GERMANY'S ACTION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 7

GERMANY'S ACTION

MISERABLE ATTEMPT TO EXCUSE IT. "LET US DROP IT." LONDON, 18th November. . Herr Maximilian Harden, the well' known German journalist, in an article in Die Zukunft, says ; "Let us drop our miserable attempts to excuse Germany's action. Not agaihst our will, and as a nation surprised, did we hurl ourselves into the gigantic venture. We willed it. We do not stand before the judg' ment seat of Europe— we acknowledge no such jurisdiction. Our might shall create a new law in Europe. It is Ger« many that strikes, and from immovable conviction. Her achievements entitle her to more elbow-room in the world. "Germany must take her place as the leading Power, and retain. Belgium and ,

the narrow strip of coast as far as Calais. She does not desire indemnities, lier object is to hoist the flag on the Channel that opens and closes the way to the Atlantic. This done, she will voluntarily close the war." [Herr Harden, editor of the* Die Zukunft, a weekly paper founded by him in 1892, was born at Berlin in 1881. He is a well-known author. In 1907 he came into great prominence for the part he took in the exposure of the doings of what was known as the Inner Circle (including princes and men of high social standing). As a result he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for an alleged libel on Count Kuno Yon Moltke, and ordered to pay the costs of the trial. Later he was fined £30.]