VON BERNHARDI AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 5

VON BERNHARDI AGAIN

A VIOLENT TIRADE PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK PAPER London, March 24. "The Times" publishes au artiole written by General von Bernhardi for the "New York Sun." Discussing England's entry into the war on the pretext of the violation of Belgium by Germany, he Bays_ ' "England simply considered Belgium a vassal State serving as a bulwark for England's position on t.he Channel. Nominally neutral, Belgium was .submitting to the Allies' plan to march into Belgium to oppose the German right wing. with French masses, Belgians, and fifteen thousand English. Belgium united herself to our worst enemies, undoubtedly under pressure by England, who is in every way responsible for the world war. "England has kept Ireland in bondage for centuries, she supported France in 'purifying' free Morocco, she enslaved India and Egypt, and seeks, in conjunction with Russia, to subjugate weak Persia. Yet this State clainfs that a German victory would mean the subjugation of the world. Ev?ry discerning, unprejudiced person will recognise the hypocritical mask behind which she hides, regardless of policy, power, or interest. "Exactly the opposite is the oase. A German victory would mean the liberation of the world from the English yoke. The commercial rights of the world are being controlled by her blockade, and British cannon and English navalism hang like the sword of Damocles suspended above all peoples possessing a coast or trans-oceanic colonies susceptible of attack. "England is now ruthlessly ridiculing international ' law, violating public opinion, and spreading false information through a cable monopoly. America is not free from this violation. _ The entire telegraphic communication with Europe is subject to the British censor; all the Reuter dispatches are coloured in keeping with British policy. Germany is compelled to fight not only for her own freedom, but to straggle for the liberty of the Old World from the Englfsh yoke. "In the event of an Entente victory, England's chains would fetter all free movement in Europe, the state of her ruiership of the sea would become more oppressive, and her monopoly of trade would be used to a sharper extent to concentrate the world's treasures upon the British money market. France and Russia would then realise that they had fousht England's battles, not their own. —"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.