The sun., 1919-10-02
DAWSON WARNS
U.S.0F GROWING
GERMAN PERIL
Enemy Believes He Won
War Commercially, Soldier
and Writer Says.
INDUSTRIES ARE READY
Leaders Boast Of Their Ability
to Make Allies Supply In
demnity Money.

Capt. Coningsby Dawson. author Of
Garry On" British soldier but Amer
lean by residence and marriage, re-
turned from Europe yesterday and
said that on Tuesday he would start
on q lecture tour to warn the people
of every State in the Union Of the
continuing menace of Germany.
The Germans, he said, far from
feeling Inundated or beaten, believe
thsy won the war by the destruction
of their commercial rivals. They re-
garded the military operations merely
as one phase of their attempt to Ger
mamie the world. Instead of being
rendered helpless and pitiable by re-
verses, or at all sorry, they were now
industrially the best equipped nation
in Europe and boosted of their con-
quest and of their ability to make the
Allied countries trade with them and
thus supply money for the German
indemnity.
Factories Flood World.
Capt. Dawson saw no sign Of the
ravages of war in the occupied terri
tory. To him 1t seemed "a pastoral land
hlled with cattle and with an appear
ance of contentment-" Factories were
ready for peace time production. AL
ready foreign markets were being
Hooded with German commodities under
fictitious neutral names. And agents Of
Germany were spreading the old propa-
ganda everywhere, the object at this time
being disruption Of allied friendliness
and fostering Of Industrial discomfort
The Allies ought to have gone clear
through to Berlin he said. I'VE were
too merciful, and Germany did not ap-
preciate 1t. We ought to be occupying
the Rhine territory for fifteen years"
Capt Dawson arrived on the Royal
George Of the Cunard Line, with his wife
and two children, and went to his home,
533 Mount Prospect avenue, Newark.
There he said
81 went back to England in Feb
ruary innocent OF condit ons there.
During the war I had been in England
only on ten day leaves when soldiers
were spending money like water and
Supposing everybody else was doing the
same. But when returned under differ
ent conditions 1 found that the people
week; no butter. only dabs OF mar
garine saccharine instead of sugar, and
so on. Only the very well to do could
AFFORD decent meal. London looked
like a battered prizehghter. Moth ng
had been done to repair the damage from
bombs Nothing had been done to I'M
prove or maintain the structure of the
city since August, 1914. because every
energy was centred on the war. London
looked like city that had been through
the war.
Belgium a Cinder Heap.
'sThen I went France and Belgium Al
least a third of France and the whole OF
Belgium were cinder heaps. From this
devastation 1 crossed into Germany, and
To- it was n land Of peace and plenty
green, pastoral country filled with
cattle and the appearance of content
mont Germany seemed not to have
been touched by the war. When you
got to investigating every fact you found
bore this out.
1.-THE Germans were not the depressed
people you had thought them. They
were not sullen, as l had expected then
to be. Everywhere / went (and I wa,
in British uniformly I was treated as q
guest and a friend. I told them coult
not understand it. How is it possible
for you to be so concerned for my com
fort?" I asked them. They answered
why shouldn't we be?' I said. Why, W,
have destroyed you as a nation, upse
your empire, placed your richest por
ton under foreign occupation oh.
they replied, You are presuming that w
lost the war. You did lose the war;
/ said.
"'Oh, no. they said, "a nation to -da.
does not depend ON Its land Suppose W
have lost Alsace-Lorraine we hav
gained as a race, as a nation. becaus
wa have destroyed our trade rivals, an,
a. is what we set out to do. France
Belgium and England were our grea
trade rivals. BY making war We hav
wiped out the great industrial centre
of Belgium and France"
Stole Trade Secrets.
Here Capt Dawson remarked. 18th
Germans not only stole the Belgiani
machinery but their trade secrets whic
gave them supremacy and continued
quoting the composite German:
awe have almost wrecked England
carrying trade. The only way the allie
countries can regain a footing is throug
the payment to them of the German II
demnity. To enable us to pay the II
demnity they have got to trade with u
and in order to trade with us they hay
got to supply us with the raw material
OF course the Allies are going to trad
with Germany and take the money bac
again. Thus, you see, the Allies reall
pay our indemnity
saTn no "