The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-02
NOT ALL GERMANS
 HATE THE ENGLISH
This Has Become Apparent in Last Few Weeks
URGING AN ENTENTE
Influential Papers Point Out Bene- fits To Be Derived From Agree ment After War Ends-Con-
 dtions Normal in Turkey
By rREpERRICK WERNER

By FREDERRICK WERNER
 Berlin, May 29.-(Specal.) 1.-The ,lisous- sion of the question of peace in the Ger man press. which the government not only permitted, but to certain extent even encouraged on the condition that it be made sufficiently clear that Germany Is by no means signing for peace at any price. has brought to light the fact that the assiduously cultivated hatred of Eng land, which is the favorite slogan of the Prussian junkers, is by no means shared by the more intelligent and politically clearsighted part of the people.
 Judging from the articles which have appeared in various influential papers, it looks very much indeed as if an attempt is being made to familiarize the German people with the fact that some arrange ment with England may be advantageous to Germany after the war.
 Foremost among the papers that edi- torially have advocated this view from the very moment discussion or peace was permitted has been the Vorwaer;s, the principal mouthpiece of the German so- cialists and some of the articles have made very pronounced impression of being inspired by no less person than Chancellor von Bethmann-H -Hollweg, wlo from the very start has been opposed to the policy imposed upon the government: by the militarist leaders.
 Another influential paper, the West deutsche Arbeiter Zeitung (West Ger man Labor Times) also strongly con- demns the policy of hatred and reminds it's readers that the command to love, which is the fundamental law in Chris tendom," is not suspended even in war time and that all hate is un-Christan and inc va,be i'm ct such helpless persons as prisoners and exiles.
 Foolish to Teach Hate
 Tt is foolish and ridiculous,' the paper says, ito use formula of hatred like Gott strafe England in place of the usual daily greeting to teach it to children and to plant hatred in their young souls. The singing of the scuriilous hymn of hate in schools and at public meetings is neither fair nor honest nor strong fight ing
 In the Duetsche .Tageszeitung Count Re ventiow, the famous naval expert, writes: 'rhe words. we are going to win are no empty boast. no blind to hide the ab- sence of thought but the result of cool re- fection. When we have conquered and profited by our victory, we nav enter into an entente with England, but any oth-r issue of the war would forever ruin Ger many's future, no matter how beautiful the phrases chosen to conceal this fact.
 These questions are the gravest ana most important to the future of d nation, and it is of vital interest to us hat We learn to separate the really Important from the indifferent, the real from the apparent, and that we gather sufficient strength of character to choose and use the means necessary to reach the gram goal we are striving for"
 In the Berliner Tagebatt diplomat fraI tat to tyh wisely hides his name tells the German people that up till now Germany has won marked advantage over her enemies No English statesman today doubts the complete victory of Germany. English politicians are not like the fanatics of Paris and Petrograd, who still think they will be successful. The German will be victorious, but it remains to be seen if Germany will succeed in crushing her enemies definitely.
 "There is one astonishing thing-it is that today England is the only friend of Germany. Not because of any sympathy, 1ut through wisdom. England does not desire the complete annihilation of Ger many, as do the Russian and French governments. Perhaps England and Ger many, two great states of Germanic blood, will succeed later on in concluding an entente
 If German papers are read in England
 
 with the same refrain, "a British-German alliance after the war" must tickle Eng fish pride.
 ConstantinOple Calm
 While all reports published in French, English and Russian newspaper describe the condition in Constantnople as bor- 6ering on a revolution by the population, which has been driven mad with fear by the mbardment of the Dardanelles and Eosphorus and the landing of allied troops in Trace. a special travelling correspond ent of the Copenhagen Daily Politiken, who has just visited the Turkish capital, assures us that the people are perfectly calm and confident in the strength of the Notifications defending the two straits.
 Daily life in Constantinople, he writes, 'has not been affected by the war. Prices of food have risen very little, not nearly as much as in most neutral countries. Bread. for instance, is far cheaper In Constantinope than in Salonica. lmme- diately after the declaration of war the prices of sugar and petrol scared, prin- cipaly because of the enormous quan- titles required by the government, but they are now very little above normal.
 Turkey is short of only one commod- ity, coal, which has become very scarce since Russian warshps in the Black sea bar the way to the Herakle mines, near Zunguldagh. where Turkey obtained prac- tically her whole supply of the black diamonds. This lack of coal, while q serious matter for the Turkish navy, and manufacturers, is not at all felt by the masses of the people, whose fuel has always been wood and charcoal "The Frenchmen and Englishmen who did not get away from Constantinople before the war broke out. have not been interned but are permitted to move about freely outside the military zones and the French and English languages are heard everywhere. The former is the official Turkish language, which 1t was found inn possible to forbid, but English is forbid. den by ministerial decree, which, however permits the use of American A letter ad. dressed in English will be confisca ted, but if the envelope be marked American it will be forwarded"