WHAT GERMANY DESIRES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 32, 9 February 1915, Page 4

WHAT GERMANY DESIRES.

Earl Grey, speaking at the Colonial Institute the other day, said:—“When crossing the Atlantic on a German vessel two months before the declaration of war, I asked a German the truth as to the attitude of that nation towards England. The reply was: ‘There is at the bottom of every German heart the desire to take from you the Em jure that you arc not strong enough to hold. For two hundred years we German people have been hungry, and we have only comparatively recently enjoyed the sensation of a full stomach. Wo are hungry again, and it is you who are preventing our natural appetite from be-' ing satisfied. Whenever there is a piece of the earth’s surface to be divided, Russia, France, and you get a hit, but we, with the finest army in the world, and the second finest fleet, get nothing. Can you wonder, that we have a feeling of envy and) antagonism towards you? In the opinion of the German people you are rotten through and through, sunk in 1 sordid sloth and sensuality. Your only idea of liberty is liberty not to serve the State. But we Germans are ‘guerriers,’ and we mean to take from you at the first opportunity the Empire that is ours by right.’ Their idea of the British nation may have changed by now.” I