2*** THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. JNEW YORK. SUJNJDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1914. KOENIGSBERG, STORM CENTER OF PRUSSIAN STRONGHOLD

to supreme commercial importance on founded by Duke Albert in 1544. the coast of the Baltic. Where the Famous in connection with this his- caravans of the medieval traders led toric seat of learning is the name of Modern and Ancient City of from the plains of Venice or the val- Immanuel Kant, the founder of mod- leys of Northern Russia, in these days philosophy, whose immor- that were inevitably coming were tal remains peacefully rest in a lit- seen the wide running lines of steel- j tie tomb near the cathedral. During Kings and the Sentiment laid tracks of the railway system of the course of his lifetime the great Eastern Prussia and Russia. Com- philosopher never found cause even merce received anew impetus. Koe- for once to leave the bounds of the nigsburg became anew city. Prussia ctiy of his birth. Like Socrates, who That Surrounds It. regained its Hanseatic capital of me- never left his city of Athens, Kant dieval days. confined his study, in fact the rou- Koenigsberg has been looked upon tine of all his life’s duties, within as the impregnable" fortress of East- the walls of Koenigsberg. Daily he would go his rounds from his house the terrific and splendor of this capital city was ern Prussia. Alone on the hilly along the streets of the historic city storm center revolving in its further heightened when, in 1525, the banks of the Pregel, it stands as the second capital of Prussia surrounded to the university grounds, never de- vortex the power of Kaiser Duke of Prussia established in this viating KOENIGSBERG, by its line of fortifications. once from his direction, never city of his palace and and Czar! Guarded by her kings royal con- loitering for a second behind the ducted the affairs of his domain from stubborn fortresses the an- regular schedule of his coming and thriving trade-city. Modern Koenigsberg cient captital of olden Prussia has the center of this going. Whenever Immanuel Kant fought a long struggle to preserve her Not Like the Ancient. thus passed through Koenigsberg the venerable history of German culture Royal House of Prussia Koenigsberg the modern does not city of Koenigsberg knew it could and Prussian chivalry from the sword retain marks now set its clocks with infallible mm many of the Koenigs- ac- UHOSKHOtO \ / ) of the Slavic invader. Sat There on Its Throne. berg the ancient. The gloomy little curacy. The memory of this great- '■ M||||||| ... -. ':M | [| u { .) M! L[ ' • Koenigsberg is old, as old as Prussia est of philosophers, who critically For over a hundred years, well into quarter of Aldstadt, with its long and Itself—certainly older than realms of the house the seventeenth century, the royal narrow streets and overhanging scanned the the entire uni- of the Prussian rulers. The Altstadt, verse, seen and unseen, the walls MASSIVE house of Prussia sat here on its throne. houses, might suggest perhaps the from ENTRANCE TO FORTS AT KOENIGSBERG. the dilapidated medieval quarter orig- of the City of Kings, is forever bound From all quarters of the country on days of the old Hanseatic market town, inally forming the bounds of the city, up with the history of that city, for The “Steindammerter,” one of great towers gates encircle the the week of the market fair W'ould but the other innumerable quarters of seventeen and monumental which grew up around the castle built in 1255 city roomy, he is known already as the “Sage of flock caravans of merchandise. From the with its broad streets great fortified city of Koenigsberg, in East Prussia, captured by the Russians. y~ by the Teutonic Order, on the advice Koenigsberg” to the of the all corners of the continent, in the and dwellings of modern convenience, historian of the historic warrior Ottaker II of present day. month of the royal Prussian corona- dispel to a disappointing extent the Bohemia, the king after whom the charm, tion, would gather the diplomatic emis- quaint of Middle Age dusk Koenigsberg is replete with museums, place was named. In olden bygone capi- saries of European courts. Koenigs- that lies thick over the other Hansea- educative schools and libraries—a WIRELESS TELEGRAPH NEW WAR FACTOR days, on the soil where the city now tal of culture. It is the real City of berg was indeed the king’s city, the tic towns of Medieval Germany. Only stands, was a little fishing hamlet, the market place of Aldstadt is like Kings, a typical German capital. In center of Prussian richness and splen- message known as Steindamm, which was de- us direct from Germany by a could, no doubt, be sent 180 dor. Not to say Koenigsberg did Koenigsberg of old, the rest of Koe- accordance with the German ideal of Takes the Place of Several isolated miKs or more. stroyed by the Prussians returning that way of the aerial waves flashed from during years nigsberg has passed before the on- monarchy, the city has been the cen- While the range is good, the dis- from the Crusades and rebuilt in 1283 not suffer, for all these, her high-power wireless stations and Koenigsberg coming of the new. ter of vast commercial enterprise that Tables and Wires and Aids tance to which messages eo'Jld be present site. As the centuries was compelled to stub- picked up by our own. sent has been object in con- on the The center of the City of Kings is had been spreading from the interior not an bornly struggle with difficulties caused Where the wireless stations are lo- so porta- gradually rolled past the bounds of the the old historic- of Russia to the farthest seaports of Armies and Navies. struction much as has been by silting up palace, the Schloss, cated on friendly territory the im- bility and of creation. As re- little settlement at the foot of the crag- the constant shifting and ease an extensive and imposing edifice, in- the Baltic. In harmony with the mense advantage to the nation con- gards the later point, any of the gy grew of the channels leading to its harbor, castle in bounds, until it in- closing a magnificent quadrangle, dat- dreams of the German rulers, it has trolling them as a means of instantly equipments can be unloaded, set up, and by the great Northern wars lhat GERMANS HAVE FINE SYSTEM. transmitting cluded other quarters .of Lobenicht ing back to 1255. In midst of been the home city of a flourishing orders and instructions and at work within fifteen minutes .of swept over the plains of Prussia dur- the. to troops and civil can be arrival, and they be taken down and the little island of Kneiphof, be- the splendid architecture rises lofty culture, a culture which has in at authorities can ing the seventeenth century. In spite a realized. Especially valuable is the and packed in even less time. As re- coming a collective seignory of no mean tower shadowing the little chapel in least one instance raised the mind of of these difficulties this plucky Hanse- No Longer Depend on Telegraph and service in connection with the control gards portability, a horse will easily importance. The tradesmen were in- which Frederick I was crowned King the nation into great prominence in of the battle fleets. Without touching carry an outfit of average range, while atic city made rapid steps forward Telephone to Transmit dustrious, the crafts regulated by the of the Prussians in 1701. A century the ultimate history of civilization. Messages at cable stations or waiting for in- a long-distance set can be carried by conscientious discipline under the energetic efforts of its in- structions conveyed by dispatch boats four bourses which also carry riders. A of the guilds and a half later—in 1861—the found- In agreement with the general policy In the Field. prospered, and the burghers were given dustrious burghers and the military and messengers, without even coming pack-horse and a man between them ing of the German Empire was cele- of the German Emperors, this City could take of the lager sets a rights and in the course of power of its royal leaders. within sight of shore the commanders one privileges brated within the walls of this little of Kings stands also for the “mailed of the warring fleets and battleships distance of thirty miles in the twenty- by neighboring interesting Wireless telegraphy as a means of time the prince, who An story could form the chapel with the coronation of Wil- fist,” for militaristic send and receive their and four hours. invulnerability,; communication between armies in the can reports was forced by dire need or was im- tale of Koenigsberg’s history. Welded liam I. This was the seat in the cen- for Koenigsberg is a naval and mili- instructions from the source which >s It has been recognized that it might field and as a source of news from be necessary to take an outfit into a pelled by his own toleration to accede into a single great city by the Emperor turies long past of the Teutonic tary fortress of the first order. Its directing their movements, and can the beleagured countries to the other hold the scattered units of the various position where neither horse nor to their demands. Frederick William I, the municipality knights. The course of centuries has fortifications are the result of sixty motors could pass, u,nd the German nations of the world is getting its squadrons in close communion with The plucky little city in less than was left in Eastern Prussia to bear seen many alterations in the general years of constant labor and planning. equivalent of our engineers have de- first real test in the present European one another. one century—in the year 1340—had against its walls the surging of the architectural appearance in this pal- Surrounded by an inner wall, brought] vised a stretcher of bamboo on which conflict. largest grown to be one of the centers of trade troublesome times that have marked ace of the City of Kings, but the into connection with an outlying sys- Wireless Has Saved Many Vessels one of the sets in use can be ■How carried by eight men over the rough- in Northern Germany, prominent as a its history down to the present day. Schloss will always remain in its im- tem of works, and guarded by twelve big a factor it will be in the From Caplure. struggle est of country. As the usual wireless market place, on the road between the Koenigsberg was one of the cities that memorial integrity indelibly engraved detached forts overlooking one of the has already been demon- The Value of the wireless was em- crew consists of seven men, two to phasized in a Hanseatic towns scattered along the suffered most severely during the war in the pages of the history of the most safely protected harbors in Ger- strated by the fact that Germany, cut striking way by its ser- look after the horses and five to set vice in aiding big liners coming to New up Baltic. The spices of the Levant and of liberation. In the year 1807 it suc- Fatherland. many, Koenigsberg represents the off from the outside world by the sev- and dismantle the set, with two York at the outbreak of war to de- officers to send and receive messages, onslaught very symbol ering of the the the precious stones of the East were cumbed to the of the French Overshadowed by the magnificent of Teutonic stolidity. trans-Atlantic cables, has tect the presence of hostile cruisers and it is evident that in field work there bartered here in this rising municipal- army under the leader Napoleon. Six Schloss stands the quiet and aspiring The world is watching with interest yet been able to flash through space to change their courses in time to avoid would be no necessity to draw men ity for the flsh-stuffs of the Baltic and years later the town was the scene of cathedral with its Gothic tower at the present moment the outcome of the United States the news of her mili- capture. One of the most notable ex- from other duties to assist with the amples of this was furnished the wireless. the furs and hides of frozen Russia. the deliberations which led to the suc- wrought with fourteen century gar- the siege of this historic city, whose tary operations. by big German liner, Kronprinzessin The which of Hither the Grand Master of the Teu- cessful uprising of Prussia against Na- occurs, mast, is made an goyles and leaves of brown ivy almost downfall, if it might ultimate- How efficient a means of communi- •’ecilie, which, with several millions ot alloy of which aluminum is a predom- tonic Order, the old comradery of Cru- poleon, the uprising that crippled the overlooking the other side of the spa- ly mean the downfall of the German cation in spite of censors, and severed, dollars in bullion aboard, was several inant compound, is built in eight sec- usurper saders who had retired to Eastern legendary and made free the cious parade ground, where lie the commerce, the culture and the mili- cables, was shown by the action of ’ days out of this country on her return tions of 6 feet in length. These are voyage when the news of provided with slip joints, and the mast Prussia after the early crusades, way for the German nation to come. academic somber buildings of the old taristic strength that are encom- the United States Government in plac- the declara- Eng- is first built up on the ground and moved his military quarters and estab- Again in the past century the town Lutheran Collegium Albertinum, passed within the walls of this Prus- tion of war between Germany and the ing its own censors in the big, higb- land was flashed to her, and her cap- afterward raised in position. The bot- lished his chivalric court. The pomp sian City of Kings. of the Hanseatic traders has risen university of the sixteenth century. power wireless stations in this country tain was able to double back and avoid tom member is formed of a socket, to pass upon all messages received and capture for his valuable ship and bedded in bitumen, which in turn is sent out at them, in yorder to preserve cargo by making a forced run to Bar encased with a metal tube provided its neutrality. The action was pre- Harbor, Maine. The same thing was with a pointed shoe. This is sunk in cipitated by the report that stations true in the case of many other vessels. the ground, and so supports the mast, KOENIGSBERG, THE GREAT EAST PRUSSIAN STRONGHOLD. the guy ropes operated by German companies The value of an efficient and speedy but efficient are provided were that for hurried receiving instructions flashed from means of communication between the so work the sinking Berlin and transmitting various headquarters and bodies- of is not done, but those of the wireless them to Ger- vt go—- in crew who arc not setraiwer man battleships cruising of the Ameri- troops the field is too apparent to ating electricity, simply hold the mast step m I can coast. need emphasis. Napoleon went a In position until the message is sent Kg ||S It Is a time-honored rule of nations in advance of his opponents when he and the answer received. ■ to strike first at each other's means of devised a heliographic signaling sys- The aerial is very ingeniously de- communication. By paralysing the or- tem by means of tail towers erected at vised. It consists of a number of dinary lines of information the enemy intervals within sight of each other so bronze wire conductors radiating out jj|\ is thus kept in a state of doubt and that the movements of the signaling like the ribs of an inverted umbrella. uncertainty as to the movements of arms could be detected by officers These are accurately balanced and If I armed with field glasses. The next step counterpoised, and the radiating opposing bodies of troops and its own after forces, and the scattered units are this came with the invention of wires are attached to insulators fast- the telephone and the laying port- liable to surprise, discouragement and of ened near the bottom of the mast. nation able telephone wires by a special corps For sending purposes dry batteries of panic. The in control of the ex- trained for that lines of communication purpose. a special make are supposed to be isting is able to The commanders the war are not avail- exaggerate its and minimize in present used, but in case these victories gone predecessors one bet- a small dynamo, coupled to a its and in other ways have their able defeats to so ter, however, by the equipping of their arrangement, forms part of distort and color the pedaling news that a armies with portable wireless ap- the outfit. With this a man can easily material advantage gained through is paratus. The Germans, in particular, drive the generator at a speed of 1,300 the preservation of confidence in its have made a special study of this sub- to 1,400 revolutions per minute, and ■ arms on the part of its people and its ject, and are said to have devised an so provide a current of one ampere at allies and the extension of its credit. ingenious and highly efficient system 50 volts, which is amply sufficient for of field communication. sending purposes. The weight of Severing Cables and Wires No Longer dynamo and pedal drive Is 99 pounds, Breaks Cominunieation. Germans Have Elaborate Field Wire- and It is so arranged that It pan be or surprise less Apparatus. carried by one man by meahs of Little no was occasioned shoul- therefore by the announcement, short- In their army at least it would ap- straps which fasten across the ly the outbreak of between pear that the days of telegraphs ders. after war field transmitter and receiver, the Germany and England, that England have passed and the laborious and The lengthy method of latter of which is of the well-known had severed the two German cables laying wires be- designed so tween distant points in order es- pattern, are leading from Germany to the United to as to be as light as possible, and it States by way of the Azores. The ac- tablish communication is now obsolete. Only might be considered that a certain completely isolated Germany from along established lines of com- been sacri- tion munication will wires amount of efficiency had the rest of the world as she was sur- be laid for tele- ficed to obtain increased portability rounded by hostile countries all graphic and telephonic purposes; the and field and ease in erecting. cable equipment consists almost in en- despatches, telephonic communi- of portable messages tirety wireless telegraph cations and mail to the out- outfits. ESCAPED CENSORSHIP. side world had be transmitted [Prom the Evening Wisconsin.] to In countries portable through with whom she was in other equip- The story brought over by American nations ments of this character have been cum- a state of war and had to run Lne travelers fleeing from Europe that brous and far from easily handled. The patrons of Mont Carlo lost nearly ten gamut of a stringent censorship. German engineer has, however, worked But for the existence of the wireless million dollars by the sudden declara- hand in glove with the service man, tion of war is narrated with circum- the plan on the part of the allies would and the Kaiser’s forces are now have stantial elaboration. News of the been eminently successful. It had equipped with a means of communica- said, been occasionally declaration of war, it is reached demonstrated that tion which is so light and portable that the proprietors of the at trans-Atlantic messages could be Casino mid- a motor-cyclist with a sidecar could night when the tables were covered flashed between the high-power sta- readily transport one of the smaller with gold. "The lights were extin- tions in this country and Europe un- | outfits 200 miles in a day. guished immediately, the gamblers lost der favorable conditions, but no general The short-range instruments will their nerve and became panic-stricken attempt was made to do so until the send and receive over an average dis- and the croupiers raked in all the existing apparatus could be brought to tance of thirty-five miles. Where the money that had been put up as bets.” a higher state of perfection. With the country is level, as in Holland, it is Ten million dollars in gold on the cutting of the underocean cables, how- possible the range might be forty, or gambling tables of Monte Carlo at one ever, the attempts were again renewed even forty-five, miles; in hilly country time, and that representing only the and the result has been that many of it might, not exceed fifteen or twenty stakes of the patrons! This is a story the most recent descriptions of happen- miles. The larger sizes have extremely that evidently was not subjected to ings at the seat of war have come to long range, and over average country revision by the censor. REMARKABLE PROPHECY OF THE WAR BY A GERMAN OFFICER

the most remarkable place Belgium are some of the striking paragraphs of necessary, but merely tire demolition of Thanks to the progress of German after its defeat by Germany as the by means of adequate artillery, fore to foremost as a prophecy of war of the many the pamphlet: her flotilla would be essential for the science, this has not yet been accom- second strongest European naval and gaining a prominent position in proper target of invasion. to which public attention has "In consequence of our situation, Ger- execution of this purpose. plished. We have by far exceeded the colonial Power—enter'once more its the foreground, enabling them to fire "This land of small area and large of the Marconi harbor, resources is PERHAPSbeen called since the Allies many’s merchant marine and naval “An additional military asset is pro- performances apparatus, former hostile relationship with Eng- upon the hostile fleet in the surrounded by Holland is dependent for her fuel supply vided for England in her vast network thereby providing us with a remedy for j Russia can which is compelled to steam away from and Germany. After its conquest came to grips with the Kaiser is con- fleet land. The role against it on the other nations, particularly Great of cable system, by means of which our deficiency of the apparatuses and be allotted only Germany; the dual the coast for protection, and must face would result that the settled Power to would tained in a little pamphlet which ap- Britain. In event of war, should an all the quarters of the globe are inter- the locations of their various stations of the apparently contradic- inevitably, the enemy's fleet, awaiting be placed in no unshifting po- relaying messages interests peared in Germany this spring. It is unfavorable sentiment break out over connected with each other and the cen- the across space. It tory forces of England and Russia op- them in the open, outside the harbor. sition in a widely hostile territory. therefore of ruling importance that by the this called “The German Empire’s Hour of Europe and our fleet be proscribed as tral little kingdom. For domestic ad- is posed to Germany', would effect, in- These were the tactics adopted Still, conquest could, under or- prizes of war, we would be faced by ministration, as well as for naval war- the Kaiser was enabled to communi- urgent purpose of breaking Americans at Santiago, and by the dinary conditions, be accomplished. Destiny,” and it was written by H. with the President of the United | deed, the The French tl\3 grave question of where over the fare, a system of lightning communica- cate the old power—and perhaps Japanese at Port Arthur. For this may take as strong a Frobenius, a retired German lieutenant. importance. recently through the domestic Belgian vast surface of the world could we find tion is of inestimable It States but medium j unconsciously—of undermining the old reason the British fleet is in need most stand as possible, on soil, This booklet, which discusses the gen- friendly nations to replenish our fleets empowers a concentration of resources of wireless. friendship between the two states, off- ■ j urgently of a strongly supporting land still they will inevitably .be- weaker ! every favorable without the least disguise, j there than in their country. eral alignment and policy of the Euro-i with fuel. The harbors of the French for the utilization of “Openly, setting the German Empire ever in the | force. own As every threat- Britain has been working for mastery pea A. Powers, is remarkable for the and the English would, of course, be opportunity, to forestall Great future against Russia. England her- j "Whether the Continental Allies soon as the of the Meuse is unconditionally closed, as far as we are ening danger, and to spring upon the her own purposes, seeking to beguile in the destruction could lend England that required sup- won, the conquest of Belgium may of accurate predictions con- every sleeping, with Italy, self has no interest number i concerned. The possibility cf such a enemy, devoid of this advantage, the German to on power. On the con- port in time of war is the next ques- be considered as already accomplished. tained in its eighty pages. It hand, assuming a serious of Germany's sea predicts I question facing us is even more ac- surprising embarrassment. So long as the other military purpose may' well tion that arises. Thoroughly this can- We might believe, therefore, should the cable mien. It is inconvenient, indeed, for trary', her arms of the involved the coalition of the Allies against Ger- 1 centuated, should the defeat of the Low England alone rules over this net- spare to the fullest Germany s not be assured her, for at this point wrest at any England can block at her pleasure one seeking the mastery of the Mediter- be to begin break out in place a victory—and at any many, even hinting at the likelihood Countries plunge threatening | work she fleet, but to destroy indeed her armies. several interests to offensive into fear. On this essential point, | the service of the other nations, ren- ranean to be faced by a waxing and weakening conflict. The decision would be sought move this fact must be uppermost—- of Great Britain’s calling in Japan for resting among "The tactics of gradually where wc need unhampered freedom, j dering them totally deaf and blind to powerful flotilla the is- dealing the final, by both Powers on tho nearest route the victory would be productive of re- assistance in the Far East. The viola- occurring in remote lands of the Turks In the Aegean Sea an enemy before their capitals. sults and yet England restricts us by her shrinking the events districts crushing blow, has always thrus, itself between Berlin and easiest insecure for Bel- tion of Belgian neutrality by both bands steel. The of Im- the globe, while, on the other hand, seized in the days of the Italian-Turk- yvonld be no for gum’s conquest.” of destruction of upon the of the stronger, as There inducement a neces- her alone are open all possibilities ish War. So long as the Porte will de- attention and consequently t<( "Searching through the France and Germany is assumed as perial England is not entirely to is seen in Corbett (an English au- them to split history of sary for the securing of this freedom, of seeing and hearing, giving her all lay in withdrawing her troops and offi- strait. weaken their land power by drafting England we will And, it is matter of course, and the landing by the Tripolitan thority'), in time of a difficult true, that as Homer Lea intimated in his com- the advantages of attacking on her own cers from hinterland, decision en- a inconsiderable number—mass of at times certain portions of Great Britain of an expeditionary force flaunt Every day' the delay of not its mil- : the future of Greater Ger- initiative. Realizing these dangers, Italy will continue to the right of money—and and fighting-material—for the itary, its fleet, and its finance Belgian me'nts on consequent loss of troops wera of 150,000 on soil is treated as many. overabundant British pos- other nations have set to the laying of possession over these islands, which tails a coast fastnesses. They strained to the utmost, they could The also coal supply, on siege upon our bear, an incidental feature of the opening sessions could well satisfy Germany’s of cables, at least for certain independ- i will assure her that the other will 'get and might prefer to annihilate Ger- but It had never learned to i business.’ As long as Sir involves great difficulties well summon campaign. Lieutenant even ! needs, but it appears that England ent zones, minimizing the necessity of ! down to Grey which bring this many’s landcraft and spare her sea forth its entire popular strength, Frobenius Europe is necessary to where would also fight maintain her su- resorting to England’s oversea cables. | is worrying that will not be therefore it method, a warning against future every able man is called forth to predicts Groat Britain’s action in cut- 1 to equilibrium while matter soon to a head. Two power, as bat- ! premacy over the seas. Then would In the first place, however, this cable : in normal a Power as feasible, rivals of Great Britain. Should Great tle, as in the Prussian-German War ting the cables and points out how the of of operation stand out i : rise to the forefront another funda- network is not yet totally complete, ! is in possession these islands, Italy atlack under reek to accomplish her purpose, in 1833, and the Franco-Prussian War superior of German scien- feel either make a forcible Britain achievements mental principle of England’s policy of and, in the second place, danger is not I will continue to with irksomeness to defenses, at- ■! of the German sea of 1870. It knew well how to avoid, being very fire of coast the destruction tists will enable Germany to overcome J subduing any possible opponent endan- yet completely averted so long as Eng- j the pressure which is exerted by the s de- for good or bad she must this, for—in splendid accordance English Minister. tempting to destroy the enemy | power, then with handicap with wireless installa- ; gering her namely, to turn to land may, by cutting off the submarine the the ! forces, and we Clausewitch's theory —it never set un- this interests, “England is longer to barrier, penetrating into send here her land instruments de- \ .lapan before this opponent can have wires in case of war, render the system no play the fensive (hitherto the ; may not worry when we realize that limited conquest as its goal. It has tions. The German he role of offsetting in which harbors of his retreat arisen to formidable power in the Pa- useless. France, she venture has been j the duty of supporting her flotilla will never sought to conquer an entire clares to be far superior to the Marconi j telegraphy had formerly been placed by England. courage for this entire ! eific. This, however, would require all “The invention of wireless or to attempt the be incumbent on expeditionary forces country or destroy an army, as instruments, of which England has se- On the other hand, in Russia lias ap- rarely), by story of j her naval power, a fact to be consid- affords one, relief from the disadvan- *»my out of its amounting to but 150,000 men. is evinced the its colonial Altogether, the Eng- anew Power, whose bombardment of the cured a monopoly. ered in view of Germany’s powerful tage of cable communication. peared interest Thi, is not “The of Germany and warfare. Its goal Was always a re- i coincides remarkably -with verv quarters of shelter. I situation Frobenius pamphlet indicates how care- flotilla. The thought lies uppermost in land has made tremendous progress In those of by means ot a ! France, as described by Clausewitch, stricted one, and attainable solely by England’s England’s own. Equilibrium against generally accomplished fully German officers have studied ; mind to disperse her present this direction and knew well to ac- in the case of | in his 1830 monograph, did not formerly means of its own power; the seizure opponent and quire the seat of the company Russia can bo maintained only by attack, especially defeat dominions, the every eventuality they j at the first opportunity, Marconi the lea ! permit of the complete of these of over-sea destruction of war, and that within Efforts were rallying of a tremendous military force * wel ‘-f r ! regain full freedom of expansion in her own domains. ? EarVmg tor ! states In case of war; and the pro- of hostile flotilla, or commercial ad- were prepared to face an overwhelming the of Ger- made for the acquisition of a monopoly in the field. France not inclined to ‘ nd I Pacific. Not the destruction «** a„«lt of strategists tended there- vantages, i ■ ; a our Coalition of the Powers. The following man}’s empire, as Homer Lea thought .. .T this medium of communication, fulfill this i- it would— purpose S 'Y’-'shH