WHO STARTED THE WAR?

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 19

WHO STARTED THE WAR?

GEBMAN JINGO EDITOR IS QUOTED. Maximilian Harden some time in 1911 wrote:— "The hostile arrogance of the Western Powers releases us from all our treaty obligations, throws open the doors of our prison house of words, aud forces the German Empire, resolutely defending her vital rights, to revive the ancient Pru<=- | aian policy of conquest. All Morocco in the nanus of Germany; German cannon on ' the route to Egypt and India; German troops on the Algerian frontier; this would be a goal worthy of great sacrifices. "When we can put five million German soldiers into the field we shall be able to dictate to France the conditions upon which she may preserve the empire of Northern Africa. . . . We have entered upon a struggle in which the stake is the power and future of the German Empire." About the same time he said:— Trance must learn once more that, should honour or interest require it, flermany would not take half a, day to mako up her mind to war. . . . " We may have to do so to-morrow, for the habitation we marked out for ourselves forty years ago is becoming too small fnr us. , ' Maximilian's more recent utterances show a less bombastic spirit. When Maximilian Harden becomes thoroughly chastened there is perhaps hope for the rest of Germany.