BEATEN BY BUNGER.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1917, Page 5

BEATEN BY BUNGER.

GERMANY WILL SURRENDER EVERYTHING.. BUT ENGLAND WILL GET IT "IN THE NECK LATER. 1 ' An amazing document, containing the statement of a German personage only lower than the throne, is revealed through Lloyds News correspondent in Amsterdam. This personage, while confessing that, in his own words: "Germany is beaten down to deatli only by hunger! She has won where fighting is concerned!" vows that his country will be .avenged. England is the enemy whose navy has starved Germany—because the German fleet was not strong enough. But in three years' time, when the High Sea Fleet, so carefully conserved in this war, has grown far mightier, England will be invaded and destroyed.

"WE SHALL BEGIN AGAIN."

Here is the remarkable message: I am sending you an amazing document which lias just come into my possession. It is of such a character that I should never dream of communicating it to you. unless I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that Doth the Dutch gentleman and the German referred to therein occupy in their respective countries positions . that are only lower than the highest.

' The documents which follows, word for word, consists of a conversation between the Dutchman and the Herman. Just after the conversation ended the Dutch genlteman wrote out a full account of all the German said and handed it to a certain friend, with permission to show it to mo. I have every reason to believe that the text of the doenmenl will be widely printed here very shortly. I would again impress the fact that both principals in this matter occupy very high positions. The document runs as follows: "Yes," said the German, "we are beaten—beaten by hunger, but not by amis. Nobody in the world can say we are beaten by force of arms. We'have won where fighting is concerned. We are beaten down to death only by hunger. We starve.

"And England, England,! alone, has done this against us! Therefore we decree infinite hate and revenge to England. Our great and only mistake was our fleet. It was not large enough. But we swear that in three years it will be mightier than the English fleet ha* ever been or ever can be. We swear this. Never, never again will England have the nations under her wings as she has them nowl

"England will then stand nearly alone, and then 1

"We shall create a mighty combination—so strong- that we are sure to annihilate England. Our fleet will invade England. It is foj this 'work that we have so carefully preserved our fleet during this war.

In three years we shall begin again-* 'to strike at England, and this time we are certain to destroy her. At this very moment, when peace is on all lips, we remember England. After some show of hypocritical diplomatic resistance -we shall concede all that England demands. (All was strongly emphasised). "We will even sell and betray Turkey and give Constantinople to Russ)a. "We will sell and betray Austria and give Transylvania to Roumania.

"We will sell and betray Ferdinand of Bulgaria and leave him to stand alone against his enemies.

"France shall have Alsace and Lorraine back again. "We will give Belgium even up to fifty milliards as compensation. "We will even deliver up our Kaiser if they demand it.

"Then, then we shall have peace! "But on the day when peace is signed we shall begin to create our new fleet, and within three years we shall begin again.

"And then? Well, then we shall be a hundred times stronger than now." Fierce hatred could scarcely go further than this. And, remember, it is not the furious raving of an unofficial and ir»«w**Mi Q*rs>tsn.