SIGNS FROM THE SMOKE

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 229, 25 September 1915, Page 13

SIGNS FROM THE SMOKE

(By ALBKKT nOHniX<;TON.)

..";. LONDON', AuguM C. V GERMAN GULLIBILITY. 5. German P- 1 ! ,, '" . '■:: ;•! nil lib >ut the Nick warfa..- :; '" i- ! •-■'-' conducted • .gainst tr-f!" A::;..i:' the wor*t Render- in ll.«' "ni.-,'M ' line arc the i iustr«l:-T> .1:1 1 J1.1..11 11.1. p.. Sonic 01 ' (Jl( former, i: .- s: -t. I. aiv armed with pjisoa *pear* .1:. 1 aiious, while tin I |jiori coniiii- r>:- i.i.-e the noblo TurK ith WOW-I'-P' . ..... ■'' '■'" lt the de.idlie*: " ci darts! 1 ■■■■■■■ shmi lure* in tin S jfiastrated Gi-r:)i.vi wi..*Ui.-s which repre . .nt the .\ii.-:r.i,..:i -..lli.-r as a Wack- : •tllo>v, tte.11.11,: .1 huge headdress oi (cckatoo feath.-i... .ml carrying anion,other vrwp.>n« .1 it a-vj.u. Ihe jajority '" '<->»-. dc-pue their. alleged »v>leni "' c Uival.nn, are tlio : 4j806t gullible ppf.pl.- on .-.irtli. ;' THE CONQUERING DOLLAR. .philosopher* .ml tiiianciers agree upon l(ffl e point a.. i■ > '■ ! " , «''"iHi:ui( result ot tie war— that the fluted States will .ijjjte tho finan...il .veptre out of the viiais of London and become the rien ; eountr)" to whuh all other count wi:l .ju i n debt. An c\h.iusled Ceimany wi.l 'f«ce the }«■■>'• with no gold and an ' enormously depreciated paper currency. jYaace and ilr<*at Britain will ho in a leircely better position. For tho neces- "; rr capital for peace, recuperation, just as f r »ar supplies., they ino.-t. look to America, tnql.in.l will case to 'lithe "fat" land <>f the world; that doubtful priviU-2"- of fatne«s Will pass jjltas the Atlantic. That doe« not mean ,< oflt the American unmon ra.in will be ■ jjj better oIT than ho U at present (a -i« in prices will probably make him 5 »or;e oil), but that iho American f riutocrat will become the financial s«ter of the world. The United States '' »ill, in fact, tend towards the prewar ■ ; auditions of Great Britain, and will in juny ways take her place in the world's • iSiin. I A COSTLY EKROR. Th«y * a . v that it '" a mere accident of 3 -nr that the Germain have dug themlekes Ixl deeply into French soil. The Jiuig never ought to have been. .loffre i , ■ fccJared quite recently that at the 1 I bUtle of Mons-Charleroi we ought to] - l»ve won. The sipaitiexnre of that j .. eying should be carefully weighed. Xho ! ■ BJ-'takes of certain subordinate generals I , £A, in fact, cost France dear. It was optn warfare then, in which a moment- j try error brini:-> a frreat penalty. Only | ; jfor the mi-itake of those isubordinatc paerala, the Allies would now have | bMB battering at the Rhine defences, anil for eleven months tiiey would have been | in occupation of German soil. France j '■'met the whole weight of the Cerniau •" enslauznt 011 her threshold, and came within an ace of <-endinu' her headlong. ; It does not say much for Germany , 1 : long years of preparation, when the j : Kins oi a peaceful, democratic Republic i an prove tbenueivc« more splendid than j - the men whose whole Inc.s are soaked j Jn militarism. "ITS A riNE LIFE, BUT " Bsat-fly »nd sail-Or. drason-fly and Wue. When jon're lv the trendies, come and visit : Iter°reVri In jour butter dish and riot In Tit-r revel In jour butter Ulsh and riot In ■:■' • rour bam. ': CrDi npon Hie army cheese and loot the ,". • Ufflv Itaqu*. ? ■itlij'a with you In the dusk and the dawo- •■'" tat and the n<^ll: VLty rome In .-I;-'- formatioo. In column '- izi platoou. 1 Tlere'i never lest IIU loaarnj* lest when 1 '",. tbese b«ve rot to dl" : For Tom j t.iSc? tn.- puttees off and swats tic bloomln' 8.1.B .1. I Pit MacOill. th»' author of "Children |. of the Dead End." rites to mc Irom ■ Flanders, -where he U tiahting Uertnan*. j Pitriek is not euthii>ia?tu- about the ireaches an.i the thinjr< that happt-n therr. "First of all," h.< *ny*. "you're lucky if you're not rauylit with a shell i goi.ip into them, lucky if you are not tombed irom the sk_v or mined from the pound. Your luck 1- in if v sniprr "doejn't get you. or ga*.doesn't s-end yuU to Heaven, or llics »<-nd you to the hospiUl with disease, or rillf <jri-nnd<?-, pip- . squeaks anl whu-ban,a* doii't blow youi hriin-i out when you Up on the iKittom of tie trench luth ymir r...-,- to the pound, like a ra:. If it wasn't for ihwii thin-H a.1,1 a f<-\v in..re, tile ticnclies ■ irouldn't b« a bad place to live. he other thin;;- are the .-.:111k of the dv.id mc», a* well a- the chee»e; there the r diig-outi with the rain roininj! in, and the muck falling into your tea, the r Tennin, tho bloke wh.i snores nnd won': ■ let you sleep, the fatigues that come »bea you are ju.-l t.i havo your I »>ep, the ratior.* lit.- arriving and hall poisoninf! you when they come. If it wasn't for th.-c thing*, life m the ' trenches would He the ou.-ruer-t in tlie ' *orld." DEPIOICATIC REVELATIONS. Intern a n..:.11 jilomary, an practised ' before the A.ir, -.em* to have been a ' »cry artful bus'inev. When the war ame all the CJuviriinient- had to place » record of their doin2" before the ( world. It mny be Soup b.-forc »c know f thing, but the p»«ential things are poblished. I'rof.v-r.r Gilbert Murray ht written a pamphlet in which some " int«re«tin hi.k-lishts nre thrr.wn on our < foreign policy .-in.- the incident. Gern-aay wapN-d i>n unconditional Pledge "from Kn/lir.d that -he would remain neutral if (iermany bfcame fngajed in war. He wanted to climb «r Hiii of .SkulU 1111 trammelled, to bo g «ble to make war — it may be r.n France or Russia, or to annexe Delpium or Holland or Denmark—with the security . tbat Great Britain was bought oil ' beforehand. One is surprised that aj c ittponsible Minister could have expected j " <U to acrept such ,1 proposal. Yet they | -»vow it to-day without a b!u-h. j % WHAT GERMANY WANTED. " . Eiig;and rfpeatedly ofTercd puarantces 1 of friend.hip and a'triicp. The German a Government -noul.l have neilaer; it c '*«ated only one thins—"a fier hsnd," •ra Mr. A»quith'jt words, "when it d •elected the oppoituniiy to overbear, to ! J ieminatp the European" world." At this t ?eriod there ai.pears to have l«een -some a •Wpicion of Kr.nice being bought over j h ojr Germany, One i.s .tniazed, however, to 7 "car that "Knvrynd ever Ruarnntced a t ' •Aval trure t c) .1,1 >w Ccrmanv an opportunity of. strangling li l.'.ui'ii. Holland, e f Denmark. >■. miirh for secret *■ oiplomacv. v 6 ENGLAND'S HONOUR SAVED. . °"c ivonM lil.e t., .isl. whether Grey "J « Asquitli ln,l the ful n-.aiiiV.te of the l - Witi,|| μ-riplc 1, fi 1 ■ „ liiiiintccins any- j t »ls? if t!..- .lr.-n.if.il thins I""' h»r- f* P"' , !. »■<■ Miniil ii, , vt . her-.n t.,,| ( i that J " w * i:i the irit<-ie,i ..1 sin- "balance oi j t PO«'i,-' ~r f.,.,,,,. ~,}„., ,i,iK'uliiiw theory, b It i- -' ■■>! to kn..-.\. lMiwi-\rr, that when j i "ie -uprriiie eriM.t .1..! »-:iiv... <irey |fisc j 1 to tV li | t .\-i-:« ~: -:ati--r:!.instiip, i n «ad in »avni«; Knlaiid'.. h.ni.iui did much i n *o »avc IVoetcin CiMllsation. ' M