The great adventure of Panama: wherein are exposed its relation to the Great War and also the luminous traces of the German conspiracies against France and the United States


The great adventure of Panama: wherein are exposed its relation to the Great War and also the luminous traces of the German conspiracies against France and the United States
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98 Historia general de América del Sur - History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds
The purpose of this present book is to show that the German invasion was not limited to the United States, that the Boche insidious conspiracies are and were always built up in all the countries of the earth; that in these conspiracies a constant use is made of the internal strifes about purely domestic affairs in order to prepare the ways of German military aggressions.
Tipo de documento: Libro - Book
Palabras clave: Boche conspiracies, Panama Canal, Canal de Panamá, Historia de Colombia, Siglo XX, Historia política
Temática: 9 Geografía e Historia - History and geography 98 Historia general de América del Sur - History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds
Fuente: http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co
Introducción
CHAPTER II
The encirclement of Germanys
industry
enemles by the dye
romantic story of the adoption of the
hydro-pneumatic brake for the -75- by France,
and of the steel spring for the -77- by Germany is
typically French.
Resourcefulness, quickness of
decision, scientific spirit, cleverness of action,
devotion to duty in the highest sense of the
word, all that is to be found in the preceding lines.
In those that follow we shall see, on the opposite,
the French faults.
The incredible blindness of her
administration, the complete lack of method, of
system, and of initiative in a question of such
capital importance is simply amazing.
All the
advance which the French genius, the spirit of selfsacrifice of her first magistrate had given her, was
almost reduced to naught by the incredible torpidity of her government.
We have seen that the invention of Turpin had
made it possible to fill the shells of the -75-
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with a high explosive, melinite.
France owed to
the irradiating brains of her sons the possession
of the best field gun and the best shell.
She entered the war, which was unchained in 1914 by the
criminal ambition of the Teutonic Knights, with
about 4,000 -75- guns.
She had some ammunition
to begin with, but for the all-important melinite
she had to get the greater part of her new supplies
from sources outside of France.
It may seem beyond belief, but this source was-Germany!
This seems incredible.
but it is a fact!
The blindness of the French Administration,
the deceiving songs of the pacifists as to the impossibility of a European war, had gradually led
France to get engulfed in the methodic and devilish
entanglement of the German dyestuff industry.
HYPOCRISY OF TilE
PEACEFUL
DYE INDUSTRY
The terrible situation in which France, as well as
Great Britain and Russia, was placed by the lack
of ammunitions after the earlier battles of the war
is explained thus:
-Who makes dyes to-day can to-morrow make
high explosives-w...