Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-13
CIVILIZED WORLD
HATEDB BY GERMANY
One Nation After Another Has
Fallen Under Nations
Great Anger.
ITALY CHIEF OBJECT NOW
One Member of General Staff
Foresees Mercilcss War of
determination.
ITALY CHIEF OBJECT NOW
BY FREDERICK WERNER.


living in an atmosphere Of hatred ever
since the day in September last year
when the kaisers legicns were sud-
denly stopped in their triumphal march
against Paris, and with every day this
hatred which Germans feel against the
entire civilized world increases in in
tensity.
successively. it has been directed
east and west. north and south. from
object but never abating. Strangely
enough. there has never been any
hatred here against France. nor even
against Belgium. though that small
country is undoubtedly responsible for
the dreadful position in which Ger
many undeniably finds herself at the
present moment. when she. as the
Kaiser said in Galicia last month, is
lighting the whole world practically
single handed.
AT first German hatred was directed
against Russia. which proved herself
far more dangerous enemy than any
body had supposed, but very soon Eng
land was made the target of this
hatred, which was then turned against
America to be ultimately focused upon
Italy, the mere mentioning OF which
power makes German see red at the
present moment.
In the days which preceded the tenn
porary resignation of the Salandra
Cabinet. | had talk with very
prominent member of the great gem
eral staff" who was on short visit
TO Berlin. Quite naturally. we could
not avoid the subject of Italys deci-
sion. then hanging in the balance
| asked the officer what he thought.
and I shall never forget the expression
of deadly hatred which came into his
face. He turned pale with fury, as he
said:
of course. we have long known that
Italy would turn against us. when she
had been bribed with billion dollars
Of English gold and thought that Aus
tria had been weakened enough to
make an attack upon her frontier safe,
but Germany will show Italy she has
made mistake, which will cost her
her national existence. 80
When we cross the frontier of-Italy
we shall pave our way TO Rome with
the ruins of Italian cities. towns and
villages. The cries of women and chill
dren shall be heard all over the coun-
eminent from all the defenseless peo-
pie its treachery ruined. II will be
the bloodiest war in human history
We have been accused Of brutality in
Belgium. but even the lies of our
enemies against us shall be surpa ssed
by what,we shall actually do in Italy
1T will not be war as we have car
ried on war aGains, Germany's other
enemies, but betrayed nations merci-
less war of determination against the
Judas among the great powers"
GERMANS ARE FEARFUL
OF FRENCH INVASION
y swedish journalist, returning home
via Berlin, after an extensive tour
through Alsace and Lorraine. tells me
that the German population there is in
state of great anxiety because a
French invasion is feared. Certain
districts near the French frontier have
already been evacuated by the Germa n
civilian population. At Zabern. for in
stance. not a single German family re-
mains. while hundreds have fed from
Mulhausen and Colmar.
The hospitals everywhere are filed
with German wounded while French
wounded. as far as possible. have been
because the local
nurses treated them with too much
kindness. regardless of the risk they
ran in doing SO.
Among the patients. my informa mt
tells me. were great many German
officers, who. without being actually
wounded. we're greatly in need of rest.
Cases OF nervous depression and acute
insanity are very prevalent among
German officers. who have been long
exposed to the fire of the French
"seventy-fives"
The German papers, after the first
battle near the Ma2urian Lakes. pub
lished long descriptions of how thous-
ands of Russian soldiers were drowned
in the lakes. Now comes a German
professor. DIR. Buch. and tells us that
these reports were entirely without
any foundation.
In a recent issue of the Schlesische
Zeitung the professor calls attention
to the fact that in the region of Tan
nesberg. where the battle was fought,
there are no lakes whatever.
The few ponds of the district are alb
solutely dry, except for few months
in the winter, and even then it would
be very difficult to drown in them un-
less you were very determined to COM
nit suicide. the depth of the water
never exceeding five feet.