A GERMAN VIEWPOINT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 54, 30 October 1914, Page 4

A GERMAN VIEWPOINT.

Comments on the war which" are ap: pearing in the German Press make interesting reading. The Cologne Gazette recently had the following:—"Our Chancellor has said that necessity knows.no law, and was it not bitter necessity that compelled us to wage war ashiighi be requisite? What kind of humanity was it to arrange that 1 Russians, Frenchmen, and Englishmen should assail us and our ally together, that England should set the Japanese on us, and that eight States should declare war upon us? And was it humane that England should let loose this tricky shopkeepers' war by cutting us off from foreign countries, undermining the conditions of our existence, while holding back her fleet in cowardly fashion from battle, and making pri*»6 of our merchantman? Is this the way to show humanity and love'of mankind?''' Merely to wage

war against Germany, it will be noticed, is ill itself against the laws of humanity (comments the Westminster Gazette). Wo remember a story of what Bismarck is reported to have said when it ivas complained to him that his troops were firing on the French wounded, "1 know something a good deal worse than that," he replied.: "your troops are tiring on mine before they are wounded." It will come as a great surprise, by the way, to the British Fleet, to know that it is being held back in cowardly fashion from battle. Possibly, the Cologne Gazette has not heard of the affair in the Bight of Heligoland. There is| a Fleet, is is true, which is being "held: back;"'but it is not the British Fleet.