Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-29
English ACTION
IS STRONGLY
CONDEMNED
n. STEWART CHAMBERLAIN SAYS
WAR ON GERMANY is AN
OUTRAGE

Berlin. Sept. 29.-Houston Stewart !
Chamberlain, the well known English
author who married daughter of
Richard 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 ap-
peared in the 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 as
suming that it has been smitten with
blindess.
In answer to a correspondent, who
suggested that he write a protest
against Englands course and have it
published in England, he further
wrote THE moment for such pro
test has not yet arrived 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 protect
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 England's course by renounc-
ing all the honorary degrees, titles,
and other marks of distinction con-
ferred upon them by English univer-
sites, academies and other bodies of
English scholars. They have publish
ed a declaration on the subject, as
follows:
England has declared war upon us
under a hollow pretext which is least
of all justified in view of English his
tory, and the true character Of which
is laid bare by numerous documents.
Although England is related to us by
blood and race it has, out of a con-
temptible envy of Germany's economic
success, melted other peoples against
us for years; and, in particular, it has
allied itself with France and Russia
to crush us as a world power and to
endanger our cultural achievements.
ut was only because they were
able to reckon upon England's coop
Grafton that Russia, France, Belgium
and Japan threw down to us the
gauntlet of war England bears, fore
most of all, the moral responsibility
for this conflagration of the nations,
which will result in frightful suffer-
ing for millions of men and will de-
mand unheard of sacrifices of blood
4 and treasure. England's brutal ma
tional selfishness has. placed an in
delible blot upon it's name.
'We are well aware that very emil
nent English scholars, with whom
German men of science have for
years been in friendly and fruitful
relations, were opposed to this war,
so wantonly begun, and spoke against
it,
Nevertheless, those of us who
have received marks of distinction
from English universities, academies
and societies of scholars de renounce,
as matter Of national feeling, all
such honors and the rights attached
to them" S8@
c This declaration was published
T with some 30 signatures, and other
: signatures are coming in daily
I Among the signers are many men
/ with world wide regulations. They
!. include such medical men as Won Beh,
d ring Of Marburg, Paul Ehrlich OF
! Frankfort, Czerny of Heidelburg, Au
+ gust Bier of Berlin and Otto Won
Schlerning of the general staff of the
army; philosophers like Rudolf Euck.
en- of Jena and Wilhelm Wundt oi
n Liepsig; biologists like Haeckel oil
+ Jena and Weissmann of Freiblirg;
!. law professors like Paul Laba1id oil
4 Strasburg, Josef Kohler and Fran,
. Won Liszt of Berlin; the political
d economist Adolf Wagner of Berlin
! and JacoB Reisser, the specialist in
! the science of banking; the compose
If Humperdinck and the painters Vol
r Werner and Liebermann.