THE WRITING ON THE WALL

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 146, 17 December 1915, Page 7

THE WRITING ON THE WALL

BRITISH EMPIRE IS TOTTERING

GERMANY CAN QUOTE SCRIPTURE

(Received December. • 17, 8.20 a.m.)

AMSTERDAM, 16th December. Dr. Carl Helffreich, Secretary of State for the Treasury, speaking in the Reichstag when introducing the war credit for five hundred millions sterling, said: " Your voting this credit will prove that all calculations of Germany's weakness, disunion, weariness, and famine are wrong. England is faced with convulsion of her prestige in. the international money market. Both England and France sought credit in America. Their lack of success was greatly due to the resistance of German-Americans. We axe almost exclusively paving to ourselves, while the enemy is paying abroad. Therein lies our guarantee that we will maintain our advantage in the future. With the shaking of British financial powers, the foundation of the British Empire is totterin"- When it goes to pieces she will never rise. In the millennium the German iron fist, which, has now blown up the iron gate and opened the road to the east, will be ready to strike anew. We stand as a rock, but on the golden pillars of the British Empire gleam the flaming characters, ' Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.

11 ff ! £ f e -Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" is "the writing on the rA. , ! east of Belshazzar, the account of which is given in chapter v. of the Book of Daniel. The translation of the words is given as " God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting; thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Jrersians. j