TWO WAR PROPHECIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 20 September 1915, Page 2

TWO WAR PROPHECIES.

DOWNFALL OF GERMANY ANI TURKEY. In view of the fighting in the Dar dandles the prophecy of Sybilles which was discovered in three books a Marseilles in 1821, on the day of tin death of Nap ore on the Great, the fate ful day of the Great Emperor bavin; been prophesied therein, the followin' extract will be of interest just now. The prophecy is said to have bee; originally written in the latter days o the Roman Empire, and is in the forn of a dialogue between the prophetes and King Solomon. King Solomon asks Sybilles, ‘ ‘ Hov • does it fare with the city of the Half Moon?” She replies: “The time of this world passes. She shall! sorrow for tin time to come. The land of the Half Moon is vain and rich, but nevortho less her lazy sons arc poor and lie; beautiful daughters are slaves. Tin sign of the Half-Moon shall no raon rise in power. Egypt has brave men and these will go to the land of th< Porte, and Constantinople will fall. He; sons will fight in vain. The sons OJ Egypt will rise gloriously, and will fight arid kill along the beaches ir the west, but before this happens ul Europe will be fighting like wild ani mals with each other. Then will comi a great illness over ahl the land niu the earth shall be covered with corpses This will be the worst in Southern Europe. In this groat war now woap ons of destruction will be used—not steed, or lead, or fire with its biting tongue, but such as will be made with much art, and it will spread out over the armies as a vapour, and seme will bo charged with missiles that will kill by the million. It will bo great, terrible and magnficent. Sybilles, in this war, phophosies the lownfall of the Prussian Empire. This is taken from a copy of the Prophecy in the Danish language, printed in 1840, now in the possession of a Sydney Danish lady, who gives the Sydney, Stock and Station Journal the above translation, Danish Author’s Forecast.

The. Tag)ichc Rundschau ropi-5n A .?. part of a dialogue from a comedy InErik Bogli. a Danish dramatist, which 'vas produced in Germany in 18(53, and caused quite some amusement and much derision because of what was termed its "insane phophecics" at that time. The name of the comedy was "The Editor’s Secretary," and the dialogue is between him and Wimmclfeld, an inventor who is regarded as mentally unbalanced. The most significant part of the dialogue is contained in the following scene: — " Wimmelfeld; My visit is of great importance. It relates to Germany’s sea power and her dominion of the air. "Editor’s Secretary: Ah, you have made another invention! " Wimmelfeld; Two inventions, sir, if you please. These inventions will make, Germany feared all over the world. Germany, of all nations, will be regarded by others with horror. One invention concerns our sea power, the other our mastery of the air.

"Editor’s Secretary: Mastery of the air?

"Wimmelfeld: Even so. I have in

vented and built two ships. One sails over our enemies, the other under under them. With one I eon descend to the bottom of the sea and blow the enemies’ ships into the air, with the other I can Boat in the air,, throw bombs on the enemy ’s soldiers, and cast fire over the enemy’s cities.”

"Who,” asks the German newspaper, "would have realised in 1863 that 1915 would see the realisation of this inventor 's dream, regarded then as but the fantastic vagaries of a weak mentality?”