Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-07-11

OF the Imperial Chancellor's remark
that Sir Edward had threatened war
over the Bosnian affair as q first
class lie." The wider reference is to
the crime and futility of going on
numbering the manhood Of Europe
and wasting its substance because
the Cbancellories concerned cannot
or Will not regain control of their
senses.
Which is precisely the point, so
exquisitively developed by Mr. Shaw
in The Times of yesterday, that has
focused the thought and wonderment
of the neutral, and perhaps of much
OF the belligerent, world these many
months.
Why go on with a carnage that is
wearing Europe to the very bone,
when, unless someone is lying, all
that can be hoped for in the end has
| been already won?
One by one the multitudinous,
lofty objects which the British Gov
ornment listed in the beginning to
veil from its own and neutral peoples
its real reason for warning upon Cor
many have been Topped Off, until, ap-
parently, judging by the latest out
| giyings OF responsible British states
men, nothing remains but desire to
crush "Prussianism" and to clear
Belgium and France Of the enemy.
After two years Of war, however,
"Prussianism, which is no more
than word coined by the moral
humbrgs" Of England to conceal
their jealousy Of q people determined
to protect itself at home and demand
the right Of peaceful expansion abb
road Is no nearer extinction than il
was when Great Britain first plotted
with France and Russia and Belgium
to destroy Germany; and it will not
be extinguishcd before tho last Ger
man has died fighting for the rights
OF his country. The time has come
when this fetch should be removed
from the recruiting posters of the
British War ONCE, and the British
Foreign Onice return to reason.
The second remaining objective Of
the British is even more simply dis
posed Of.
1--WE will not ground our arms or
sheathe our swords until the last
German is driven from the territory
Of our gallant allies" says tho rhe-
torical and somewhat bombastic Mr..
AsQulth to those who counsel peace
before all is lost
The German Chancellor, however,
long since pricked this bubble Of
spread-lionism by the statement that
Germany does not seek rod of for
eign soil. When England is pre-
pared, as she must be in the end, to
declare that she, too, is not out
on a hunt for territory Berlin and
London should be able to gather
about the baize in a discussion of
ways and means that is not con-
cluded before it is begun.
The only reason, in the light Of
the German Chancellor's declaration,
which Great Britain can possibly
have for wishing to drive the Ger
man armies from Belgium and
France is TO leave nothing in Ger
many's possession which might bo
held as hostage for the return to
Germany of those isolated colonies
which the Allies have seized in Africa
and the Pacific.
/ recall having read somewhere Il
statement by q member OF the Brit
ish Government to the effect that in
this war eve seek nothing for our
selves" Which, If it were anything
more than the customary hypocrati-
cal plea for favor in the eyes of the
WOIlUg WOulu ItlutI ~ NOIlPl Oiilp1
between Great Britain and Germany
possible without the loss Of another
man, gun or shilling.
Obviously, however, Great Britain
is not in this war for her health
She has come out OF few wars in the
past without another colony or coal
ing-station, and more frequently
with more than one. She has fooled
herself SO long that she apparently
is under the impression that she can
fool the world The British Govern
ment would stand higher, however,
in the estimation Of those other Gov
ornments that would like to admire
it's policies and principles if they
were given half a chance, If it would
come out candidly and say that it
does not give a "tinker's dam" for
either Belgium or France.
And what a price are the stricken
provinces Of these countries paying,
and to pay, for tho privilege of being
freed by British arms Of the Ger
mans, which stroke of Sir Edward
Grey's pen could accomplish with
out the spilling Of another drop Of
blood!
The Allies have started their long
promised drive in the West; and nine
days fighting on the Somme has won
them nothing and cost them dearly.
1t has cost France dearly too
Whole platoons Of gallant English
men have been wiped out by a single
German machine gun; but the argu-
ment is not with the destruction Of
British troops sent into the hell Of
German defensive fire. 1t is rather
with the effect which British "clear-
ing" methods are going to have upon
the country which Britain hopes to
clear.
The ground fought over in the
first days Of the great offensive"
has been likencd by an eyewitness
! to frozen sea, caught at the height
OF great storm. Waves Of earth,
thirty feet hign, had been thrown up
by the shells discharged In the pre-
paratory bombardmont of the Ger
man lines Whole villages had been
erased from the map. And where is
l.,ft