A WORLD IN ARMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2558, 4 September 1915, Page 9

A WORLD IN ARMS

*4 >BUT-FOR .'THE v <■, NAVY—" v , "To-day .'wo'ilivo in:a-.worUbin anni. . The' pliraso' has (says .the annual report i of tho N»vy League) long-.becn upon our. hps; now -we know something ■; of what it ineaiis.-. The Navy iLeagueihas consistently. sought to^iiupress : upon .the ■ Em-' y -.' piro that the day of ;testnyas approach- : jng Amid derision; accusation, and t contradiction .it.'has mover',c?ased to cry; "Propare!" It; collected tho facts and . invited people to::examine.-them. Quito ■ a-large number.;swept .theme aside with-, 'out doing so. To-aay these same people are nishing.'to r buy.,''Navy; League Annuals," Navvr League.-maits,'and tosing "Rulo Britannia" at patriotic do- . . . monstrations. v; "The war lias {been:forced upon us; and now what'is t tho. position? :As compared, with tliO; consolidating:, oifecta . of tno war upon'tho. British Empire, the increase of prestige,,-and tlie world-, kudos won by. our; nation, . wliat :haa.. Germany to show? A loss of over three millions of tho /ltower: of her manhood, .. tho distrust and- liaired of practically; the wholo world; land -ultimate defeat m prospect. . Their unspeakable out., rages and atrocities, proved to the lult ■ • after careful iand~ exhaustive inquiries, bring the Germans below the level or ■ barbarians. - In tho words of the "New • York Herald": "Never m the blackchromclo of warfare had an historian a graver indictment to draw, against a nation." . In reviewing tho twelve months of warfare, tho New York "World" sa\s that, "oxcopt for the British Navy, the Germans would be masters of the , world.", : . ■■