The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 16

WEDNESDAY, Can Germany Hold Russia? OtherRaids, Even Napoleon’s, Set Back in World History How the Whirligig of Conquest Has Changed and Re- changed the Map of Europe—Germany of To-Day May Be the Russia of To-Morrow—Alsace- Lorraine Last Stumbling Block. By Albert Payson Terhune. | - Covrriant. 1918, by the Publishing Co, (The New York fvening Worlt) NTO the territorial junk heap that ] the Kaiser has just shoved his handful of provinces half as Population half as large as the im the Whirligig of Conquest. ‘his same Whirligig has, at various times, turned orderly maps into kaleidoscopes, and back again. It woakers and of historians, And there has always been an underlying certain as the rotation o For example In 1066 a French war lord (Willlam of Normandy) the Channel and proceeded to make all England a province of his own. A few years Jater there was not an inch of British ground belonging | to France. And an English King (Henry V.) made all France a vassal state to England. Thanks to Joan of Arc, the French regained the vulk of their conquered land. But for long years afterward aid other French coast cities belonged to England. Then, steazy whizzing of the Whirligig, came the day when England no longer owned a foot of French territory (although till the present generation the King of England styled himself also “King of France"). was once the Russian Emptro and has annexed @ Germany—along with a os’. It ie the latest twist mailed paw large a United Sta yet, through the tangled turmoil, method of rotation, almost aa earth crossed Calais in the Woikhiam OF Nort AND “THE ENGILA © ConGSeee ‘* < CONQUERED MaASTO FRAKC HE once mighty kingdom of Poland fell upon evil days. Like vultures on a sick dog, down swooped Prussia, Austria and Russia; and each of the three rent away huge portions of the stricken land. A second and a@ third “partition” soon followed. The final Partition left nothing at all of Poland. It was all absorbed tn the three nations that had looted it, What Russia is now getting from her old ally, Prussia, is what Russia once dealt out to helpless Poland. Prussia grabbed the lou's share of Poland, A few years later France, under Napoleon, smashed Prussia to a pulp at the battlefields of Jena and Auerstadt. Napoleon entered Berlin in triumph, and the Prussian King and his Government scurried away to East Prussia for safety. As a price for the Napoleon demanded a full half of all Prussian territory. By the the Tilsit, in 1807, Prussia bad to disgorge all she had annexed by the second and third partitions of Poland, all her land west of the Elbe and a huge war indemnity. The Whirligig was working overtime Prussia helped the Whiriigig’s next turn conquering and crushing gallant France, in 1870-71, and demanding not only a billion- war, terms of Peace by doliar indemnity but the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which France had long before torn from Germany, Now, less than half a century later, those two provinces seem about to return to neo's guardianship. “SEG ENMARK (more or less) “benevolently” assimilated Norway and Sweden. Hoth of these were later taken from her; and, in our own time, Norway has won freedom from Swedish control. Denmark governed the rich duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, Austria was prime mover in the highwayman atrocity that robbed her of them. Scarecly was this theft achieved when, in 1866, Prussia fell upon unprepared Austria and snatched the two Danish duchies away from her, in the “Seven Weeks’ War.” Denmark had taken over territory that was not originally hers, and in return was robbed by Austria, who, in turn, was robbed by Prussia, Turkey overran Presently At Turkey. Au inees of Venc The Whirligig Austria again! to the onquer walls of Vienna, very returned the compliment, thrashing and devastating 11 upon Italy and seized her northern prov third f the nth cen- tury Italy and France drove Austria helter-skelter out of those stolen districts—keeping her out until, a few weeks ago, Austria swag- gered back into them (temporarily) under the protection of a stronger ally, who had on n her bitterest foe Napoleon was the arch map-changer After tria a, & weak d in the larter ret too, of history the Battle FEBRUARY 27, 1918 ry has been the despair of map- | * = ene ae ~— the Russian MEN Would Fight Like the Women’s “‘Battalion of Death’’ VE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WOMEN IN CAMP AND IN FULL FIGHTING EQUIPMENT EXCLU OF DEATH iN NEAR PETROGRAD. Our. mmtisen: Winter, Spring, Roniance, ‘Cuckoo Clocks A Scotch Verdict Is All Right if It Has a Little Water on the Side—Eating Pie Off a Ouija Board Is Carrying Spiritualism Too Far—And What Do You Think of a Wife Who Believes a 69-Cent Cuckoo Clock In Preference to Her Lawful Souse’s Word? BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, of Austerlitz, the Prime Minister of England turned to h and pointed to the map of Continental Burope wall of his study “Roll that up,” he another twenty secretary which covered a whole com not be of use ag manded; “it will for NeW CONTROL we rho 'o new custom-made kingdoms and 4 palities and territorial changes decreed by Napoleon, not one has remained. In the flood-tide of his conquests he believed he could alter forever tue face of Hurope. At his fall his changes were wiped out. Copyright by t ss Publishing Co, (The New York F we World) operates on the vacuum system. Any wiff who gets all perturbed up —“ lady who sued her husband for alimony becauso he ehirped because she is brevetted for personal pulohhitude must have # broken that her face looked like the breaking up of a hard winter really erah under hes eat hed no authent ming. While the party of the first And in order to make the world safe for democracy and husbands part aduuts that he published the that the 4 of the second waa aa dane Se ts bk os ck a es Was a parte map looked Nko the of a tough winter, the party Jury is privileged hg in any Scotch verdict, Any Scotch verdict of the first part also pause gents of the jury what the bust- 4 ae Patt eeererciticrey Eager reatear ing up of @ corrugated winter means. What t The breuk within th hts of all husbands to tell their wives that their maps {ng up of a hard winter means the advent of apring look like the breaking up of a difficult winter, ‘That's a compliment. Therefore, when t arty of the first part 1 that his wife's feat ital monestbincte Grube car ie cate SS aca Gunreciata facia) terrain resembled the busting up of a mean winter, he was compliments, A husband can earom the highest priced blue Delft china merely yodelling that her face resembled spring, And what does spring dinner eet off his wife's skull and she will get angry. Or he can stagger Mean? Sunshine, flowers, blossoms, buds, Alvvers, Bermuda ontons, ee mm Aine wiih s000 000 worth atthe Cuset guareilon Bureyady violets, sulphur and molasses, beautiful trees, blisters on heels from concealed under his vest, And when he tells her that it is only 11 o'clock now Oxfords, swimming, canoeing, MMes of the va warm breezes eta : ; sei she calls him a ring-tailed, tooting lar because a 69-cent cuckoo clock and everything else that makes life worth the high cost of living. lerearaltarent” Gin courhiae Thatt Aho tadan Gaetact cusurie cara And, furthermore, fellow ac son the jury, if a wiff gets as smear tees po sore as a bear with a fat w her fewer uates that 1 as vessiabias aveact ri Pailacehava arakuliniaca tak] Awful, Here's an up-State New York girl who gets a diamond _| ring from her soldier flance and then loses it, It slipped off her thumb while she was hg mother do the housework, Mother was doing the For instance, you Will look long at to-day’s maps before you will find work and daughter was doing the pointing, The papers fail to state Napoleon's Kingdom of Westphalia and Kingdom of Naples and Inde- | why up-State girls wear didmond engagement rings on their thumbs, pendent Duchy of Dantzig, &e, The Whirligig swung them all out of or why up-State girls p: with their thumbs, but peculiarly enough oxistence, she found the ring the same way that Jack Horner annexed the plum, Spain seized Mexico—almost as brutally as Germany has selzed | Only this happened to be a mince pie, Daughter was eating a piece of Belgium. Mexico broke away from the Spanish yc And every nd mother had cooked last Novem| Daughter's other Spanish colony has been torn free, Rome old, conquered knife and fell into the planola, One advantage of « France and Germany, France and Germany in turn conquered Rome | piano! y » your hands free to eat pie off a Ouija board | and both lost it again, Persia conquered the Orient. Greece con or knit sweaters or a ng. After she the ple back on her knife | quored Persia, Rome conquered Greece, The barbarians conquered | again she discover ut her lost engagement ring was in it Rome. And not one of the conquerors was able to gain a permanent Which ts a wonderful touch of romance, but she's going to have a grip on any of their blood-smeared conquests | deleted-by-the-censor-of-a-time explaining to friend soldier flance why The Whirligig of Conquest has never vee from its eccentric | ghe hadn't missed the r ince last November, And eating ple off a but unchangeable cour |} Ouija board ts carr itualism too far, Also, how 1s it possible te No national “Conquest of Force” bas ever been a to withstand | keep a mince mber to Fobruary without violating the | the acid test of Time | food laws? Lé »mebody is hoarding food There has been a slow but t retribution for all men agd And, furthermore, a mince ple that has been garaged trom Novem- ' ions that have soug nt power on the wrecks b > pra ally March, should NOT be eaten, tacy have wrought. As R rmany 0 ly should be pensioned, be to-morrow! | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1918 My Own Experiences In the | oneianieonenii The Battalion’s Recruits Pledge Their Lives to Russia, Then | Shave Their Heads and Sell Their Hair at Auction to Buy Comforts for Wounded Russian Soldiers. By Eva Zaintz Chapter I11.—OUR FIRST SACRIFICE ITH each new accession to our numbers our exaltation grew. We | felt ourselves to be the hope of Russia—the saviors of Russia, The | train soon was crowded, There seemed none among us who had not the high Ideal o farewell to the whole. We felt almost that we had already bidden he ordinary things of life. At the station in Petrograd we were received as of people cheered and bands played. There were flags everywhere—the fing of old Russia and the flag of free Russia, blood red. Mme. Batchkalova | was there in a soldier's uniform, and upon her arm was the red and black | badge of our battallon—the badge of blood and death, a skull and cross | bones in its centre. Kerensky himself was there; a pale man, slender and ted, with He spoke, and others spoke, great crowd, and the people But, also, many of the people wept. heroes. Thousands hollow great, luminous eyes to raise | standing on them above the | cheered their wo of praise for us. There ere three hundred of us, —_~ than thirty, We were| pride and b ss in her face. She wea Some of|raised her cap to us. Her head was e ur best frocks,|/like a priv 1 5 the hatr clipped ¢ | | "It was r these daughte t ve thelr hair in Russia’s cause.” said Mme | Batenka 1 . also, thelr | es. a mad eering, the girl th V K ha ep 1 forward und ead, She held her | Wh cor?” shoute’ Mn va. “We will sell the ha s Battalion , ly « for the sold Ru , » suffering Iw auctioneer,” sald ® nin ar They | told ma t ky's | ose advis girl's ir with an a ce. “1 am | not rich," but I will begin ie, | by myself ng fifty rubles.” INTZ me one cise of ten rubles from Petrograd Itself, Others wore|more and another sh Seventy= the dress of the moujiks of the Don|five rubl hundred aunt Each of us carried her be- | was rea s hair had nearly liongings wrapped in a neckcloth or|all been woman wielded handkerchief, like soldiers going to|the shining shears while wom the recruiting station |received t ands Wacarnie sin line as| At one hundre¢ 4 the black hair ata: Bat ed and | was sold, 1 was the nd to step marched wit! of soldiers | forward and bow head. My yel~ goin: thie bat g the streets, low hair reached ny st. It all the way to our camp at Vassllif-) Was thick ea My mother ski, the people and wept.|had always been p t, though Bands were play the pe 8 nvered, AsT were cheering a t into our| heard k and felt the quarters to receive the uniforms pro- naked I felt vided for us. There were boots and| 4 ly begun to die. But nd long soldier's coat}! ¢ and a military cap for each of us.| The auct We laughed with a strange happiness |me in a us we donned the unaccust A gare | ments. In these clothes I Russia is 1 die if not saved,” said a woman as her hair!” he next to me, She luughed as she > the ple. ‘If I were spoke, but her bosom rose and fell n I would give five hundred rubles r eyes blazed, Then a greater | for a strand.” eard in the open space in| A lady wh I had known when I four huts. The first of | studied at mnasium in Petro- eared in the uniform of| grad ca ard, She was a girl,| hundred ruble r and of small Her] hair of Evanova, black hair hung loose, covering her] a great sum, f of them almost wi knew the lady was not rich, all of our 250 soldie any had had their heads clipped prayed for us. I joined the houlders and even hiding the red and with its skull and cross- her arm | I let my yellow hair fall down and Jran to Join her, putting on my cap When of death in our 4 1 hastened forward, The people] kneeling circle, though the prayer | made way for mo and for others who| was not of my faith. Free Russia, 3 | were anxtous to be with the first in| thought, has no r us sects. Mme. Batchkalo confronted a, in her ( was! (om uniform, | Weather Man | ont ted 1W18. by the Be on Friday.) Syndicate, Ine,) Male Win War us. There sre on the|the Canadians at the second battle of his batting | Ypres, so they we unhindered tn is very high, but be- | thetr preparations, renches were most of us consider him a fair sub-|ders pointed when the wind for humor, This is not the case|favored, the attack was launched, long the fighting line in France, | Things were mple rward, swever; there the forecaster ia an |for a smashing bombardment followed mportant factor and military ope jany signs of the murderous preparae sare largely governed by the fre- | tions, Nowadays, shells filled with quent bulletins issued, fvom the ob- | liquefied gas are used, but improved |serving stations, located at short in- | masks render it much less effective tervals from the English Channel to} It is important to keep weather vee the Alp: I r e enemy. Once t must be kept informed | the papers announced that nging conditions in tempera. | 4ir ns for Zeppelins promiaed ture, humidity and the velocity of ideal, They ¢ 1 to add, how. winds at different levels, all of wh ever, that elaborate plans were being are considered in sighting guns|made at home, so the big airships for distant targets, One morning, in|met a hot reception on the raid lthe ear lay f the r, the & which followed Ress ries were ore 1 to resume | a - | tiring at a range eff e the after- | OF COURSE NOT, noon before, The elevation of the] Uin was getting up steam guns was not changed, but atmos n 1 station It pheric conditions had varied, so in parted in the middle, stead of falling the enemy, the mm cation cord shells.landed in the British trenches, nd of it struck an Jie winter tions are planned, it ) Was slanding on the ts highly tant to know when f freezing ather, which will make the| “Good !” sho gasped in ase sodden roads hard enough to bear the | ment t was that?” weight of t guns, may be ex-| e train has broken in two, pected, ma said @ man who stood near To the aviation service, kr her of air ditions up to a he “And I should said the | 20,000 feet is vital, and the old style | c woman Indigr 18 she eyed lot ack depended on the diree-|the broken cord you really tion of the wind, Polsonous gas was|think that a plece ring like that a surprise when the Germans intro- | could @ train together?" —Ame duced it with such cruel effect upon ewers, 2 aa |