Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-26
TEUTON announcements
SHOW MARKED CONTRAST
One Year Ago There Was Not Single
Expression OF Sympathy for
Unhappy Belgium.
DIFFERENT TONE SEEN TODAY
London Thinks 1t Unfortunate for
Germany That World Cannot BE
Kept in Ignorance OF What Is
Transpiring in Berlin.

Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch !
LONDON, September est is very
interesting 10 compare official German
announcements of to-day with what the
German official press wrote year ago.
when one would in vain have looked
for a single expression of sympathy
with unhappy Belgium.
Americans will remember that in a
telegram to President Wilson the Kaiser
accused the Belgian population of the
German press announced that docu-
mcnts would be published proving that
Belgium had given up her neutrality
| for The benefit of England
To-day the Germans are playing a
very different tune. The Catholic
koelnischc olkszeitung has just pub
lished an article in which it tries to
dissipate the misunderstanding which
has arisen between Belgians and Ger
mans because of the Vaccinations Of
the Belgian press and the AnGlophile
policy of the late King Leopold"
WORLD IN IGNORANCE
OF BERLIN HAPPENINGS
Another article in the Dutch papcr
Tijd says that Germany no longer
thinks of furnishing Belgium" ON
the contrary. she will do everything
within her power to make up for the
harm which the necessities Of war uu-
fortunately forced her TO. Germany is
determined TO win the friendship 81.
Belgium and the admiration OF the
whole world by her magnanimitv. and
she can afford to be magnanimo,s now
as she has indeed always wished to be
because her armies have been victuri-
Gus everywhere. These are the scnti-
ments which. according to the Cologne
correspondent Of the Tijd. inspire the
whole German part of the center
Unfortunately for Germany. the world
cannot be kept in ignorance OF what is
gong on i'll Berlin and there one hears
nothing Of the soft melodies played TO
the ears of neutrals
Professor Hermann Schumacher. OF
the University OF Bonnis. is about 10
give a series of lectures in Berlin to
Germans exclusively on the object OF
the present war. a few copies of his
lectures have been sent out to certain
persons marked strictly confidential"
In his conference the professor begins
by stating that the possession of Bel
GUM is necessary to Germany. not only
as a protection against England. but
he adds. we need Belgium to protcct
German commerce and later on because
1t Will facilitate an attack upon Eng
land"
AS long as England remains an
island. says Professor Schumacher. eft
vii! be next TO impossible to attack her
by land bat she is vulnerable at sea
If We keep at Zcebruege. or further
west. at the entrance to the English
Channel powerful force OF sub
marines. destroyers and hydroplanes.
we shall be able to put pressure on
England"
GERMANY WOULD FORTIFY
POSITION AGAINST ENGLAND
The professor then explains how Bel
GUM is to be rendered docile and pli-
able: ITO safeguard ourselves and
smother Belgian cnmity against us we
must not only keep a strong military
force in Belgium. hut also Il very strong
police force. We must make Belgium
and Luxembourg join our customs union.
while ut the same time ESTABLISHING a
customs boundary to protect German
commerce and industries against Bel
Eian competition, and we must have
absolute control OF the entire Bclgian
railroad system.
with Brussels as a neutral territory.
similar to Washington i'm the United
States. the Flemish part of the Belgian
population may withdraw from the
Western Latin province and become
closely affiliated with the German race
before again slowly invading the east.
ern parts OF tho country. This is the
only way In which we may fortify our
positions against England"