New-York tribune., 1918-05-16
With the Enemy
The Neso York Tribune

Foreign Press Bureau
TIME idea OF policewomen has been taken
up III Hermany on a very extensive
scale, according to the latest German
papers, which contain long articles ON an
AMBITIOUS scheme to organize German
women as Pan-Gernnan police agents. Ger
man women and girls are urged to report
Ito the military authorities all persons
guilty Of pessimism and all rumors likelv
to affect German morale" Women are
advised to demand patriotic music IN cafes
and other public places and to punctuate
the performances with appropriate displays
of feeling. They are also urged to draw
up lists of trustworthy women among the
working classes who will undertake to in
terfere with strikes and other demonstra
tions. 1t is even stated that the military
authorities have appointed a captain to
deliver lectures in Berlin to applicants for
this new form of police work.
Germany is so enthusiastic over the Rus
sian victory that little criticism is now heard
OF the Prussian annexationist policy. Herr
Theodor Wolff, in the "Berliner Tageblatt,'
however, gives some mild warnings. He
admits that the German people generally
wanted Russia to break up into a number
Of small autonomous states, but says that
with the progress of events German desires
soon went beyond this. The new order of
things he considers hopeless chaos, and
ends his article as follows:
For long time past everybody who
can think politically has known that it
was mistake to shut Serbia off from the
sea- Are we now to push back the Russian
Empire from Odessa in the south and from
sS,< h.
her in close up to Petersburg-the Russian
Empire, which still contains mighty forces
and is always producing new forces? Are
we not thus creating the danger Of an ex-
pioslon? Is the weight of the future Rus
sia OF no Importance for world policy?
Does not the erection of so many inde-
pendent states, which are not united in a
Russian league, but to be protected by
Germany, although their inhabitants, while
quarrelling among themselves, will yet look
to Mother Russia-does not that constitute
a danger? We should examine these things
soberly and answer these questions other
wise than by mere phrases. The Conserva-
tlves, instead of seeing nothing but the
red flag. of revolution, should remember
their ideas of the day before yesterday.
And. II they want to do any liberating they
should do something at home"
On the occasion of St. Patrick's Day the
German-Irish Society held a celebration in
the Adlon Hotel, Berlin, at which, besides
Germans, there were present many Irish
men and Irish Americans, among them
Charles Chewing, George Chatterton- Hill.
Louis Dornay and Betsy Kuly. telegram
was sent to the Kaiser, which declared that
the assembled Irishmen, Irish Americans
and German friends Of Ireland request your
~ bo;
express their hope that the strong German
sword, after having freed the enslaved peo-
pies OF the East, may now be able to
break the chains which England has forged.
Tor the freedom of the seas can only be
secured when a free people will step forth
as the guardian of the Atlantic Ocean"
The guests were received by Count West
arp and Charles Glowing. who expressed
their confidence in Gern,any's "liberation"
of Ireland. Among the principal speakers
were DR.. Stumm. press director of the Ger
man Foreign Office, and DR.. Chatterton- Hill.
the Sim Feiner, who declared that Ire
land is now on the of great events.
proof of which he finds in Lord French's
recent trip to Ireland "The reason for his
trip" he said. "can be explained in two
words: Sim Fein." He concluded with the
following words: "Thc Irish are waiting
Tor the day when thanks to the German
U-boats, the English will be so weakened
that they will ask for peace Then will
come the day which will bring life and
liberty to Ireland And that day will not
find the Irish unprepared"
Germany is now planning the utilization
of her victories in the East for economic
purposes. According to German papers.
the Black Sea is to be connected with the
Baltic by canal which will enable Ger
many to import oil and other natural re-
sources from the Caucasus, Turkey and
Russia by water The canal will run from
the Dnieper River, in Ukrainia, to the
Dvina; this will form direct waterway
from Odessa, on the Black Sea, to Riga.
from which point the Russian and Turkish,
raw materials will find their way TO Ger
many by land the Baltic
The proposed plan has ardent supporters
in the German chambers of commerce
which believe the canal would help in the
exploitation of the Caucasus The "yos-
ssche Zeitung" gives the following reasons
for connecting the Black Sea with the Bal
tic by means of canal:
l. The canal will increase Russia's con-
sumption OF German industrial products.
2. 1t will help the importation Ia Cor
many Of Russian agricultural and ;ndns-
trial products.
j. While furthering the economic in
tercourse, the canal will render the politi-
cal relations between Russia and Germany
more cordial
4. The German Baltic harbors will cs;,
in significance
D. Germany's supplies would no longer be
dependent upon the opening up of the
Mediterranean
o. The shortening of the way to the
Black Sea will mean great saving in
tonnage
Germany is still continuing TO minimize
the effect of Americas entrance into the
war A recent official communication from,
Berlin to the "Kolnische Zeitung" SAYS