"You will be glad to know that your husband is very well and has behaved with very great gallantry. Capt. Follet says: 'A thick fog came down, so I sent three men out 100 yards to our front to give warning of an attack by the enemy. After they had been there an hour the fog suddenly lifted and they were fired on at close range. One man was killed, one badly wounded and one crawled back. I didn't know how to get the wounded man back, so I called for a volunteer, and Reservist Dobson at once responded and went out to fetch him. He was heavily fired at but not hit.'"
The Big Furor
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GERMANY
AND THE NEXT WAR
BY GENERAL F. VON BERNHARDI
This book presents a clear exposition of the German attitude in the European War, and predicts with remarkable accuracy the plan of campaign of the German Army in their attacks on Belgium and France. General Bernhardi claims that England is stationary or retrogressive in the world's progress, that Germany is the coming world power, who by her rise will elevate the world's standard of civilization, art and commerce; that Germany's rise is in fact civilization's greatest asset.
The coolness with which the author assumes his views to be true, without argument or evidence, takes one's breath away.
War all around is considered with composure: war with England; France overthrown; Belgium conquered; and the balance of power in Europe to be deliberately destroyed. The two chapters on the inevitable naval war with England are of great interest.