Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-08
PEACE MOVEMENT
GERMAN MENACE
National Defense Society Head
Sees Danger to Fatherland
in Limited Armament.
DECLARES HATRED is
MOTIVE TO MANLINESS
New Turn in Krupp Affair Likely.
Free-Handed Days of Film Gen.
sorship at an End.
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BERLIN. May =. 1918
Even the pending "hilion mark bill"
appropriating 500 ana cnl for German
armaments. is not enough to satisfy Ger
man militarists. campaign for further
Increases in the German army 70 begin
as soon as the present legislation is out
Of the way. already IS sicnazed. and the
direction in which non-ofiiciaI pressure
on the government, 50 successful in the
case OF the pending measure. will be ap-
piled, already is indicated.
The proposed additions to Germany's
armed forces. great as they are, con-
Stitre only 1.-THE extreme minimum" of
what is necessary. in the opinion of the
National Defense Society. This society,
which has membership Of 5000. and
with allied organizations q further total
Of e0n.U0 members. went on record at
its annual meeting this week In favor of
the addition 10 tho empires force Of two
fun army corps. a further extension
of obligatory military service: the forma-
rion of cavalry divisions at present con-
templatcd only for times. and fur
Their drill periods for rcservists.
Attacks Berne Conference.
Gen. keim. president Of the society.
opened the sessions with a warlfke
speech. in which liz attacked the recent
Berne peace conference. and said:
Furthermore the peace movement is
dangerous for Germany. one hundred and
forty Protestant pastors have made
public a peace manifesto. and we ma
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must work energeticaily AGAINST these
manifestations. y people which ceases to
seek its highest aim i'll maniineSS Is ioSt
To be manly is to have the capacity 10
hate. Bismarck hated day and night. l
hate every man who threatens tho life of
the German people. Occurrences IKE
those of Lunevillc and Nancy must fill
the German folk with wrath. and this
wrath must grip also our young men,
Probing Krupp Affair.
The affair of krupp is likely to take a
new turn as the result of charges made
by Das Kleine journal Of Berlin. This
newspaper originally charged that DR..
Liebknecht. the socialist reichstag dep
uty. obtained his material for the attack
on krupps from Leader Erzberger of the
clericals, who In turn had 1t from August
Thy sSen. Germany's greatest iron mag
nate. and that Herr Thyssen was trying
to break the existing monopoly IN munl-
tons of war enjoyed ny the Krupps and
SUNNI DillinSer.
The newspaper asserted that Thyssen,
since 1910 had been delivering samples
Of armor plate to the marine department.
and had endeaVoTed to convince the adj
miralty that the existing contracts with
krupp and Stumm- Dillinger, the latter a
corporation in which French capital is
largely involved were dangerous to the
state. II was asserted also that the ma
rine department found the armor samples
so poor that il was about to refuse them.
when the center party came 10 the res
cue or Herr Thyssen, who is prominent
Catholic. By giving DIR. Lebknecht the
material for his charges.
Outcome of Secret Efforts. :
Herr Thyssen promptly denieds the ac-
cusations Of Das klene Journal. and that
paper has now returned TO the charge by
publishing photographs OF autograph let
tiers of Thyssen to various persons. prov
ing, according to the paper, that the
charges were true.
The paper declares in eff that the
ACCUSATIONS against krupp and Stumm-
Dillinger are the outcome of secret efforts
of the center party 10 secure for one of
its cO-religioniSts a portion of the bust
ness now held by those firms.
Das kleine Journal is careful to state
that it is in no way taking up cudgels for
full investigation. 1t IS mainly concerned
that the clericals' battle in behalf of
Thyssen shall not succeed.
Check on Movie Censorship.
The free-handed days of the Berlin po-
lice censor Of cinematograph films, whose
decisions against alleged Objectionable
pictures have caused wrath and disgust
to the movie managers and amusement
to the rest of Berlin. have come to an
end
\ number of vetoes by the police censor
on the ground that the production of the
film might incite 70 crime remain TO be
acted upon by the superior court. These
include the story of Slckly tenement
child taken 10 the country by kind farm
ers AID cared for until sne regains her
heal.E Th.. time comes 10 leave for the
city After bidding her benefactors good
bye. the child goes into nearby garden
and plucks some flowers as remem-
hrance Tie censor forbade the film on
the ground that II represented a crime
trespass and theft.
Curious Results From shearing.
Another film depicted an attack on A
farmer in his home nv robbers. who over
power him after struggle. rob the house
nanacle the farmer and bind him 10 the
railroad tracks. where he i rescued AZ
TIE last moment as a train Is bearing
down on him. The cenSor's shears elirni-
mated that portion Of tho film showing the
struggle. the robbery and the binding Of
the man 10 the tracks. As result. the
aStonishcd public secs the robbers enter
ing tac home and suddenly sees the farm
e.. gnauacled. lying before the onrushing
traIr.
In another film the victim smokes a
ort-ccd cigar and * robbed while in a
stupor ~ the public finally saw the
production, the victim and the villain
enter a house arm IN arm-a fash and
the finn goes on 70 show the former
awakening from dozc on the floor.
Ban Would Bar Greatest Plays.
Il i against the law in Germany 10
Appropriate articles found IN the street.
instead they must % turned over 10 the
lost ard found bureau Of tie police For