BERNHARDT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 174, 27 March 1915, Page 2

BERNHARDT.

tt. —- AN ARTICLE FOR THE AMERICANS. GERMAN VIEW OF THE ENGLISH. Leu (ion Times—Sydney Sun Services. (Reed. S a.m.) LONDON. March 24. The Tiir.-os publishes an article written by B-.rnhardi for Lie New York Run. Discussing England's entry into lfc.3 war, en th'o pretext of the violation of Belgium, Bernhardi said England cJmp-ly considered Belgium a vassal State serving- as a bulwark' to England's position in the Channel. Nominally neutral, Belgium was submitting to the Allies' plan to march into Belgium and oppose the German lljht wing with the. French masses, the. Belgians, and 15,000 English. Belgium had united herself with our worst enemies, undoubtedly under pressure from England, who was in every way responsible for th.> world war. She had kept Ireland in bondz&i icr flenturie-s, had supported France in binding frc e Morocco, had enslaved India and Egypt ,and now seeks conjunction with Russia to subjugate weak Persia; yet this State claims that German victory will mean the subluxation of the world. Every discerning and 'unpi'ejud'iccl person would recognise the hypocritical mask Ljhirid which England hides, regardless of policy, power, and interest. Exactly opposite is the case.

German victory \w--uiu mean the liberation of the world from the English yoke. The commercial rights ot the world are being controlled by blockade by British cannon. English naval ism hangs like the sword of Damocles, suspended above all peoples posscssiifr it ('C'lhiiiiv?, and lr<°«usoceanic colonies susceptible to attack. England is now ruthlessly ridiculing Ilia iuternatoiiuil law, violating public opinion, and tpteadin/g false information through her cable monopoly. America is not free from this violation, the entire telegraphic communication with Europe being subject to British censorship; and all Router despatches are coloured, in keeping with the British policy. Germany is compelled to fight, not only for hsr own freedom, but to striligle for the liberty ci the old world troni the English yoke, in the event of victory fo r the Tripla Entente England's chains would fetterall free movement in Europe, hei rulership of the sea would become mora oppressive, her monopoly ol trade would be used to a sharper extent to concentrate the world's treasures upon the British money market. France and Russia would then realise that they had fought England's attles, not their own.