Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 40, 18 February 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

"DAY OF HUMILIATION"

GERMANY AND U.S.A.

AN AMERICAN WRITER TALKS. HOW- UNCLE SAM MIGHT BE USED. [By Electric Telegraph— l Copyright] United Press Association. (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, February 17. Mr Sidney Lowe, writing to the Daily Chronicle asks—Does Germany want war with the United States."' He argues that it would suit the German diplomats, who do not wish to be left alone on the Day of Humiliation. The United States would, ( he says, make a convenient shock-absorber, or, at least, might be used to obtain easier terms for the vanquished. “We may conjecture” he says “that Germany might not object to giving America a locus standi in future negotiations. From the Potsdam and Berlin standpoint, it may be desirable for the United States to come in as lin enemy rather than not at all. The Eernstorff-Dernberg crusade, which was started to gain American friendship, failed, but something might be done through American enmity. Even if America is incited to war with Gcr. many, the military and naval position cannot be worse than it is, and Germany would be able to save her face by saying that having waged victorious war upon the Allies, she only gave way when the tremendous weight of a great Republic was thrown into the scale. Furthermore, it would be to the interests of Germany to have the United States’ plenipotentiality when peace is discussed. From the Allies Germany knows she can have no hope of indulgence, but America, not having the same motives to harden her heart against Germany, would come to the conference in a detached frame of mind.” PRIESTS AS PRISONERS. ATROCIOUS TREATMENT FROM THE GERMANS. Times anu Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 17. Monsignor de Wachter, Bishop to Cardinal Mercier, preaching at Willesden, a suburb of London, said that priests who had returned from Germany informed him that while prison- j ers they were given the foulest and vilest work to do as prisoners. They were brought out with the English and French prisoners and placed against a wall, having been told they were to be shot, and they ‘stood for an hour before levelled rifles. A fortnight previously they had been told the announcment daily, so there was small reason fo.r wonder that many were driven insane.