GERMANY INDICTED.
A SCATHING AMERICAN
ANALYSIS.
DOOMED TO SURE DEFEAT."-
FROM THE TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.]
NEW YORK, December 16th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22ND, 1915,
unconquered? That concerns prophets. We aro concerned neither with precedente nor prophecy. We have nimed here to make clear
one day those beautiful towns along the Rhine may share the fato of so many. Belgian and French towns-that the Allies ceed in reaching the Rhine.
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the certainty of Germany's defeat and to will take a terrible vengeance if they scatolined; quickly at Nemure, and slightly to
show that if she chooses to fight to the bitter ond her ultimate and sure overthrow will leave her bled to exhaustion, drained of her resources, and under sentenco to penaltica of which hor stubbornness and her futils resist ance will mesmre the sorority,
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it is in PrussiaHowever, their feeling The depression has dorponed and moved to of hatred against Frussia has apparently the NE of Hokkaido. The area of relatively disappeared. They realize that they must high pressure has moved anstwards and it stick together and pill this war through hown a weak anti-cyclone central to the as best they can. Prussia and the mili. "outh of Kochi tary party are naturally blamed, and the what it is in the north, cause they must; if Prussin loses the They fight be Southern States share her fate and have get to play their part. they will play the game longer than is But I doubt if absolutely necessary. If they begin to realize the hopelessness of their case, the Southern States will be the first to cry for peace. As a matter of fact, the South Germans are a peace-loving people, and have always been utterly opposed to the heavy arranments of Prussia. After this war the prestige of Prussia in the eyes of the South German States will suffer altogether, heavily and will probably disappear
to-day is as follows pe
We could wish that the German people, Germany is doomed to sure defeat. seeing the light, might tako timely measures popularity of the Kaiser is far from being north part of the China Bea... Bankrupt in statesmanship, overmatched to avert the calamities that await them. It in armus, under the moral condemnation of may well be doubted whether they will see the civilized world, befriended only by the light. But have not the men of German Austria and Turkey, two backward-looking blood in this country a duty to perform to and decaying rations, desperately battling their heleaguered brethren in the old home? against the hosts of three Great Powers The American of German birth and German to which help and reinforcemonts from descent should see and feel the truth about States now neutral will certainly come the present situation of Germany-the prob. nhould the decision be long deferred, she ability of a near, the certainty of a remote, pours out the blood of her heroic subjects, future: At home Germans cannot know the aul wastes her diminishing substance in a whole truth. It is not permitted them to hopeless struggle that postpopes, but can know it. It will be unfraternal and most cruel for German-Americans further to keep not alter, the fatal decreo,
the truth from them or to fail in their plain Imperial militoristio ideal has fallen in the duty to make known to them how low the world's esteem and bring them to understand that the enemies they now confront are but the first line of civilization's defence against the menace of the sword that for ever rattles its scabbard,
In these words the New York Times addresser to lay to the German people, and espoutally to Gorman-Americans, a most eloquent and impressive exhortation to recognize the incompetence and failure of the Kaiser's advisers, and overthrow him and them. Fresh from perusal of the French, Yollow-book, the full text of which
It says:-
The sword must go and the scabbard, too, it published on Saturday, it informs the and the shining armour. Germans that the world for its own protechere have at all the ear of the Germans there, If the Germans tion will not permit them to be victorious. can they not tell them to stop? They have come here to escape the everlasting din of war's trappings; they have come to find peace and quiet in a land of liberty and law, where the Government rests on the content of the g serued, and where people, by their chosen representatives, when there is a question of going into the trenches to be lain, have something to say about it. Have they ever tried to get into the houds of their friends in the Fatherland some idea of the comforte and advantages of being governed that way?. Instead of trying to change the well-matured convictions of Americans, why not labour for the conversion of their brother Germany?
The doom of the Gorman Empire may yet become the deliverance of the German people si they will betimes but scizo and hold their own Leipzig began and Waterloo achieved the emancipation of the French people from tho bloody, selfish, and sterile domination of tho Corsican ogre. St. Helena made it Sedan sent the little Napoleon sprawling, and the statesmon of France instantly established and proclaimed a Re public. Will the Germans blindly insist on having their Waterloo, their Sedan and their St. Helena, too? A million. Germans bavo been sacrificed; a million German homes
Becure.
made desolate. Must other millions die and yet other millions mourn before the people of Germany take into the court of reason and haman liberty their appeal from the Imperial military casto that rashes them to their ruin?:
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It was a common thing to hear the Ger mans speak about the panic on the East Coast of England. It was of no use for me to try and explain facts. I was simply taken for anti-German, so I as CHINA ally let them believe in these wild tales.
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It ie a general belief that after the war and France will shake hands and make and some hope even before Germany a stand against England; that is, crush England completely and relieve her of her Colonies. discover that England has only used hor France will awake and for her own purposes and has not at all done her duty. This, of course, is the point of view of the Germans. war has been forced upon them. They Everybody here is convinced that his produce all sorts of evidence to show that Vladvos1003) 7a== France and England had made definite Nemuro arrangements with Belgium, and that Hasedate the French Army had already crossed the Belgian frontier when Germany declared Hochl war.
Kagoshima Chima_m Naht Lahim Bonin Is,
Their confidence in the Austrian Army There is no people on earth more worthy has been shaken to the ground, but I am to enjoy the blessings of freedom than the firmly convinced tha: the German people Germans.Germany has taken her place in themselves will ight to a finish. When, the very front of civilization. Freed from finally, they have to give in it will not the double incubus of Imperialism and for want of soldiers, neither for want militarism the German genius would have of food or money, as is so generally a marvellous development. It is not in the believed. It would be a great mistako thought of Germany's foes to crush the Ger.to doccive oneself on these questions. mann people. The world would not let them Their danger lies in the question of he crushed. It has for them the highest ammunition. I have heard rumours that esteem. It will acclaim the day when it can they are very short of saltpetre for the resume friendly, uninterrupted relations manufacture of gunpowder. The export with them. But, the headstrong, misguided, from Scandinavia, from where they dangerous rulers of Germany are going to will be paid by the German people just in be called to stern account, and the reckoning proportion as they make common cause with the blindly arrogant ruling class,
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After emphasising that the German people have full justifiention for anything they may do in the incompetence and blundering incapacity of the Kaiser's counsellars and servante in statecraft in York Times recalls the sagacity of the Berlin and in foreign capitals, the New
old Emperor William, and proceeds:-
Germany literally forced an alliance for this war between England and Russia, two representativo "Americans, men of peace like useful articles to get the necessary Canton seeing Powers often antagonistic in the past, and lot and Carnegie, insist that there can be Having now no common interest save the urbing of Germany The terrible misjudg ment of the General Staff hurled Germany hondlong into the pit that incompetent diplomacy had prepared. The Empire went to war with three great nations able to meet her with forces more than double her own. Then the worth of that iron military dis- cipline and of the 40 years of ceaseless pre- paration to which Germany had sacrificed much of the productivo power of her people was put to the test. Again the colossal Imperial machine broke down.
permanent peace until an and has been
Thousands of transportable wooden Gernians here na well as in Germany ought Scandinavin to Alsace and Belgiam, as nude of German militarism, solor-mindedhts and stables have been imported from no to turn a deaf ear to such voices, for they speak the opinion of the world.
well as to Poland, and they continue to import as many as they can get in order SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARTICLE.
to assure the comfort of the soldiers.
Washington, December 15th.
the most remarkable individual expression. Tho New York Times leader is perhaps of American opinion yet elicited by the war, but encouraging as it is that this journal should be found expressing Ameri- It was not through incompetence, The can horror of war and desire for a speedy German Army was umgnificent in its strength peace without playing, like the pacificists, and its equipment, It was overmatched it into the hands of the German pro- And attempted the impossible. That was the pagandists, too much importance must fatal.blunder. The fret rush upon Paris was not, of course, be placed on its views. It Jaterided to be irresistible. That was the must never be forgotfen, in trying to plan of the General Staff France crushed, appraise American opinion, that no single Russia could be sent about her business. It American newspaper can be held to repre was not irresistible it was checked. It was repulsed. When the invaders were driven back from the Marne to the Aisne and the Belgian frontiers Germany's ultimanto defeat was registered in the Book of Fate and heralded to the watching world.
sent or mould national thought like the great newspapers of Europe. The United States is too big for that. One swallow does not make a summer, and while the Times has once added to its reputation for independent thinking about the war, its sentiments will have to be repeated far and wide before we can be certain that, in the event of the German peoples refus ing to take the Times' advice, American opinion as a whole can be counted upon, como what may, to support us in exacting
THE WORLD AGAINST GERMAN VICTORY." There is within the German view an even more sinister portent. The world cannot and will not let Germany win in this war. With her dominating all Europo peace and security would vanish from the earth. Two months from Germany the other alternative which ago the world only dimly comprehended the Times espies for her.
Germany; now it knows her thoroughly. So!
if England, France, und Russia cannot pre-
vail against her, Italy with her two millions, SOUTH GERMANS AND THE
the sturdy Hollanders, the Swiss, hard men
in a fight, the Danes, Greeks, and the men
in the Balkans will core to their aid to
make sure the work is finished once and for all. For their own peace and safety the antions must demolish that towering struc-
WAR.
FEARS OF INVASION.
ture of militarism in the centre of Europo ACTIVITY IN FORTRESS TOWNS. that has become the world's danger, if not its greatest mepice.
[FROM A COLBESPONDENT OF THE TIMER."]
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40TH FATDANS SPORTS 6/2/15. I-It is notified that, at the above sports, the following events are open to the members of the Corps and Ileserves:-- (1.) Half-mile race in marching order. No pack. Waterbottle and haversack empty. Open to men under 25 years of age. A prize
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The only possible onding of the war is through the defeat of Germany, Driven ack to her Rhino strongholds, she will offer
SOUTH GERMANY, December 12th. stubborn resistance. Even with the Life in Berlin is proceeding much in Bussians near or actually in Berlin she would the same way as at ordinary times. Many Eight on. But for what? Why? Because of the theatres are open and the business the German people are resolved to get them life is improving. The activity and signs selves all killed before the inevitable day of of war are more to be seen in the country the enemy's triumph? Not at all. The extending along the Rhine. The forti- weary mon in the trenches and the distressed fications of the various fortress-towns people merely obey the crders given by the along this river are being steadily im
proved. Imperial Military Authority. For the men
Coblence, especially, is sup-MUTYAll members who have been in those high quarters defeat would be the Posed to be most heavily fortified,
The Germans are determined to hold on and of all In desperation, with some possible, admixture of blind confidence, they fend it foot by font.
to Belgium as long as possible, and to de arill continue the war.
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PUTILITY OF FORTUER SACRIFICZ But why should the German people make further sacrifice of blood to save the pride and the shoulder-straps of German official dom? It means a million more of battlefield been constructed in Belgium in case of graves, it means frightful additions to the retrait, and the task of the Alics to drive PROMOTION Pte, C. E. Thomas is appointed Fri. bill of easts and to the harshness of the terms, the enemy out of Belgium and France will Since the more dreadful ending is plain to be immense, according to statements from the view, why not force the better ending Gerraan oficers.
Liége and Namur have been rebuilt and But this is resolution That many be so." strongly fortified. Important road- Call it so Dolisitions are useful; they are crossings and railway lines, as well as the not deterrent Is there in all history any most important and beautiful buildings record of a whole people rising against their of Brussels, are mined, and need only the rufers in the midst of a great war? Lat Press of a button to turn them into a heap
of ruins. historians answer that question.
Is it con-
I have really met people in the South sirable that the legal German people, made of Germany who begin to speak about a one by their love of the Fatherland and possible invasion of Germany by the devoted to the accomplishment of Imperial Allied Armies and to express the fear that ideals, could be stirred to revolt while still
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