The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

carry on this war as long as there is
still a Frenchman. Russian and Bel
awake some time from their deep
s1umber and find that they are really
doing nothing but the dirty work for
England and when this awakening
will come to these nations, they will
rise against her and will fight for
their own respective countries and
their very lives, like Germany is do
ing now and not until then will they
be fighting for a principle that is
worthy of any just cause.
For British Gold.
The last six months of the war have
plainly demonstrated to any fair
minded people that the countries
fighting with England are fighting for
their own destruction and for the sal
walton of England. Would any man
of good. true and loyal patriotism for
his country call that fighting for a
! principle? Such undetermined meth
DDS have filled the German people
with nothing but hate for these shop
keepers, as they are called here. Her
just punishment will come when the
nations fighting for her now will
awaken to their full realization of
fighting for a principle and not for
British gold. British gold may buy
the French, Belgians, Russians, Ser
VANS. Montenegrins, Japs, Portuguese,
Hindus and others that may be with
her now, but it does not buy the Ger
other nations that have come to the
full realizations of good and honest
principles of self-reliance and self
government.
Germany'S Fleet.
Regarding our fleet, will say that
it is ready and equipped for the de-
Tense of our fatherland. 1t is contin-
| ually on duty along our coast and is
! ready to ward off any attack that
might be made by any hostile fleet.
| This is the mission of our fleet and it
was not intended for anything else.
! And you will find that in defending
her own coast she will outc1aSS the
| enormous british naval power which is
| finding it very hard to defend her own
coast. Our naval supremacy lies in
defending the coast of our fatherland
and not in bullying the whole world.
You may have noticed that the British
navy is very careful about approach
ing the German coast and on the other
hand, you may have noticed that our
| fleet has already made a successful
| attack on the British coast and when
they did that, the people of England
| began to ask themselves, where is our
big navy that has held the supremacy
| for centuries? We admit that we
| have had losses on the open sea
| against superior strength and numbers
| and then the British successes were
| largely due to the cooperation Of
! other nations naval power. Consid-
ering our losses and successes of our
naval power as whole, we cannot
| help but be filled with pride at the
| career of our fleet in the Pacific as
we'll as in the Atlantic. The career of
| our small cruiser Emden will go down
| in history as the greatest feat ever &C
compished in naval affairs, and there
are numerous other successes which
our navy has accomplished which are
| known all over the world.
Heroes of Tsing-Tau.
Regarding the fall of Tsing-Tau, I
will say that the little army of four or
five thousand which was defending it
for months against a powerful army
| of Japs twenty times greater and
against the combined Pacific fleets of
| four nations, has won admiration for
themselves-th admiration of the
whole world, because they fought for
their homes and very lives, a princi-
pie which is worth fighting for.
Their patriotism and their loyalty
to the fatherland inspired them to
stand united against all these odds
and fight with the heroism of their
| forefathers. That they would be over
powered in the end was almost a GER
tainty, nevertheless. they won for
! themselves a distinction which the
German people will never forget.
Regarding our operations in
France, 1 have to inform you that
our troops won a great victory near
| scissors about the 18th to the 18th
of January. The losses of the French
for the last two weeks have been ap-
proximately $50 900 in killed, wound
| ed and prisoners. Bigger losses, how
ever, are credited to the Russians.
According to the latest figures, their
total losses up to date, in killed,
wounded and prisoners will run very
close to two millions. General Won
Hindenberg is the hero of the day and
is hailed by all as the greatest man
of Germany.
Germans Help Belgians.
In the countries of Belgium, north
ern France and Russian Poland,
where most of the fighting has been
going on, the people are in very desti-
| tute circumstances. Our troops are
doing all they can to bring relief to
the people of these countries, espe-
cially the women and children, with
whom they share their own rations
and still they brand US before the
world as German barbarians. Well at
any rate it makes no difference what
thew call u.s. We do what is right and
lust. People that are ignorant of the
facts might put faith in these accusa-
tions for while, but people that are
familiar with the true sentiment of
the German people VIII not pay any
attention to such malicious lies.
will now tell you a few things about
Germany itself and her conditions,
brought about by the war.
England, having realized that Ger
MANY can never be defeated by force
| of arms has to resort to starving her
out by cutting off all her imports.
Also in this she will find herself