WHAT A MARTIAN WOULD SEE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1443, 7 September 1915, Page 2

WHAT A MARTIAN WOULD SEE.

Referring to tbs retreat tbe Russians before the German invaders, ‘'Tohungr," in, tne Auckland Herald, says; civilised mau could watch front Mars with a modern telescope the moonlighted face of this sun-ward Karlh of ours, be would see the great scar creep and grow across the face of Kastern Europe, so great is the burning, He would sec patches of crimson where the patriot fires swept over a hundred leagues of fields ripe for the harvest, volcanic jets of flames where cities gave themselves to their luneral pyies, vast rolling clouds silvered in the moonlight, drifting with the wind and hiding the contours of laud and sea. He would riot know that underneath those clouds, lighted by those fires, armies gripped like millionarmed wrestlers, feeling lor advantage ; he could not know that eastward still there lied in anguish six limes a million unfit and unable to fight. If he could only know the things that are on this green Earth, the emerald jewel of the universe, with its great seas that shimmer to him like opals and its polar snow-caps that are as purest pearls, what would he think of our Humanity which had allowed a brigand state to grow up in the core of it and had not throttled the Prussian when his ‘frightfuluess’ first displayed itself among the nations ?”