Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-04
BITTER AGAINST ENGLAND
Germans Even Renounoing Honors
Won at Britain's Schools.
WAR DECLARATION IS PRETExT
Kaissr's LEANED Men Publish the
Declaration that John Bull
Was Jealous of Relatives
Commercial Success.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Sept. 1O.-Houston Stewart
Chamberlain. the well known English
author, who married a daughter of Rich
ard Wagner, and who has lived many
years in Germany and Austria. is deeply
disappointed with England because Of its
declaration of war upon Germany In a
letter which has appeared in tho German
press he says he holds England chiefly
responsible for the terrible disaster that
has broken upon Europe" and he can
only explain the action of England by
assuming that it mas been smltten with
blindness.
In answer to q correspondent, who sug-
gested that he write protest against
Englands course and have 1t published
in England, he further wrote; THE mo-
ment for such a protest has not yet ar
rived The English must first bear the
consequences Of their disgusting course
in the form of heavy blows; after that
they can be reasoned with. May God pro-
tect the glorious cause of the Germans;
there is no other hope for the future
OF the human race"
German professors and men of science
have made a strong protest against Eng
lands course by renouncing all the honor
airy degrees, titles, and other marks of
distinction conferred upon them by Eng
lish universities, academies, and other
bodies of English scholars. They have
published declaration on the subject,
as follows:
EngIand's Pretcxt Hollow.
England has declared war upon us
under hollow pretext which is least of
all justified in view Of English history,
and the true character of which is laid
bare by numerous documents. Although
England is related to US by blood and
lace 1t has, out of contemplate envy
OF Germanyfs economic success melted
other peoples against us for years, and,
In particular. 1t has allied itself with
France and Russia to crush us as a world
power and to endanger our cultural
achievements.
1T was only because they were able
to reckon upon Englands cooperation
that Russia, France, Belgium and Japan
threw down to us the gauntlet of war.
England bears, foremost of all, the moral
responsibility for this conflagration of the
nations, which will result in frightful
suffering for millions of men and will
demand unheard of sacrifices of blood and
treasure. England's brutal national sell
flshness has placed an indeIble blot upon
its name.
I'VE are we'll aware that very eminent
English scholars, with whom German men
n frAndlV
and fruitful relations, were opposed to
this war, so wantonly begun. and spoke
against it.
RenOunce English HOnors.
Nevertheless, those Of us who have
received marks of distinction from Eng
lsh universities. academies. and societies
Of scholars do renoupce, as matter OF
national feeling, all such honors and the
rights attached to them"
This declaration was published with
some thirty signatures, and other sigma |
lures are coming in daily. Among the
slgners are many men with worldwide
regulations. They include such medical
men as Won Behring of Marburg, Paul
Ehrlich of Frankfort. Czerny Of Heldel- !
berg, August Bier OF Berlin and Otto
Won Schjerning of the general staff OF
the army; philosophers like Rudolf
Eucken of jena and Wilhelm Wundt of
Liepsig; biologists like Haeekel of Jena
and Weissmann of Freiburg; law pro-
fessors like Paul Laband of Strasburg, |
Josef Kohler and Franz Won Liszt OF
Berlin; the political economist Adolf |
Wagner of Berlin and Jacob Riesser, the |
specialist in the science of banking: the !
composer Humperdinek and the painters
Won Werner and Liebermann.