Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-19
LETTER FROM LOUIS KRAFT.

I Former Councilman Louis Kraft
/ sends the following to a friend IN
i this city with the request chat it be
published in the Gazette: ;.
Kaiserslautern, in the 10th month
Of the war.
My dear friend:
About a month ago, l sent you the
Hong promised stamps and providing
the English pirates have not cap.
tured them on the high seas, sup
7 pose they are now in your possession,
Two checks sent to me from America
since January first never arrived ano
am satisfied they were stolen b!
the bloody English, but thank Goo
! the day of English supremacy al
sea, which England is exercising to
the detriment Of the United States
and Germany, will soon be over ano
the seas will be free for the world.
1t is incomprehensible to me that the
Government of the United States is
not willing to assist in this task ant
has not backbone enough to repei
English arrogance on the high seas.
From day to day, have become more
convinced of the success of the Ger
man arms in this fearful war, which
nobody in Germany desired. Evil
IDENTIFY it is not going to end as Sil
Edward Grey supposed it would. The
historical English game, to sow the
seeds of discord among the nations
of Europe and pocket all the profits
without sacrificing anything herself:
has not worked this time. England
never was the friend of any state:
hut always the bitter and persis-
tent enemy of any nation, that is in
position to compete with her in the
markets of the world. She is not
sacrificing much in this war and hop!
es to see Germany, France and Rus,
STA annihilated SO as to maintain her
supremacy at sea. At the beginning
of this war England was certain that
the central powers would be crushed
between the Russian steam roller
and the victorious French army and
that she would then play the peace
maker and pocket the profits by TAX
ing possession Of the entire German
navy. For the so-called German mill
tarism England never cared straw.
After twenty months of war, Eng
lands hopes and expectations have
all misca1ried; the campaigns Of the
Allies in Belgium, northern France,
Poland, Scrvia, Montenegro and or
the Dardanelles were miserable fail
ures and all their hopes are shatter-
ed. The German armies are victor
ious, wherever they appear on field
of battle, the German navy, is in.
tact, and the immense English navy
is lying idle in safe harbor, be-
cause it has not spunk enough to chal-
lenge the much smaller German navy
to a fight, The buster of an Eng
lish commander to drive the Ger
man rats out of their holes has ccas-
ed long ago. Germany and her allies
have every reason to be confident
and are by no means desperate, as
the Alexandria Gazette puts it, and
the chances of her enemies to recov-
er all the lost territory are very
small, indeed and even if they did,
Germany would not bel conquered
and the anti-bellum states would be
re-established. The reports of Eng
fish defeats on many battlefields have
finally reached all her colonies, the
lying English press Notwithstanding
and her prestige is shaken to its
roots, and the fear of her enormous
navy is disappearing from day to
day. Where is her fleet? Has she
ravaged The coast of Germany? Has
she conquered the Dardanelles and
Constantinople? The German sub
marine boats have paralyZed he'
fleet completely. England had far
more at stake than her statesmen
supposed at the beginning of this un-
provoked war, else they would never
have commenced it. Germany will GER
tainly survive this war, when was
forced upon her, and England will
have to step down from her FREEDOM
mating position among the nations.
because she never will be able to
conquer German "militarism." The
prediction of the English historian
John Ruskin, that England. would
perish because she had cast away all
of her ideals and because the slave
of making money at any price is
about to become true. have talked
enough about war now, and since !