_Newspaper advertisement in
British Press, May, 1915._
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_THE SACRIFICE--FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE_
The women of Great Britain will never forget what Belgium has done for
all that women hold most dear.
In the days to come mothers will tell their children how a small but
great-souled nation fought to the death against overwhelming odds and
sacrificed all things to save the world from an intolerable tyranny.
The story of the Belgian people's defense of freedom will inspire
countless generations yet unborn.
EMMELINE PANKHURST,
_in "King Albert's Book."_
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_ON TICKET-OF-LEAVE_
"_Next time I'll wear a German Helmet and plead 'Military Necessity'_"
The German went into this war with a mind which had been carefully
trained out of the idea of every moral sense or obligation, private,
public, or international. He does not recognize the existence of any
law, least of all those he has subscribed to himself, in making war
against women and children.
All mankind bears witness to-day that there is no crime, no cruelty, no
abomination that the mind of man can conceive which the German has not
perpetrated, is not perpetrating, and will not perpetrate if he is
allowed to go on.
These horrors and perversions were not invented by him on the spur of
the moment. They were arranged beforehand. Their outlines are laid down
in the German war book. They are part of the system in which Germany has
been scientifically trained. It is the essence of that system to make
such a hell of countries where their armies set foot that any terms she
may offer will seem like heaven to the people whose bodies she has
defiled and whose minds she has broken of set purpose and intention.
RUDYARD KIPLING,
_at Southport, England, June, 1915._
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_ANOTHER GERMAN "VICTORY"_
In June the Germans once more turned to the East and the North-East
Coast. On June 4, 1915, there was a raid, doing some slight damage; and
two days later there was another, by far the most serious of any that
had yet happened. The raiders succeeded in reaching a town on the East
Coast during the night and bombed it at their leisure. One large drapery
house was struck and was completely wrecked, the entire building--a
somewhat old one--collapsing. Some working-class streets were very badly
damaged, a number of houses destroyed, and many people injured. It was
one of the peculiarities of this raid that, unlike most of the others,
all the people injured were struck while indoors. The total casualties
here were twenty-four killed, about sixty seriously injured, and a
larger number slightly injured.
_Times History of the War._
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"_He was a brave 'Zepp,' he had already killed over one hundred women
and children_"
The outrage (see preceding page) was quickly avenged by a young British
naval airman, Flight Sub-Lieut. R. A. J. Warneford, in one of the most
brilliant aerial exploits of the war.
On the morning of June 7 at 3 A. M. he encountered a Zeppelin returning
from the coast of Flanders to Ghent, and chased it, mounting above it
and sailing over it at a height of 6,000 feet. Zeppelin and aeroplane
exchanged shots, and when the Zeppelin was between one and two hundred
feet immediately below him he dropped six bombs on it. One bomb hit the
Zeppelin fairly, causing a terrific explosion, and setting the airship
on fire from end to end. Warneford's aeroplane was caught by the force
of the explosion and turned upside down, but he succeeded in righting it
before it touched the ground. He was forced to alight within the German
lines. Nevertheless he restarted his engine, though not without great
difficulty, and in due course returned to his station without damage.
Only the framework of the Zeppelin was left, the crew being all burned
or mangled, and the body of the machine being completely destroyed.
_Times History of the War._
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_THE GREAT SURPRISE_
_Moses II. leads his chosen people through the channel to the promised
(Eng.) land_
From a military or political or economic point of view one should look
at the matter (the capture of Calais) with the eyes of Great Britain and
define the Calais idea as a possibility for a seafaring continental
power to conduct a war against Great Britain from the continental coast
channel and with all military resources while holding open communication
between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
COUNT VON REVENTLOW.
_June, 1915._
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_BOTHA TO BRITAIN_
"_I have carried out everything in accordance with our compact at
Vereeniging_"
On July 9, 1915, a despatch from General Botha was published stating
that he had brought his campaign in South-West Africa to a triumphant
close, and had received the unconditional surrender of Governor Sietz
and the German forces of 3,500 men. The campaign, commencing in
February, had lasted five months. The patriotic devotion of General
Botha and the loyalty of the great majority of the Dutch people to the
cause of the British Empire were a magnificent vindication of the
Liberal Cabinet's policy of reconciliation after the close of the South
African war.
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_THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IN ARMS_
The self-governing Colonies in the British Empire have at their disposal
a 'militia,' which is sometimes only a process of formation. They can be
completely ignored so far as concerns any European theatre of war.