Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 87, 15 July 1916, Page 5

Germany

♦MESSAGE TO AMERICA. FIERCENESS AND BITTERNEGO INCREASING. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Berlin, July 14. Dr. Maxosborn, of the Vossiche Zeitung, in a special cable to the New York Times, says that the fierceness and bitterness, is increasing, and has a counter-part only in the horrors of Verdun. This time England cannot he reproached for holding back men; they are driving forward in vast and continuous masses and ever fresh waves.

The French south of the Somme are attempting an almost continuous chain of drives, but the enemy found our infantry unshakeable. The Allies’ charges have still great power and tenacity.

EULOW’S CONFESSIONS. SITTING ON THE NEW ARRIVAL! STRIKING A BLOW AT ENGLAND Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, July 14., The Morning Post’s Berne correspondent states that a chapter in foreign politics covered by Prince von Billow’s book, Deutsche Polilike, is a frank confession that Germany adopted a policy of dissimulation towards England until the German fleet would he strong enough to justify, defiance. Bulow explains that Germany was a new arrival among the great Powers and was forcing herself into the circle of the old national family by her surprising excellence, but was regarded as an uninvited and objectionable intruder, nevertheless inspiring fear. “It was essential, while building up a navy to maintain Germany’s continental position, to avoid a collision with England. Our fleet had been built with one eye on English politics. My main efforts in the field of higher politics ilirected the fulfilment oi this task ” Prince von Bulow continues: “The Boer war seemed the last chance for striking a blow at England. That would have been applauded by the German people. The general situation, however, was not really unfavorable to England-. Furthermore, had Germany struck then, our relations with England would have been poisoned for a long time. Even if our intervention had caused her failure in South Africa, she would still have been able to nip in the bud our development of sea power. By 1914 we had grown so big that we could venture to go to war with England in high spirits.”