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DETROIT, MICH., AUGUST 25, 1916

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Writing in the London Jewish
spring
from the earth. Her corn-
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Writ
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Conflict in Remarkable Book
Chronicle, Rudolph De Cordova
04 mander-inchief * * * proved
calls attention to a surprisingly ac-+1
equal to the emergency. Wick,
ten Fifteen Years Ago
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curate forecast of the present war (0, .,0:0:X0:::0):.:X.0.A.:CiMx.MaCeiCi20›.2a>WX.e<aneKt)ICACKCOA4•§...... Caithness, and Ross, with the clans
wade by Dr. II. Pereira 'Nlendes of '4
still fresh with the :argyle, Lanark and the Lothians
, •
th ers
.4 history is
New York, one \\'11X11is all the
NVIliCh animated
rus hed d ow n w ith th eir b ro
filen
the
spirit
".
more remarkable because made in the lighting nations, according to story of the siege of Belfort and , from Sutherland, Perth, and Aber-
occupation
of La
Champagne
18'0, fifteen years before the be - the narrative of the book, is inter- the
Franche
Compte,
and
Burgundy, deen, while the sons of Wales hur-
th
ginning of the present struggle. .1r.
h
ried t o the fray, gathering
fro m the
esting:
,
"
trance
was
mad
with
blood-
the
grand
but
unsuccessful
dash
at
ites:
De Cordova writes
North of Cambria , from the rocks
'
Metz.
the glades of
"One of the most quoted books '1st, would ""t dream "f de -
"But more exact, as things have of Anglesea, as from of
Pembroke.
that of Von
Glamorgan and inlets
on the war has been
_ feat , would not listen to a whisper
widely
have
ex
1 crnhardi. So
To their sides sped the brave boys
7
press
from Liffey zuld the Shannon, aye
"
tracts from it appeared in the pre
.:jit.:
from Donegal, Galway and Kin-
of the world, that it is safe to say
.
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sale, the hills of Connemara, the
there is not a single community in
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lakes of Killztrney—from the West
which newspapers and magazines
which
is
not
acquainted
all these poured in While from the
are read
with the name of the distinguished
l'..ist the Anglians and- men of the
fens were rushed to Middlesex and
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German
author and his work.
G
Surrey Hills, to help `to save Lou-
"Yet, strange as it may seem,
don!' Down swept the men of
titre has been extant since 18(f),
Northumberkmd and the Ridings,
ti fifteen years before the beginning
with
yoemen from the midlands,
( f hostilities, a book entitled, •Look-
, I
and
up
strode strong-willed and
ing Ahead,' in which the Rev. Dr.
strong-bodied men from all South
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I1. Pereira Mendes, the Minister
wi
„.
England to the railways to whirl
A'
of the Spanish and Portuguese con-
them to their assigned positions
gregation in New York and author
round London, up from Devon and
t
of The Solution of Wa•,' 'England
the Cornish lands. With kith and
and America,' etc., indicated not
kin from mere and moor, wold and
merely the outlines of the present
1,t
wood, fens and marshes, all Great
conflict, but also well-nigh prophet-
i
4
and Ireland was roused as
" ' t
ically many of the details. It is
England
was roused in the days of
scarcely necessary to add that 1)r.
the Armada. * * *
Mendes. though he has, for the
.;,
” 'Magnificent was the sight, the
larger part of his life, been resident
sons
of the proud nation girt and
in America. was born in England.
joined
for the fray, their brothers
"The reasoning of the hook, con-
rushing from far countries on the
sidered in the light of our present
way to help, led by leaders who
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knowledge, is at once cogent and
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proclaimed to the men they led, "we
conclusive. What seventeen years
are going home, home, boys—to
ago may have appeared to be fan-
fight !' And when in those stirring
tastic and almost impossible can
hours a cartoon was published,
now be recognized in events which
showing the lion at bay and troops
have taken place in this great strug-
of young lions marching to its suc-
gle of struggles, and what the
cor, it was declared that it struck
author calls 'the embroidery of
the very keynote, especially when
fancy' we prow see as solid fact.
under it was written the verse of
" 'Looking Ai ad' is supposed to
Shakespeare—England's immortal
he written by an old man who is
RABBI H. PEREIRA MENDES
bard—so singularly and wonder-
living at some time in the future
of
fresh
humiliation,
and
blind
with
come
to
pass,
is
the
story
of
theo
fully
and the events of which he speaks
u appropriate:
gland made t
fury grappled with her mighty foe. enormous efforts Enores hadowed in " 'This England never did, and
happened when a young man.
"The attitude of England as re- Germany feared to lose Alsace and raise men. It
never shall
specter of her treaties is thus em- Lorraine. Above all, her Emperor the following: after re gint
me of Lie at the proud foot of a con-
" ' R egi ment
knew that defeat meant a break-up
phatically set forth:
queror,
of the German Empire and conse- regulars, militia, and volunteers
" 'England insisted on P eaties be-
weakening
of
German
inter-
were
meanwhile
forming
a
new
and
d
dge
mighty front. * * * It was But when it first did help to wound
ing respected. le
*
* to quent
-
itself-
keep Belgium and Luxemburg free, ests throughout the globe—inter
ests
which
were
only
sustained
by
simply
the
old
story
of
English
un-
she spared neither money nor men. the strength born of United Ger- preparedness with its redeeming Now these her princes come home
aga in-
She declared . war * * * sum-
powers of quick resistance • and
moned her colonies to her and many.
nobly they responded.'

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