TRUTH FOR THE HUN.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 33, 24 October 1916, Page 3

TRUTH FOR THE HUN.

HARDEN ON ALLIED MIGHT. ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE. Maximilian Harden, Tnith-Teller-in-Chief to tlie muzzled German nation, lias just shot t-o pieces the official German myth that peace is in eight because the Allies are "exhausted" and "tired" of the war. In his plainspoken weekly review 'Zukunft' (The Future), Harden discusses for * the first time, in his customary sledgehammer fashion, the meaning of the Anglo-French offensive. Speaking particularly of Britain's gigantic preparations in men and munitions, Harden declares that Germans "must reckon with the determination of England to, keep on fighting till she or her enemy is annihilated." It is the first time that anybody in Germany has dared to interpret the real spirft of the British Empire to the deluded German people. In an article entitled significantly "At the Tree of Disillusion," Harden warns Germans to abandon forthwith their childish dreams of an early ipeace. After describing the straggles "now raging on all fronts, the like of which mankind has never known," telling how the Grim Reaper is every minute mow ing down a German, and how "in every hour of the day and night £500,000 of German treasure is being swallowed up," Harden says: WHO WANTS PEACE P "Is it the enemy who wants peace? On a recent occasion in the French Senate, when such sentiments might well have found expression, mot one single, solitary voice was raised to that end. Premier Briand never sat so firmly in the saddle. Joffre's star was never more in the ascendant. The French are mediating over the .possibility of the fall of Verdun. But flo ouo diva ins of peace. France st ill believes (or believes again) in victory. 'I hat t'nsi uenet' will crumble ;f Verdun is captured or a bank of the Meuse taken, or the entire city falls, sounds like nothing but a- well-meant and flattering fairy tale. LLOYD GEORGE AND VICTORY, "Mr Lloyd George, who wants to roll into one person the leadership of the new national democracy, Britain's uncrowned king, Gladstone and Beaconsfiekl, clambers out of the secure berth of the master of munitions and rawstuffs to the pinnacle of responsibility. He does not hesitate to fly his banner from the ramparts of the most difficult of all Cabinet posts, the burdens of which Lord Kitchener well knew. The fact that the Welsh statesman has let himself be induced to go ..to the Wan- Office must mean that certainty of victory is imbedded in his soid. He must be dominated iby the conviction that his country, even if the great July offensive produces only trifling results or a blank, will keep on fighting either in league with its Allies or in narrower phalanx—that, armed ever more powerfully -with howitzers, great guns, mountains of shells, whole machine-gun corps, suffocating .gas, bombs, and what not, and waging the economio war on a scale undreamt of, England l will not rest till she herself or her foe is annihilated. With such an intention we must reckon." HUNS WANT "NOTHING MORE. ' In the concluding passage of his remarkable article Harden _ says that Germany's enemies recognise that her armies "ar® performing, silently and without looking into the mirror, everything that man is capable of; that they are holding in a clasp of iron that which brother-blood has won, and that j they are not asked to make new and i unnecessary conquests." ! Hardin's latest iplain-speaking, -therefore, is distinguished by two important aspects; first, he is the first to tell the Germans tie truth about the Allies' determination to win, ana, secondly, he acknowledges that Germany** l war lute ow degenerated Barely kto «• IgM toJwMwkatdw h«s.