Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 93, 20 August 1915, Page 5

Germany

COUNTER-BLAST TO ANNEXAj

TION.

“SERIOUS POLITICAL E£RGf|:."

United Press /Association. •i (Received 11.35 a.in.) London, August 19

As a <[oimter-bla.st to the recent a uinexatibnist manifestos of_ eighty-t ( wo„ politicians j and intellectuals- michftring' Count Dernburg, Professors belhruck and Harnack and Prince Von Hatzfeldt petitioned Chancellor Von Beth; mann-Hollweg expressing’ the conviction that annexation was a serious political error, which would ( fatally Germany. The signatories .declare themselves upholders of the principle that the annexation of peoples politically autonomous or acc'us■tonied to autonomy is to lie/condemned. Germany'Voiilcl only Assimilate foreign elements slowly • Unci ihcom-| pletely. all id fcli'e'' 1 process would he destructive of German national homo-' genity. “Qhvioiisly.” States the manifesto. “territorities which eve shall have to evacuate must hot become a rampart fcWnemies. Such danger can he prevented without resorting to annexation.”

KAISER’S CONGRATULATIONS.

Amsterdam, August ID

The Kaiser telegraphed General Hindenhurg his congratulations on the fall of Kovno, expressing the Fatherland’s indebtedness to the incomparable bravery of its sons and his farseeing initiative. The Kaiser ' also thanked and decorated General Eichorn and General Litzinann.

ZEPPELIN ’HEROES" FETED.

Amsterdam, August,,l9

Tlie Zeppelin crews have ,hecu feted at Hamburg. They recount wonderful exploits in England.