GERMANY AS ASSASSIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1915, Page 4

GERMANY AS ASSASSIN.

Reviewing; the Ilunnish atrocities-the torture ol civ, Many and the asphyxiat.ng gases Lord Derby lately declarOd that only one weapon was still left to Germany-private assassination. Today (says an exchange) that remark cannot truthfully be repeated, for the Germans have made good their omis"I"? . havc i»™le»tally completed v 'Hainous repertoire, by the outrage ,» America. Of course, Count Count Bernstorfi' and his masters in Berlin will disavow official complicity ' he shootin ff of Mr. Morgan, but un-' fortunately for them it has been abundantly proved that America swarms with ruffian agents who are under the direct control and in the confidence „f the German Government. Consider, for instance, the case of the Lusitania. Ber1m s murder gang i„ America proclaim, ea, and also advertised, her fate in the widest and most uncompromising mann.r. Even in the case of a comparatively obscure cargo steamer, the Welbury, somebody appears to have known, tor the deatTi-blow to the ship wis foretold in writing in the hold. It will be even more difficult for official Germany to disavow knowledge of such crimes, including this attempted assassination and the gunpowder plot against the Senate, than to repudiate the. war provoking publications of Bcrnhardi— ' as the less impetuous (.'erman.s h,v e lately been inclined to do. The Unit- ' ed Stales rushed into war with Spain ) to the battle-cry of •'•Hcm-iuber the I Maine." What, , a dynamite outrage directed against Uw !. (apitol it soli, wrecking/tho Senate | wing, and evidently intended to be an ]■ intimidation ol |[ l( . whole nation? If j ll fheie is no evidence to conned officii; I I '• Germany with this explosion, it was ut P least the work „f „ (Jermaii. Xo more. | »

sini.-tnr iiltiniiitiini was rvov <:mm>v."T f<> a s..|f.,vsp l . l .ti 11K ~,,,,!,,, tym (.'■•niianv .| (i ,s niacin <l,r Wl „id :J <•<;n; 1 1 ;1 f<'l wilh Ikm- wkvs of WHi-riiifr ,i!ul jnr i-(»ri.--.iii;v it ii aK to hl , 11( | miU(1(I thnt tli<" wlmlc „f tl„. methods adopted, both ill. \\'a,-,]iiiij;[on and at Lou- Island, wear a r, markaMo (.VrniamV <, 0 ,„: pli'MiHi-ihaf "ruddy Idonde" uliicli (!, ( . Kaiser's sycophantic writers professed t<> detect, on the cheeks of Michael An-

gclo, but, which really finds its higiict expression in the Ihinics of l.onvaiu. Incidentally, it is typical of peace-loving ii, :l l, whe„ Mor-

gan's butler was confronted with a

German assassin carrying a revolver, he had no better weapon of defence than a coalscuttle. The butler appears to have used the coal-scuttle Well, and to have arrested the criminal, but it is clear Unit in a Hundnt'ested world some*lnns more potent is required thin coal-scuttles. Hence the present some.

V.'hat. disorderly scramble in liritain to nuke, puns and their requisites. An unprepared Anglo-Saxon world will still lave to put its best arm foremost in crdrr in overcome an enemy by whom io weapon a;:d no dastardly trick lias been overlooked.