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BY CHAS. M. BICE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, DENVER, COLORADO r r DEAD MAN'S HILL. This elevation, known in the French language as "Le Mort Homme," has remarkable history, and is pow; per- manently in possession of the French army. The place is well named,-as it is perhaps the bloodiest place in history. history. " >It was, and is, the key to Verdun, and, of course, is sacred to France, How About Your RENTS? i/,'. V If your store property property was burnt tomorrow, tomorrow, would you be-recompensed be-recompensed for rent lost while rebuilding? rebuilding? It costs little to insure insure against this loss. AsV our agent HOW little? INSURANCE COMPANY Local" A-srent. J0H2T J. BoMnian ville. ÜJL802T, for Verdun was tho doorway to Potis, and witiB Pjtris. inVPog||BSs|^m. of^'th^ enemy a^l elge wtijld tbp 6§sy. Parts gone to .the "Hunji Frpuce^oukL .succumb, .succumb, and tüe Channel ports and the lights of London would be in view of .the conquering armies of Wilhelm. But fate, thank Hpaven,. decreed otherwise, and to-day Verdun is safer to its possessors than at any time- sin ce the war- began.. The supreme struggle for Verdun began about.. 18 months ago, when the~ Germans gathered their most powerful-guns powerful-guns and their best tropps -for the attack which was not to end, according according to the high war council, until the enemy had been beaten, back. France's war leaders >■ and statesmen statesmen debated - the problem of holding or giving up Verdun. The sagacious Joffre favored withdrawal for the sake of his troops,' fearing the terrible slaughter implied in the attempt to hold it. be remembered, began preparing .the Latin troops, have "been slowly edging way for the retreat of the brave de-j their. way, they would have been able fenders to à prepared and more safe to answer their^own ^question, position,~ by explaining that Verdun * ' - was^a weakness on accoupt of itargeo- An offensivë, under the most favor- graphiqaL; situation of a ^le conditions, éakes long. to prepare #r$pgth to France a,t that tihie^ flloW-J/yl these days of ihodgin r. jjÉfcrfwâfc ïy tfce Germans wpn their .way^4>ysphere is no possibility o^£k spces^l overwhelming numbers over rthe^timdden .drive, if by thatSs ^antVr a Mq^e apd capt^od^Malâàcourt,. H*U-;:drive hurriedly decided ^onjind car- court and BetHmcourt, arid pushed in ; ried out promptly. Weéks must - be between Dead Man's Hill and Hill No. .spent in concentrating the material-- 804 (which: :latter> by the way, - , has rhrmging^ upd„qi^ : guns^arid studying been secured again "by the French the enemy position?, resources and within a week). But further the Ger- ! men.. In- eyen an 'unimportaht move- man armies, could, not .go, and there ment..on,.thc -Wcgtcrp -front^ a r^pltca it became a siege. pf .the enemy trenches has to be made behind the line", and the- mèn who' are to assault them must familiarize themselves' thoroughly with" 1 âll 'important 'important details. On such a, front as Italy has rhad to contend with,'the - difficulties- ii-.are immeiisely increased. The 'transport of .. guns , ' munitions And. other èiqùip- ' ment . over the" mountainous There is no more Bitterly contested piece of ground in Europe than -the in summit of Dead Man's Hill, writes Frank H. Simons,- the- military - expert of the N. Y. Tribune, unless it be the ground that lies between the Ravine of Death and Fort de Vaux \on the other side. of . the .. river-r-the point where the Hun forces were compelled - which- she is inyadihg is v slow., and tedious. w;ork..,-<}Thêr attack, .when it comes is-alwaysagainst,positions the; greatest, natural..strength, that is to take to the earth and dig in. Probably not less than a million men have been killed, wounded or captured captured on this field since Verdun became became a prize" of the war. No single fortress .in. human history But matters of state, the^ life. or exacted ,such. toll, alike from dedeath dedeath of the government, .required ! f enc j er anc }, attacker. Verdun was that it be held. The spirit of the srmy j France's second contributidn to the would fail--France is the antithesis of j ^ e £ ence 0 £ civilization against bar- Russia in this respect, and hates to fight a rear-end battle, and the loss would be acclaimed a great victory for the enemy. Then it was that the historic historic words from the present commander-in-chief commander-in-chief of^the French army went forth and heartened, the soul of the poilu: "Thou shalt not pass." At times, though, it looked as if the German armies that fell upon the defenders defenders of Verdun like waves of living living humanity, would break through. Friends of the Entente Allies, it may Coal & XVood Best grades of Coal only kept, all kinds. also Wood of If you have not ordered your Winter supply yet, you had better do so as it is liable to advance any day. E- W. LOSCOMBE 1 Standard hanh Building, Temperance St. Phone 177 - jbarism. At Verdun France repeated the "miracle of the Marne." Failure at Verdun is the death blow to the ambition of the Crown Prince of Germany. * * * 4 The Verdun victory, that never came, was to be his great day of triumph. triumph. He was then to be acclaimed through Central Europe as the invincible invincible hero of the war, and it was generally believed that with' Verdun in his grasp, the kaiser would turn the sceptre over to him. It surely was a real naughty little trick for the French army to thus shatter the hopes and aspirations -of this ambitious scion of the almighty kaiser, and it liable to disrupt the partnership should^ think .of sinking the tiusftania with her cargo of women and children, or that the Zeppelin, air fleet should ever invade the shores of England and. djop -murderous bombs -upon school phildrfiBr/br the women in wa- -t^riria^;i)pli^s. x .Thq@,|things neverfdoriWhy thp, rigjitepus, uppffelid- ii$g G^p'mans. iJfB àll^a mi?takei saine . fl^her jgatadic power j&urelÿ hqg intervened-and intervened-and thrown the blame upon the quiet, unoffending, angelic German soldiery. It's tod bad that sttch; a. conspiracy conspiracy of demons should select this time to do their hellish work, and cast -the approbrium of it upon .these peace loving, wopien respecting, child protecting protecting Gëjrjpans.... ïÿ is ..true, that the German authorities admitted that they sank the Lusitania and ordered the Zeppelin raids on nonruombatants, but they were hypnotized By-Satan to confess confess to crimes they did not commit. ,W,e should have more complacency and forgiveness in our souls than to imagine that this angelic people could be, guilty of .such atrocities and ruthlessness. ruthlessness. * * * * - / OF CANADA HEAD OFFICE i>OROI*rO E'ST *D 1373 Your surplus; earnings in our Sayings Department earn interest interest at current rate. BOWMÀNVILLE BRANCH 236 McMILLAN, Manager. Gër- "In all lands., under German double power is more or is between "Meinself und Gott," so haughtily claimed by him to exist. The French 'army must be more careful careful in the future, if we excuse them this time, for- who can estimate the loss to civilizationTheir obstinacy has occasioned. It's fearful to contemplate. contemplate. It's really^ paralyzing. , ... . _ Think of the disinterested altruism capable of b^ing-held-by/uihch Y ewer That prompts the f ollowiiig, by J. :L nieii than those whd; assail them. The- ' * ' ' "* "-- -- 1 capture of . mountain héjgbts and grotto battlefields like those of the Carso inevitably. costs heavily, in men and munitions. No detail, of preparation preparation can be safely overlooked if the cost is to be low or kept within reasonable reasonable bounds. This is why the Italian offensives have come only after, long intervals of seeming quiescence. In realit^>-=>they follow intervals of the most .^âérduous labor, and the succèss thahhas attended attended t-hem is proof of how thorough the preliminary work has been done. ITALY'S PART IN THE WAR. Most people have been disposed to regard the Italian theatre of action as a sort of unimportant side-show in the big struggle. This view has credence because Italy had concrete, territorial aims which she was seeking to realize for her own advantage, advantage, and partly because of the lpng periods of apparent inactivity between between offensives. We often hear the remark, "Why don't the Italians do something?" Had they taken the trouble to study the map and to read a little of the nature of the ground over which the ' The importance of Italy's work from the standpoint . .of the Allied, cause as a - whelp , is ! the inroads it - has made, and is still making,.-on the. human, human, resources Af 'Austria. "Where do all the soldiers of Austria Austria come;from?" peoples ask, who recall recall the immense lqssés she has sustained sustained on both of her fronts. The answer answer is that they are not coming, but that Austria is drawing heavily tm her reserve forces, and she is breaking under the terrible strain. It is her mountains, rather than her men, that have held the Italians back so long. And even these she cannot retain with the reduced forces she has available. And hence Vienna is always crying for peace, and applauds loudly the efforts efforts of a friendly pope to bring an end to a struggle in which she is so rapidly losing ground. Italy's help has been of very great gained | value, and the tangible results in pris certain ; on ers and the casualties of her latest drive are a big contribution to the coming great victory, and the moral effect is beyond calculation. The magnitude of the war admonishes admonishes us to -have patience untile a crowning victory announces the collapse collapse of the Central Powers, and peace diffuses her benign influences. This, in my humble judgment, is not far off. Reinier in his "A Pan-German many influence a less, strongly at work: the creative power.of the spirit . . ./and the creative creative power of the body; that is to say, fecundity. . . . Whither our spiritual and opr bodily fecùndity impel us, thither we must go--out over the whole world." This reminds us that Berlin regarded regarded the U. S. as a land "under Ger- influence." We recall-that the man "créative power of the spirit," labor ed ;long and hard with our barbarian soiils, by way., of the spy " and other agents of the Fatherland, and in fact has not yet ceased their benevolent work. ■ To that. altruistic element of the German soul must be attributed :the harmless self-conviction of German superiority in all that is worth while, and in this light we can understand why he regarde war merely as an opportunity opportunity to extend a benevolent sway. We ought to be thankful for these blessings in disguise and yield peaceably in the name of God and permit the expansion of such a beneficent beneficent influence. mm** Otto von Gottberg. exhorts the young people of the; Fatherland in the "Weekly Paper for the, Youth of Germany,". Germany,". Jan. 25-, 1913, as follows: ^ "War is the most ; august and sacred of human activities. . . . For us, too, the great, the joyful hour of battle will one day strike. . . . The openly expressed longing for war often degenerates degenerates into vain boasting and ludicrous ludicrous sabre-rattling. - But still deep the German heart must the joy in Ancestor of All Pigeons. Our domestic pigeons are of many varieties, remarkably different in shape and plumage--even, it might 1 be said, in character and habits. Yet all of them are descended from a single kind of pigeon--the "blue rock." We have the "pouter," the "fantail," the "tumbler," the "homer"--these and many others. 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We will let her speak for herself, content to let the verdict be based on the utterances of her foremost citizens. - * * * * "The German people are always right," declares O. R. Tannenberg>in his book "Gross Deutschland," "because "because they are the ,German people and number 87,000,000." This assertion, of course, leaves no room for argument,*' for no one can dispute the sTatSjnent that they are the German people and have the esi- mated population, hence the conclusion conclusion follows with the apodicfic. certainty certainty of Teutonic logic. We^bow in humiliation to it, and we pass to the, . . , . next proposition--how can we escape | fighting for our inferior sense of what it--found in "Why We Must Win," by!f and just and good than to W. Helm: "We must win, because ~if, have f ^ c i d u P on us .. th . e higher civil;z- defeated no one in the whole in ^ war and the longing for war endure." It's to be hoped they will get their fill of it this trip. And so even hatred hatred and cruelty are exalted to virtues by German divines, so long as these inflictions are deemed necessary for the extension of German "kultur." * * * m Preaching on the fifth pétition of the Lord's Prayer--"Forgive us our trespasses," etc., Pastor J. Lahusen Uttered these words: "We must be wroth, and we will be wroth, with the whole power of our inner man. We will hate the satanic powers of arrogance and selfishness, of treachery and cruelty, of lying and /hypocrisy. We will fight without scruple and employ all means of destruction, destruction, however terrible they may be." To this Pastor Baumgarten adds: "We are.not only compelled to accept accept the war that is forced upon us (a mouth filling phrase with all Huns) but are even compelled to carry on this war with cruelty, a ruthfulness, an p employment of every imaginable device unknown to any previous war." * * * * Thus Germans speak tor themselves, themselves, and we must concede that they believe in their own high virtue, in the purity of their motives, in the essential essential kindliness of their cruelty, but we are. bound to- confess that we have not ^reached that spiritual stagé in which our angelic. wings have commenced commenced to bud sufficiently to appreciate appreciate so rare a benevolence. We rather rather feel that we would sooner, die He Children's Soap--Lifebuoy Little hands, little faces, little togs all need Lifebuoy Soap, every day and often, if you mean to keep them free from dirt and infection. 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Roethe informs us in his- book, "German Speeches in :Bifficult Days": "We sëé everywhere how our soldiers respect then sacred .defenselessness of woman and -child," and : even that "cultured" .Englishman, .Englishman, the Hon. H. -S. Chamberlain, adds: "The German soldiers alone are thoroughly disciplined,' and Have never, so much as hurt à hair of a single human human being." Keep- quiet, yon turbulent turbulent -misguided Belgians, and French peasants, your voice in denial must, not be" heard", Germany has the floor and is alone worthy and capable of telling the truth. - it is just monstrous to imagine that a "people so angelie 1 in disposition, so holà' Î in character, so devoutly trained ation of Teutonic "kultur," whatever that may mean, and in this feeling we seem to have the acquiescence and sympathy • of the greater part of the world." If'the garden hose shows signs .of giving out, don't think you must throw it away. 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