Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-30
GERMAN BRANDS
KAISER MURDERED"
DisrcRards All Moral Laws and
Decency, Says Socialist
Newspaper.

The New Yorker Volkszeitung, a So
cialist daily printed in Germany, ex-
pressed its opinion of the first great battle
OF the ,,omme in powerful editorial, from
which the following is an excerpt;
The Volkszeitung editor takes for his
theme the lines of the poet Herwegh:
"You have won the orld's foremost place
in murderous infamy. Germania, | shud-
der at the uncntion of you" After review
ing the cynical disregard of the Kaiser and
Hindenburg for all moral laws and human
deccncies the editor continues
The worst battle Of the great war, the
bloodiest battle in all world history. con-
tinues - Aggression continues.
Murder continues. But 1t Is by no
means certain that the German armies
will succeed In opening the way to PaTis
and i'll throwing themselves upon the
capital of the unfortunate country.
IF the military masters OF Germany
believe that the advantages they have
already won in this battle and even
if they should come out victorious IN this
greatest of battles III history-that this
would being nearer a conqueror's peace
for them, they will be greatly disillusioned.
The resources of the Allies are well nigh
incxhaustiblc The marauding march OF
the Hohenzolerns into the heart OF revo-
lutionary Russia has changed the views
of all friends of peace IN the Allied coun-
tries The nations are aghast at thought
of the outlook in this war and at the ruth
lcssness with which it is conducted.
Sharpened opposition will be the only out
come of n Germany victory.
And the worst feature of this greatest
battle in world history is that it viii un-
doubtcdly serve to set back the thought
Of peace with the German people. The
greater the victory the easier it will be
for the military masters of Germany To
spread the view among the German people
that the German army Is unconquerable
and that All that is required is patience
and endurance and then peace Will be
| attained "a conqueror pcace-a great
| victory at the western front now VIII
| serve to weaken the growing opposition OF
| the German people TO the military caste
F.! Through such a victory the lunkers and
1 pan-GCrmanistS will get the upper hand
more than ever, and the reasonable and
/ peacc-loving part OF the population, and
/ cspcciallv the working classes, will have
! their influence curtalicd.
"All this the Hohcnzollerns and then
iunkcr companions know very we'll. And
! that is why they stake everything tc
make the worlds greatest battle INTO q
worlds greatest victory. This is the OBJ
icctivc for which they arr ruthlessly sacri
/ ficing upon the altar Of the fatherland
the sons of German mothers and th'
| fathers Of German children. II rs for thi
objective that the blood Of German sol
. dlcrS flows in streams into the rivers o
northern France and thence INTO the ocean
This is the objective for which the fiowe
Of the German nation is being slaughtered
for which whole generation Is beng wlpcs
out
And the Kaiser thanks God for tn
help which he presumably IS giving hun IL
this stupendous numbering
And the German people
Gernanla. ! shudder at the mention
Of vol.