The Audacious War

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e political and economic sciences. Indeed, it is the greatest war of all the s

war, to study its probable duration and its financial consequences, was the ob

ne of the British warships-England's far-flung battle line-until he returns to the dock, but th

ill be so far-reaching in its effects that no ill-considered or parti

is given to the enemy, a vast amount of pertinent, legitimate, and harmless news and data is necessarily suppressed. The censors are military men and not news men, and act from the

ted to describe any of these in detail, or to give the strategy, beginning, end, or boundaries of them, or even the distinct casualties therefrom. Indeed, it is doubtful if th

press of such a ship as the "Audacious." Yet American papers with photographs of the "Audacious" as she sinks in the ocean are sol

d on "good authority" that the "Audacious" was afloat, had been towed into Birkenhead and that the repairs to her bottom were nearly finished. You can hear similar stories wherever the "accident" is discussed. I have heard it so many times that I ought to believe it. Yet if one hundred people separately and individually make assurance

coast to permit of talk of shallow water, and that neither gu

ines about Lough Swilly, along the Scotch and Irish coasts, and in the Irish Sea, were laid with the assistance of En

d Norwegian trawlers in this work, but I

ith a mine or torpedo from a German submarine. Two of her crew report that they saw the wake of a

p was torpedoed by a submarine, the Germans would give out the first report, and thereby be of assistance in determining the ca

the cause of the disaster; but more than 400 mines have been swept

s have a long task if they hope within a reasonable number of months to reduce by submarine torpedo pract

l-directed rifle bullet. Their whole protection is that of invisibility. Their plan of operation is to reach a position during the night, whence in the earl

rs with their protecting nets down until they are called for in bat

ines. Since that time, torpedoes have been made with cutting heads to pierce steel nets en

hangel was told all over the world. The War Office winked at the story and certainly had no objection to the Germans getting a good dose of it. I think that

h of Ireland meant either a new type of boat that could g

Germany around the British Isles and t

gium is the larger and Germany the smaller. The southern half of the German quarter boundary is a mountain range and on the open sections stand the great fortifications of France an

f fortifications. Neither the French nor the Germans had learned from practical experience the modern art of fig

t only for their own existence but for the existence of their nationality-their national ide

North Sea and the English Channel they are supported by fleets of battleships, cruisers, submarines, and torpedo boat destroyers that occasionally "scrap" with each other, the German boats now and then attacking the

ago there were less than 90,000 motor-cars in Germany, and Prince Henry started to encourage motoring to remedy this, but the Germans are slow to respond in sport. Indeed they know little of sport as the English understand it, of sportsman ethics or the sense of fair play in either sport or war. They do n

ngratulated by the Australian commander for his gallant defense, he was so taken aback that he had to walk away and think it over. He returned to thank his adversary for his complimen

you will soon have none to command," and his words proved true. The English officers felt that the rules of the game called upon them to lead t

ecessary hazard is a breach of discipline. For this reason Victoria Crosses are not numerous, less than two dozen having been conferred thus far; and it has been quiet

in training at Salisbury Plain shall not be put in the front unti

War Office recognizes that soldierly independence cannot be allowed in this war. It is not improbable that the Canadian troops will eventually be dispersed that their strong individual initiative may be thoroughly harnessed under the organ

the heaviest losers. On the part of the Germans it is an audacious war and its very audacity has astounded the whol

scheme was concocted by the successor of Bismarck himself, none other than Kaiser William II. He planned a steady growth of German power that would first vanquish the Slav of southeastern Europe and give Germany control through Constantinople an

almost beyond comprehension in America. Yet