Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-11
GERMAN TROOPS MUST BE IN PARIS
IN SIXTY DAYS, SAYS HERMAN METZ
Newark Manufacturer congre from Brooklyn Declares
Kaiser Will Lose War Unless French Capital Taken.
Was Told Abroad of the Coming Conflict

be the goat. The reason? There
wouldn't be any need to consider the
certainty of this war if it weren't for
France
That's what they told me two
years ago." continued Mr.. Metz.
Events have worked out exactly as
they were predicted then.
Germany has gone into this war
simply because she had to-because
there was nothing else she could do.
Anybody who says this matter has
been brewing just because of Servia
and Austria is a fool. He doesn't
know anything. He's just as much
of a fool as the man who thinks we
are getting the news of this war rigb
now.
I'VE don't know what's going on.
Most of the stuff we're reading is all
bunk. Most of the news our Ameri-
can newspapers are printing right
now comes direct from the American
bar of the Hotel Savoy in London. 1t
makes good stories, but 1t doesn't tell
what is going on at the front. It's
all on a par with the splurge they
made about Muelhaueen this morn
ing. / know Muelhausen It's a little
manufacturing town, with no fortif-
cations to speak of-realy no FORTH
cations, just little busy manufac-
turing town.
What's the use of talking about
the capture of such a place as this?
1t doesn't count any more than does
this talk about Germany making war
on Holland MY heavens. the Ger
mans aren't foolsi Get out your
map and see what peace with Hol-
land means to Germany right now.
You'll see that the Rhine gets out to
sea that way. Do you know what
is the significance of that? Why. it's
just this: Practically all the boats
on the lower Rhine are Dutch bot
toms-there's only one German line.
And all that part of the Rhine, up
to Mainz, is the manufacturing sec
ton. 1t means that the Dutch river
boats are going to take out the Ger
man products that aren't contra
band.
What fools the Germans would
be to declare war on the Dutch!
They've been letting those Holland
ers catch that trade for years with
just this present situation in mind
and that is the only hope | see for
the hundreds of American factories
that are absolutely dependent on
German products That is the only
way in which we're going to get
anything from Germany for months.
Mr.. Metz asserted that unless the
Rhine was kept open for the trans
portation of the factory products of
Germany, notably for the shipping of
the dye chemicals in which his firm
is one of the big dealers, it would
work almost incalculable injury to
the American textile industry.
The materials they need for dyes
can be procured from no other coun-
try in the world, and, according to
Ctrf1cr ic
pect of getting them for months, and
perhaps a year, unless the shipments
can be made from Holland.
Does Not Want Holland.
Germany doesn't want Holland,
anyway he asserted. She does
want Belgium or at least a part of
Belgium. There are only two races
in Holland, the French and the
Flemish. The latter are in the north,
and that's what Germany intends 10
seize if she is victorious-she'll take
the country around Antwerp, and
that will give her the seaport that
she needs.
But Germany hasn't any real idea,
| am sure, except to humble France
in this war My sympathies aren't
with anyone. / haven't any thoughts
about the justice or the injustice Of
the war But | do say that this
whole proposition is FTanco-Germdn
All the other questions are side is
sues to this-and it was forced upon
Germany.
Germany couldn't get out of it,
tell you. 1t is a fight for the very
existence of the empire
But the German states are not
all united in the war is was sug-
gested.
"Poppycock! All bosh!'' cut in the
congressman "All Germany is in
this thing to the death Why, man,
it means their very lifel They
couldn't do anything else, and they've
got to fight to the last ditch. But
1t has all got to be over soon. or
Germany is bound to be the loser, l
am afraid"
1T is asserted that Bavaria may
cut loose from the empire. Congress-
man, because of the war;
"Rats!" said Mr.. Metz, and the
one word disposed of all argument.