THE AUDACIOUS WAR


CHAPTER I

THE WORLD'S GREATEST CONTEST

The Censorship--The Warship "Audacious"--Mine or Torpedo?--The Battle
Line--War by Gasolene Motors--The Boys from Canada--The Audacity of it.

The war of 1914 is not only the greatest war in history but the
greatest in the political and economic sciences. Indeed, it is the
greatest war of all the sciences, for it involves all the known
sciences of earth, ocean, and the skies.

To get the military, the political, and especially the financial flavor
of this war, to study its probable duration and its financial
consequences, was the object of a trip to England and France from which
the writer has recently returned.

One can hear "war news" from the time he leaves the American coast and
begins to pick up the line of the British warships--England's far-flung
battle line--until he returns to the dock, but thorough investigation
would convince a trained news man that most of this war gossip is
erroneous.

This war is so vast and wide, from causes so powerful and deep, and
will be so far-reaching in its effects that no ill-considered or