SCENES IN THE GREAT WAR
of our enemy aliens under control we did no more than our plain duty to the soldiers who were fighting for us at the front. What will happen to them (and us) when the war is over, and they come out of their prisons, none can say. It seems as if the world can never be the same place as before—the devil has played too hard a game with it.
THE PART PLAYED BY RUSSIA
And then Russia! Distance from the scene
of action, the great length of the line of operations
and the vast area behind it have made it
difficult or impossible for us to see the drama
of the Russian campaign as we have seen that
of France, Belgium, and our own Empire. But
we have seen something, and it has been enough
to give the lie to certain of the emphatic protestations
with which Germany made war. We
had heard it said by the German Chancellor
that the fact that Russia was mobilizing in those
last days of July 1914 made it impossible for
Germany to ask Austria to extend the time-limit
imposed upon Serbia—a time-limit which
would have been indecent among civilized
people if it had concerned nothing more serious
than the destruction of a kennel of dogs suspected
of rabies. But all the world knows now
