NOTES ON THE WAR
Notes on the War THROUGH Secretary Bryan, President Wilson last week again indicated to the European nations at war his willingness and readiness to serve them in the interest of peace. In the...
...They encountered great difficulty in making their way through the seething masses, of vehicles and people, said Mr...
...The great poet and deluded Gallomaniac, Maeterlinck, may impose similar nice titles upon us after having called us the conscience of Europe...
...In the following message to American diplomats accredited to the warring countries Secretary Bryan called attention to the fervent prayers for a cessation of hostilities which were offered up throughout the United States on October 4: "In obedience to the proclamation of the President the people of the United States assembled at their places of worship October 4 and joined in prayer for the restoration of peace in Europe...
...The world knows that we are an old civilized nation...
...After a night of terror...
...More than one hundred monks, formerly domiciled at the Grande Chartreuse, says a Paris dispatch, have returned to Grenoble from Tarragona, Spain, whither they went when they were expelled at the time of the sequestration of church property a few years ago, in order to offer themselves as soldiers...
...After pointing to Germany's literature of translations and other accomplishments, commending the German kaiser as a lover and upholder of peace, and flinging a bitter reproach at England's course, he exclaims "If heaven ordains that we come off regenerated from this tremendous trial we shall have to solve the holy task to be worthy of our regeneration...
...when the German shells were bursting over the city and during which he and his family crouched in their basement, they decided to leave...
...In the descent the un-wounded man continued to fire his pistol until prevented by the flames...
...The Japanese have also seized the island of Yap in the New Philippines...
...A Ghent dispatch contains his account of the bombardment...
...Frantz, who descended unhurt in a series of magnificent spirals, was decorated with the Legion of Honor and Quinnault was awarded the military medal for their exploit...
...It further appears that Belgium made a last attempt to dissuade Germany from its enterprise by sending an intimation to the German government that it was wrong to infer that France had any intention of violating Belgian neutrality and further that even if it did, Belgium would oppose the invaders by a vigorous resistance...
...Its permanent occupation by the Japanese, says John Callan O'Laughlin, would undoubtedly be more offensive to Australia than it would be to the United States...
...Care was taken that nothing should be said of a non-neutral nature, the trend of the speeches being that God might so direct those in authority in the belligerent nations as to hasten the restoration of peace and that the American people might be wisely guided in the exercise of such influence as they might be able to exert...
...The philanthropic move initiated by the Chicago Herald to send a Christmas ship across the Atlantic laden with gifts for European war orphans, has attracted the attention and approval of the higher powers in Washington...
...The exploits of the great French aviator, Jules Vedrines, which have thrilled the readers of European war news during the last few weeks, have recently been rivalled by Sergeant Frantz, another French birdman...
...At the beginning of the war he was known to be in sympathy with Germany and Austria-Hungary and anxious to cast in his lot with them...
...I had intended to remain in Antwerp through the bombardment...
...as two French and German armies faced each other ten miles northwest of Rheims, says one account, a German aeroplane ascended with two men and after circling over the French position was returning to its own lines, when Pilot Frantz accompanied by Mechanic Quinnault, sprang to a machine and gave chase...
...Its occupation by Japan is said to be only temporary and can in no way be a menace to the United States through its proximity to the Philippines and Hawaii...
...In conjunction with other neutrals we endeavored to mediate with the Germans to spare some of the most valuable buildings of world-wide interest, but the negotiations failed...
...The shallow Parisian feuille-toniste, Bergson, may call us barbarians as much as he pleases...
...has to be the last...
...The noted German dramatist, Ger-hardt Hauptmann, has issued an article entitled "Against Untruth," defending the German people and the German army against the charge or barbarism...
...Prince Ferdinand, son of Charles' brother, succeeds to the throne of Roumania through his uncle's death...
...Because of an alleged promise to Kaiser William, King Charles desired to mobilize the army to assist Germany but the opposition to his plan was so strong in Roumania and especially in the legislature that he was unable to carry out his wish...
...The interesting revelation is made that in 1911 the Belgian government sought to obtain from the German government a declaration that Germany had no intention of violating Belgian neutrality...
...As we left we saw vast columns of smoke arising from Antwerp from burning buildings and blazing petroleum tanks...
...From Antwerp to Ghent the roads are a mass of fleeing humanity...
...John Callan O'Laughlin, correspondent of the Herald, reported last week that after a conference between President Wilson and Secretary Daniels it was decided that the United States navy will furnish a battleship, commanded by an American naval officer, to carry out the plan...
...Diederick...
...Both Germans were found burned to death in the embers of their machine...
...During the bombardment of Antwerp, Henry w. Diederich, United States consul, fled from that city with his family, going by motor car to Ghent...
...I was told to clear out of the city as its destruction was inevitable...
...Instead of two hours to Ghent it took us three by automobile owing to the traffic...
...A sheet of flame enveloped the machine and it dropped rapidly, landing close to the French lines...
...The German chancellor replied that, although Germany had no such intention, a public declaration to that effect would weaken Germany's military position by reassuring France which would in that case concentrate all its forces on the east...
...The attendance was very large and there was everywhere a spirit of earnestness...
...Before the war is over, he says, the island may be turned over to a British expeditionary force from Australia...
...Through the complete victory of German arms the independence of Europe would be guaranteed...
...He said, "For days we heard the sound of heavy gun fire and were told of the fall, one after another, of the outer forts...
...By a skillful maneuver the French aeroplane took the German on the flank and wounded the pilot and put a bullet through the gasoline tank...
...A recent issue of the Niewe Viene Tageblatt, a Vienna newspaper, says that an indictment alleging high treason and covering thirty-seven pages has been read to twenty-five prisoners charged with being concerned in the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the Austrian throne, at Sarajevo...
...Their trial is expected to last three weeks...
...A dispatch from Venice says that the nineteenth official Austrian list of killed, wounded and missing so far as published has occupied twenty-four columns in the Vienna newspapers and the publication has not been completed...
...Charles I., king of Roumania and a member of the House of Hohenzollern, died on October 10...
...Upon a common, deeply Cultured task, which would seek to render impossible all misunderstandings, they would then go to work...
...The Canadian government has barred the New York Staats Zietung from the mails of the dominion, according to an announcement in a recent edition of that paper...
...Jaluit Island lies generally between Hawaii on the east and the Ladrone and Philippine islands on the west...
...A Japanese squadron has seized Jaluit Island in the Marshall Archipelago in the Pacific, which was annexed by Germany in 1886 and has been used by her since as a naval base...
...The government of Belgium has issued a Gray Book of correspondence relative to the war...
...The next point would be to make the national families of the continent understand that this world war...
...He says: "We are an eminently peaceful nation...
Vol. 6 • October 1914 • No. 42
