Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-06
EDITOR
German Guns Killing Germans

Previous t" the day when the alien enemy and
the enemy sHMpathizcr were SURPRISED to keep their
mouths shut. d great deal Of talk devoted 10
the American crime of furnishing ammunition for
the destruction Of German soldiers.
Most everyone now recognizes this as part of the
Prussan propaganda for stirring up hatred against
the American people who think more Of their homes
and their liberty than they do of Prussan over
lord. But the idea gated strength and had force
simply through the power of repetition.
How utterly false is this contention has been
pointed out from time to time. The eagerneSS Of
Germany to supply the MexicanS with ammunition
to, kill Americans fair sample of the Prus-
sian kindly heart.
Another evidence of the studied DECEPTION prac-
tised by the mind moulders of the German govern
ment is given NJ Correspondent Carl w. Acker-
man of the New Y0rts>WOrd who represented his
paper at Berlin until forced out by the declaration
of war. Mr. Alderman since his return home has
been writing of many phases of German conditions.
OF whose guns killing the Germans he says:
Germany accused the American government of
false neutrality by permitting supplies to be shipped
to the Allies and supplied Russia and Rumania her
SELF
when travelled through Germany heard the
arguments of the government agents that the
United States unneutral, that President Will
son was belligeren in spirit if not in action. But
on two instances | saw evidence that the German
government did not practise what it preached by
It's antl-Amerlcan propaganda. After the German
invasion of Poland | was invited, together with 9th
er correspondents, to 60 to the front Wilma.
AT the former big fortress of KovnO the German Of
hcers 'lectured' us about American arms and am
munition, but the correspondents made the
rounds of the forts they found 1900 pieces of art
lery and 400 machine guns. With the exception of
few large Russian ship guns every piece of artil-
lery and every machine gun used in the defense of
kovno was manufactured in Germany
when Krupp sold these war supplies to Russia
the German government knew that they would be
used against German soldiers because there was no
other power which could attack Russia from this
direction except Germany. But it was never ex-
planned to the German people that their fathers,
brothers and relatives were being killed in Russia
by artillery made in Germany
"Last December I spent three weeks in Rumania
with the German armies. When crossed the Tran
sylvanian Alps from Hungary into Rumana found
tie only defense line in the Shurduc Pass was de-
Tended by armored turrets made in Magdeburg,
Germany. Again, when l returned to Hungary
through the famous Red Tower Pass saw piles of
heavy ammunition which the Rumanians had left
behind, and nearly every shell bore the German
trade mark. Some of them made as late as
1915
Certainly the German and Austrian govern
ments knew that all ammunition shipped into Ru-
mania would be used against the Central Powers
if Rumania ever declared war on the side of the
Allies. Some of this ammunition was used by the
Rumanans in their attempt to halt the German in
vasion, but the imperial German government did
not tell the German people the Teuonic soldiers
that ammunition made in Germany was being used
by the enemy to kill Germans 1t was always ex-
planned that the ammunition the Allies used was
made by America. This was one of the ways the
German government deceived the people,"
How the Prussian government may excuse this
furnishing of the munitions to murder it's own peo-
pie may be explained by the facts brought out in
an article written by one of the former American
consuls in Germany. He tells of his talks with
Prussian officers and officials who discussed the
certainty of winning over France through pure
force Of man power. They had definite number
of men who could be sacrificed. If their losses in
one war program were not so heavy as estimated,
it meant that they could throw more into the next
wastage of forlorn hope, expecting thereby to
wear down the French.
The whole Prussian scheme is one of criminal
blood lust and utterly useless human slaughter.
"God preserve U.S." cries a Hungarian naner