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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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All this does not mean that Germany is to bo let off, butsimply that it is ridiculous to talk about indemnities withoutany regard to such vital considerations as, first of all, the limitof the enemys ability to pay, and, secondly, the need of pre-cautions in order that the payment shall not indirectly damagethose who receive it. The debate in the Allied press on this subject has producedfrom the Huns what is perhaps the sublimest piece of arrogantinsolence that has been written during the war. The KolnischeZeilung has the temerity to remark: Whil(> tlie Allies an^ debating lu)w aiul what to make Germanypay, it is not only our right but our duty to set up counter-claims.The armistice conditions accorded us the privilege of notifyingour damages. Let us make use of that privilege. The il!(>galand inexcnisable blockade injured us to an extent whicli cannot even approximately be estinuited. Above all, it cost usthe loss of the war with all the horrible consequences connectedwith it.
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Courtesy of The Seieiitifu Aincrii-tin. New Y.nl.. HOLLANDS LONG FIGHT AGAINST THE SEA ENTERS UPON A NEW PHASE. HOLLANDS APPROACHING CONQUEST MORE IMPORTANT even than the news that theDutch have taken Holland is the fact that they arenow preparing to retake a conquered province thathas not been wholly theirs since the days of ancient Rome, andthat was finally snatched away in fuU measure some sevencenturies since. The Zuider Zee is at last to be drained, inaccordance with the act passed by the States-General in 1913,whose fulfilment has been postponed by the Great War. Forthirty years previous this huge engineering enterprise had beendebated and discust. Originally, we are told by H. MerianAllen, writing in The Scientific American Supplement (New York,December 21), this enormous area was occupied by a denseforest, in the midst of which was a lake, of moderate size, calledFhvo by the Romans. The rulers of the great empire, everinclined to experiment upon nature for the maintenance ofst

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