The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-22
YON MACH SAYS u. s.
HIDES ATROCITY TRUTH
EX-Harvard Professor Charges
Washington Has Evidence
Rcfuting Bryce.

IN an address at the Park Avenue
Methodist Church yesterday morning
Prof. Edmund Won Mach. formerly of
Harvard, charged hat the United States
State Department possessed
proving tha; the British Government was
utterly without authority for the
charges OF atrocities in Belgium. but that
II wilfully withheld the information and
permitted the publication of the Bryce
report.
Prof. Won Mach was in the German
army two years just before coming TO
this country IN 1891. lie was instructor
In fine arts at Harvard four yeaIs. has
lectured at Nassat ami Wellesley and is
now lecturer on the history OF art in
Bradford Academy. Cambridge, Mass
Al Carnegie Hall on March . last he
discussed the issues OF the war with
Cecil Chesterton, an Englishman.
In his address yesterday Prof, Won
Mach asserted that the people of Austria
enjoy greater freedom thar do .Ameri-
cans. The Kaiser, he said. was com
PEELED to strike back at Great Bruain
because the Entente nations were CON
tinua!ly urging Serbia to make trouble
for the Teutonic countries. lie charged
that the unly men in England ana
America who want Britain to win the
war are men who have prospered
through privilege. lie said that the
Americans are an imaginative people
and that English newspapers take ad-
vantage az that fact to invent trightfui
stories for American newspapers.
Back in 1913 the intrigues OF Serbia
caused Austria To protest almost to the
po.nt Of war" said Prof. Won Mach.
The Kaiser would not permit war then.
and 20 informed Austria. At the same
time the Kaiser informed the Entente
Powers that II they further instigated
" " 4 4, ,t-,,. anuinGt A,ltriA he
would be forced by treaty 10 join Austria
in war.
"llalf of ali the people in England are
moor. In Germany there are no poor.
There the population increases 200, O0O
a year, and yet so well are things man
aged that all have plenty to eat and 10
wear,
"Dur state Department failed In not
giving out the truth about the Belgian
atrocly charge, which II has still In its
nossesslon. The proof Is now In Wash
ington that the British Foreign once
possesses not an ounce OF authority for
The Bryce report and its so-called
atrocity charges In Belgium.
The British people are sluggiEh.
Much l. needed to arouse them, and so
frightfu, stories are related of German
war Methods These stories are wire"
10 America for American consumption.
Americans are imaginative, English
people take advantage of II. and by
This means bring American public opln-
ion to England's side. and against Ger
many and Austria. II Is all n case OF
position and control OF news sources.
Americans are deceived.
The English people say they want
10 destroy the krupp works as one
means TO end militarism. They would
have America think they mean tn
Krupp gun works, They do not so mean.
What they want to destroy Is the enor-
nous iron industry of Germany. to the
end that ships now built In Germany
will have to be built In England. as
formerly. 1t IL commercial and ndus-
trial rivalry that IL behind England's
enmity and hate
WAsHlNGroN, Nov. 2l.-Asked to-day
regarding the charges made by Prof.
Idmund Won Mach that the State De-
pertinent knowingly withheld informa-
ton tending to show hat the British
charges OF atrocities in Belgium were
without foundation, Secretary OF State
Lansing said he does not recall ever
having received any such information.
He added. however, that the Department
u moi in the habit OF making public
I'll ne Information II does receive