THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
2
Come the three corners of the
world in arms,
And we shall shock them ! Naught
shall make us rue
If England to itself do rest but
true !'
"This reads more like a tribute to
the work of the great soldier whose
death the country is mourning or a
record of faCt today than a prog-
nostication of seventeen years ago.
In the early days of the war we
found that bombs were being used
charged with asphyxiating gases
which rendered hors de combat all
those within the radius of its action
when it exploded. Seventeen years
ago Dr. Mendes foresaw their ad-
vent in the following:
" 'A Japanese student of the
French Ecole Centrale had invented
and perfected what he called an
`anaesthetic shell.' It vas a shell
charged not with an explosive, but
with a powerful gas, compressed
and capable of suffusing fumes
which produced partial or complete
anaesthesia.
" 'The explosion of a dozen or
more on the battlefield set loose
such a quantity that it produced the
effect of rendering all within its in-
fluence non-combatants without
maiming and without killing, for
its toxic, or rather its anaesthetic
powers passed off after some hours.
A breeze only drove the drug in
one direction with more thorough
results • on the unfortunates in the
.wrong wind-ouilrter. Two or thret
in it i.r..duccd
breaths d
effect.'
"Again, how does the following
passage coincide with the German
use of chlorine vapour, which was
borne on the wind towards their
enemies, and the result of that gas
on the lungs of those who inhaled
it :
" 'They would kindle fires on
such sides of the city that the even-
ing breeze would carry in the
fumes of certain drugs which they
threw upon the flames. The result
was haemoptesis and haematemesis
—spitting of blood from the lungs.
or stomach. Or they would bom-
bard with shells which, when burst,
would let loose fumes or gases
which stupefied.'
"The possibilities of the dirigible
airship and its use in warfare are
clearly foreshadowed in the follow-
ing passage :
" 'Russia found it necessary to
The Tragedy of a Mixed
Marriage
She was a Jewess ; he was not.
She had considerable wealth ; he had'
nothing. She had married because
she wanted a home, because she had
a passionate longing for children all
her own, and chiefly because she
loved him ; he, because she had
riches and because he had an anal-
ogous craving for money and all the
subsequent carousing and orgy.
So the story ran, and on this
alone a novel could be written.
She was taciturn, she tolerated his
whims, gave him his way, money to
spend and a home where, tired and
worn, he could come after his dissi-
pated revelry into the early hours of
dawn. She was forgiving and ten-
rely caressed him. She had the sa-
cred sympathy of a mother who
watches a wayward son and still
hopes with vivid fantasies for the
better, but, in this case, the hopes
were waning and she began to real-
ize that her thoughts could only
meet an imaginary materialization.
She begged him to be temperate
with alcohol, pointing out the end of
the intemperate journey, but to this
lie was blind. Sometimes he prom-
fot •Site
, .1
; 1
it off her com-
Aegean, show.
merce and close her southern out-
let. Hence the great Austro-Rus-
sian war, apparently an outgrowth
of the break-up of the Austro-I lun-
garian Empire some years before,
and scramble for the pieces.
"'This was the first time that the
war balloon was used, and with
complete success. The Russian
fleet entered the Adriatic, appeared
off Trieste, inflated a balloon, and
directed it over the city by its elec-
tric alae or steering apparatus.'
"Later the author states :
"War-balloons were now dir-
igible, and so were submarine ves-
sels. These were armed with elec-
tric guns, and all guns had patent
"sights," that took the range auto-
matically. Thus war was simply
annihilation.'
—London Jewish Chronicle.
"You can see the digreence-
iced triflingly, only to find his way
home the following night intoxi-
cated and readdy to beat her.
But still she was reticent ; perhaps
she thought that there was some
cure for her nominal husband. She
had a babe who was not to be dis-
graced by a divorce and, still, its
name was not to be besmirched by
a profligate father. Often during
the long hours of the night, when
she remained awake to await the
wandering one whom she dearly
loved, she would recall the days
when they first met. He was a pert,
dapper, decorously free young man
who looked one straight in the eye
without a wince. She had thought
that he would make an ideal hus-
band, but her friends warned her
against intermarriage. It was a doc-
trine which the traditions of her
faith abhorred and ill-advised. But
she was young and blithe and could
only view the surface of this man,
thus making the mistake to which
an unguided orphan is vulnerable.
The penalty was now inevitable, for
the beauty was only skin-deep, and
beyond that 11.-, raged a turmoil
tyhi l was capable of
;it
>>
bringing sedition to the best of
ranks.
Onv night lie came to her, his
eyes dark and bloodshot, his mein
harassed. Ile wanted more money
to pay some overdue I. 0. U.'s. She
deliberated, but her love for him
conquered. She, too, was becoming
one-sided, no longer being able to
discriminate the right from the
wrong. She spoiled him by fulfill-
ing his wants with which lie could
further degenerate and blacken the
name of her child.
Time went on, and still her en-
deavors would not overcome his
dreadful passions. Her money was
gradually disappearing and her child
was growing to blooming youth, the
time when the world is easiest to
conquer and success is assured to
all.
Vexed and annoyed by his men-
dacious promising, aggravated and
distressed by his repeated attacks
and by the long hours of night be-
ginning to wear on the nerves, and,
above all, by the desertion of her
friends, she slowly became addicted
(Continued on page 12)
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