BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 8 January 1912, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

SECTION OF THE GERMAN PRESS ' ' ANGLOPHOBILE. ‘ ■' ■ SERIOUS' .’ Berlin, January G. Tlie Pan-German Conservative press is conducting a violent electioneering crusade against Britain, alleging it was intended to attack the German fleet without declaration of war on July 24, August 19, and September 18, adding that the English peril is the watchword of the Government’s supporters. General * Liebert, iit the “Berlin Post,” 'urges the. seizure, of Portuguese Africa, and advocates the annihilation of the Socialist Party, thereby prevent! ng. the further hampering of Germany’s aspirations. , Many merchants and manufacturers for the first time are .entering into active politics, and have instituted a Hansa League for combating farmers’ xlliances, which hitherto • have ruled Imperial politics. The “Frankfurter Zeitung” and other Liberal newspapers demand a responsible .Parliament, however the elections result. The present controllers of Germany can, it says, snap their fingers at the results. • WHAT WAR WOULD MEAN. The leader of the German Socialists, in a recent speech, gave an outline of what war would mean to Germany. According to Herr Bebel, in the event of war, there would be a revolution in all social relationships. Millions of German workmen would be called away from their famil es, who would hate nothing to oat and to live upon. Hundreds of thousands of qmall manufacturers would be rendered bankrupt. Stocks and shares would fall, and thousands of families in comfortable circumstances would be reduced to beggars. The enormous export trade with the outside world would be interrupted; innumerable factories and industrial undertakings would stand still The import of foodstuffs would cease completely; prices would reach a height that would mean famine. The masses would cry for work and bread, and no one could find them work and bread outside the few industries interested in war.”