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"WHY WE HATE.” ENGLAND THE “DEMON KING OF THE WORLD.".
Fisen mode and South Japan, many years staff professor at the great On our side, despite the fact that the Gor recently in the Daily Mail
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¿vor: central Japan; changes French school of strategy, the "Ecole Sup- over the rest of the area are slightérieure de la Guerre. He lins written several The depression remains in the neight oorbood brilliant treatises on militery strategy, and of Nomento. Another a fi-store covers his history of the Franco-Prussian War of 1570-1871 is one of the best-known works on the subject. Since the beginning of the pre- sent war his articles in the Petit Paran and the Liberte have been quoted all over Europe and have aroused muli comment.
It is six months ago to-day that we found oumelves at war with Germany. The ter Light N.Wrible struggle of 1870-1871, from which dates Hongkong & Nalghbourhood winds fresher the power of the Tenton Empire and which ing frem N. was the genesis of its dream of world hego and N.Eine. mony, lasted only a fortnight longer, but, as to this war, no one can yet foresto at the present moment when its end will comes
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First of all the Russians, by a skilful retreat- ing move, draw the enemy from their chosen positious where they could await reinforce ments and then having retaken the offensive the Russians broke that of Hindenburg, The Russian plan was to hold firms in the centra
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this terrible. aus wore able to capture Antwerp and so A new era is arising out of th bring able to crush her army they met red tons are beginning Belgium-without, however, war of nations with such a resistance from the Anglo-French differently and to learn anew-from every beginning to think armies that little by little they were forced to extend their line of battle to the Northmover and on all subjects. Even
in matters ethical is this process of evolu Sea. No sooner did they cassy a turning tion taking place. In former times wo movement against our left wing than their considered it immoral to hate. To-day forces met with a similar threatening move we know no different than that we may on our part which checked their plans. hate or that we must hate. When they came to hurl themselves against the lines of the Yser, so as to burst the bar England thoroughly express our squti Lissauer's Song of Hate against rier which separated them from the coast, soments, the depths of the German soul ardently coveted, they wore pushed back All representations to the contrary inil with bloody losses, The defeat they under on donf cars. We beat down all hands went leaves them without the slightest hope that would ward us
being able to reach Calais. Woord dirontly. We inst For this new conillet has brought into play Since then they appear to have no com- hate the lying brood. Our hatred hav such mighty forces, such resources of every plate plan, no decided and well-defined pro- been called forth Now it is here. And violence everything that history has over foltke, the second of the natur, in favour of hate sa does no other pas kind, such implements, that it surpasses in
gramme Though they have exchanged the German nation understands how to known, while at the same time the question Falkonhayn, they have not been able to that it brings to issue is that of whether the a new inspiration or a new military concep liberty of the world and the milependence oftion worthy of the name. They are now the antionsshall be forfeited for the sole bene reduced to aimless haphazard blows of the fit of that Prussian omnipotence which aims batteringram, now at one point, now at at the absorption of the whole globe, chi another, like wild beasts which, newly cap ____________ ALL-CONQUERING FORCE. tured, try to break the bars of their cage in
For thirty years at least this wir, con-blind and unreasoning fury the phlegmatic temperament of his com sidered in Berlin as inevitable, has been | In Belgium these tactics have had as a sedulously prepared. The predominance of result the winning of less ground than they Germany was held to be indispensable to as have lost. In Poland it has resulted in noth sure to the inflated national industriesthe outing but checks, since Hindenburg also has lets of which they stood in need, and to steem been, obliged to place himself on the defen ing population the scope which alone would sive, while his enamy threatens hint on the free it from the danger of suffocation at north and the southi, and Hungary begins to home. And it was further realised that this feel the Russian menace, at the gutes of predominance could only be imposed upon Transylvania. As for Austria, always benten the world by force-snch a force as to be in-and shamefully hinted out of Serbia, she is vincible, irresistible, all-conquering, and all-no longer a force in the German coalition, destructive. Germany and the German but rather a drag and an element of weakness Government therefore have put forth every and anxiety. effort of will and of benzerous and determined energy to achieve this singls aim, to be best armed, best equipped, and most thoroughly
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- GERMAN DISAPPOINTMENT,
English circles. Yet the fear occasioned The feeling of it even penetrates into by German hatred is still being hidden. It is there, however, notwithstanding All manner of excuses.
THE BRITISH MASE,
Lord Curzon may even explain that patriots is not deserving of German hatred. There is a smattering of truth in this because we Germans hate in a different way from the sons of Albion. We Germans hates honestly, with hate based on right.
England hates lying,. goaded on by jealousy, greed, and envy. It is high time that we plucked the mask from England's face, that we at last ce In hating England let me emphasise England in her true forma this we are only returning hatred for hatred. Why have we ever been so unwise ea to pormit ourselves to be deceived time. after time? ANTARA
The corsair actions of the English fleet, the poisoned knives of the Gurkhas, the dum-dum, and mushroom bullets, and hundreds of other instances show us suffi ciently what we have to expect from this enemy. We should not be worthy of life, nor of the army which bleeds for us, wete we not filled with holy anger against such a nation!
GERMANY'S
William I, however, whose gigantic ambi-
The policy of isolation of King Edward And they aucceeded. The military machine tion does not shrink from embracing the might well have opened our cyos long ago that they have brought into being is indeed whole world, had thought it a clever move But the German Rip van Winkle slept. formidable and the system of control that in bring Turkey into the war. He hoped on. England's hatred has always, every works it is regulated in the most minute thus to occupy Russia on other points than where, been coupled with lice and decep- detail. Since permatient armies first came on the German frontier and to tuen England bion, with piracy and robbery, with cool into existence the world has never seen any Ottomans have met with disaster in Armenin icy calculation and deliberation. The from the war in the west. The unfortunate calmness and consideration, and with other possessing to the same degree the luck their Frussian military education did history of her colonial possessions is an sation of that of Germany It seemed and of suffice to ward off, and now they are incontravertible proof of this Belgium those responsible for its creation avere the reduced to machinete against Egypt, an ad- France, Russia, all England's good most confident that the German Any must venturous expedition the fate of which is friends, are now learning what England's break down every obstacle, smash all realready settled and which, before it even ultimate goal really is, sistance and oresh beneath its onslaught starts, is doomed to miserable failure. And wo Germans aro no more surprised every adversary it might heels A And And so, after six months of war, Germany at anything.com yet for more than four months now it has is reduced to asking herself by what means reminined stationary, exhausting itself in she will obtain peace with honour. Sur- vain efforts to achieve ever-changing minus, rounded on all sides, menaced with famine, which constantly recode. An all-powerful with her commerce and her finance complete force holds it in subjection, and it has heardly paralysed, and with no industry left save
voice,No further shalt thou go.
that of war, with no assurance of a cen tinpous, supply, of the necessary primary BY BELGIUM'S SACRIFICE
materials, and uncertain if these will not What can have happened? Just this. No soon be lacking, Germany can but look sooner had Germany, abetted by Austria, back with bitter disappointment on the plunged Europe into the war that she had gond she has travelled since the beginning It has been fully established that Eng- long desired than she finds herself confronted of the war Having been firmly convinced, by a people insignificant in strength but owing to her belief in her strategists, that at land at all times has played off the mighty in spirit. Belgium, rather than assent the opening of this year 1915 she would have nations of culture ne against the other, to cynical violation of the most solemn imposed her will on the universe, she now and tried to binder the progresive treaties, springs up before her like a living bar realises that it is she who is being threatened development of other countries by the ries. To save her honour she sacrificed herself in her power and her integrity by nearly the most unprincipled methods. England is And it so happens that at the same time she whole world, which has risen in ravolt against the Demon King of the world, ripe and saved still more; she saved the liberty of man-hor savage methods and her larinfity. And | ready for extinction, Judgment has. kind and the sacred cause of civilisation neither the lies circulated by her agencies nor been given against her. The mills, of At the same time England, also a watchful the cynical fashion in which she disguises her God grind slowly, but they grind exceed. guardian of international conventions and her defeats, such as that which cost her loss of ing small Germany has received the salf directly threatened by the German appe the Blucher, can hide the mortal anguish to high call to carry out the sentence. - Eng- tite, threw her sword into the balance. She which she is a prey
land must be pulverised now, once and sent to sea her redoubtable, fleets and de. spatched to the Continent her whole available Army, while awaiting the moment when she could raise other and large armies drawn from her midst and from her immense over-sons possessions. Germany, irritated to the point of exasperation, had to acknowledge that she had been too brutal. But the blow had car rind and she had to feel the first effects one
for over
HIGH CALL
Doubtles Metell possessed of formidable
But is hatred noocssary for this? Is resources and a considerabla reserve of men, perhaps even three or four millions, but these not holy hatred a paradox! Are not men are not soldiers. The flower of her Army those voices correst which hold that has been mown down in the fields of Cham hatred is an intellectual lapse, because it pagne, in Flanders, and in Poland. She has eftnearlyamillion corpses on the ground over which she has passed, and if she can still re- place them in numbers she cannot replace them
AIM OF THE FINAL BLOW.
implacable, unbridled and unworthy of mankind, and only intended to aim at destruction
We spate ourselves the necessity of a reply. Bismarck's words shall give it. When asked by a doctor why he had passed a sleepless night, the Count 21
The German plan of operation was at once" very simple and very objective. She wished in quality. - to crush France first, to lay lier hamlon Paris and all its riches, throw our plans of concen- tration into confusion, spread terror na für na the banks of the Loure, then, tranquil from of her methods of waging war to snatch the German hatred. We can do nothing else
of Can Germany now count on the superiority" This sentimentheted all night long 441 this side, only leaving the amy strictly final victory from her implacable adversaries but hate all night long, all day long.
until they have brought Germany to her signifies, deepest antipathy, as
their over
Indignation bat disarmed she would turn round
against
with all her armies, which the efficiency of her railway system would enable her to transfer rapidly from west and cast. For that quickness was essential. The herois resistance of the Bel
it, to succeed. gians did not permit
OVERTOLD VON KLUCK. Yet even then she had still a hope left, so solidly forged was ber var machine. The battle of Charleroi, which ended unhappily for the Allies, opened once more, though tar dily, the road to the French capital. The German scantes marched along it fall of hope, and when they reached the lines of the Marne and the Ourcq they thought for moment that they were within sight of the promised land. But there they were lost by their very presumption. An overbold and imprudent move of von Kluck was met by a lightning-like counter stroke. The game was lost for him, and the retreat began si
How is it that this retreat was stopped at the Aisne and did not result in the complete evacuation of the invaded territory? That is a question which history will answer and for the elucidation of which we do not possess the necessary information Whist is certain is that instantly German strategy changed its character. From one of brutal offensive it became purely defensive, showing at the same time its weakness and its absolute renouncement of its first designs,
Russia, it is trae, was becoming menacing It was necessary to gain time in order to be able to show fight on two fronts 60 widely distant It was necessary, it being to longer possible to transfer whole armies from the west to the east,
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synonymous with greatest sympathy.
If the mask of holiness is used to cover a sinful action, then this crime is doubly hateful, because to hate properly is only possible to pronounced, personalities, to strong charactera
knees? If she thinks so she is mistaken, for her methods no longer exist. They have be cone purely passite and in absolute contra- diction with all the rules of action laid down by her strategists, such as Bernhardi, Schlicfer, and others, as being indispensable and the only means of assuring success L
German strategy has been watered down till now it represents a cries of expedients suggested by circumstance and which is swayed by event which it cannot control. The war of trench-digging to which the enemy has condemned himself, ja default of the realist tion of his vaster projects, is the negation of that military activity which alone can bring decisive victory. By its persistence it shows that the Germans have lost the strategic initiative and that they are powerless to regain it
1f it is a question of something great of honour of the existence of the Fatherland, if we are threatened that "Your Germany must become small, must be trampled on and destroyed then the hatred of such inimical Powers cannot be called immoral or unjustified,
Germany, however, will never be com- pletely consumed in hatred The German nature is far too profound, far too noble for us to be filled only, with anger and hatred Our glorious characteristics, The Germans, however, are not yet at the which make themselves so visible in these death gasp. The Allies, to beat their enemy anys, conquer all other feelings Our to the ground, still have need of much splendid self-restraint curts the hatred. obstinacy, will, and energy Germany's our internal uplifting is not damaged by armour was too well tempered for us to hope the feeling of hatred M to break it at one blow. But after six We protest our national right. against. months of fighting we see it cracking and the destroyers of its very foundations. bending. With renewed efforts we will finish, We delend the most valuable possessions I hope, with the aid of our noble Allies, by of culture against a nation which shows finding the faulty point in le cuirass itself unworthy of the right to be counted mean the vulnerable spot where the final among the cultured peoples,
gr blow should be nimed. After having been united in battle we will then be united in victory, the freeing of the world from a long nightoute
He who, like ourselves, has accepted the challenge of war for truth and right with clean hands and with a clear conscience must have victory on his side, for such a combat is stronger than the strongest battalion.
Henos our courage, our trust, our con-
world-conflagration.
to shift continually forcea from one A curious outcome of the war, says a fidence in a successful termination of this 1 ft. f. front to the other so as to provide reinforce home journal, is a reduction in the Soon will the rosy glow of the morning 1.1ments according to the demand of circum-incomes of fashionable doctors of Londonsky announce that the day of the atances. Germany succeeded in this, but from and other big cities. Consultants who in harvest for Germany has dawned. that moment its strategy ceased to becoherent peace times made their £10,000 a year now
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