A Century after Waterloo.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 507, 9 February 1915, Page 1

A Century after Waterloo.

Dr Fitqhet»y m tbe Febrqar* . *tim f bet. >>£" hmjl iug*4asa«d^tdra^^ot ° the pages of his ,ury, and point* out that exactly a century ago Europe was just freeing itadf from a desooV isin.uult on force, aad using war as its iastrument " Aad," nays Dr Fifcch.tt, "1915 is born amid the shock of battles wh oh m scale an ' slaughter are equal to a hundred Watarlooa. Waterloo was described by Wellington himself as « the battle which aid mote for the peace of toe world th»n any other battle m recorded hidfcory.' lc certain y put an end to Napoleon's reßtless aad insathble ambition, and so delivered the nations from a military But m 1915 four of the great Western Powers, with Japan, the greatest Power m the East, as ally, are leagued t« deliver the civilised world from the menace of a military caate which lacks Napoleon's genius fot war— lacks even his civic genius— bub aims, like him, at a despotism bailt on force, a#d using war as an instrument; a caste wbose triumph would be a greater, blow to liberty and to civilisation than the < empire of the sword ' of ' whish Napoleon dreamed, and which he splashed Europe red with blood to build " The editor of ".Life " proceeds, m a very fine article— or rather a series of artiolea—ta review the progress of the great struggle during the past month on land afed on sea, and sums up the position by saying : "At the moment we write, Germany resembles some fierce bird of prey, rev m beak and olaw, but imprisoned m a steel cage. The ' cage ' is, taken geographically, as area cf some 500 by 200 miles ; the steel wires are, m the East, the vast armies of Russia ; m the West, th far stretching trenches, edged with the red flame of musketry, where French and British keep their stubspr& guard. Against these steel walls, the fierce imprisoned bird, with torn plumage and bloody feathers, flings itself m vain. The imprisoniag wires yield sometimes, but they never break ; they draw closer round their captive. Does anyone imagine that the imprisoned eagle* will ba able to break the cage ? ' Dr Fitehett's own contributions form, of course, a very solid and read, able section of «• Life," but they cbnstitu c only one tenth of the nugn'. ficeat bulk of reading nutter contained m this Fe^ruiry issue, which for wealth of Butj ct an 1 variety of article and story ,sis v»V u t /^ lOal by any magaziuci.-. »■ world. ■ .. £ „••