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Twenty-Five Years

YESTERDAY saw the birth of a month momentous in history.

In June, twenty-five years ago, a mad youth set the torch to the powder magazine of Europe at Sarajevo. A glance through the "Telegraph" files of a quarter of-a-century ago discloses that

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assassinations strictly on their merit as a news item about another of those troublesome happenings in the Balkans Indeed, for a week after the assassinations the subject was dropped entirely in favour of the more interesting news about the suffragists, Home Rule, the tests and the Davis Cup.

No-one believed, in June, 1914, that three bullets fired in Sarajevo would claim ten million lives.

It was not until almost two months later, on August 4, that Britain went to war. It would

years!

of

for whose freedom from wars

WHO ARE

GERMANS?

THE

Who are the ancestors of this German nation; where

did they come from; how have they developed?

EMRYS JONES

tells here the story of the Germans from the earliest times to the present day. It is an interesting story interestingly told. To understand the march of to-day's

events, you need to know what has gone before.

THE first phase of Germany's history begins with a Caesar and ends with

a priest; and in the long run the pen of Martin Luther proved more potent, moro lasting, than the sword of Julius Caesar.

Between the coming of one and the death of the other you may see rough tribes rising to power and influence in the story of Europe.

Who were these Germans? Really, we don't know very much about them before the time when Julius Caesar was made Governor of Gaul in 69 B.C., only a few years

before he landed on our own shores with his Roman legions,

Rare travellers certainly be fore that braved the long journey from what is now Ger- many down to the Mediter- rancan, but we know little about

them.

Now when Caesar arrived in Gaul the Rhine, then 35 now, formed the boundary between the Gauls and the Germans; though one Gaulish tribe is be- lieved to have lived beyond the Rhine at its mouth, and invading Germans had settled down in Alsace, in that

same province that Frenchmen and Germans have fought for in our Own time.

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THIS

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IS THE

>>

GERMANY OF

CHARLEMAGNE

PEOPLE IN THE

STORY TO-DAY

Charlemagne

Alaric the Goth

Attila

Nobles and Serfs Onc of the great Rome fell before He led the Huns into

IN early times there is names in the history his

evidence that the west-

of Europe.

horder.

advancing Germany

-East,

from the

ern part of Germany, cast of the centres on the tribes living in separate kingdoms, by which Rhine, was occupied by Celtic five main districts.

Louis-called "the German" peoples, of the same descent as Between the Rhine and the got the bulk of the lands east of the Basques, Bretons, and Welsh Elbe in the north-cast lived the the Rhine, as well as certain dis- of to-day.

Saxons; to the east and south of tricts on the left bank. Yet even then, what you may them was the big kingdom of roughly call Teutons lived in Thuringia.

Rebellious Dukes

EMPIRE

OF THE

AVARS

GAILK

EMPIRE

OF THE

GHATARS

OYZANTING-

IMPIRL

Charlemagne 1003 the first great ruler to weld the warring German Iribes into one Empire. Look at the map and see how far this Empire extended at the start of the ninth century. All France, Belgium, Hol- land, Jugoslavia, and half of Italy came then under the sway of Char- lemagne's forces-But Berlin was not German then,

Week-end at the Perfect Inn

barrels.

THERE is an essential fitness in all things-even in beer

Have you ever thought how much less pleasant would be the surround- ings of our English Inn parlour if the landlord had to draw beer from + the square box instead of from beautiful, rotund, symmetrical per- fection of a barrel?

*

If you go on home leave this summer, you may come on your travels to our English inn, and there you will see the noble barrels re- posing on their bench, "old," "mud, and “bitler" in line, with L

white cloth over their brown and tranquil shapes. There will be no array of brasa handles on the counter and a

beer "engine" drawing liquids from distant and mysterious depths. greet you with the grave, warm Instead, the perfect innkeeper will friendliness of natural host, receive your order respectfully, but without condescension, take down from hook the polished pewter tankard, turn the wooden tap, ond from the

look more like we contented caress the noble stream.

Then you may take your pintin

some parts of the basin of tho In the south-west were the NOW Germany began to Rhine-though the tribes had a Alamanni, in the land after- know it to-day, yet king succced- multitude of names for them- ward called Swabia. They ex- ed king uneasily on the central selves, some of which survive. tended along the middle Rhine, throne; putting down the rebel-

For instance, the Saxons lived until they met on the west coast of Schleswig Franks, who lived in that dis kings in their own lands, fight- the Ripurian lious dukes, who were almost and the Angli on the cast coast. trict now called Franconia, of ing off the attacks of Norsemen Fürther east in the basin of the which the Jew-baiting Julius Slavs Oder lived the Lugii, who are be- Streicher is Governor. lieved to have been the Vandals of later times.

The story of these tribes is

barrel will flow with the sound of a

hand and join our company.

be all over in alx months-just a jaunt, in fact, for the volun- teers from the more distant

THERE is a bowl of daffodils on the table. There will from the Dominions, who would not even

east, and not be too much light, perhaps the have time to "have a crack" at

Magyars from the south.

daylight through mullioned windows, Then in the south-east were

However, under Otto the perhaps the warmer light of well- the enemy. The War Office con-

the Bavarians, as they are to Great, Germany regained the im- to see the rich colour of old oak trimmed lamps, but enough for you fidently claimed that Germany

Still farther cast on the day. Vistula were the Gothe, and as

perial crown.

walls the black ceiling beams, and.. would collapse in the spring of 1916 and then there would be you read German history you one of war among themselves; came conflict with the Papacy

But with Otto's successors...the barrels behind the spotless

counter. no more European wars for sixtyote the tendency-of-tribes in until the coming of one of the and more fights with the no-evening this week-end when the

These thoughts camo-to me-of-an- the cast ven from outside great names of history, Charle- bility (who preferred dividing inn parlour of our English inn. We club of good neighbours met in the Germany-to press westward. magne, Twenty-five years is a long Germany's tribal system was

Germany up into States), until are looking forward to seeing you. Under him, for the first time, Henry II, in 1039, lifted Ger- span and thousands who sur- divided into four grades: nobles, in 804, the German races came many to the peak of its imperial as our fathers were who drank here, We are the countrymen of England,' vived 1914-18 rest peacefully in freemen (or vassals), and serfs, under a single ruler; he provided power by making federal states quietness and in confidence is our generation by generation, and in their graves in lands distant

They elected a king by popu- law for the whole empire, and of Bohemia, Poland, and Hun-strength. lar vote, but his powers were beneath his banners marched gary. from the scene of the conflict.

strictly limited. Even

We are not even disturbed by anyTM But there are hundreds

in this soldiers of all tribes, inspired by primitive system,

news on the wireless. We have just you get a patriotism and welded by re- forerunner

Regard Henry, then, as the beaten the vialling team from the thousands alive

to-day-a glimpse of Germany's genius for ilgion-for now all Germany was "Drive to the East."

of tho Gorman Dog and Pheasant in the most im- thousand or more in Hongkong military organisation, for in nominally Christian.

portant darts match of the season. who have reason to ask them-time of war the king was made Gone, then, are the days of the decline of German power. played the visiting landlord for a

After him, once-

According to historic precedent in more, came these contests, our landlord has just selves how it comes that Europe, subservient to the leader chosen Wagner's Wotan. Gone, too, are His successors

to lead the tribe in battle.

gallon of beer and lost Great. the Nibelungs and the gods that the Pope, whose power was be-onlons have been distributed to the quarrelled with crusty rolls of bread and cheese and fiddle very often, for the Ger-

The king had to play second "rule by beauty." man tribes made frequent raids and the Rhine-daughters and the

With them vanishes Valhalla ledged.

coming more widely acknow-winning and losing teams. We raise our tankards to our host. "To you, into Gaul, fighting the Roman mists that surrounded the an- For instance, in Italy the growth

sir," "To you and the missus." Other factors came in, too. power which was trying to push clent gods of Rhineland mytho- of autonomous cities weakened its empire beyond the frontiers of the Rhino.

the rule of the German empero 8, They disappeared from the and even the great Barbarossa, Goths Invade Rome

OUTSIDE there is the sound car entering the old German mind, making way for Frederick I., failed to break the inn stablo yard and drawing up on THEN, as troubles in Christianity. Now they are be power of the cities.

the cobble stones. Visitors have the empire increased, ing resurrected by extremists of

arrived, and the perfect host goes to so did the strength of the Ger- the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler centre of the revolt, chief elty of raining outside, and a bright fire has Milan then, as now, was the the front door to greet them. It is Why has tired and jaded old manic tribes. Finally they be--who is himself receiving from the Guelphs (or up-holders of been lit in the bedroom prepared for Europe, after such a catastro-the might of Rome.

came so strong as to overthrow Wagner's interpretation of them Italian freedom) against the

pleasure and inspiration.

There is also some hot soup from phic upheaval as the Great War,

Under the invading forces of

Ghibellines, who stood for the the stockpot on the ever-burning kit- now to gird up its loins again Alaric the Goth, Rome

Charlemagne pushed his emperor.

chen range, a cut of roast saddle of to face the probability of Then it was sacked by Attila, and in 800 Pope Leo III, crowned give battle near Milan and loat

fell. armies into Spain and Italy,

Southdown lamb, Barbarossa (fought the deci-cream, some Cheshire cheese,

appleple and

Why is it, I wonder, that so many Somewhere, there has been the famed lender of the Huns, him the Emperor of the Romans. only just escaping death himself..the food they have had at obscure colossal and criminal blundering, who came as invaders from the So began the Holy Roman Em- From that time the hold of Ger- hotels abroad, and so few seem to travellers prate of the welcome and cast Into Germany, and by pire which in various forms Genseric the Vandal, both tribes existed right up to the time of many on Italy ceased to exist in have found the perfection of both in.

'reality.

an English inn.

Do stews taste better abroad? I leaving their names to history Napoleon, as symbols of savagery and dés- Yot it showed its weaknesses

Barbarossa then looked elsc-wonder. Will you and a warmer welcome abroad than in an English truction..

as soon as Charlemagne died, whero for his new worlds and, as

inn? No, indeed, you will From the time of the Roman By the Treaty of Verdun in 848 our King Richard and the King among us ibis ringule, ad come decay, the story of Germany France and Germany became PLEASE Turn To Page 4.

PLEASE Turn To Page 4.

they fought, is so soon menaced by yet another war, and again with Germany as the villain of the piece.

It is the Tommies, who hated it all tho muck, the lice, the bitter privations, the blood, the agony-who have the right to ask to-day whether ill-conceived diplomacy has not squandered our war"graves.

another?

If Germany had won in 1918, rest assured there would be no Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Fir.. Tel. 29938. menace of war over Europe to

day. We won, and it scoms Kowloon Depot,

that, 21 years later, we may just be starting to pay the price of victory.

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