The Washington herald., 1916-01-02
Campaign In United States
Alone Has Cost $75,000,-
000-Teutons Hope to
Drag Roumania, Persia and
Sweden Into War and Win
Trade Supremacy When
Peace Is Signed.

to Hamadan was made necessary by the
advance of Russian troops on the capi-
tai, following a series Of extraordinary
outrages by German agents. Lord Grove,
government leader in the House of Lords,
told the astounded peers this week that
these outrages include the assassination
by what he termed a German riffraff''
of the Russian bank manager at Ispah-
an: the murder of the British vice-consul
at Shiraz; the assassination of two Brit
ish officers at Bushire; an attack upon
the British consul at Ispahan in which
his orderly was killed. and the kidnap-
ping, near Shiraz, OF the British consul
and several Englishmen, who are now
held captive in the desert.
Done in Lfberty's Name.
These proceedings, according to in
spired comment from Berlin, are intend
ed to ''liberate Persia" from the British
and the Russians. The real motive is
to force Persia into joining the Holy
War of the crescent against the cross
and to attain this aim the German
agents are telling the ignorant popula-
tons of Persia, Mesopatamia and Arabia
that the kaiser and all his people have
become disciples of the Prophet. And
the dragging Of Persia into the war, Of
no military Importance I'm itself, is part
"Skillful and interruptions propa-
ganda," Lord Crewe said. has been car
ried on also in Afghanistan, right up to
our frontier. and also in such parts of
Arabia as will admit those who are pre-
pared to pursue it." Afghanistan lies
between Persia and India obviously the
Germans intend-hrst dragging Persia in
to the war-to try to win over the Ameer
of Afghanistan, and so promote revolt
among the Mohammedans of India. Cur
rent talk in Germany about a German
Turk invasion of India with a great army
is absurd. for even II the Germans had
the men to spare an army could not
be transported across the roadless des-
ertS, but the Teutonic hope is to stir
up sedition and smuggle through arms
and officers to lead It.
Revolt in India Absurd.
It seems that the Germans, anxious to
impress neutral opinion, have circulated
reports in America and elsewhere that
revolts have already taken place In India,
cial assurances been given here that the
condition of India Is normal but an
Indian officer has just returned from
that part Of India, where trouble might
first be expected has assured me that
there has been no disturbance except
ing the usual sxirmtshing on the north
east frontier with tribes which do not
even know there is European war
going on.
Intimidation and bribery are the Teu-
tonic weapons in Persia; the Persian peo-
pie are regarded as of little account,
but what persuasion of the Dernburg
kind the Germans deign to employ en-
bodies the statement that the Kaiser is
a Mohammedan and that the war with
England and Russia is a Holy War or
Jehad; that the Germans will free Per-
sia from Russia and Britain. whose
troops for some years have occupied part
of the Shah's territory; and that the
war will involve no risks and little fight
ing. because the allies cannot spare
troops for a Persian campaign.
In Rumania there Is no intimidation
as yet Bribery and persuasion are