Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 59, 9 July 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

IMPERIAL UNITY.

A TRIBUTE TO CHAMBERLAIN. (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, July S. Mr Balfour unveiled a bust of the late Mr Joseph Chamberlain at Guildhall. In doing so he said lie was proud to have been a colleague oi the man whose services to the country had been so memorable. Mis example would be an inspiration in this crisis. Mr Chamberlain had been the greatest factor in building up the Imperial feeling among the Dominions, resulting as it had in the gallant contingents- from Australia, New Zealand. Canada and South Africa. The sequel to the war would bo the strengthening of the spiritual bonds uniting the most distant portions of the Emphi.

THE BRITISH WAR LOAN.

(Received 10.5 a.m.) London, July 8

The National Union of Railwaymen has applied for £106,000 of the war loan.

GERMANY'S REAL ENEMY.

"TRUTH ABOUT THE "HYMN OF HATE."

FILCHED FROM A TIRADE AGAINST PRUSSIA.

"It has been found," says the London "Morning Post," "that the famous ior infamous) 'Hymn of Hate' has been extracted from the waste-paper basket of George Herweg, the stubborn German revolutionary. who wrote the verses and addressed them to the Prussians in 1841. In the original, the concluding words are:—

We have only one common foe— Prussia! "This was made to read:— We have only one common foe England! "The plagiarist is Ernest Lissauer, who, by substituting England for Prussia, has created for himself a reputation second only to that of the Kaiser among German 'poets.' So it appears that not only are these Prussians bullies, women-slayers,' and de--I'amers of things sacred, but pirates, plagiarists, and thieves. There is no doubt whatever that German has but one common foe—Prussia."

George Henveg (1817-75) was a German poet, who was born at Stuttgart, and became famous through his political poems "Gedicllte Ernes Lebendigen" and "Xeue Gedicllte." Both books were confiscated by the German police. He fled to Switzerland and Paris, but on his return visited Jena, Leipzig, Dresden, and Berlin, a journey described as "a veritable triumphal progress." He was a leader of the South German rising of 1818, but after defeat escaped to Switzerland, ■