The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-07-30
BY Lord Northcliffe

Leading now .pap~s Publisher Of Great
uritsin. controller Of th. Tunes. pub
fisher % the Daily Mail. Bs-nins News
and numerous other papers. Written
especially foe tho United Pres.
II Copyright. 1919, By the unit~d rress.
Copyright In or~.t uri,sin)
LONDON. July so.--Thepo are my
views OF the war from my own pure
~ individual standpoint:
First. | desire to give credit 20
tho Russians. who have been able.
like ourselves. 10 hold OF .he col
lossal German attacks aince The be
ginning OF the war.
Secondly. desire 10 say that
Frances efforts are not sufficiently
appreciated Ia America. and even 20
a less extent In Great Britain.
Owing 20 tho efforts OF sooiallstic
politicians aud peace monEeFn.
France was not prepared for the
sudden German onslaught
Best Army In World
she has pulled harself together IN
marvellous fashion. and her army la
today the best In the world.
Her losses. nohly borne. amount
TO nearly a million aud n half ia
killed. wounded aud n tsslng
or little bolgium's efforts | need
not speak 10 Americans The Valor
OF the small Belgium. army IA only
cquhled by ne magnificent scncrot.
ity OF the American people. who are
enabling the ueigiana p exist.
Italy. Serbia and :iny Montenegro
arc all entitled 10 high.at praise.
Regarding our own part IN
the war. u 10 little in.idious
for Enqiishmsn 20 speak. but
there has not been due rceoani.
ton In America Of IN, fac, that
our flee, has asep, the Ger.
mans from the seas and noids
billions Of dollars worth OF
German shipping In bondage.
Submarine attacks may IN.
crease. bot 90. may say, without
revealing secrets. will our
means Of eoun,ersetine them.
Our fleet has not been 20 badly
meddlcd with by politicians "a the
army. One OF our great Heamen.
Lord Fisher. resigned because OF
| political interference.
English. Scotch. Welsh. Irlsh. Ca.
madam. Australian. South African
and Indian soldiers and a large nun.
Der OF Americans who have Joined
our forces have exhibited. In the
face OF goth century killing MA.
chinery. bravery which equals any
previous examples OF courage In
history.
" anyone who reads these
lines remembers my previous
communications 20 the Amer.
lean press. he will know that
from, the outset I expressed tire
belief that the present uoheaVaI
would b. OF long duration. Nor
have ! ever altered my belief
that u Will have one ending
THE SMASHING or ORGAN.
tzED MILITARY TYRANNY,
WHICH SEEKS TO poMlN.
ATE TIE WORLD.
What Bismarck called n nation OF
= house servants. always obedlent to
: word OF command. has been pro.
vided with more Of tho invention of
American ingcnuity--ths aeron.
. plane and machine gun and tho like
II Is not possible. however. what.
! ever may be the Nuc;uatlng for.
tunes OF war. that nations composed
OF free men. individuals. shall be
ruled by such second.rate initiative
races as the Prussians. saxons and
Bayariana.
have always held that this
massed attempt OF second.rate PEG.
pile TO dominate tho world will faii
because Il ia unjust. believe
Europe's free races will undergo
greater tribulation at the hands OF
the organized servants than they
have yet endured. but the end is
just as certain as IL was in 1915
when, instead OF massed medlocrity.
the world was fighting Napoleons
individual genius.
ALLIES Can Finish Fiaht
Speculation as TO whether the
United states can or cannot fight.
and whether they will be bullied
Into II. do not bulk as larbe here as
american newspapers mako out.
We know We have tho sympathy Of
vast proportion of Americans.
We know the allies can finish the
fight by themselves.
Responsibility for entering the
bloodiest conflict In history is one
for America TO decide. Ny own
opinion Is that they have been well
led In this matter up to the present.
Trying TO Scare Us7
am unable to fathom the reasons
for the violent anti-American cam.
paign conducted by the official
newspapers OF Germany. II may be
the Germans are attempting TO
brighten Americans. Such cam.
paign was made against England a
year ago. II had no effect UPON
English public opinion, which. |
directly Belgium was attacked, raj. !
lied to the cause OF freedom. I do !
not think Germany's action. as eyi. !
denced by It's press hostility, will in. |
fluence American opinion.
| have no more TO say regarding |
the future OF the war than I have |
said previously. Tho war stands
much where II did. with this differ. /
ence. that whereas great many |
Germans have been killed. tho allies |
have not yet reached their full Il
strength In men.
We have not produced our Lin.
coin or Grant--excellent British
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