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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 285, 11 May 1915, Page 4

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ludicrous us his statements ai'e misloaJ- ' in». It is world power and not world dominion that Germany seeks, tlie object of Germany not 'being to attack the liberty of other States, hut to protect, her own liberty. Xaturaliy one would think that the question as to Belgium- would lie a difficult one to overcome.. \'>t so with Bcrnhardi. lie claims that Belgium had given up her neutrality long bpfore the German invasion began, but the only excuse for the contention is the flimsy repetition of the thread-worn gasthat Belgium had made arrangements with TCngland for the eventuality that it should become involved in a war with Oermany. He contends that Germany did not violate 'Belgium, though he admits that the invasion of that country was a necessity. That being so, nothing else mattered. One cannot help being struck by the fact that whatever matter is new in the article is not true. Here is an example: "German policy everywhere has tried in the most painstaking way to protect the rights of third parties." If that is correct, one wonlers what German persecution would he like. There is really only one point on which Bcrnhardi is decently honest, and that is when he mentions the real crux of German's action, which is referred to as "power or decline." The opinions expressed in the article vary so greatly from those in the book that there can be no question that the article was written to order for the behoof of the United States, while the book was' written for his own countrymen. Bcrnhardi has the audacity to explain that Germany has always been just, honorable, pacific and eminently fair to the weaker peoples. Rernhardi forgets that facts are stubborn barriers, and that the incidents of the war stamp his country with a far different brand than that which he uses so freely—a stamp that proclaims for all time that Germany lias outdone the most barbaric of nations in her conduct of the war, for she lias brought the deadly products of the laboratory to add to the fiendish horrors perpetrated by her soldiers.