STIRRING UP WAR HATE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 923, 17 March 1930, Page 9

STIRRING UP WAR HATE

U-BOAT CAPTAIN WRITES ON LUSITANIA FEELING AGAINST ALLIES Ln?ed I*.A.—By ■ Telegraph Copyright ' LONDON, Saturday. Captain Gustave Luppe, a retired German naval captain, who is now I associated with the German cinema I industry, has succeeded in reawaken-i ing war memories in a good many ; quarters, by striking articles on the | U-boats in the “Daily Express.” Captain Luppe, who is undoubtedly \ a perfervid patriot, tells how a Ger- ; man submarine travelled to America in wartime. Tae commander, dressed in the naval uniform, went ashore ard : left his card with the port authori- ! I ties. When he returned, lie resumed his 1 working clothes. The submarine i reached ’Germany safely, after having covered well over 7,000 miles, without refuelling or reprovisioning. That, writes Captain Luppe, was a great I advertisement. It was intended as such. But the thing which has aroused the ire of legions of correspondents is bis opinion regarding the sinking of the Lusitania. Captain Luppe says he believes the sinking will remain for i centuries an historic event. He tells of the reception given to the com- ; mander of U-boat 20, Captain Schwieger, when he was back in Germany a j few days afterward. I “Shame!” said Admiral von Muller, chief of the Nqval Cabinet. “I have j nothing but contempt for you.” Yet i shortly afterward opinion changed, ! and he was decorated with the Order | of Merit, and became a national he ro. | Captain Luppe says he knows the heated feelings in England regarding the Lusitania, but there are heated feelings in Germany about acts of the Allies. “As a German Imperialist, I see no reason,” he says, “why the Lusitania should not have been torpedoed. She was a British armed cruiser, carryingammunition and naval men. In fact, she was a warship. Tf innocent people were sacrificed, one must simply deplore the fact that they were allowed to be on board.”