"THE WAR DEVIL."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1730, 22 April 1913, Page 5

"THE WAR DEVIL."

STRIKING ARTICLE BY I. ZANGWILL.

"A ROUTE OF BLOOD."

THE ARGUMENT OF THE SWORD.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Hec. April 21, 10.15 p.m.) London, April 21. Hr. Israel Zangwill, in a remarkable article in tho "Daily Chronicle," entitled "Tho War Devil," pictures statesmen, primed with culture, Christianity and peace, yet condemned to build not God's Kingdom, but a Devil's.

England and Germany were, lio says, playing tho war gamo liko a contest at cards, trumping each other's lead. With tho baleful shadow of Bismarck looming over Europe a terror-stricken England had thrown herself into tho arms of E-us-f-ia, sinking perforco to tho level of her barbarian twain.

Mr! Zangwill adds: "Wo have all the cost of greatness, and yet. no greatness, and the same spiritual blight was over tho bulk of Europo when United Europe nerved itself to demonstrate against Montenegro. Since Tho Hague Conference lias been established tho bloodiest battles liavo been fought", and British colonics, long tho languorous abodes of peace, liavo embraced conscription, and aro building battleships. Arbitrations could lake us no further. The. lovo of law must yield a 101 lof love. If Germany desires our territory she must liavo it. There is no reason other than the sword wliy Great Britain should possess one-fourth of tho ■globe. No law of Sinai or Calvary laid it down that Australia or Egypt ehduld be British. The All-Bed Route means tho route of blood. Germany must also yield up Alsace-Lorraine and establish the open door in her possessions."