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Philip Trant. "His wife was absorbed in preparations for the journey. To move him was like mobilizing an army, and weeks before the date set for their departure it was almost as if she were already gone. "This foretaste of separation showed us what we were to each other. Yet I was letting her go and there was no help for it, no way of preventing it.
When the crafty but ignorant Russian generals and courtiers got from the Czar the order for mobilizing the armies, and issued it, they did not know it, but that was when they released Lenin. And who on earth can now inveigle that terrific portent safely under lid and lock again? XXII. Old Sunlight I find the first signs of this spring, now the War is over, almost unbelievable.
Yes, and worse than that, I saw them take two fellows and sling them clear off the train, they slung them right out on to the platform." "What for?" I asked. "Heaven knows," said Parkins, "they said they had no tickets. In war time you know, when they're mobilizing, they won't let a soul ride on a train without a ticket." "Infernal tyranny," I murmured. "Isn't it?
"'Don't ye worry about that, says he. 'Not that she's keen on leavin' the ould sod, Larry. The good ould soul's in quite a state o' mind about ye, aroon. I don't mind tellin' ye, lad, that she's mobilizing all the clan an' if she has to come for ye, avick, they'll be wid her an' they'll sweep this joint clean before ye go.
This certainly is not my plan for the abolition of property. Far from mobilizing the soil, I would, if possible, immobilize even the functions of pure intelligence, so that society might be the fulfilment of the intentions of Nature, who gave us our first possession, the land.
On the following day Germany began mobilizing, and twenty-four hours later declared war on Russia. Mobilization in France, necessitated by these events, was anticipated by Germany, which simultaneously flung forces into Russia, France, Luxembourg and Belgium. "It was Germany's historic policy of "blood and iron" that fired Austria to attempt the crushing of Servia.
The means of mobilizing the North-German army had been reviewed year by year, in view of any changes in the military or political situation, by the Staff, in conjunction with the Ministry of War. Every branch of the administration throughout the country had been kept informed of all it ought to know of these matters.
"We know something now that probably even a lot of the soldiers don't know! They're mobilizing. If they are going to be sent from Waterloo it must mean that they're going to Southampton and that means that they will reach France. That's what we'll see at Waterloo station troops entraining to start the trip to France. They're going to fight over there.
Grenfel brought a paper, and the scouts gathered about him while he read the news that was contained on the front page, still damp from the press. "I'm afraid it's true," he said, soberly. "The German Emperor has threatened to go to war with Russia, unless the Czar stops mobilizing his troops at once. We shall know tonight. But I think it means war! God save England may still keep out of it!"
Ah, if he could only do more! . . . The Government in mobilizing its vehicles had appropriated three of his monumental automobiles, and Desnoyers felt very sorry that they were not also taking the fourth mastodon. Of what use were they to him? The shepherds of this monstrous herd, the chauffeur and his assistants, were now in the army. Everybody was marching away.
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