Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-22
Won TIRPITz TALKS
/. Of EUROPEAN WAR
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German government are now located.
(Note-Since this interview most of
the general staff has returned to Ber-
Mn owing to the kaiser's illness.)
N A Marvellous Organizer.
n For once departing from his rigid
rule not to talk with newspaper men,
Admiral Won Tirpitz received me in
q private house. the home of a French
banker who fled before the German
advance, and on the door of which
was a cardboard sign Marine De
partment.'
Mentally and physically Won Tir-
pitz is a magnificent Teuton. He has
mind of steel-trap order, is a mar
Velous organizer and has more Bis
fnarckian force and iron in his nature
than any other German official | have
It. He plunged Immediately into
an analysis of the cause that led to
the war and traced the growth of sea
and world power developed by Eng
land until, as he put It, the domineer-
ing arrogance of the British, by which
England tried to crush the natural
growth and development Of the Ger
man empire. led to the present war.
"Britain's domination of the sea, "
he declared, was originally founded
on piracy while her power on land
was established by robbery in ali
parts of the world. England and
England alone Is responsible for this
war. Did Germany want anything?
Did Germany make any demands on
any one? Did Germany have any
quarrel with any one? No; she only
wanted TO be let alone TO continue
her peaceful growth and develop
ment."
"Eng'and's anti-Gernan policy
dates back as far as 1870, after our
victory over France" continued the
minister Always dictatorial and
donineering, she didn't want Ger.
many to expand commercially or to
take the place in the world to which
her power entitled her.
England is impartial. She will
cut the threat of anyone who gets in
her way England has no white
mans scruples. Her alliance with
japan shows that. She will form an
alliance with any one regardless of
race or color if she can profit there
bv Germany was developing too
fast. growing too strong and too
powerful. and was getting in Eng
lands way, so her throat had To be
cut-that's It in nutshell King
Edward laid p7aus for 1t years ago.
Fe had an ineXplic1ble a1tipathy To
Germany. He looked about and
seized upop the growing Panslavism
IN the east and the revanche idea in
the west.
EnRlsnd's Alliance.
England thereupon formed an al
lance with the yellow race in the
Orient. with Russian barbarians in
the East and in the West with
French. who were unable to shake
themselves loose from the obsession
of the Reva0che. Thus, located be-
tween Papsiavlsm on one side and
the Revanche on the other side, and
with England dominating the sea,
Germany was to be crushed and put
back into the place assigned TO her
by England. With these means Eng
land set out to destroy or crush Ger
many and all that Germany stands
Cor. and she has the audacity to pro-
f claim through the world that in
crushing Germany she and her allies,
Russian Tartars. Japanese, Hindus,
Senga Iese, TurcOs and all the rest
are fighting for the hottest and high
est ideals Of civilization.
THE impression has gone abroad
that German militarism helped bring
on the war.
+ eyes. that's England's cry" said
I fne admiral Our militarism is the
cause. but what about the navalism
! and marinism, which for years has
made claims to monopoly of au-
thority on the water? There is nc
militarism with us unless you call
universal service by that title, and
ssfhat is merely the defensive develop
lxnent which has resulted from Ger
many having been the trampline
ground of the European nations for
hundreds of years. In two hundred
years France has declared war OF
Germany thirty times. I say univer-
sal service makes for peace, not fol
war"
What are your exceIlency's views
as regards the Japanese probiem?"
asked.
'oThat is for you. That is what
7 You Americans will have to face and
's1e will be onlookers" On this Vor
rlrpitz Strengthened up, his finger
pointed straight at me as he SAID
quietly: zone thing | will say: Ger
many viii never abandon the white
race Japan VIII make China a vas
3al and viii rnilitariZe its millions
Then it will be for your country Il
saoolS out Admiral Togo once sale
-s}to a European: Next will come 4
European war; then will come 9
great war in which my race will b.
against yours
Praise for America
England's action in bringing in tbs
Won Tirpitz holds to b,
high treason to the white race. 1t Il
ify1nexplicable to him that Americans
Gan view with apparent indifference
Japanese activity in the Pacific anC
their apparent inability to forese,
grave possibilities arising in the neai
future, He spoke in a tone of deer
!. sadness. bordering on bitterness, a.
he dwelt upon the attitude Of Amer
lea toward the war The reported
anti-German sentiment in America
he said. could not be understood, ans