JUST A PACK OF LIES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 8 January 1915, Page 2

JUST A PACK OF LIES

YOU MAY SMILE AT THEM

Kaiser's All Cherished Peace

3 DREAMED OF ENDING HIS 3 BLESSED REIGN WITHIN OUT DRAWING SWORD [By Gerhart Haupmann, and translated L and reprinted from the Berlinger ! "Tageblatt," by the San Francisco s "Examiner."] . - | WE (the Germans) are essentially 3 a peaceful ifation. The super--3 ficial novelist Bergson of Paris ~ may call us barbarians, the great 3 poet and friend of the French, 3 Maeterlinck, gave us the same " pleasant name,' although he fc formerly named us the " Con--3 science of Europe." The world 3 knows that we are an old '•• " Kultuvolk " —nation of culture, f Nowhere has the ideal of world 1 citizenship taken deeper root 8 than with us. Look at our 9 translated literature, and then - give me another nation, which, '> like ours is trying to do justice 5 to the qualities of the soul and 9 morals of other peoples, and to arrive at a kindly understanding of these traits. Also, Maeterlinck has won fame arid gold in Germany. But for a drawing-room philosopher like Bergson, there is no room in the land of Kant and _ Schopenhauer. v 9 I say to 3jou: We have and 1 had no hatred against France; f we have exchanged ideas with 3 the art, the sculpture and paints ing of that nation. The apprecij ation of Rodin originated in Germany; we honour Anatole France. Maupassant, Flaubert, „ Balzas are read in the German * land like German authors. We s have a deep friendly feeling for the people of Southern France. Passionate adorers of Mistral are found in small German towns, 1 in mean .jefeneets and in great J houses. It • is-- ".-^-s^rfui cfx at ) politically Gemiaiiy"" and France" 1 cannot be friends. FATE DECREES AGAINST \ FRIENDSHIP They should have been friends, as they are keepers of the great L continental spiritual treasure, as ; they are two/great, thoroughly ' cultured kernal-races. Buj; fate . decreed otherwise. In 1870 the battling German , nations drew to themselves German unity and the German stater .-^.ese attainments won ■ our nation■■wprty years' period cf peace—a titrr^f growing, of strengthening, of freshing, of bearing fruit without coni^^son. Out of a population becoming, more numerous day by day, more numerous individualities arose. Individual activity and general virility led to the greatest attainments of our industry, our trade our traffic. Ido not believe that an American, English, French, or Italian traveller has felt himself among barbarians when in German towns, German hotels, German ships, German theatres, German libraries, German museums or in Bayreuth. We visited other countries, and our door was opened for every stranger. , Certainly, our geographical position threatening powers in East and West, forced us to care for the safety of our house. To that end were our army and our fleet brought into existence. In perfecting theseGerman industry, thoroughness, and ingenuity were utilised. That- this was necessary we know better to-day than 'ever before. EMPEROR CHERISHED^.PEACE IN HEART ~ But the Emperor Wilhelm II Grand Marshal of the. empire's armies, has cherished peace in his heart and has kept the peace Our army was really for defensive \ purposes. We wanted to be < ready to meet.^ threatening • attacks. I repeat that the German \ people, the German leaders with < the Emperor at their head have no other thought but to shield with army and navy the industrious and fruitful works of peace. I am expressing my true con- \A viction.in saying: The EmperoJ has clung passionately to hJH dream of terminating his ble^^H reign without having dni^^^^H sword. It is not hi^^^^H neither is it ours, thatJ^^^^^H has been shattered, 4^^^^^^^H The war waged which has been P^^^^^^^^H is a defensive wij^^^^^^^^^H wants to deny jj^^^^^^^^^H disregarding the^^^^^^^^^H the enemy on oij^^^^^^^^^^^H era and westej^^^^^^^^^^^H brotherly ailia^^^^^^^^^H means the cont^^^^^^^^^^^^H al life to both C^|^^^^^^^^^^H How the swoi|^^^^^^^^^^^^| our hand is PjM^^^^^^^^^^H who has read ttfy^^^^^^^^^H changed betweeL^^^^^^^^^l and the Czar, L^^^^^^^^^H and the King of il^^^^^^^^^H we now have thl^^^^^^^^H Haud, aud \^e will ttl^^^^^^^^l

sword until we have proved our y^ sacred rights before God and"; yi& men; . . .-■ ■. y : : '/If Who, though, has instigated ; this war ? Who has even called „ the Mongols, these Japanese, to attack Europe ? Surely this has been done by our enemies, who, surrounding themselves with '", swarms of Cossacks, maintains they are fighting for European %g civilisation. It is with sorrow ' and bitterness that I say it was I England. — [Another man gone 1 mad.] „ I