The chronicle=news. (Trinidad, Colo.) 1898-current, 1914-12-29
GERMAN BANKERS
SURE OF SUCCESS
Articles in London Times Misquote
Financiers-Optimism the Real
Feeling Throughout Country.

The London Times of November
publishes an article from copcn bag
en-. On the authority OF an anony-
nous neutral banker. the writer of
that article states that the opinion
of the captains of German finance
and industry as being that the mill
tary prospects of Germany must get
worse as the war goes on. The Times
of the same date in Il leading article
headed THE outlook in Germany.
specially enlarGcs on this fantasy
and paints most gloomy picture of
the economic future of Germany. Di-
rcctor-Gcneral Hcineken of the Nord-
dcutscher Lloyd and Herr Won Gwin-
ncr, head manager OF the Dcutsclc
Bank, are specially named by the
Times as being two of these "intcrna-
,tiGnal" Germans who know the
truth Both are intense patriots,
the Times continues, and long for
German victory quite as much as
any Prussian .Iunkcr and lingo. yet
I 1t dawns upon them more ai'i more
that Germany cannot possibly win
Mr.. Hcinekcns reply to ,nn Times
.
( the following passage:
, THE uttcranccs OF the Times are
so utterly foolish that they hardly
need be rcctifich. The Times, whose
worldly wisdom is occasionally OBJ
| jcctionablc, seems TO feel specially
qualified to scrutiniZe the hearts OF
other 1caplc. only wish the Times
. cd is n
reason for it, since the picture drawn
( by the Times is quite different from
] the reality. II is my firrn conviction
| that Germany has every reason to
feel optimistic. have never had any
doubts that in this war our economic
readiness would he quite equal to on
military preparations. and that Ger
many will be successful in ovcrcom-
ling and prostrating England, who is
I her worst enemy, because England i,
/ fighting from motives most ignoblc.'
| Herr Won Gwinncr answer the
! Times in these words:
/ THE distinguished citizen OF a
neutral country on whose secret
! communications the uttCranCrs %
J The Times are based, is unknown to
me, but | am far from holding tho
opinions which the Times attribute.
/ to me, nor am convinced by any
means that we cannot be victorious
| The Times evidently knows my mind
/ better than do myself. 1t would be
! idle to argue with the Times or thci'
anonymous informant Why, it
( not sclf-cy;Gcn: that editorial fancy
. Il L -
ment so as TO be palatablc to the
/ readers OF the Times
. We subJoin some of the Times ut
! terances. to which AIessrs. HcineEen
( and Won Gwinner have taken cXccp-
tion: THE Germans see ever more
clearly that they cannot win. And
how could they possibly win? y
military nation which has been
brought up to believe in the super
iority of numbers are opposed to
them Men like BALM and lIcinc-
ken, whose liners have been swept
off the sea.as ii by an all-destructiyc
Game: the textile uL<5nates of
WestphaIia and SaXony. whose looms
stand still if no more cotton is i'm
ported from America lords of tho
iron industry like kruDp, Thyssen
and SHINES: rulers OF the electric
industry like Rathenau and Sicmens-
Schuckert. who know what ii means
If no more raw material such as pc
troleum and copper can be imported.
merchant princes like Gwinncr and
Furstonberg. who understand what
German credit has to suffer when all
export ceases: all these men, though
they are fervent patriots. have not
the slightest confidence in the final
successful issue of the war. etc