Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-22
AN AMERICAN "RooSEvEIT.PRo.
FEssoR" ABOUT THE WAR. -.

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin. I'd
Dear Sir:--IrS the "Goetting Ca
zette," appearing at the old University
town of Goettingen. Germany, Thomas
&C. Hall New York;, Exchange-profes-
sor of the University of Berlin. voices
his opinion on the present war and /
shall be glad II you will kindly open
the columns Of your esteemed paper
to the following translation of Profes.
sor Halls article. e r -
Thanking you in anticipation and
inclosing my card. am, dear sir,
Yours faithfully, ]. NJ. 81
at is gross ignorance to declare
that Austria Hungary and Germany
|criminally kindled this terrible war
Both countries did NOT want the
war, but Russia's inhuman aristicraey
needed the war to delay the revolution
In their own country which sooner or
later had to come And Great Brit
aims blind counsellors wanted the war
to hold their offices, to suppress the
labor party and to satisfy the vile
Jealousy of contemplate, ignorant
class. J.. r. -. ii s.. .......-. III.
Instead of beginning a noble COM
petition In intellectual culture and &C.
compl ishments the so-ealled liberal
government have continued the de-
testable and narrow1minded policy Of
Edward VII and have tried-also with
certain success-to isolate Germany
through falsehsod and political prom
ises. &5s.
In vain and with a heavy heart
Kaiser Wilhelm and his advisers
hoped unto the very last England
might form lasting friendship and
restore the peace Of the world
Months ago the German. govern
ment knew of Great Britain's plans
to, strike together with France through
Belgium at the Rhenish coal region
(where the KrupD works are). 8
when writing this article the Ger
man army is storming that place in
Belgium Of which the German general
staff knew that Great Britain had
stored her ammunition there. .s.
The maintenance of Belgium's neu-
trality is only a hypocritical pretence.
The general staff knew as a fact that
France had modified her army before
the declaration OF war.
-But the kaiser still would mot be.
heye that Great Britain played false
game Germany was prepared to
spare France and Belgium on condi.
ticn that Great Britain remained neu-
trail. N ~ =
Englahds refusal to lend her ear
to this proposal Is exactly such a de.
testable crime as Lord Worth's war
against the American colonies, or the
Crimean war or the Boer war.
But this time the fruits of Eng.
lands crime will be much more fatal.
France deserves to be regretted She
has beensinyolved into a war for which
she has no enthusiasm. She will have
to pay, the bills and will fall to the
ground, bloody and knocked to pieces.
Every sign of national splintering
In Germany has been carried away by
the waves OF popular feeling. For
everybody looks at the war as a fight
fer the highest possessions Of great
united nation and every man cheer
fully offers his life to the common
father1and. No battle has been lost
so far and all the plans of the general
star have been executed according
to program
.Irresistibly the terrible Nemesis
advances TO finish once and forever
the mendacious plot, and Germany, we
trust, will take the lead Of Europe,
united, firm ana determined. I"