Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1918 — JUTLAND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JUTLAND

JUTLAND, the low-lying, sandy peninsula whose name historians probably will employ to designate the great naval battle fought off its shores by the British and Germans, is the continental portion of Denmark and comprises nearly twothirds the area of the kingdom (exclusive of colonial possessions), but with considerably less than half the total population. It compares with Vermont In size, but has a density of population three times as great, says a bulletin of the National Geographic society. Its most striking physical characteristics are the fjords which cut into the sandy seaboard, particularly on the west coast. Of these the largest, Limfjord, is today a misnomer for since 1822 It has been a sound, joining the waters of the North sea with the Kattegat and making an island of the extreme northern portion of the peninsula which terminates in a cape called the Skaw. Owing to the character of the soil on both banks, the rapidity of the current and the violent impact of the floating Ice In the spring, only a pontoon bridge spanned this sound at Aalborg until recently. The highest point of land in Jutland, which is also the highest in the kingdom, is a 564-foot “eminence” in a line of low hills near the center of the peninsula. Ancient Home of the Clmbrl. Jutland was the ancient home of the warlike Clmbrl, a tribe which for 12 years kept Rome in a state of panic, and which was the first Germanic host to make its way across the barrier of the Alps into northern Italy, anticipating the descent of the Visigoths by five centuries. The Clmbrl came within the purview of recorded history in 113 B. C., when, after having been driven from their northern home, supposedly by North sea Inundations, and having made their way southward through the German forests, they inflicted a signal defeat upon a Roman army under- Consul Papirius Carbo at Norela. Instead of following up their success into Italy, the victors pushed westward into the Rhine valley. Four years later, however, they practically

annihilated the Romans under Marius Junius Silanus on the field Arausio, where 80,000 troops were slain. This terrible reverse sent a tremor of terror through the lawmakers on the Capitoline hill, and the. constitution was set aside in order that Marius, fresh from his triumphs on African battlefields, might be invested with consular powers for five years. He was deemed the man of the hour and the only general who could turn back the tide of barbarians that had debouched from Clmbri Chersonese, the name given to Jutland. While this tribe poured over the Alps, driving the forces of Catullus before it across flie Adige and the Po, Marius administered a crushing defeat at Aquae Sextiae in Gaul to the Cimbris’ companions in arms, the Teutones' The consul then rushed back across tne Alps and at Campl Raudll, near Vercelll, where a c°ntury earlier Hannibal had won his first victory on Italian soil, the invaders were utterly annihilated, all the men being killed or captured while the women slew themselves and their children in preference to being borne to Rome in slavery. Its Agricultural Regeneration. Jutland’s agricultural poverty dates from the beginning of the sixteenth century. which time the peninsula

had been almost completely denuded of Its forests. It was not until 1866, two years after Denmark had been forced' to relinquish Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia and Austria, that the Danish people began an appraisal of the latent agricultural possibilities of their remaining domain to see if by cultivation they could compensate for their territorial losses. Col. E. Dalgas, an engineer officer of the Danish army, was the leading spirit in the < rganizatlon of the Danish Heath society, which began to plant trees throughout the peninsula, a movement which is still going forward and which has proved to be the salvation of the laqd. Mountain firs were first planted and these were succeeded by red spruce from America. These trees serve as a living barrier against the fierce sanddriving gales from the North sea. The Interior of the peninsula Is fast losing its barren aspect, more than 2,500 square miles of heath having been redeemed by afforestation. Oats, barley, beetroots and rye are now grown profitably, cattle and find good pasturage, and the forests teem with deer and wood pigeons. Typical of the growth of towns in this rejuvenated area is Hernlng, a settlement of 40 souls in 1866 and . now a thriving community with a population of 5,000. Jutland has a familiar ring in the ear of every schoolboy for he remembers that the Angles 4 and the Jutes were among the first Germanic peoples to emigrate from the shores of the Baltic and settle in Britain.

In a Jutland Village.

A Cattle Fair In Jutland.