New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-30
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR In to-day's Tribune Mr.. J. Early Wood,
IT,, and Mr. Charles A. Gehre tell Of Eng
lands sins in this war The first named
gentleman has discovered that your editorials
lean toward the Allies, while your other cor
respondent harps chiefly on the well-worn
string of Brtain's military acts in Dublin
during the Irish rebellion.
! feel sure that The Tribune. in common
with all the other reputable journals in Amer
lea. deplores hypocrtical neutrality which
stamps it's victims as being unable to decide
between modern civilization and medieval
harbarity. The individual who is neutral in
this war confesses his ignorance of German
ambition and the herculean efforts of the Al
lies to save the world from the thraldom of a
victorious Germany.
With regard to the Baralong incident, over
which your correspondents grow so eloquent,
it was just like the Germans to seek protection
from the very men whom they hs sought TO
kill with their usual ruthlessness. they
met with a hostile reception they had only
themselves to blame. At any rate, the COM
parison of this case with that of the Lusi-
tania is decidedly unfair, for the thirteen
Huns in the Baralong case wore the German
Uniform and were part of the Kaiser's fight
only civilians, and among them many women
and children.
For just comparison with this British
atrocitv CD il is better to revert to the case
OF the F-13. British submarine which went
aground on the Danish island of Saltholm and
was subsequently, attacked by German tor
pcdo boat, whose crew deliberately murdered
the helpless Britons "a they struggled to
reach the shore This, TO my mind, wipes out
the Baralong case.
Mr. Gehrie depores the shooting of Mr.
Skeffington. but to those who read his trea-
sonable drivel at the commencement of the
war the great wonder is that he was per
mitted to carry on his nefarous intrigues so
long. His execution was carried out without
the knowledge of the British authorities, and
the officer who ordered it is at the present
time confined in a lunatic asylum. Skettne-
ton. Connolly and the other Irish traitors
were indeed fortunate in dying before the
real Irishmen got back from the war to see
their perfidy.
In the case of Greece, which has also called
forth protests from your neutrals, 1t is safe
t. say that Britain and France did not pour
lecherous hordes into neutral land to delile
its women, destroy its monuments and MAIN
old men. as did the Germans in Belgium. The
then Prime Minister of Greece, Mr.. Venizeos.
the greatest Greek since Demosthenes.
Furthermore, Greece was obliged by treaty
to help Serbia, although this was conveniently
forgotten by Prussianized Constantine and
his intriguing consort. The Greeks do not
seem hard to coerce. As they owed their de-
liverance TO the Allies, so are they now wholly
in sympathy with the Entente.
Finally, as to "Britain's motive for the
crushing of Boer self-government and lib
erty," the Beers are enjoying more liberty to-
day than they ever had, and are quick TO per
ceive the benefits of British protection, a.
witness their past achievements in German
Southwest Africa and their present efforts in
German East Africa. They seem pretty
unanimous in their hatred of the Hun, who
sixteen years ago posed as their friend.
PETER RUDDIMAN.
Yonkers, y. Y. Sept. 26, 1916.