ON THE AISNE

Evening Star, Issue 15600, 17 September 1914, Page 6

ON THE AISNE

ENEMY MAKE A STAND, BUT STILL LOSE GROUND. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. LONDON, September 16 (6.10 p.m.). Official: " The general position along the Aisne continues favorable. The enemy have delivered several' counter-attacks, especially against the First Army Corps. These have been repulsed. '• The Germans have given way slightly before our troops and the French armies on our right and left. ■■The enemy's loss is vciy heavy. Wc have taken 200 prisoners."' GERMAN HYPOCRISY. CBANCELLOR"S~APPEAL FOR AMERICAN SYMPATHY. LONDON, August 14. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company to-night issued to all the London newspapers the following despatch from Berlin as having been officially circulated through all the German wireless stations to-day : In an interview the German Imperial Chancellor (Von BethmannTlollweg) •stated to-day: '" Tlie present war is a life and death stiuggle between the German and the Muscovite races of Russia. It ia due to the recent Royal murders at Sarajevo. We warned Russia against kindling this world war. She demanded the humiliation of Austria, and while the German Emperor continued his work in the cause of peace and the Tsar was telegraphing words of friendship to him Russia was preparing for war against Germany. Then highly civilised France, bound by an unnatural alliance with Russia, was compelled to prepare by strength of arms for an attack on its flank, on the Franco-Belgian frontier, in case we proceeded against the Ficnch frontier works. —To Compensate Belgium.— England, bound to France by obligations disowned long ago, stood in the way of the German attack on the northern coast of Franco. This, therefore, forced us to violate the neutrality of Belgium, but wte had promised emphatically to compensate that country for all 4 ama ß e inflicted. Now England avails herself' of tho long-awaited opportunity to commence war for the destruction of commercially prosperous Germany. We. enter into that war with our trust in God. Our entire race has risen in a light for liberty, as it did in 1815. —Regrets England's Stand.— It is with a heavy heart that we see England ranged among our opponents, notwithstanding the blood relationship and cloee friendship in spiritual and cultural work between the two countries. England has placed herself on the side of Russia, whose insatiability and whose barbaric insolence have helped this war, the origin of which was murder and the purpose of which was the humiliation of Russian pan-Slavism. We expect that the seiifie of justice of the American people will enable them to comprehend our situation. We invite their opinion as to tho one-sided English representations, and ask them to examine our point of view in an unprejudiced way. Tho sympathy of the American nation will then lie with German culture and civilisation fighting against a half-Asiastic and slightly-cultured barbarism.