Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-07
WAR MUST Be FOUGHT
TO DECISIVE RESULT
Remainder Of World Will Never Sub.
NIT to Being Dominated
by Huns.
FORMS OF ENEMY PROPAGANDA
Attempt to Teach That War Was
Forced on Germany, Although
Ill-Prepared Allies Would Hardly
Have Been So Extremely Foolish.
By THE Earl OF DENBIGH.
international News Rureanl

By THE Earl. OF DENBIGH.
international News Bureau.l
The British people are singularly
trusting and connding. One OF our
chief troubles is that tho ordinary
untraveled Briton will persist in look
ing upon the people OF every other
country. whether they are black. brown.
yellow or white. as being people like
| themselves.
They do not in the least understa MI
the mentality OF the modern Prussi IN
that with all his cunning. ambition
| and arrogance he is at heart little
| better than crafty savage. For this
reason some people too often become
| the innocent prey of what is called
German propaganda. What do we me "a
by propaganda applied to our
! enemies?
We, the allies. are endcavorlng 70
make the German people understand
that We did not begin the war-tha.
| the trick OF Germany calling this a
war of self-defense on her part .s
ludicrous. and that this fact is SELF
! evident II only because Of the absolute
appropriateness for war on the part
of every one who had to get up and
! lunatics would have embarked on \
war of aggression against Germany
with trained eSpeditionary force, NO
! matter how good IL was. Of six d.
visions. backed up by territorial
force which avowedly and by act OF
Parliament was only to be considered
fully trained six months after the out
break OF war.
WORLD WILL NOT SUBMIT
To rHUN DOMINATION
We are also trying to make the Ger
| man people see that the world does
not intend TO be dominated by Gsi-
many.
| If the German people are content to
| live alongside OF us without our al
ways feeling that they are perpetuatIy
schemins TO get us into the position OF
under dog and that a German treaty
is merely an instrument for the pur-
pose of keeping things quiet until II
is convenient for Germany to break
out there is no reason why there
Z should not be peace.
We wish to see that war when they
have got the whole world against them
| is not the paying business it has been
TO them in the past
/ We want them to understand that
| the hatred they are arousing in the
minds OF every belligerent nation wno
knows Of their methods and conduct
of war. and more especially their
cowardly brutality to our prisoners,
will react upon them most seriously
the longer they continue these prac
| tees.
| If they so to the bitter end and provo
to us that whereas we have treated
their prisoners humanely. our men
continue to come back with the ap-
paliing stories which we now hear on
! every hand. it will be many, many
days before our people will have any
thing whatever do do with the Ger
| mans.
WOULD TAKE BOLD
BOCHE TO SHOW HIS FACE
| The colonel of a distinguished Scotch
regiment said 10 me not long ago:
When the survivors OF the many
thousands OF British prisoners come
/ back to England and are distributed
over the country and tell everybody of
the brutalties. insults, outrages and
starvation 10 which they have been
Systematically subjected. 1t will be a
bold boche who will try TO show his
face inside an English public house"
1t will not only be n public house
that will be kept clean from the boche
faint ] have had letters describin
things which made my blood boil.
! An officer told me how at one rail-
I way station number OF wounded SOL
diers and one officer. In the early part
! OF the war. were marched down be-
i. tween two ranks OF German soldiers
facing each other, and as the wounded
men passed they were Kicked and
struck and spat upon and insulted all
the way some OF these men who were
hobbling along had their crutches
taken from them, and when they fell
| they were beaten with their own
crutches. For four 10 five days our
wounded men Travelled in cattle trucks.
and they were days Of horror. and even
| now the atrocities that are commit
ted arc disgrace TO humanity. When
will the allies understand that all this
is an exhibition OF the latent brutal
ity OF tho German character and Is
| part Of German teaching?
| To bring all this home to the Ger.
man nation is part Of our propaganda
The German propaganda Is to make
the allies believe that England is
simply using them as so many pawns
| for the preservation of the British EN-.
pre.
ENEMY PROPAGANDA
is TAKING TWO FORMS
German propaganda in Britain un-
doubtedly takes two forms. Realizing
how ignorant our people are with re-
gard TO the German baseness which
brought about this war. they are do
ing everything they can to inculcate
tho idea that 1T is capitalists war
and that everybody making war ma
terial is making so much money that
they do not want the war to stop.
1t may be a capitalists war so tar
as Germany Is concerned, for confess
eddy they are always out for raw ma
terials for their industries and for the
purpose OF putting money into the
| pockets OF their commercial masnates
who have grown so fat as a result of
| their success over the French in 1870.
The Germans are also 1ettiDc