The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-10

y VI OI1s
roes to gloat over recent triumphs
over the English?
'It is true that the U-boats have
contrived to bring about that, in an
English hotel or boarding house, no
more meat is supplied at breakfast,
and that afternoon tea guests receive
only an ounce and a half of bread or
cake. Also an old maid of Dover,
who fed her fourteen little dogs with
milk and biscuits, has had to atone
for her crime with five-pound note.
All this, however does not yet spell
the decay of the British Empire.
at is time that the warmongers
were muzzle, an that the authorities
/ once for all gave them to understand
that they are determined, whenever
the claims of any nation or group of
peoples are found to be justified, that
Germany would honestly aid them
in establishing themselves on a clean
basis of self-government.
May our rulers reflect while yet
there is time that unless a new order
be substituted for the old one of
violence and force, human life will
become intolerable and all hopes of
human development will be rendered
sterile for ages to come.
Tfrpitz The Terrible.
The German papers which have
just reached this country, give us
the full report of an address deliv-
cred at Mannheim by Grand Admiral
Won Tirpitz. The following are some
utterences:-
I'VE underestimate the enduring
hatred of England, the battle organic
atoms of a commercial nature which
Anglo-Americanism has in its hands.
The economic war is bound to remain
after the war, and we must have
compensations on which we can lay
our hands AS a certain guarantee
for Germany's future security we
must possess Flanders. Every Brit
ish statesman recognizes the danger
that lies here, recognizes moreover,
that the base of our submarine pow
er is on the Flanders coast And if
our people in this world struggle are
defeated it will not be because of
lack of power, but because they have
so willed it. On that day when we
yield Belgium and the coast of Elan
ders to the influence of the Western
Powers and without being forced to
do SO, hooking yells of laughter at
the German Michel will convulse
the world. 1t would mean the final
victory of nglo-Americanism."
The Kaiser and the German people
are still being Deliberately deceived
by the German War Department with
regard to the extent of Americas
war preparations. All American
newspapers are intercepted OF the
frontier, and all references to the
United States army which appear in
the newspapers of the Allies are care
fully BACKED out.
Ae the same time the military
writer's in the pay of the German
Government are instructed to min
imise and ridicule American coop
Grafton, while independent critics
are supplied in "strict official con-
fidence" with false figures and dis
torted facts.
Mythical Millions.
1t is under these influences that
Colonel Richard Gadke tells the Ger.
) man people, through the "Branden-
, burger Zeitung," that no effective
help can be received by the Allies
from America for twenty years.
/ Fires of Revolution.
DR.. Friedrich Naumann is another
: German thinker to whom the rulers
e of the Fatherland would do well to
= listen. In the latest number to hand
e Of Die Hilfe," he writes as follows.
= "It is futile to talk about Germany
t being the leader of the peoples. A
= leader to be capable of guiding other.
should above all be strong to govern
himself. This is precisely where VS.
It are lacking.
IS Despite all the lessons that the
T war has taught US, we have not ye
r become a real nation, as is well prov
r ed by the discussions in the Prussial
:, Diet. We still have a House of Lord
= or rather of Junkers, in which tn
= different clans struggle for their ex
: istance one against the other, AM
this primative turmoil we qualify b,
d the term of parliamentarianism.
is THE great majority of the German
n people do not desire revolution, if i
IT can be avoided by timely and ration
e, al measures. 1t would be fatal, how
lie ever, to believe that the revolution
s. airy wave from the east can be stop
-e ped either by the police, the censor
or the pressure of the State. Whe
l. the cauldren is beginning to bubbI
is over there is no means of stilling
r. except by quenching the fires whic
lie are the sources of its agitation, BIT
10 they cannot be quenched by cour
to er-irritation which can only add t
their fuel until the whole system
&c ablaze."
& Ueaden Keels Confiscated.
TIE argus-eyed gatherers of wa
metals. not satisfied with the resuI
a of their raids on church bells roof
rs kitchens, ovens door handles, etc
e. have discovered a mine OF wealth /