. Michael Clark were worthy of the position in Can-. adian public life which they enjoyed The editorial utterances of The Globe, notably that of January 11th in response do a4 correspondent who wrote asking what fon. George Brown would say as to its position, which editorial the Minister read to "worthy of the lead- ing Liberal journal of Capada, and { properly gatiged the pulse of the OND SECTION ! whole Canadian people." The same spirit had, found expression in Le Soleil of Quebec, and in the writings {of .Hon. Charles Marcil in The Mont- real Herald. { Mon, Mr, Casgrain feelingly al- luded to the fact that Dr. Michael Clark had two sons on the firing line, one of them a member of the origin- al dauntiess Princess Patricias. | "There are now five of my owns name jand my own flesh and blood," ad- ded the Minister feelingly. "There were six, but one ix dead." This was not alone England's war, Mr. Casgrain "believed that the event of | Teuvon trinmph Canada would he i made a German colony, and share the | fate that befell' Poland and Alsace- | Lorraine. teins ? End Sectional Prejudice Wit, warm words Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, who followed, reciprocated { sentiments of the Postmagter- General, Mr, Casgrain, he said, spoke his life-long convictions, He spoke fhe same language to-day that he did in the electoral campaign of 191. Very heartily Mr. Lemieux congratu- lated the Government upon his ap- pointment. "He was needed, as you know, Mr, Speaker," commented Mr. Lemieux with a smile at Mr. Speaker Sevignyw 'He rejoiced that Mr. Cas- gra in had brought with him two im- portant Ministerial converts, and he felt that the new Casgrain spirit would do much to end sectional pre- judice and make for the unifying of an indomitable and determined, Can- ada n 2 Mr. Lemieux referred to the senti ment which dominated fie Opposi- tion in the Homse. The truce would be maintained. But truce did not spell abdication of duty or responsi- bility The Opposition would be found whole-heartedly and unanim ously ind every measure. to bring the war: to speedy and successful termination, but it wonld Fe found ready to _give counsel 'or criticism if necessary as to the scope of legisla- tion, the spending of public money, and the methods of taxation. As an example Mr. Lemieux referred to the very serious reports concerning the hell' Committee appointed by the Government. It was said that large orders had been awarded without tenders being asked, that orders had been distributed among the mem- bers of the Commissien, and that ex- profits had been made. it was the duty of Parliament to scrut- inize and investigate. It was no answer to say that the money had been spent for the British Governs ment. Nr. 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