Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-24
AMBASSADOR SAYS
BRITAIN HAS ERRED
Count Won Bernstorff SAYS
Japan Will Obtain Su-
premacy of Sea.
BY the Assoclated rre...

NEW YORK, Aug. 24-Count Won
Bernstorff, the German ambassador
10 the United States, returned to his
nost today on the steamer Noordam,
and gave out one of the most authori-
fative interviews yet expressed here
on Germany's attitude toward the
VAR. Germany was bound to win IN
The end, he said; she was fighting be-
cause her cause was just. He pre-
dieted that Americans would come to
regard the conflict in this light.
Italy. he believed, would not permit
herself to take sides against Ger
many
My wife is with the Red Cross ut
Munich" said the ambassador, land
my son is with the Emperor's guard.
All my secretaries have gone to the
front, and I regret that I was not
able to see active service myself.
From the Emperor to the lowest
unskilled workman in the F'atherland,
Germany is united to defend herself
against the frivolous and unwarrant-
ed attack of jealous powers. Tie
German people will fight to finish
and will be victorious in the end.
why Britain Cut Cable.
AT the outbreak of the war" he
continued, 1.-The English cut the cable
to this neutral country for the sole
purpose of preventing the truth from
coming here. There was no excuse
for that act except the desire to de-
oeive the people of the United States
as to the true conditions of the war.
But 1 believe Americans will prove
themselves fair enough to weigh care
fully all the news that comes from
English and French sources.
THE calling of the Japanese into
a European quarrel shows one thing
above all else. 1t is that England
does not feel very safe. The japanese
will doubtless take Kiau-Chau. Sheer
weight of numbers assures that. But
by the end of the war Japan will
have the supremacy of the Pacific-a
thing she has Striven for during
many years Japan took advantage
of the situation to strike this blow
for the sole purpose of acquiring this
supremacy.
Liege Attack a Great Feat.
: s"When the true story of the assault
on Liege is told, Americans will have
q far different opinion than that
gained from the colored accounts from
Belgium, French and English sources
As a matter of fact, the troops under
Won Emrnich, which went to the as
sault of this strongly fortified posi-
ton, numbered only between 5000
and 5000 infantry and cavalry. The
/, taking of Liege was one of the great
est military feats in modern times
What was expected to take weeks
was accomplished in days by two
brigades. Won Emmich was slightly
wounded in the leg during the at
tack, but did not relinquish com
mand."
The ambassador denied reports thai
the German crown prince had been
wounded by an assassin in Berlin
Moreover, he added, the crown prince
never had been wounded before Liege
for the simple reason that he was
not at Liege but in command of
troops at the fortress at Metz.
THE last great German victory
heard of before leaving Berlin was
one at Metz by the army under the
crown prince"
Thinks Russian Invasion Is On.
OF the reported Russian invasion
nj East Prussia Count Won Bern
storff said:
THE reports of the penetration by
a Russian force are probably true
That part of the German frontier is
not heavily fortified; but the Russians
will never cross the Vistula."
f1IIe CORPS Oh lue <AuSlIldH dttiiyi
each comprising 10000 men, are now
on the Russian frontier of Austria,
Count Won Bernstorff said. In Ger
many, besides the last line of reserv-
lists, 100000 men, upon whom the
government had no claim for military
service had volunteered and become
enrolled in an army of home defense.
Germany has been attacked and
therefore has no responsibility for
the war" Count Won Bernstorff said
"To the last man in the empire we
will defend our country. This wal
has no other object but the destruc-
ton of the German and the Austrian
empires, and we believe we will be
able to prove to all the world that
this cannot be accomplished.
THE German people are as one
man for the war. 1t is neither the
emperor's war nor a war of the Of
ficers, as many have charged. IT is
war of the German people. l am
old enough TO remember 1870, and the
enthusiasm that stirred our country
then. In this war the enthusiasm Is
ten times as great as 1t was then.
THE women and children and the
cid men have uncomplainingly gont
into the fields to gather the crops
glad to give what help they can tc
their country, and we nave wonder
full crops this year. Every man,
woman and child old enough to know
what war means has volunteered tC
do some service. As an illustration
there is a ulti-millionaire in Munich
who is today delivering mail from
door to door He volunteered to do q
postman's work because the postmer
had to go to war"