British Should Bomb Berlin.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 132, 14 January 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

British Should Bomb Berlin.

The time has conic lor a definite policy of reprisals. So far we have insisted on making war on the Germans under fair conditions, :ls though they could appreciate fairness or a fight fought under Marquis of Queensbcrry rules. In our air raids we have only aimed at places of military importance; we have not showered down bombs upon Gorman inhabitants indwriminately. We have spared Berlin. Can anyone say it is beyond our power to do to Berlin what the Germans are trying to do to London, if we have the will and the occasion to do it? And I say it is time we got busy on Berlin. Everybody knows who has lived in Berlin that the German from the cradle to the grave is moved only by threats and fear, and never by persuasion, like an Englishman. You can coax, advertise, tempt an Englishman into action; the German must lo threatened and pushed. He does n< . know anything but " Verbotcn" TV>r bidden.) He is told what he must do and what he must not do. We killed " Vcrboton" in Britain a thousand ye :;•< ago.

The German is like the wild cattle in Texas. Nothing could be done u r ■ them. When cowboys tried to herd them, they stampeded. They l-ro v-"* :i>l the fences. Presently an Illinois farmer, .John W. Gates, the American plunger, invented barbed wire, i'e tlico i twenty steers, and bet any cowboy Co that he could not drive them out again, and lie was right. The steers ran into the barbed wire once, but never aga'n. So to-day you can run a couple of strands of barbed wire round a prairie, put in a thousand steers, and they are a.s safe as rabbits in a hutch. •HOHENZOLLERN WILD CATTLE" We have »nt to put barbed wire round the German*. We have got to treat them in the only way they can he treated—by fear. As it is, we are treating theni silly-like. 1 often wonder why we have not got posters up appealing to them to mend their ways, or a letter from "Paterfamilias" in the "Kolnische Zoitung" telling then thew must not throw bombs on London or they will be doing some damage! You can't use soft-wove fences for Holienzillorne wild Battle: you have got to use barbed wire. If you wain to stop their .submarine piracy, again, you have not got to send then) Notes, or "hum and ha" on the wickedness of their proceedings, but sink a few of their boats by the same means :'„ we are doing in the I'a't c.

Berlin is not like any other capital. Iliorc is not-- ng r,i histnru Kiiortst i.-i it, in tin' scn-c that there is in Paris. Before IS7O it was a third-rate provincial town. It has been built up on the money extorted from the iMonch in tiio I'Vau'co-I'iussian war. it has nothing to iMjn.il the grandeur of Lonvnin or Rlieiiiin heforo the Germans bombardeil tliem. Berlin is now like Chic»po. It r- a city of paltry grandeur, made of stucco, not stone, a tawdry c tv, a city of swank and bluff, reminding yoii of nothing so much a : of tl.; .rip'-M -el ; - -s " ■ i : cxlibni are held. It i.s the wickedest city in Kurope, where wick'dnos-; ,-pr.iwled all over it. And yet IU.:1 n is- the city whore if we arc to ■ t<>;> the Zoppclms IV. m coining to Kngland. we must drop

"BRITONS NOT PIH'SSIAX.S." Tlie Prus-si.'.n say* to himself, "If I drop bombs in I.hi lon they will he .<> terrified that they will v. i.sh for peace." He forgets that ; > the 7(K) opiate miles were nothing hut dust there would st II be Knghind. and that Knghind would not make peace. We arc not to lie lightened. We are British, not Prn.--suans. We are not a people that can he terrified, hut we do know that the (.. rma:: people arc It is th, ir mistj.ko to think that we can be torror-i-od; it is our mistake not to terrorise tliem. \\ hell bombs are dropped o.i ,„ir heads we only :0 1 that we want to ;: t on wth the war mure. Bombs :ire : latum clocks for Britons. I am not idvocaving- nor extenuating their use. I it in merely pointing oni Unit tliev wake m up. I'liey remind us the! there is a war on. a-.d nine da\ I 1;:.j,.> they will remind us that there is a way to stop them—which is, to bomb those f n Karer-centri s in Berlin. Th : s is a war where psychology me-t he taken Jntn acceount. When you want to know Imw to get even with a Prussian, von have hut to discover what maiil-s liim afraid, i-'ear is the whip that always hrings him to h s knees. When we dropped a few ho.ni - o!i Diis.-e'dorf, what a howl "I rage went up! How full of horror were the (JiTiimn iiew.-p.iners that had heen paisiug the humanity ef dropping the |, : ,nihs mi Li mlun. at the idea that we should ■•are lodiopa bomb on them ! Those lu'v.l, of rare showed that we had e ( ;t Imum: hut Dusseldorf :s no: Berlin. That is the sensitive spol el the Gorman Umpire. It is the isonml-ing-hoard—make a Prussian alraal m H.Tilin i ml the thing spreads like ;,:i hrVctimi \ man who rules hy tear ~,„.( him ..-If he susceptible In fear. I dare-av the KiHv-r is as lug a co«nrd as anv. when hit. Drop bomb,, upon Berlin and vou hit him. ______

AIR REPRISALS WOULD STOP ZEPPELINS. WHAT TO AIM AT. (By Herbert N. Casson, in the "Weekly Dispatch.")

THE CASK STATED. Don't let 1110 be misunderstood. I don't sny that by dropping bomlifi on Berlin you will end the war—far from it. What will end the war will he an overpowering weight of men and munitions on the Allies' .side. But I do say that if yon drop bombs on the ten nerve-centres of Prussianisiu I have indicated, you are more likely to stop the Zeppelins from bombing London than hy nothing. A policy of impassivity is useless whrn dealing wit'i a man of the type of the Prussian, who has been ruled by tear all his life;. ami let me add, made brutal by fear. You have got to .speak to him'in blown language. If he talks murder to you—the murder of innocent inhabitants —then you have j;ot to talk murder to him. It is un-English, but, I repeat, Martinis of Qucensberry rules are no good f«r a man who insists o:i hitting below the belt. Bombs on Berlin would not add to the Kaiser's popularity. A ruined Bev_ lin would be a nail in his coffin. Ho knows that. For this reason I fed that a policy of reprisals directed at Berlin would have an immediate effect. The Kaiser could not stand to see Berlin, the centre of all his influence and power, ruined. Rather tha.n that he would call off h ; s Zeppelins from London. Let us, at any rate, try the experiment. Let us see what bombing Berlin redly does produce. There is a way to reach Berlin, let me add. Look at the map, not only on the land hut on the water, and if you remember what is happening to-day. you will see that it is not beyond accomplishment.

A man went to look at throe house' tliat the bombardment of Scarborough liad wrecked. He looked at it for n long time in open-mouthed nstonishme»t. Then he gasped out; "By George! Destroying property!"' Ho was an Englishman, and couldn't understand it. His instinct was to tell the other fellow he was not playing the game in.4e.ul of returning one.

BERLIN'S SIGNIFICANCE. Reprisals...that is the language the Prussian understands. Ho doesn't euro a (ig for London, or Paris, or Brussels, it would not give him n single pang if ! all thive were destroyed. But he doi-t ! valu'j'Bcrlin. The way to hi* hhn. then, I ii to strike hard at what he value*. When you hit, Berlin you hit at the whole source of these atroeit'efi. It i* lure they are hatched and authorised, for hero is the centre of the Holienzol1. in inlluenco. Take away Berlin from the wild tjohc.flxollerii cattle, and their , power of mischief is gone. When they 1 ~te parts of Berlin in rir'ns the;, will bo afraid to dn any more to London. Once you get a Pru s an afraid you can do anything you like with h:rn. What would I smash in Berlin? Ten main features, J enumerate them in the order of their importance: (1) The in:.in palace, which the Kaiser uses as. h s business ofiice. (2) Kaiser's home in Potsdam, wit'si its lUft. iron fences and its heavy iron gates cast :n Chicago. ('.)) Tin historic Hohcnzollern pallaeos. San Sonci and the Old Palate, in': of relic- of Frederick the Great and dedicated to swank, w th the picture of the water-nymph he painted both if w!i if a 'egs v ere left. (i) 'I in Pi ii.--i.ui Reichstag, that mo'kery of a Parliament that -lands n reality as a symbol r.j i'i a <ian ab.solut on, producing no hr.is, creating no Cabinet'-, but simply obeying the will of the Holienzollern tyr; nt : a Parhiinetit n ercly intended to ronvu:ce neutral opiui-jn that Ocriiianv :.-: not without one. O ihe' Hohenrollern street, the Scgosa'ee, a monument of tawdry a'-t. des gmd by the Kaiser, ! nil d! ■ t.itu' ■- of his j:-ii - -tor-, a. stres t wherein every day an ■■ri:-i drops dev,:i dead fium Irighl. (C) The old in: liiini'Mt of l-'russi;*n mi! tari-m, Spandin, nre of the last remain ng fort re.- -<e of Berlin, \ ith its Julius f. ■■■.e: - , whe e the gold to make the ,-, ar with iv;i>, kept. t7) L'nter den Linden, the street of pride, walking down which the IVi, -ian i.vls himseli inve tha:» any othei time a sup; •-man. (In ■ einglc bom 1 ) dropped o!i ir might ( are th: K.r- r of his /.'ppeli:i habit. (>) T!:e Aeaduuv < .' War. uhore the I'i-u-sh.n stil; oilice.-.- arc cc."i - i :ie I :.:' i the 1 linden!.vgg and Ma •:•: e.'-c is turned .. ,t, th' I: 'ili. d of militarism. t'e i 'I he Wiliie'i.i-tras ■: the White hall (4 Berl'n, her.;!';* ■;■. tors cf b;:ri aucracy, v. !:cre Met lunanuki ep- the N'o: s horn An erica, and d ctates t >c re;:-- ~.,- f:>.- the <i:\ ing of t!:e l.uv. t.tui'i. and evp'ains ti.r -hock'ng i on l.rt of the Allies ii pursui:vr the h.irai'.e-- Miiv.; inc. i ;i!) i.Vlie Vue I'alla.e, th- pnhtirl reside;:! e of the Crown Prime, in the Ti. -e.aH.-n nhe.-e !■-• take* the loot he ha< collected from the various Fiv.i '; thaieaux. —ii 11 iMJium——r—■