ne
message saying that the magazine had just exploded or the depot had
taken fire or a scow had been sunk, after which they drank the health of
the man who lighted the match.

German agents burned up wheat elevators with hundreds of millions of
dollars' worth of wheat; they fired warehouses, blew up bridges, wrecked
munition plants, destroyed shiploads of food, dynamited the House of
Parliament in Ottawa, sank the _Lusitania_ near Ireland, spread glanders
among the horses in Sweden, poisoned the food in Rumania, sank the ships
of Norway, plotted against the Argentine Republic. Their spies,
dynamiters, secret agents, were in every capital and country because it
was their purpose to make Berlin a world capital, Kaiser Wilhelm the
world emperor and to Germanize the people of the whole earth.

The web had as its centre the Potsdam Palace, but its black lines ran
out into all the earth.

5. German Burglars Loaded With Loot Are the More Easily Captured

It seems that Germany has published, for the Spaniards, a list of
treasures she has won. In the long calendar the reader finds that eight
States--Belgium, France, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Serbia, Armenia,
Italy--have all been looted.

The Germans claim they have spoiled over three hundred first class
cities, several thousand secondary cities and towns; they add that they
have destroyed seventy-three cathedrals and looted them of their
priceless treasures of statues, paintings, stained glass, vessels of
silver and gold.

With brazen audacity the German pamphlet tells the Spaniards that they
have seized so many hundred thousand watches, so many hundred thousand
rings, so much treasure of diamonds and jewels, so many paintings from
rich men's houses, and the long boast ends with the statement that they
"obtained nearly five billions of loot out of western Russia and have
assessed two billions more upon the farmers, villages and cities of
Ukraine."

But the boast is an idle and empty boast. It is true that no army of the
Allies has crossed the German frontier to permanently hold a city. But
let no man think that Germany has succeeded because of the richness of
her loot. There is a success that is failure. There is a victory that is
defeat.

Macbeth killed Duncan and went to live in the palace of the dead king,
but did Macbeth succeed? Was not his palace a brief halting place in his
journey towards remorse, insanity and the day when Duncan's friends in
turn slew Macbet