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A letter from Professor Nat-

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rep, of Marburg University, to)
an American correspondent, |
takes a view somewhat differ-|
ent from that of Dernburg and|
of Germany.
that

other defenders

Professor Natrop says

German statesmen are some-
N to
would never have allowed it to
to pass that the three
greatest powers in the world,
outside of the United States,
should be alllied against Ger-

what blame. Bismarck

come

many.

ae

“In this sense I do not hesi-
tate to declare, although a
German, that Germany is not

Montreal, Dee, 5.—-The Domit

——$—————tion Tron and Steel Company, o

jSydney, Nova Scotia, the biggest

OFFICE plant in Canada of the kind, has
Telephone 98.|2,000 men at work oul of a total)

Contract |?! 9.900.

“We have one blast furnace |

See going and will start up another

aoe “ie oo Dec. 7, ne
SeTTOREAL 8 |

gium, France was to be over
whelmed, then the victorious
Gérman legions were to ad-
vanee upon Russia. “Our turn
will come next,” that is un-
questionably what the masses

of British people believed. And

this was the case for war; not

thing but several things
invasjon of
itself, but

regarded as evidence ©

one
The
bad

Belgium was

if was

'

in
an un-
which

scrupulous ambiticn

stop at nothing, and
shook the f
of security all over Europe.
. we 2

would

which undaticns

Surely, then, the question for
to
did Ger-

many allow this impression to

thoughtful Germans ask

themselves is: “How

 

altogether innocent of the out-
break of the war; not that
there can be even the slight-
est doubt of her sincerest love
of peace; but her diplomats did
not recognize the road upon
which peace could have been
maintained, or did not know
how to conquer the towering
difficulties which cenfronted
them on the road.

“Of the three opposing pow-
ers, however, England intend-
ed nearest, perhaps, for a time,
to the intention of maintain-
ing peace; in any case, her at-
tilude was the decisive factor.”

*“ * *

According to this writer,
Russia was the real instigator
of the war, and England went |
into it because she was pledged |
deeply to France and to Rus-
sia. He does not believe that
the violation of the neutrality
of Belgium was the real cause
of British interference, but he

 

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admits that Germany's moral |
position would have been much
stronger if she had not invad-

ed Belgium.
-

What, then, the Ger-
man mistake which the profes-

was

sor admits, and which brought
Great Britain into the
The fact is that the invasion
of Belgium was part of a large
case. Germany was distrust-
Her
her growing navy aroused un-
in Great Britain. It
is true that many British peo-
ple refused to
peril.
people

war?

ed. immense armies and

easiness

believe in
But the Brit-
divided ir
opinion, and the action of Ger-
many last summer turned the
scale, converted the doubtful
element and alarmed many
who had heretofore refused to
believe in it.
*

German

ish were

* *

The ,invasion of Belgium
gave to Great Britain and to
the world the impression of 4

 

reckless, unserupulous
setting forth upon a career of

After Bel-

power,!

world-conquest.

the |)

be created?” If she was em-
barking upon a career of un-
scrupulous conquest she, de-
served the enmity of Lurope.
If she was innocent, she was
almost ingenious in making
herself look like a eriminal.
Whichever point of view you
take, it is clear that Germari

diplomacy was woefully bad.
e 2 *

Professor Dernburg says we
take Bernhardi too seriously
that his work has had a small
circulation in
has not influenced
thought.

Germany, and
German
A good many of us
lit-
tle regard to Bernhardi, and to
foolish

trouble came

were inclined to pay very

him
But

regard
tabker.

as only a
the

when Germany acted as Bern-|

talked.
‘Lreitschke
to most
broke
tonished to find how their theo-
the
We are forced
that
German idea

hardi Nietszeche and

were mere

the

Then we were

names
of us until war
out.

ries agreed with German
conduct of war.
to

created

conelude either
the

that they expressed it.

they

or

SILENT MORTAR IS
LATEST GUN REPORTED

Light but in-
the bat-
tle front are contained in an ac-
count from the pen of the British
official B. PD.

Swinton, under recent dale, given

London, Dee. 5.

teresting touches from

observer, Colonel
out by the London Press Bureau.
of the
the Germans

chief interest
that

silent

was state

ent are us-
of

Concern-

ing a gun, probably
pneumatic equipment.
ing this weaponsthe account says:
the
gun, whieh
be pneumatic or worked by some
There

is no report of the discharge the

“In our center enemy em-

ployed a silent may

mechanical contrivance.

projectile travels through the air
without any of the warning made
by an ordinary shell and the first
tw of its ar-
rival is the bursting of the shell.
So far the weapon has done no
damage.”

notice be received

The Boss Captures A

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INDUSTRY IS BUSY

BIG EASTERN

in two weeks,” me. J. H

said
itienmer, president of the com

pany, who has recently

from Sydney,

started within the last week

| from New South Wales before the

j war. Confidence and communi
jeation having been restored, the
}steel company has been instruct-
jed to go ahead with the order

os of our mills are very busy

|We are shipping wire, wire nails
land wire rods to England We
are not largely equipped for mak
ing barbed wire, but we are sell-
ing all we can make to English
merchants——-presumably for the
use of the British army on the
Continent. Machine bolts, rivets
and billets are in considerable de-
mand, too. England, for some
reason, has not been making her

been making them. As one result

other lines, those special oval
wire nails that are used in Eng-
land and nowhere else.”

In connection with the Domin-
ion Steel Company, the Dominion

Coal Company is a very important

sisler industry.

“The coal mines are running
pretty well,” said Mr. Plummer.
“About ten thousand men «are

employed when times are normal,

of these are at work
full

comes

and most
time.
the
Lawrence, though we ship a
of it to

Trade in the Mari-

now, though not
Most

St

on

of our coal up
considerable

New Zealand.

quantity

 

times is fairly good.”

The Lake Superior Corpora-
tion at Sault Ste. Marie is run-
ning steadily on raiis at half,
time, and has been since the war.

The United States Steel Prod-
ucts Company's branch office here

ts that warehouse orders
are coming in quite freely of late,
though mill orders are still com-
paratively few and far between.
That means that the steel mer-
chants have been selling from

their reserve kept in stock instead
to supply their customers. They
to stock
ware.

obliged,
to fill
houses again.

are now owing

depletion, up ‘neir

MME. CURIE’S AUTOS
SAVE MANY LIVES
Equipment Locates Bullets as
Cars Take Wounded to

traction of missiles.

Some people are not satisfied
with all

old imagination work over-

believing they see and

mak
ian

time.

 

returned
“The rail mill was‘
to

.;}make rails for an order received

own nails for year. Germany has

of the war we are making, among

of ordering directly from the mill

Hospitals.

Parise, Dec. 7.—-A fleet of radi-
scopic and radiographic auto-
mobiles, organized and fitled out
by Mme. Curie bas been added to
Franee’s war equipment.

The automobiles ply between
base hospitals, locating bullets
lodged in wounded soldiers, thus
saving hundreds of lives by ex-
pediting and facilitating the ex

THE DATLY NEWS

Nothing has
the

Glasgow, Dee. 5

been more conspicuous nh

parliamentary sitting just — over
-
tha the

discontent expressed

private members at gov

controlling

in

ent metods of

s Parliament rr

services,
ts general opinion. The whol
i cy of news suppression is felt

be damaging to national. eco

fidence Che British Weekly,
vhich ranks among the govern
ent's most influential support
s, makes emphatic protests, ce
claring ‘General Red Tape has
won all along the line. As a

shroud of darkness falls upon the

dying year, so it descends upon
the war by land and sea.”
The War Office and Admiralty
declares, insist upon being al-

lowed to do their part without eo-
operation, without devolution of
without
Tap
give us victory they
If they fail
have been
for
against the day of wrath.”
fron Law to Silence Criticism.
Unquestionably the government
of

every

labor, and = practically
“If General Red

and his staff

erilicism

will be vindicated i

will be seen they lay -

ing up wrath thems:

|
i
is carrie l
War

hunted

Seotland

Yard being employed to extirpate

| poliey concealment

i further

spondents were never

day. corre-

remorselessly, even

BRITISH PUBLIC RESENTING
RED TAPE OF PRESS CENSOR

BRITAIN’S NEW FORCES ARE RAPIDLY ASSUMING FIRST CLASS
SHAPE AND WILL SOON BE A FORMIDABLE
ARMY FOR THE FIELD.

re they known. Thé eam

siasm we

yn in Northern France prom
xceedinghy well ur new
if ‘ ire developing in a way
raves’ all who see them,
ind promise to worthily maintain
t | ditions The offfeta
' of excessive silence has
naged confidence without
ul engendered needless &8u
spicions. All classes resent it,

t ean do nothin but accept
Many imaginative accounts of
German superdreadnoughts con
tinue to be publshed here, evi
dently with = the intention of
alarming London In this they
do not suceeed, although acre

them as though they were crim- |

Detailed recruiting’ figures
The
urging,

jinals.

;
are now unavailable. BOV-

ernment, despite refuses
to

ifor civilians.

instructions
Should a raid take

place new provisions of the De

publish advance

fence of the Realm Act place such
the of

in effeet any person indulg-

power hands officials

that

in

m effective -

of the

criticism can be
the

silenced until end
war.
this

while the authori-

Resentment at has deep

ened, because,
ties have been directing their full

strength against leading

newspapers, whose main aim is

lo

have

assist the authorities,
ignored
of the
prints in Ireland.
The

j states:

wholesale publica-
tion
Glasgow Evening
‘This week German wire-
jless news
ibefore

was heavily censored

publication was permitted,

jand for some inexplicable reason |

jall references to the work of the
| British army
the official French review of four
the

correspon-

were excised from
jmonths of the war, issued

jother, French war

idents and those of neutral eoun-

jfries are allowed io go inte
ifiring line, but representatives of
ithe British nation are still de-
|barred, Yet this is our war, and

iwe are paying for it.”

|Splendid State of British Forces.

The present
intelligible if
ernment and
if

junfavorable

would be
the gov-

in reeruit-

poliey
it aided
assisted
ing, o1 the authorities had an
Situation lo coneeal.
The very reverse is the case. The

mililary Campaign is going splen-

Londan |}

they.

abominable seditious |

Times |

jdidly. The doings of our troops,
which the authorities will not!
have published, would fill the!

jcountry with still greater enthu-
:

West End Mansions, following the
example of the general postofice, |

are bein protected against

bombs by false roofs and stout

wire netting rising on thick scaf

fold poles some two feet above the

ordinary roof Some other |
houses are said now to be pro
tected with sandbags.—Toronto |
Stat

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