GERMAN BARBARISM

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2261, 22 September 1914, Page 5

GERMAN BARBARISM

DENOUNCED BY MR. LLOYD GEORGE THE KAISER'S LUNACY ' _ London, September W. ' , Much interest line been created by r Mr. Lloyd George's first war, speech.. ? Addressing London Welshmen, the 1 Chancellor of the Exchequer said that i war was repugnant to no man more r than himself; yet no one was more convinced ' that'! Britairt' could not have > avoided action national dishon- » our. Prussia, with cynical contempt, had declared that no nation,_need carry ■ out a' treaty unless it suited it to do so. "Treaties," said Mr. Lloyd George, ' "are the currency of international 3 statesmanship. The • German doctrine ' that 'scraps of paper' are binding only • when it suits her interests is the 3 straight road to barbarism. If Germany 1 wins, the whole machinery of civilisation will break down." France had offered Belgium five I army corps to be used against attack; ! but Belgium refused, declaring that i ehe would rely on Germany's promise. 1 Belgium's one crime • wae that she 1 trusted the Prussian King. But the ' Kaiser has made it certain that no King will repeat his crime. If we had disregarded the cry of two .little nations 1 —Belgium and Servia—our shame would " ring down the everlasting ages. \ ■ The Kaiser had declared he was the ' Deity's vice-regent, and was wielding ' His sword. W hen such lunacy was man- ! ifestod in the head of a State and be- [ came the- policy of a. great Empire it 1 was time to put that person away: The ' Prussian Junkers were the road-hoRS of 1 Europe, ordering the little States out • of the way, but Britain would tear the bully out of his seat. If a burglar broke into the palace at Potsdam, shot | the Kaiser's servants and ruined the ' art treasures, would the Kaiser wait to 1 don his uniform before shooting the ' burglar? The Tsar told Austria: "You ' lay your hands on the little fellow,- Ser- \ via, and I'll tear your Tamshackle Em- ' pire limb from limb." He was doing it. God created man to His own imaee; Germany re-created the image as a Diesel engine—accurate, powerful, and soulless. There has been nothing like the Kaiser's patronage of God eince the ■ days of Mahommed. Treaties tangled Germany's feet, and she said: "Cut them with the sword." Little nations hampered her advance, and she said: ''Trample them- in the mire." CERMAN "CULTURE." ' BEANDBD ON THE BROW. , London, September 20. The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, in hie speech at a recruiting meeting at Edinburgh, said: "German culture has been branded on the brow by the atrocities at Louvain, Malines, and . Termonde. The Power claiming to impose oulturo upon Europe was a Power whose generals revived tho methods of warfare, condemned by the civilised world. A nation fed on lies could not eucceed for long. It was known that the British Empire must be preserved by war, and now war had come it would be a fino renewal of the loaso of Empire.