1915 IN PROPHECY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 32, 9 February 1915, Page 5

1915 IN PROPHECY.

"THE ' HOHENZOLLERNS WILL

NOT RULE.”

Paris, December 15

Madame de Thebes describes the year beginning with March, 1915, as a great year full of tumults, splendours, and things atrocious and sublime. The war should end between March and July. «

Nationalities will be reborn and op-' pressed people freed. 'ltaly will drfcw the sword, and Germany will -be torn to pieces, s*uth against south aiul north against north, with revolutionary movements against the military aristocracy and with peasant barbarisms, a parody of the French Revolution. Hostages will be massacred, and there will be trials and scaffolds. The conquerors will cross her frontiers. Germany will seem to give way suddenly, and, gaining time, will renew her attacks. In any event, the HohOn. zollerns will not rule," and the Crof-n Prince will not reign. Austria will share the bitter fate of her Ally. Francis Joseph has brought bad luck to all who have loved him, and camjot die without bringing bad luck to his people.

The menace' of, entire destruction will not yet have passed from Belgium. Her King and people will yet know grief and tears, but her destiny seems magnificent. England by this war will escape grave interior perils. She will play a supreme part and will be saved herself. The Entente will be fruitful, and England’s destiny renowned and sparkling. Russia will march forward, \and Poland will rise again from its ashes. The. Slav blood will thrust Turkey out of Europe,but the Bulgarians, Greeks, Roumanians, Servians, and Montenegrins will be wounded by the fall of the fragments of the Ottoman Empire. We are not near peace throughout Europe. Serbia among others is not at the end of her warlike destiny. For France the year will take a bloody and broken path for three-parts of its course, and then steady itself in the brilliance of peace. Three new men, of whom one will dominate all the others, will appear at the end of the year.—“ Daily Mail.”

Press '-Association. February 9/ The following message has been received . by/the Defence Department from Colonel Logan, .-Samoa: The health d| .the troops is good. Field D7 it Gibbs.(dysentery); f »gnal|ep Dan£b-Coi*poral Proude Railway Engineers —Corporal G.’. 4--Eilssp (appendicitis), Sapper jLi.lJvt Ptlfey- (varicose veins). W. W (appendices), Privates V. K. Bfell and C., CSrawf^of (dyfcsntery)i J. Massicks andjE.. w/ ,‘E. Mills knee),v (s*■% teric ievwfj Weßingtoni Corporal A. (kilihio Ai S. Crow the#gfh,|rnia); Lance-Corporal S. G. (pneumo?sS|kD. and^L’. H. trouble), R. W. Hillop^.(hernia), i- H. Jeukjj^ Stubbs Machine Gun G. A. Trevelyan and Priv&fi© B, Thompson (dengue). Army Sqrrioe Corps.—Private *W> gueh, Air ;./**: - SSSfSSt .