GERMAN BOMBAST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 23 May 1917, Page 6

GERMAN BOMBAST.

The German newspapers, tired apparently of reiterating the stale and always stupid falsehood tha,t "Britain began th© war" —a falsehood intended partly for home -and partly for foreign consumption, but laughed to scorn by every neutral nation —have now evolred the highly ingenious theory that England was morally responsible for the conflict and all the German infamies that followed ft, because she declined to admit the. "worlct-supremacy of the German (race." The German is so noble, so just, so kind, so ]£uK;ured, "surpassing in intelligence and in beauty of mind" all! the other races of the earth, that it was England's bounden duty to "retire1 into the background to make way for Germany's greater1 and loftier aims.'*/- • ; As England failed to see the matter in this light, the Kaiser said: "I'll lam ye to be a toad," and straight-way let hell loose upon the world. This attractive thesis' is' developed by several German journals. The quotation which follows ia from the Rheinisch-Wesh-falieche Zeituns:— "The Anglo-Saxon race is looked on, not by Englishmen only, bufc also by Americans—as the lordly race, justified in reigning politically over the1 rest of the world ana in dominating it eoonomi-1 cally. > "It needed but little more and this] object would have been attained. One obstacle only lay in /the path of this all-devouring Anglo-Saxondom—the rise of Germanism. "The English and the Americans had j the choice between antagonism and the development of the noble ideal of the world-supremacy of the Germanic rac«. German politics strove for decades to the breaking point to win over Anglobaxondom to this grand ideal and to persuade it to retire into the background to make way for Germany's greater and loftier aims. It was futile; it was love's labor lost). "By means of lies anl calumnies such as could only have originated from the workshops of Satan, hatred and contempt of Germany were astutely nMi vated throughout the v.orij by the"mis sionanes of Anglo-Sasondom', so that when war should enr-ue, as it would in- •«*£&. left us ln tlje wk°le world Who can truly say, then 'tW if was not England'^ fau't S vastating *» r came about? Who c&n blame us if we use any and every means against our despicable and odious enemy? Th en at them, ye German men ye German U boats! We have dar^ our last. Hail to you andl victor?!" (