Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1919 — CHANGES WROUGHT BY WAR [ARTICLE]

CHANGES WROUGHT BY WAR

Many Things Have Been Brought to Pass That Would Shock Qldtlmo Observers. s Quite a number of things have happened during or. In consequence of tbs. war which never happened before. No British king had ever passed under Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe until King George’s recent visit to Paris. No British army had before helped to defend France against an Invader. British and, Prussian troops had never previously tried conclusions. Never before the war had armies from India, America, Canada. Australia, New Zealand or South Africa landed in Europe. Until Mr. Wilson, no “reigning" president of the United States had crossed the Atlantic during his term of office, though ex-presidents have done so. Jerusalem. Damascus and Bagdad had never before been captured by modern European armies, nor had British soldiers ever previously marched through Mesopotamia. The British flag Is the first standard of a Christian nation to float over Constantinople as that of a conqueror since the taking of the city by the Turks over four centuries ago. No king of Prussia hud ever lost his throne or been driven into exile before; and no war had ever brought misfortune on so many rulers or led to so many new states being set up.