Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-01-06

sure oxertcd upon them in order to
provoke an act at once so unethical
and unbusinesslike. However, nei-
tner the British Government nor the
Macmillans can suppress the facts
Indefinitely. Truth, like murder,
win out. Here arc a few OF the un-
palatable proofs of DR.. Won Mach's
book summarized by his friend Ber-
nard Ridder.
T. The British Blue Book is in
complete and often at variance with
tie French yellow Book and Russian
Orange Book.
O. Sir Edward (now ViscounD
Grey suppressed dispatch from
Vienna Of July 10th, sent by the
British Ambassador, Sir NJ de Bun
sen, and containing an accurate fore
cast of Austria's proposed action
against Serbia. By comparing the
first and last dispatches Of the Brit
ish Blue Book. one sees how false
Slr Edward Grey's claim was that on
July goth he did not know what
Austria had in mind
3. The order to keep the British
feet modified was given two days
earlier than Sir Edward Grey had
4. Sir Edward Grey's promise of
support to France, as quoted by M.
Viviani in the French Chamber OF
Deputies, was different from the one
circulated in America through the
British Blue Book.
5. Sir Edward Grey found it en-
barrassing to give pacific advice" to
Russia.
G. France wanted Russia to be
more careful in her mobilization lest
SHE give Germany an excuse to pro
ceed to even partial mobilization, and
did this on the very day on which
she sent monstrous stories Of Ger
man mobilization to London.
Z. Even England had begun the
mobilization OF her land forces more
than a week before the outbreak Of
the war
g. Sir Edward Grey had suspend
Cd his conference proposal out OF de-
ference to Russia's wishes, and be-
fore that had been constantly alter
ins il to meet the wishes of France.
DR.. Won Mach's book convicts the
Allies out of their own mouths. 1t
was suppressed before the delivery
Of the Allied note because if it were
accessible to the general public, half
an hour spent over this volume
would completely refute the Allied
contention that Germany was the
agEressor.
The Ten Allies speak eloquently
of the lnnumerable "outrages" COM
mitted by the Germans and their
brothers-in-arms Not whisper re-
fers to Great Britain's annexation Of
Egypt and OF her closing Of the Sucz
Canal in violation OF all international
covenants. Not a word Is said of the
British looting Of German business
houses In English colonies Not a
sigh is wasted on the wholesale rape
and murder in l1ast Prussia and in
Galicia by The Russian Cossacks. No
tear Is shed for the Germans interned
IN British colonies and reduced to
peonage by merclcss taskmasters,
nor on tho deportation OF thousands
Of German families from East Prus-
sia, into tho interior Of Russia, long
before Germany, in order to save
Belgium from herself, compelled
Relgium loafers to work. If. in spite
OF these outrages Germany is willing
to grant peace to her defeated and
thwarted opponents, we can only adj
mire her generosity Such concepts
a. humanity" mouthed by British
politicians are the veriest cant. They
are realities TO such fine idealists as
Hollweg and William ii.
Z ~ the Allies imagine that Germany
/ offers peace because she and the
countries allied to her arc "one and
all severely tried by their Losses.
| worn out by economic pressure and
crushed by the supreme effort that
| has been imposed upon thcir in
/ habitants," they are sadly mistaken.
/ We know from "Germany's Economic
Power of Resistance" by Prof. Cas-
sci, a neutral observer, that Germany
cannot be crushed economically.
Prof. Cassels scientific predictions
are borne OFT by the private reports
| that reach MS from the countries OF
the Teutonic Alliance.
But Germany is unwilling to heap
I catacombs upon catacombs OF human
victims in order to insure forever
her domination Of Europe. If more
blood must dow, it shall not be upon
! her head Germany wants peace
I But she wants it at once. She does
not want 1t by the end Of February
! one wants u now on ICdSOHdDiC duN
! humane terms. or a year from nov
on whatever terms she may deem fl
t. impose. England, in spite of hei
| pIotestations to the contrary-w'
think the lady doth protest too mucl
has called an imperial conference
to meet not later than by the end O
Tie second month Of the new year L
consider tho problems OF peace. W.
doubt that Germany will be willinl
t. wait until that time We believ'
that before that date she will en-
bark upon a new phase Of submarine
warfare on titanic plan. She will
not break her pledges TO tho Unite'
states. She will not sink withou
warning ships regarded as merchant
mon under international law. /
should be remembered, however
that ships armed beyond certain
minimum requirements must DO con
sidcred as warships. If German.
could sink almost half million ton
OF merchant shipping in ono mont
while strictly adhcring to he
pledges, how many more will she b
able to sink when she formally de
clares a submarine blockade Of Grca