Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 288, 3 December 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

“LAW OF THE STRONGEST. ’ i'lMKa JtNH SVU.NKT Min dICKVIUJU. (Received 8.0 a.m.) . Loudon, December 2. The Times, in a leader, jays: The Yellow Book shows Germany throughout as the enemy of European pe.ice, determined to finish with France, to fasten a quarrel on Russia and to pur. sue her inordinate ambitions reckless of all but the law of the strongest.

THE YELLOW BOOK.

MORE REVELATIONS. Timm and Sydney Sun Serviom. London, December 1. The Yellow Book shows that the treaty of 1911, recognising France’s position in Morocco, created the deepest disappointment*in Germany, which imagined that France was a moribund nation, whose African heritage she must ennex. She was determined to have it out with France in April. M. Etienne (Minister of War), sent a German official secret report, which stated that neither the ridiculous rumors' for revenge of the French people, the English gnashing of teeth, nor the gestures of the Slavs will deter ns from extending Germanism through out the entire world. It only assists to sharpen the sword.

M. Paul Camhon (French Ambassador in London), wrote on May 19 1913, that at end of the Balkan Conference, von Moltke declared: “Wh®i war becomes necessary, it must be waged by ranging all the chances on our own side. Success alone justifies it. Germany must not give Russia time to mobilise, or he obliged to maintain in the east, forces which will leave her inferior in the west. She, therefore, must forestall our principal adversary immediately. There are nine chances out of ten that we are going to have a war, and must begin without waiting for the order so as to brutally crush all resistance.”

THE POSITION REVIEWED. | GERMANY IN A HURRY. United Press Association. London, December 2. Mr Maxwell, the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent, quotes the officers who are acting as intermediary in the Allied armies as saying that it is dangerous to imagine Germany has exhauster her reserves of fighters.though it is true that tremendous and irreparable gaps have been made in the best material, but Germany is always able to put new men in the field. The picked men of the new levies have been sent to the western area, as the Germans believe that victory must be won here, and not in the east. They are only just beginning to revise their opinion concerning the fighting quality of the Russians, and, incidentally, of the Austrians, who have so greviously disappointed them. There is no evidence that any effective body ,has been withdrawn from the west to reinforce an army in the east, and it is suspected that such reports are of German origin, being intended to deceive. They have already had a taste of the quality of the new men being raised in Britain, and are aware that the danger is increasing monthly, hence the frantic endeavours that are being made to render the Channel unsafe for the transport of troops, but there will be no interruption in supply of young soldiers proving themselves more than a match for the Kaiser’s finest and best trained men. That is one reason why he is in a hurry, and we are not. PRINCE OF WALES’ FUND. (Received 8.40 am.) London, December 2. The Prince of Wales Fund has reached four millions and one thousand.