GERMANY'S REALISATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1915, Page 7

GERMANY'S REALISATION

WHAT VICTORY FOR ENGLAND WOULD MEAN. FRESH EXERTIONS AND SACRIFICES DEMANDED. LONDON, 7th March. # The Press Bureau publishes a translation of an article in the Hamburger Nachrichten, headed "The Conflict with England." After reviewing the raids on the English coa-st, and the attacks of dirigibles and submarines in order to resist the staiving-out policy, the paper continues :• "Behind the German front in the west, drawn up on. a second battlefield, are troops which will not give way any more than in northern France. Expert opinion lias stated that German coastguns from Calais would be able to bombard the defences of Dover, and the country notfh of Dover, over a front of nine kilometres (five and a-half miles). High military commanders have declared that the English soldier was an. adversary to be taken very seriously. Results prove that the English Nayy realises its duties and responsibilities. "The conflict with England will demand fresh exertions and sacrifices. In all the wars waged by England, she fought with persistence and endurancequalities which doubtless will be again revealed; but we Germans are aware of our own powers and the weak spot in England's armour. We realise thestakts we are playing for, and know that' the country which goes under will lose beyond the world's estimation. A worldvictory for England would destroy Germany'o futuie fot centuries A war indemnity would so cripple our resources that we should be unable to contemplate the construction of our military and economic force*. "If England, our meet hated and dangerous enemy, conquered Germany, she v/ould humiliate and trample upon us to the uttermost. We enter upon the struggle with set teeth, registering a vow joyfully to be prepared to sacrifice the best of German strength, courage, grit, and patriotism," The Press Bureau comments that presumably this article k semi-official ct inspired.