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

w NOSE gums are Killing the IeFlndns
Previous to the day when the alien enemy AM
the enemy sympathizer were supposed to keep thei
mouths shut great deal of talk was devoted t
the American crime of furnishing ammunition 70
the destruction of German soldiers.
Most everyone now recognizes this as part of tn
Prussian propaganda for stirring up hatred agains
the American people who think more of their home
and their liberty than they do of Prussian over
lord. But the idea gated strength and had fore
simply through the power of repetition.
How utterly false is this contention has bee
pointed out from time to time. The eagerness o
Germany to supply the Mexicans with ammunition
to kill Americans was 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 by Correspondent Carl W. Acker
man of the New York World, who represented hi
paper at Berlin until forced out by the declaration
of war. Mr.. Alderman since his return home ha
been writing of many phases of German conditions
OF whose guns are killing the Germans he says:
Germany accused the American government o
false neutrality by permitting supplies to be shppe
to the Allies and supplied Russia and Rumana her
SELF
"When I travelled through Germany l heard tn
arguments of the government agents that tn
United States was unneutral, that President Will
son was beligerent in spirit if not in action. Blu
on two instances l saw evidence that the German
government did not practise what it preached b,
its antiAmerican propaganda. After the German
invasion of Poland was invited, together with 9th
er correspondents, to 60 to the front near wilma
AT the former big fortress of Kovno the German OF
fcers lectured' about American arms and am
munition,' but as the correspondents made tn
rounds of the forts they found 1900 pieces of arti
lery and 400 machine guns. With the exception o
few large Russian ship guns every piece of artil
lery and every machine gun used in the defense o
koyno was manufactured in Germany.
when Krupp sold these war supplies to Russii
the German government knew that they would b.
used against German soldiers because there was NJ
other power which could attack Russia from thi
direction except Germany. But it was never ex
planned to the German people that their fathers
brothers and relatives were being killed in Russi
by artillery made in Germany =.
Last December spent three weeks in Rumani
with the German armies. When crossed the Tran
sylvanian Alps from Hungary into Rumania foun,
tie only defense line in the Shurduc Pass was de
fended by armored turrets made in Magdeburg
Germany. Again, when 1 returned to Hungar.
through the famous Red Tower Pass, saw piles o
heavy ammunition which the Rumanians had lief
behind, and nearly every shell bore the German
trade mark Some of them were made as late a
1915.
Certainly the German and Austrian govern
ments knew that all ammunition shipped into Ru
mania would be used against the Central Power
if Rumania ever declared war on the side of tn
Allies. Some of this ammunition was used by tn
Rumanians in their attempt to halt the German in
yasion but the imperial German government di,
not tell the German people or the Teutonc soldier
that ammunition made in Germany was being use,
by the enemy to kill Germans. 1t was always ez
planned that the ammunition the Allies used wa
made by America. This was one of the ways tn
German government deceived the people"
How the Prussian government may excuse thi
furnishing of the munitions to murder it's own pee
pie may be explained by the facts brought out il
an article written by one of the former American
consuls in Germany. He tells Of his talks wit
Prussian officers and officials who discussed tn
certainty of winning over France through pur
force of man power They had definite numbe
Of men who could be sacrificed. If their losses il
one war program were not so heavy as estimated
it meant that they could throw more into the mex
wastage of a forlorn hope, expecting thereby t.
wear down the French.
The whole Prussian scheme is one of crimina
blood lust and utterly useless human slaughter.
"God preserve u.s." cries a Hungarian paper