Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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in1914 they attacked Franceon the northern side thruBelgium. The Swiss Gov-ernment evidently fearsthat such an attempt maybe made, for it has calledout more troops to guardthe Alsatian frontier. Ver-dun stands at the cornerwhere the northern andthe eastern battle frontsmeet, and the increasedactivity here may presagea campaign to be carriedon in the eastern part ofFrance instead of theSomme front in the West. The Battleof the Aa It will be re-membered thatthe great Ger-man offensive, which lastyear drove the Russiansout of Poland and Cour-land, failed of reaching itsobjective in the northeast,the city of Riga. Eversince then the opposingforces have kept theirpositions confronting oneanother twenty-four milesapart, the Russians inRiga behind the DunaRiver and the Germansin Mitau behind the AaRiver. Between themstretches the Tirul Marsh,crost, it is true, by therailroad from Mitau toRiga, but impassable bytroops on foot. But the winter weather,which puts a stop tomountain warfare, makes
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© Under j.ood <£• Underwood COUNT TOLSTOYThe son of the great Russian novelist has just come to this countryto lecture on the personality and the work of his father, Leo Tolstoy,and to interest Americans in the establishment to his memory of ahome for aged literary men who, like their great teacher, have de-voted their pens and their lives to the welfare of humanity. There is still another reason why the son has come to America,said Mr. Oscar Straus in his introduction of Count Tolstoy in NewYork. Tolstoy is recognized, not only in Russia but by many else-where, as the truest and most sincere and the most realistic exponentof the teachings of Christ, as distinguished from Christian teachingsof any secular writer of either ancient or modern times. It Is becausehe found that in Russia, as well as in other belligerent and neutralcountries, the war god was so dominant that they had no ear for iheteachings of the most impressive di ciple of Him who taught theFatherhood of God and th

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