YESTERDAY. TODAY-FOB EVER
THE SPIRITJJF OLD VIRGINIA
Old Virginians will be proud to read
the following excerpt from the
Brownsville Herald. It deals with the
mobilization of the national guard of
the Old Dominion State for duty on
the Mexican border when the call was
issued last summer, it shows un
ostentatiously, the spirit of America;
the America of a hundred years ago;
the America of to-day.
Away in Old Virginia to-day these
boys are assembled again in answer
to the "Call to Arms.” It may be for
the Mexican border, it may be for the
F'ranco-Belgian line, it may be for
Mesopotamia, i*. matters not to them.
Whereover they go they will uphold
the honor and traditions of their State
and Country as they did in Texas as
voiced In the Brownsville Herald.
We’er proud of you Floys of Virginia.
Ill the Dakotas, in Texas, in Oregon
and throughout the United States these,
guardsmen are assembling as they
did at Brownsville nine months ago
"to do or to die." It is the spirit ot
America which has always carried us
through and which always will.
BON VOYAGE VIRGINIANS.
It was during a shower of rain, July,
last year, that the First Virginia
national guard infantry, arrived at
Brownsville. The word "shower” is
used as a euphonism. The sky of the
southernmost point of the United
States was pouring forth ra'in in de
luging quantity. Amid all this down
pouring of water these volunteer sol
diers from the Old Dominion State
tumbled out of their berths in the
I'llMman coaches in which they were
moved to the border ail'd began to
iViteh their tents.
The people of Brownsville remem
bered the occasion as vividly, perhaps,
as the Virginia boys must. It was
an impressive occasion and the most
impressive circumstances connected
w*ith it was the fact that the men
seemed to relish their adventure. It
was a revelation—men willingly and
enthusiastically giving up their com
fortable Pullman berths to launch
forth Into a veritable sea.
These men are gotng back today to
their homes. During the six months
in which they have been on the bor
der not one circumstance has occur
red and not one word, surely, has
been uttered ttiat would lead to the
conclusion that the sprit evinced on
the first day of the arrival of those
men was not sincere.
They are good, stalwart boys. There
is much 'in them to admire. They
have behaved themselves well hero.
The name of their home State has
ben honored by them The people i
of Brownsville regret to see them go
away and at the same time are glad
that these truly splendid guardsmen
are to experience happy ness by return
ing to their homes after an experi
ence 1 lia I was ill some senses to most
of them an ordeal.
Would that these visitors in'ight take
homo with them as pleasing and ns
memorable impression in that respect
of Brownsville as the people of
Brownsville will always retain of them.
May their expedience on the border
bo of lasting good to them and to the
country. May the ozone of the Texas
prarie and the outdoor exercise that
have toughened their muscles and
bronzed their skins be a lasting tonic
to their physical constitutions.
Brownsville wishes them bon voy
age.
I'or Hist class work and prompt de
livery phone Main 151 and the Peo
ple’s laundry will send and get v>ur
laundry. W. J. WILLIAMSON, Prop.
“FATHERLAND” GIVES VERSION OF
SOUTH ATLANTIC RAIDER
Since the beginning of December
the German sea gulls have been gorg
ing themselves from the rich fishing
grounds of the Southern Atlantic.
More than one hundred and fifty
thousand tons of emony shipping have
^ been captured or destroyed. More
than one hundred and fifty million
dollars have been fed to those vora
cious German Moevves. Lloyd's Ship
ping Agency have had to register as
lost a ship per day, on account of the
latest commerce destroyers during the
past month which, includ’ing the
submarine victims, Is the blackest of
all the black months experienced by
the Allies on that score. Yet It should
be remembered that, with all that,
Lloyd's register is not complete; it
has since long ceased to mention tin1
losses sustained by the fleet of ves
sels that are in direct employ and
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Government.
The success of the newest raid,
unique in naval history, is as much
to tiic credit of the German Navy as
it is a. revelation of the incapability
of the British fleet which, though it
knew since December 2nd, that a corn
mens1 raider had passed the pseudo
Idockade, has not been able to the
moment of tiiis writing to eTiertt Its
course of destruction.
According ti> tlie British Admiralty
reports and 'lie stories told by crews
of the captured steamers, who were
landed in South America, the raider
is a vessel of some 5,000 tons and pos
sesses an armament of eigtit quick
firing guns of medium calibre and four
dock turpodo tubes. She is also said
to Ire equipped with mines. Sire may
be assumr'd to carry four officers and
a crew of some two hundred men.
If we take account of the distance
covered, the new Moewe will have left
her home port on about November 26.
Traveling at a sliced of ten or twelve
miles she would have passed between
the Karo Islands and Iceland in the
tilst days of December. The British
give her location on December 2nd as
59 1-2 degrees north and 1.9 degrees
west. She began her activities about
tie ttli of December by searching thb
Belgian relief vessel Samland which
she allowed to pass. This happened at
51 degrees north of the west eoast of
Ireland. By taking from there a
•Southerly course she must have been
in thq main route to the British Isles
iu the second week in December.
The first British warning was given
on December 9th, just in time to be
useful. For even if Moewe 2nd could
not decipher the warning it may be
safely assumed ttiat one or the other
of the trading captains, by asking
questions about size or looks of the
raider, about the possibility of secur
ing convoy, and so forth, rendered
himself very helpful to the raider.
The fact that the Moewe 2nd suc
ceeded in reaching the ocean is not
so wonderful seeing that the short and
misty winter days faeilitalo the pas
sage through the leaky barrier which
is supposed to shut off the German
waters. But that the Allies, with their
hundreds of tnen-of-war and auxiliary
sh'tps of superior speed, are not able
to control the gateway from the North
to the South Atlantic--a stretch of
only 1,600 miles-—would seem to throw
very significant light on their naval
strategy. If from the start they would
have taken the initiative, they would
surely have been able to guard their
own traffic or to so deflect It that the
prey would have stopped the German
rover, if the latter would not have
actually been bagged. Wc come again
to our old conclusions that tho Eng
lish, though immorally superior in
ships, are not a match foe German
cleverness and energy'.
What is the matter with the Brit
ish fleet? Don’t they consider It
worth while risking a cruiser or two
to save a hundred million dollars as
well as their crumbling prestage?
Tbe posse of ten ships, fast cruisers
and auxiliaries, whoso names nre
mentioned In neutral reports, can at
best rover an area of a hundred miles
ami that witli little prospect of suc
cess. Hoyv can the British Admiralty
expect to maintain or create confi
dence in shipping circles with such
inadequate display of the British
navy? The entire fleet of Britian's
numerous cruisers should have gone
out. Great Britian and France should
have combined in a powerful action
to establish their elalm to the rule of
the seas. That Is yvhnt their people
demand.
But let us examine whether the al
lies are able to do that. We think
they nre not. To begin yvith, they
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to do that at the risk of denuding
tlie grand fleet; of neglecting tiie
protection of their coasts, of still
more exposing the sea truffle in then
own waters to the U-boat danger.
Vnother problem is that of fuel. What
is still a float of the world’s shipping
is being (axed to the utmost capacity
by carrying food and munitions for
the allies. There is not enough coal
and enough oil coming from Kurope.
France lias no resources of her own
while Kngtiind has not sufficient labor
•n feed the hungry bunkers. That is -
whj F^gland’s much vaunted fleet
i is so paralysed in the fact of Ger
many's strenuous activity on the sea.
The tirst news of the successes of
tlie taiiler did not become public until
after she tiad been escouring tlie
southern Vtlantic for some eunsidera
ble time. It was a great shock to al
lies trading ships when, on January
lfi. the> learned that 337 survivors
taken from ten ships had been landed
ai i’ei namliuco by the Hudson Muru.
which had been released by tlie rubi
er at 7 degrees south iiu January 7.
The shock was. increased when it was
realized that the Mocwe's hag up to
that day had been more than double
of what was first known and that 40'J
more survivors had been put on hoard
tin St. Theodore. This ship, which
had hi-eii captured on lanuatu 13, was
sent ahead northward. She transfer
red her human cargo to the Vuitow
dale which then was put on her course
to (iermauy where she arrived at
Swineniundo on December 31.
These are indications, part of them
'in ollieial reports, that one of the
prize ships -possible tiie St. Then
«.lon- was equipped by the chief
raider as an auxiliary. The British
admiralty expresses itself in this sense
and names thirty-three stiips which
are long overdue and whose delay or
loss is ascribed to the German com
merce destroyer. Similarly Iho Ger
man official statement of January 19
speaks of the Yarrowdale as having
been captured by ’’one of the German j
auxiliary cruisers in the Atlantic.”
The Yarrowdale passengers were
gathered from the Norwegian and
oight British ships, three of which
were armed. The enemy as well as
the neutral subjects who have taken
, pay on the armed ships are to he
kept- justly we think as prisoners of
war. They are considered members of
the armed forces of the enemy’s navy
since such ships have repeatedly at
tacked German submarines.
An attempt made In the New York
press to take Germany to task for
converting one of the prtzes on the
high seas into a commerce ra’ider
shou'd he repelled as absurd. The dis
putes about the right of belligerents
to convert merchantmen into cruisers
on the high sea exists only in as far
as their own merchant ships are con
cerned. It has no reference whatever
to the prizes a belligerent may make.
It goes without saying that he can
use them against hiH enemies no mat
ter where ho converts them, as long
as he observes the rules governing
auxiliary cruisers ns to equipment,
crow, command and so forth,- Tlie
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