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SHOCK OF HUM WftR WILL BE FELT IN DISTANT CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Contending Powers Hare Interests In All Parts of the World. When Europe g-oes.to war thé fate of millions of square miles of territory territory and of tens of millions of men, women and children outside of Europe Europe are involved in the conflict. Kot- one of the five continents and not one of the seven seas but has a stake in the continental struggle. Vast armies are massed in Europe, but little dots of islands in the centre centre of the Pacific, great tracts of territory in what used to be called the Dark Continent, and wedges of concessions that have often been driven into the enormous coast lines of China- are all to be disposed of Recording to the outcome of the battles battles that are to be fought thousands of miles away from them. A bare enumeration of the territories territories whose destinies are now being being settled by the war takes one all over the globe, now under the flag uf one country and again under that of another. Every continental country has been for years hustling, for colonies, and these colonies now make one of the chief prizes of the present conflict. Bokhara and Khiva. Russia, in the two protectorates over Bokhara and Khiva, controls 107.000 square miles of land and 1.896.000 people, not included within within the Russian Empire. Finland, for purposes of distribution, is held to be a part of Russia. Belgium controls the Belgian Congo, containing 909,000 square miles and 15,000,000 of Bentus. Italy controls Eritrea on the Red Sea, Tripoli and Cyrenaica, and part of Somaliland. The first mentioned mentioned has an area of 45,800 square miles, an eighth larger than Ohio, with a population of 450,000 j Somaliland Somaliland has an area of 39,430 and a population of 400,000 natives. Tripoli and Cyrenaica have an area of 406,000 square miles and a population population estimated at 523,176. In addition, Italy has a small concession concession at Tientsin^ China, with a population population of 17)(k5o no-t carried m the grand totals of lands and peoples subject- to parcelling by the Peace Congress. Germany, which, according-to reports, reports, ha-s already lost Togoland on the West Coast of Africa, to a combined combined force of British and French colonials, in the Kamerun protectorate protectorate German Southwest Africa and German. East Africa, has 981,- o-f the 19th centuries, has a senator and one deputy in the Parliament, while Senegal, G»uiam& and Cochin China have each a deputy* . -Are Represented by Senators. The other colonies are represented represented in the Ooneeil Supérieur des Colonies, Colonies, consisting of senators and deputies from colonies,. delegates from those not represented in Parliament Parliament and persons especially . appointed appointed to that assembly for considering considering colonial affairs 1 " -Thé possession as in .Asia have a total total area of 310,176 mi le s and population population of 10,77$,300. In Africa the area is 4, >84,401, with a population of 25,681,263. In America the area is 35,162 and a population of 446, 720, chief of which is French Guiana with an area of 34,000. St. Pierre and Miquelon on the Newfoundland coast, have an area of only 96 square miles, almost equal to the original District of Columbia, with a population of 423. The island of Martinique came into notice in 1909 on account of the eruption of Mt. Pelee, the volcano constituting the northern point of the island, which resulted in the destruction destruction of the city of St. Pierre and the loss of about 85,000 lives. In the Pacific ocean the French republic controls New Caledonia and Tahiti, with an area of 7,200 and a population of 50,500. British Possessions Huge. The British colonial possessions are the whole of the Australia continent continent Canada, the former Boer Re ubhc, Somaliland, Beuchunaland, P . . India^ Vlotxxria Islands off the coast of Ghana, Harbor of Weihaiwei, the Federated Mayay States in the Malay Malay Peninsula, and part of Borneo and New Zealand. In the West Indies her possessions are the islands of St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, oonsti tuting the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea. North of that chain of islands is- Nassau and Bermuda, off the coast of Florida'. Then there is British Honduras and British Guiana. In the Pacific she has more than an equal division in the small islands islands in what is generally known as Oceania. Her protectorates over Egypt- and her ownership of the is HOTEL. DE VILLE, LOUVAIN. On* of the most beautiful buildings In Europe and centuries old. W was thought to have been destroyed In the destruction ot Louvain but later: despatches say the Germans preserved 14. GERMANY 13 NOT CAPABLE OF FIGHTING THE WORLD, SAY GERMANS. Country's Comparative Isolation Fans the Spirit of Militarism. Militarism. "Wir Deutsc-hen fuerchten Gott und sonst nichts auf der Welt ! (We land of Malta, and the "stronghold | Germans, fear God and otherwise of Gibraltar, together with the Suez Canal and defences to its entrance, constitute the most valuable part of her possessions between the home island and the empire of India., HOW LONG WILL WAR LAST? Long Dragging War Sheer Disaster for Germany. The question how long this great war is likely to last interests every soul in Europe, but it is astonishing astonishing to see how wide apart, are the different estimates. From three 460 square miles, with a white popu- J weeks to three vears have beefi. sug- X, lation of 22,405 and a native population population of 11,406,024. German East Africa Africa is the prize, containing as it does an area of 384.810 square miles and a population of 7,645,770. German German Southwest- Africa- has an area ef 2.245 sou are miles, and a population population of whites of 14,833, and a native native population of 79,556. In Asia her jewels consist of Kiauchau, acquired in 1897, with an area of only 200 square miles, but n copulation of 168,000. That is the sear- of the Eastern Empire the Kaiser hoped to establish on the ruins of China. • In the Pacific Ocean Germany has as large a collection v.f islands, numerically speaking, as the United States, including the new Guinea, Marshall, Solomon Solomon and Caroline Islands and part of Samoa, in which the United States also has an interest. France overseas has possessions putting her away ahead of all those engaged in the war other than Great-Britain. She regards Algeria - and Tunis, in North Africa, particularly particularly the former, as part of France." Tunis is attached to the ministry of foreign affairs, while other colonies, created as a department department of the government-in 1894. French colonies have a large ™-® a ~ sure of seR-government. The older ones, such as Reunion, Martinique and Guadeloupe, have representation representation in the French Parliament. Each of tho=e mentioned has a senator and two deputies. French India (Pondicherry), for many years the football between the Dutch, the French and the English from the middle of the 17th to the beginning gested as the probable duration of the contest, with every variety of intermediate estimate, and it. is evident that few people havê< given the matter much serious thought, says the London Times. We are quite accustomed to dragging dragging wars which go on for years. We are generally unready for war, and in our colonial wars it does not usually matter whether we strike soon or late. The enemy, as a rule, is not in a nosition to make us pay very heavily for unreadiness so we take our time to muddle through. But this war, this whirlpool of wars, in which we are suddenly engulfed, engulfed, stands in a different eate gory altogether. We must regard it from the German point of view because Germany 'has been the aggressor aggressor and will be the pacemaker. For Germany a long, dragging war is sheer disaster. Her position between between two great and hostile military military states, the closing of the sea and the paralysis o-f her whole maritime industries together with the dangers which her over-seas colonies will incur, absolutely prohibit prohibit any German from thinking of a dragging war. Reason Enough. The Young Bride--I didn't accept Jim the first- time he proposed. Miss Ryval (slightly envious) -- I know you didn't, dear. The Young Bride--How do you know 1 , " Miss Ryval--You weren t there. Kind words and bald heads never dye. You Should Worry If liver or bowels. These ailments are likely to attack anyone; likely, too, to lead to worse sickness if not relieved. are famous the world over, for their power to correct these troubles certainly and safely^ They cleanse^ the system, puniy the blood and act as a Indigestion, biliousness, . _ longed suffering and expose you to danger Were Nof On Prer*re4 ooiy br Tbemeà Filth am St. Helene, LaeefleUrê. Feilwi s£Kv. iAC«àd»^nd V. 8. America. In boat-- » 25 eel». nothing in the world !) Bismarck^ s boast ha-s now become t-he Kaiser s challenge and Berlin is bristling with militarism, says a Berlin correspondent correspondent of the New York Herald, Herald, writing shortly after the outbreak outbreak of the war. We do not get much news from the outside world, but if the war fever ^rages elsewhere as it rages here all, Europe is an armed camp and every able-bodied man a soldier, with wrar as his daily bread. Under den Lm- : den is a swarming boulevard of moving troops. Cavalry -come dashing dashing along, the horses' sharing the excitement, prance into the surging crowds on the wide pavements, but there is never a- word of remonstrance remonstrance or complaint. "Hoch der Kaiser!" rings out from the man pushed ruthlessly into solid mass of brother Germans. He picks up his hat, knocked off in the rush, and waves it frantically with another war cry. Strangers, men and women, gather arm in arm, to shout and sing. To them every detachment detachment of German troops that comes along is cheered as enthusiastically enthusiastically as if it had already defeated defeated the enemy and saved the Fatherland. Kaiser in Untcr den Linden. The confidence of the crowds in their Kaiser and his sword is unbounded. unbounded. The Kaiser appears at intervals, intervals, always with an impressive suite and generally accompanied by the Crown Prince and others of the royal entourage. He looks stern-- his face flushed to a healthy color and supreme confidence personified in every move and gesture. He bows right and left to his subjects, but 1 have seen no semblance of a smile. The Emperor's statements from the Berlin Castle, keep German courage and enthusiasm at fever heat and likewise resound throughout throughout the land to prove the justice of his cause. He represents himself as striving for peace for years against overwhelming odds, but now ready to fight the world if necessary, after the sword has been forced into his hand. The Crown Prince, whose promilitary promilitary utterances have kept him in the limelight for more than a year, is now a hero and a prophet in the eyes of the German people. Together w T ith the ardent supporters supporters of the "big-army cliques" who have succeeded in increasing the j army *at each session of the Reich- j stag, he has predicted, that if Germany Germany went to war the Fatherland would be arrayed in arms against the world, so to speak, and the man of the street says he spoke even wiser than he knew. Germany Against the World. The embarrassment of Austria, at war with Servi» and the neutrality of Italy may be causing German diplomatists sleepless nights, but it is not. pothering the average German German citizen. '^Germany U strong enough alone," he says. The romance romance of the "German Kaiser in arms against the world" adds to the fiery spirit of militarism here and doubtless will give German troops additional courage on the battlefield. battlefield. Wilhelmstrasse, now under close police guard, is decorated with German German flags. German statesmen in tall hats and official dress hurry in and out of the Foreign Office, while lines of taxicabs, with officials and officers in uniform, come along to ' the sound of cheers. It is useless to try to see officials for war news excepting those of the _ recognized press department, who give, out only what is carefully scrutinized by the Foreign Office. The political police department, which has under its head foreign newspaper. -correspondents and anarchists, has been reinforced and is exceedingly busy. To the amazement amazement of some of the correspondents they have found that all the political political news they Have sent to England been carefully aqd to Agença has b- v - kept track of. Clippings of despatches despatches which have appeared in the British press have been filed away so that on the outbreak of war the officials might know what correspondents correspondents to expel from the country. There has been litile necessity for wholesale expulsions, however, for the cables and telegraph lines permit permit no news whatever to leave Ger- many excepting a few statements which Wühelmstrasse finds not objectionable. objectionable. A Hint. A minister, during his discourse one -Sunday morning, said: "In each blade of grass there is a s.er- mon." The following day one of his flock discovered the good man pushing a lawnmower about his garden, and paused to say: "Well, parson, I'm glad to see you cutting vour sermons short." Solving the Problem. Do you and your neighbor still quarrel about that dog of his which used to scratch "your flowers up ?" "No; never now." "Buried the'hatchet, eh?" I buried the dog!" More women are volunteërmg-for Red Cross service than can be accepted. accepted. "The Mad Dog of Europe" is what a London newspaper terms the German Emperor. Normally the average consumption consumption of eggs in Great Britain » about 12,000,000 every 24 hours. The French cooks employed in the House of'Commons have all responded responded to the call .to arms. Black waiter, a famous camping ground near Bis-ley, is being prepared prepared for the reception of German prisoners. As one Highland regiment went through the Strand of London its band played, "Marching Through Georgia." Resolutions authorizing^ the in crease of the Army by 500,000 men and of the Navy by 67,000 have been agreed to. The death took place in Dondop on the 9th inst. of Mr. Alfred Chichele Chichele Plowden, until recently Metropolitan Metropolitan Police Magistrate. The office for special marriage licenses in London is to remain open night and day, so many army and nàvy officers are to be married. The number of paupers in receipt of relief in England and Wales at the end of last June was 618,315-- 246,159 indoor and 372,156" outdoor. There's wealth to be got by making making folks merry. Mr. Edmund James Payne, of Golder's Green, the well-known Gaiety comedian, left £21,657. It is not generally remembered that Lord Kitchener served in his youth as a volunteer for the French agaiqst the Germans. He is a per feet French scholar. A Cumberland goose is said to have reached the surprising age of 56 years. The bird can be seen on the village green at Houghton, about three miles north of Carlisle. At the first meeting of the American American Women's War Relief Society, held in London on the 18th Inst., at the residence of Mrs. Wan. Leeds, $80,(XX) was subscribed. The sub- You Have Always Bought the terms of the origin ai treaty of alliance between Germany and Austria, the Bismarck-Andrassy treaty of 1878, out of which the Triple Alliance sprang, have been published. Publication was an episode in Bismarok's controversy with Caprivi as to the justification for not renewing the so-called reinsurance reinsurance treaty with Russia. Owing Owing to this controversy it became known that Germany and Austria were pledged to make war in common common if either power was attacked by Russia. It is significant "that Russia was sc rip tion slanged from $25,000 to a expressly mentioned. The alliance . Î Ml 1 nrn n O CT& Tl F* TTfl-l fl O 0 11 TT1 ft fl fc. IT) & ( n ' 'No ; Numerous Tics. "I don't care much for Lonely- ville." ,, "Why don't you move, then ! "Too many ties. One neighbor has my card table, another my wheelbarrow and a third my lawn mower." Customer--I think this meat is spoiled. Meat Market Proprietor --Perhaps so, mum, but that meat came from a prize lamb and it may have been petted too much. A POWERFUL SHIP few shillings. The dustmen employed by. the Brighton Corporation are aggrieved at the decision of the local authorities authorities to invite tenders for the disposal disposal of saleable articles collected from dust bins and to pay the men a bonus on the proceeds. Hitherto the dustmen have divided the spoils. The British Board of .Agriculture and Fisheries have received a number number of complaints from farmers, representing representing that all their working stock of horses has been requisitioned requisitioned for military purposes, and that they are unable td harvest their crops, or are seriously impeded in doing so. During the first three months of this veor 14,471 British subjects arrived arrived from distant countries to take up permanent residence in . the United Kingdom. The net emigration emigration in this period was 30,907. In the corresponding months of last year the arrivals numbered 11,628, and the net emigration was 69,169. The visit of the British rifle team to Australia to compete for the empire empire trophy has been abandoned. The team, which was to have sailed on August 10th, was composed almost almost entirely of serving Territor- j ials, and at the present time such | men would not be allowed to leave j the country, nor would they desire i to go. I England, for a thousand years, says Douglas Macleane, writing in the Saturday Review, has been governed governed by foreign dynasties--Danish, French,' Welsh, Scottish and German. German. Since Elizabeth of York, the only English blood brought in, and that for a single generation, has been through Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Anne Hyde. Besides contributing '$25,000 to the Prince of Wales' distress fund ! and $5,000 to the Red Cross Society, ; Lady Stratheona offered the War ! Office, who accepted, the use of | Glencoe in Argyllshire for a hospi- ! tal, fully equipped and maintained • by herself. Hon. Donald Howe, ■ who will be the future Lord Strath- ' cona, is with his regiment, the Third : Hussars. was not a general document, sense Austria gained-more than she gave, for while it safeguarded her against her greatest foe, Germany was without support in the event of war with France. To her the treaty meant nothing but the protection of her eastern frontier, and she felt justified in reinsuring herself by a convention with Russia, in which each power undertook not to attack attack the other. This reinsurance was made possible by the fact that her treaty with Austria: was purely defensive. Very little is known about the terms of the Triple Alliance. The only certain fact is that- the * contracting contracting parties are not obliged to communicate "freely and frankly' with one another, as are Britain and Ja-pan under the terms of their treaty. We have Prince Von Bue- low's word for it that Germany was not forewarned of t'he Bosnian annexation annexation of 1903, and it is understood understood that, the'terms of the recent note to Servia were not- communicated communicated in advance. The provisions of the Dual Alliance Alliance are more obscure. Indeed it is remarkable that though quite twenty . Ministries have held office in France since the treaty was signed, and though its terms must consequently be known to a. great number of obscure politicians, not one of them has betrayed the secret. The only certain fact about the alliance alliance is that it must be defensive, the Constitution of the French republic republic making an- other tvne of secret alliance impossible. «J 1 7- Gold may be the key to society,, but poverty is the strongest bar. Heck--Do you play any instrument instrument 1 Peck (sadly) Second fiddle at home. Husband--Come along ! Keeping me here standing like a fool! Wife --Do be reasonable, dear. Can I r e ally help the way yo u s ta n d 1 Telephone Additions and Changes. Following are I S. IS IN NO ALLIANCE. H.M.S. Queen Mary. This vessel took part in the destruction destruction of three German cruisers. She is a battle cruiser, and one of the two most powerful afloat, carrying carrying eight 13.5-inch guns. . The Great Nations Are All Linked Together. With the exception of the United States, the Great Powers are all linked together by treaties of . alliance. alliance. Only in one case, however, are the terms o-f treaties known to the puiMjc, /ays a writer in the London Globe. . , The three treaties of. alliance .between .between Britain and Japan have all been made public immediately upon ratification. But of .the contents of the other documents which goverç the peace of the world nothing is known, though much may be ferred. - Inferences are possible becau in- additions and changes in the list of 1 ele- phone Subscribers since the last directory was pubhs^e ^ Subscribers should cut this list out and paste it in their directories. 149 Alehin & PsthicR. ~ ^^ UtiWelîington 193 Alexander, Dr. W. H evidence Hampton. 238r32 Allln, W . R ----- - Farmer Kingston rd ] 134r22 Andrus, T. G WM?Drîf'ër ...Enniskillen - n -y. Tîi'sulf , no(' Manns Pt» ÎÏSS SagÿJJ 1 G-i-i ï - Providence OJ r^mnhAll A, Residence Carlisle 133P21 CanadiariNorthérn Ry. Station Scugog 47 Canadian Pacific Ry. Co btation seueog 216 Freight Office.-- : 23r2 CLARKE, DR. R. 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