HOW WE HATE THE ENGLISH

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 4, 15 January 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOW WE HATE THE ENGLISH

GERMAN COUNCILLOR'S VENOM. "WAR OF ANNIHILATION RET WE EX US." "It is a fight between England ami Germany to the hitter end, to tho last German if wed i <>. It is a war oi annihilation Ijotwcon tlieso two counliiei; ami nations. We want no quarter irom Englaul, we shall give none. Wo shall never ask Englan<l for mercy, •'"d we shall extend no niercv to her. England and England alone brought on this criminal war, out of greed and out of envy, to crush Germany, and ft is death, destruction, and annihilation for orw or the other of the. two nations. "Toll your American jieople that, and say these woids <lo no, come from «, fanatic, but from a quiet business man and one who knows the feeling of his people and who knows what is at stake in thiii titanic struggle brought on by that criminal nation." 1 bus, to the Berlin correspondent of tru ''New York Sun," spoke Privy Councillor A\ itting_ the former Burgomaster of Posen. president of til© National Rank of Germany, and, it is heaved. a relative „f Herr Maximilian Harden The correspondent declares: "The intensity of feeling bordering on lrenzy with which the usually 'democrat'c fitting' spoke was a revelation to me.' "Old I '' exclaimed the German financier, his whole body quivering with emotion, "how we hate England and tho English! That nation of hypocrites and criminals which brought this misery upon ns and tho world, and. what for?—for greed and envy, to crush tho German nation because sho found herself decadent and felt her dominance and domineering in the world endangered." Herr Witting went on to give thO' correspondent the customary assurance that Germans "feel only pity and regi'et for France." and to say that feeling against Russia was subsiding, whereas "against England there growing among high and low th e most fanatical hatred and contempt one nation. ever had toward another." He added the characteristic German questions, "Do you think if England and I ranee had gone to war w e would have taken the mean advantage, to it. tack and cruuh France?" PERFIDIOUS ALBION*. "Did Germany attack Russia and rr'/X l , at Co ! int . r - V > ln « Wit Bh© fmght have done, during the Japanese l'i J?' Germany was too honoured 'i, V ' self-constitut-ec champion of freedom, Perfidious Alb'on, stoops t 0 sue]! things and has the effrontery to pr* e as the defends ""r"] r 'S ,lts - England, that eoun-V-V ,V lloh oppresses more people to- !{ irL . nny .°thor nation on earth. _ ol | S™*™ not to '»« misled by peace talk. Iliem is not going to be any peace It will b e a long war. We prepared for three years. Jn the end it will develop into a struggle between l.ngland and Germany. The. English a !> determined to destroy our Fatherland. A\ e have accepted the challenge. AO ('<»v<-i'iuiicnt would Survive in GnrI mmy that attempted to make pe;.<*. term, dictated hy England. wl,*l thcr TTTPTr>rr*.'^ N ts "lie year or twentyfive years. ''lt is to the ITitt^Xld; if jl (fd-vv.- t'i c , la.i German. We ha"V We know the English character, but they du not to kno-v ours and the spirit of our people. Have they forgotten the Thirty Years' Wa.rr Have they forgotten Frederick the ore at and the epirit of Germany just - vrar s ago? It is the same Germany to-day and that same spirit is in tlie rather land now. England i s trying to turn the whole world against us. ■They may kill us, but they can never, conquer Germany. tacked by so many Powers as Germanv ft the present time. Yet the.ro is not ttie foot of a single enemv upon our fcoi! a t this time. Fearing 'that all the countries in Ettrop i which she lias been able to arouse against us will not conquer Germany. England has called en. the yellow hordes of Japan and Indi*», and England thereby lias pieced herself beyond the pale of the white man's law.'' The correspondent asked Hera- Witting if there was any chance of Germany being starved into submission. He replied that two hundred factories were already established for turrvinr; potatoes into flour for bread, i The ii: x t question dealt with the j "juistifi.ation for attacking England with Zeppelins." To this Herr Witting lop lied: "Tho English call us mad dogs against whom any weapons are jiistilia'>!e. The English are criminals. Against them the use of Zeppelins needs no justification. The sinking oi thre> cruisers by a single German submarine is nnc the only surprise the English will get. Mark what I tell you: London will be attacked. We still liavo three million men to put into the field and we are confident of winning. 1/ we go down the world will long rranenv Iter it."