New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-14

80, widow, and they have injured q
hsy." t,. zu.,,n
"A A. Tuesday night Over these
'I,,vements, 20 which should be added
- xreeking Of a few houses and the
lying Of 8 great many windows, all
",nv is in a delirium Of Joy. To
s.3oee this delirium Of Joy seems to
bcen one object of the raid. 1t
.n,r reminds one of Sheridan and
bis boy; ..u..
mine?" -,
~To be able to say had been down
syon could have said it without 60
:, Ike manner the Great General
s,.s 81 Germany could have said there
ia been q raid and that four t0r
e., ,eople had been killed and in
go They have become expert in
.,ounejnc imaginary victories. They
-, not less expert in eoncealing real
s,t.s,s This also is part Of the new
..,.,,s which astorish the world. They
-, nut a barbcd wire fence about
GERMANY. and the German people ap-
.,., 20 have literally no means what
.v., Of learning the truth about the
-, or about anything which their
90, masters do not think it good Tor
.,,m 70 know. No foreign newspapers
=, kilograms, or wireless messages, or
letters or anything else can pass the
horder. The German people are living
"A. in a fools paradise but in a FOOLS
inferno.
What must be the baseness Of nature
xhieh suppOses the English enemy can
:. frightened into surrender by air
Ids on defenceless towns and viii
l,s.s' Yet that, If we may trust Ger
man testimony about themselves, Is
what the Germans really believe. 1t is
- that belief that we are to find the
motive Of Zeppelin raids. Yarmouth
and Scarborough have taught them
rothing. Their present Norfolk raid
will teach them nothing. The policy Of
atriehtfulness" is a settled policy.
Failure after failure counts for moth
,rs The incapacity of the German
mind 70 understand any mind but its
ovn Is permanent. And this incapacity
is the result of that vast literature
50 called-of psychology which is the
boast Of the German nation. This is
Asir "Kultur." Never before have the
depths of ignorance been sounded to
the bottom.
We who are Of kin-some Of us
:. the English can understand their
,snper. | should almost say that their
unsperating slowness of mind IS a
uional virtue. II has handicapped
them heavily at the beginning Of every
great contest upon which they have
entered. and it has carried them
through triumphant 20 the end
They discuss this last effort Of Ger
many with a detachment Of mind no
neutral can equal. They say in sub
stance:
ayes, we know that Germany is pre-
pared to violate and does violate the &C
eepted laws and usages of war. But
that is a point on which We are content
with the judgment Of other nations; of
America above all. We leave it to them.
The voice of the American Press is the
voice OF the civilized world. What we
have TO consider is the question why
Germany thinks it worth while to make
war on civilians"
So they enter coolly upon a military
examination Of the causes which to the
German mind seem TO warrant these
adventures. do not think they accept
Admiral Mahan's view, expressed early
in the war, that the Germans would
have used their Zeppelins long ago II
they had thought them disable TO any
good or bad purpose. They have been
willing TO wait till they had accumu-
lated what they thought q sufficient
force. They sent no such force on this
Norfolk fight because it was nothing
more than reconnaissance. They
wanted to explore. They wanted TO see
for themselves where they might hope
TO be unopposed They gave London a
wide berth because the London prob
lem is one which they are not yet ready
10 tackle. The German staff tell tho
German people that the towns on which
hey dropped bombs are fortified towns.
They know they are not. They chose
hem for attack because they were not.
But for each occasion as it arises they
hay. lie pigeonnoied and ready for
use, When Grand Admiral Won Tirpit2
negins sinking, as he has threatened,
onasa merchantmen by submarine
Nfpedoes, crews and ships going to-
sS,her TO the bottom, he may be trusted
~H houree that the merchantmen were
armed.
=, Tie ZepPelins will come again and
teen again. IL is now thought quite
possible they may prefer 20 ravage IN
,,tnd towns. where no real defences can
q organised and no sufficient force
o. seroplsnes kept in readiness TO deal
wia these pirates Of the air. To deal
elows at the unresisting Is their plan:
make war on civilians and, IL the
civilians resist, 10 murder them for
resisting as they have done systemsti
Tally IN Belgium, in France, in Poland.
me women and children OF England
are 70 be slaughtered in order that the
oen may not enlist. In fiction this
would be thought incredible and alb
sard. But II is here believed TO be the
root and mainspriop Of Germsn war