WHITEWASHING THEIR CAUSE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 233, 20 June 1918, Page 5

WHITEWASHING THEIR CAUSE

- EXTRAORDINARY SPEECH BY THE KAISER HIS DEFINITION OF THE ISSUES ]l (Rec. June 19, 5.5 p.m.) ie Amsterdam, June 18. io A messago from Berlin states that tho T . kaiser spent the anniversary of his ac,3 cession to the throno at the main Ger(l man Headquarters. It was the occasion. 0 of some extraordinary speeches. Voii ~ Hindenburg renewed tho vow of unswerving loyalty till death in tho namo of Germany's sons. He said that tho German people and Army, in tho faco of n world of enemies, had never in their history shown such proof of their strength and right to existence, which was due to their indefatigable. War Lord. , The Kaiser, replying, said that he had >' always hoped that when danger was most '.' threatening God would supply the right men. This had been done. Heaven had bestowed upon tho German Umpire Von Hindenburg and Von LudendorlV. Proceeding, the Kaiser aaid that the struggle was betwee-i two world views—either tho German principles of right, freedom, honour, and morality must be upheld, or , tho Anglo-Saxon idolatry of Mammon ' must bo victorious. "Wo shall gain tho 1 victory, and tho victory of the German '} standpoint. That is what is in quesl tion."—Renter. THEIR LoifcOLONIES COOE DEMAND TOR PACIFIC ISLAND DOMINATION. (Roc. June 19, 8.10 p.m.) London, June 18. Tho German Government has officially recognised Ernest' Kienetz's took on the value of the German South Sea Islands, in which the author replies to suggestions that these could be advantageously 0 bartered for more substantial possessions 3 olsewheio. Kienetss is the spokesman for 3 tho Nationalists, who are rallying to '< maintain i;ho integrity of German posa sessions in Australasia and the South j Seas. The book is full of elaborato J statistics to prove the money value of ' tho Islands and their produce. He values them at seventy millions sterling, exclusive of Germain New Guinea, where the phosphates alone aro worth 301! millions sterling. He considers that these possessions are worth double all Germany's other colonics, and proceeds to say: "Tho real value of our South Seas Australasian possessions is to. be found in • other TCgions than economic. We must .' held them for our world' prestige, with- : out which wo cannot have a world or ', colonial policy. Wo dare nob disappear t from tho earth's greatest ocean, if only because of China's and Australia's antagonism, and tho Anglo-Saxon-Japaneso antagonism. This antagonism must be oxploited to its utmost. Let us therefore retain our ■ South Sea possessions and try to increase them."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PEESS ATTACK ON ME, LLOYD GEORGE. (Rec. June 19, 7.55 p.m.) London, .Tune IS. The "Koelnischo Volks Zoitung," referring to a speech of Mr. Lloyd George in which he is alleged to have characterised Germany as "a 'nuisance which must be exterminated," says that eo long as Mr. Lloyd Georgo is England's spokesman there can be no question of peace negotiations.*—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6sn.