TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-01-26

according d the Endish point II ysw-be celebrated a. a giorus deed Of
arnag Ia that something diacrentg
Belgium did not need 10 suffer- In Luxembourg moi a Hparrows feather
was ruled. When the utmost necessity Of defense left Germany no other
way than to march through Belgium, this latter country wna formally offered
safety and payment Of all aecrung damage In the passage Of the troops
Belgium declined. When Lege fell on August 9Th this offer was renewed
Bdgums honor in the face Of her allies France and England and OF the
whole world would have been intact after the remarkable bravo defense OF
uege. Germany was ready to meet her halfway Ia any proposal But
Belgium wished 10 side with England and France she was bound 70 these
countries long before in spite Of her paper nenuahw mere was no hsp
Of her. But why, as long as our troops ae sc lively sandeIea IN ~ WORE
why did not Brussels suffer in any way, shape or form Why not Ghentf
Why is there complete order in Liege today i the same army in one
place humane and In another gronndhssy cruel7 But certainly, the English
fairytalc, that England went TO war for the sake Of Belgian neutrality
In It's reading for little children about German atrocities in Belgium,
may serve to create sentiment For the threefold attack upon Germany the
sad wall for Belgium must furnish the cloak Of virtue which the Triple
Entente actually needs 80 urgently
i was born una raised in Germany. But my English mother taught me
In my childhood what the word "fdr' means. Americans, ask your common
sense wieh side acted "fair7. That side, that must cut cables In order to
be able undisturbed to deny before the world the authorship Of the most
loatbsorne var hat yer was started for commercial reasons and to shift
this boodstained authorship-oh, derisionl-oyer to the Intended Wctm'
50 as to add calumny to this threefold attack?
Or, that side where a peaeeloyng people was forced to desperate
struggle, where a nation rises as on man to defend the fruits Of forty years
Of cultural work?
and Germany had really been caught like a mouse in a trap no Frenchman,
no Russian, no Brton would have shed one tear for the lost cultural values
The attack, prepared years before, failed Germany rose in flaming indg-
nation. Germany defended herself Germany dealt blows toward the east
and the west which no one could have expected from a country fighting
deliberately endeavoured for years to shut in Germany call upon civilization
Now of a sudden they think of cultural values that are being destroyed by
a war so cimnaly brought about Can the cry Of the disappointed really
deceive a sober and cearthndng mnndE As myself, ike o many Of
you, have German and English blood in my veins, / cannot rate you % low
as to believe that.
We Germans call for the pity Of no one. We will defend ourselves or
die. But just as our troops demand honest warfare instead Of franctreur-
war from ambush, from the dark of night, just S we al a people demand
We protest against this insdious play Of England and against a comedy
such as the world has never seen greater nor more disgraeeful since
humanity knows the term culture.
The blood that is being shed in this terrible war cries to heaven
Civilization covers her face. - But Clio stands silent and severe and her
pencil records in the eternal aceount-book Of history one single name the
name of the guilty nation; ENGLAND!
Mrs. L. Niessen-Ddters, Bonn Germany
September 18th, 1914.