Life — July 8, 1915 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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bilities of the Prussian monster. That is the spot that it is the duty of every observer to keep black in his mind. He must not let it shade off into any grey of subsequent warfare. He should keep it black, remembering al- ways the unwarrantable nature of the invasion, the ferocious terrorism that marked it, the murders, lootings, ex- actions, enslavements, destructions and compulsions that attended it. A for the progress of the war, Mr. Bryan says that those of us who can see no escape from fighting it through “revel in the daily account of carnage.” Certainly the carnage goes steadily on, but the disposition to revel in it is not noticed except by Mr. Bryan. Matters have not gone well for the Allies of late, but they have probably gone not so ill as appears. As everybody knows, all the Allies ex- cept the Italians have been short of ammunition. That seems to have been the main reason why the Russians fell back, and why the French and English have not done more on the western front. But that deficiency seems to be now in process of being met. The English factories, enlivened by Lloyd- George, are doing better, and the American shops are by no means idle. The Germans are far ahead in this matter, as in everything connected with preparation for war. England has had to undergo industrial as well as military reorganization, and it has taken too much time. But nothing of much moment has yet been lost but time. The lines hold in Northern France and the costly German suc- cesses in Ga do not seem to mean much. German armies can go far in the direction of Russia without much advantage to the German cause, and no story of intrusion into Russia is finished until the intruders get safely out. Very little is known about proceed- ings in the Dardanelles, but the ques- tion is rather how long it will take to get through them than whether it can be done. There is no prospect that Satan: 1 Give any of the neighbors down there will come into the war on the German side; there is a good prospect that Greece, Rumania and perhaps Bulgaria will join the Allies. There is less talk than there was about an end of the war in the autumn and more suggestion that it will run over into next year. What might end it sooner would be an effectual change in popular sentiment in Germany. One hears that the thoughtful Germans are beginning to think again and that less thoughtful ones are getting tired of being killed. Prospects of a profit for Germany out of the war have pretty well faded away, and a good many Germans seem now to be won- dering what they are fighting for. And, of course, they have not escaped the griefs that all the warring nations share. When they began they were fighting for conquest, but now it is eens PEOPLE A CHANCE coming to be that they are fighting for existence. That, however, they can secure at any time they are strong enough to wrest their government away from their Prussian war-masters. That would bring peace to the world in short order, but it is more likely to be a consequence of peace than a cause of it, There is a lot of history still to be made, a lot of sharp medi- cine still to be taken by a sick world, hefore peace can come. The rule of the Turk in Europe is apparently to be ended, the Eastern question settled so it will stay so, the reorganization of the English social system completed. There are boundaries to he changed, new kingdoms set up, autonomies pro- tected hy new assurances and empires readjusted. The lack of munitions has delayed all these matters, but possibly the final rearrs will be the better for the delay. ngement comicbooks.com