The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-11

AND THE WAR
German Paper Makes Fun OF the
Women Of England, Who Want
TO Vote and Also to Go
to War.
DOWN WITH ENGLAND
Professor al Heidelberg Say. That
London Must Be Destroyed
Before the War Is
Finished.
DOWN WITH ENGLAND
.lBy United Press staff Correspond

by. a United Press Staff Correspond
ent,]
BERLIN, via Amsterdam, Nov. B..
(By mail to New York. 1.-The par
ticipation in England's recruiting cam.
paign of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst
and her militant daughter, Christable,
has given the German news" factory
new item, and incidentally provides
the KokaIanzeiger$with a neat little
I bit of sacrasm at the expense OF
Lord Kitchener and the suffragettes.
Lord Kitchener, having met with
but little response among the English
men who he has called to the de-
,, Tense of the country, has taken truly
per. "He has turned to the women.
The suffragettes are mobilizing. Mrs,
Pankhurst, who has been placed In
command, is now very busy mastering
her forces. The British war Office is
convinced that the German soldiers
will fail against the mad women, as
the men of the island have failed.
this calling up of the Pankhurst army.
There will be few of our men who will
stand against them in the field. We
can only hope dissension in the ranks
of the ladies may avert this doom
from the kaiser's hosts. All honor,
however, to Lord Kitchener, for such
Ia magnificent idea" The popular
80 ~ ,,,;tI, x,,h;oI, tho Cory,, nc hoo,Iilod
British prisoners was that only 1000
Britishers had volunteered since the
beginning of the war;
That London must be destroyed in
the event of Germany's victory, is the
view of DR.. Lenard, professor of ply
sizes at Heidelberg, a violent pamphlet
from whose pen is quoted in the Ger
man papers just to hand. The pro-
fessor who writes on England and
Germany at the time OF the great
war;" says: "As regards the battle
fields which surround us on every side.
they must not--now that the sword
has been pressed into our hands with
50 much criminality and arrogance
become quiet until England, the chief
originator of all this. has been SO
Inundated as is only possible for us
to achieve. 1t is part OF the art of
war to inf1ict upon the enemy all
evils which he has set out to inf1ict
on us, including complete destruction.
Down, then, with all consideration
for England's so-called culture. The
central nest and supreme academy for
all hyprocosity in the world, which is
on the Thames, must be destroyed II
the work Is to be done thoroughly.
No report for the tombstones OF
Shakespeare, Newton and Faraday
The spirit of these great men has
passed into the souls Of the living
and more so in those countries which
England is trying to put down than in
England itself. Down with all this.
we must realize that there can be no
real peace with an highwayman until
he has collapsed or has been destroy
ed.
"Only an England thoroughly alter
ed, improved, bettered and then matur-
ed and ripened for pacific co-opera-
ton in every domain-only such an
England. or else one destroyed, will
permit the nations of the world to
proceed in peace in their advance
ment. Indeed the idea of honesty,
the supreme principle Of men, is run
ming the risk Of going down. It is be-
ing violated by modern England sys-
tematica1ly The struggle on which
we have entered is therefore some
thing more than even struggle for
the existence and honor of the father
land; it is a crusade for the asser-
ton of honesty on earth
Every shot fired by one Of the IA
nous AZ centimeter, (about IL fnches)
siege guns costs Germany SG,250, ac-
cording to wounded German artil-
leryman who has been sent home. The
guns fire at the rate Of one shot every
ten minutes. They are worked by
skilled engineers who have to take
up a position some distance away
before discharging the monsters by
electricity. Two of the howitzers go
to battery and they travel only on
rails which are laid by the soldiers
Every battery is accompanied by
smaller guns which act as range
finders.