GERMANY'S LIABILITY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1133, 5 November 1918, Page 6

GERMANY'S LIABILITY.

AMERICAN OPINION. The "Man in the Street," writing in the Daily Sketch (London), remarks: — In the Times yesterday there was a column sample of American "sayings" J which ought to make our milky-mouthed ideo-philanthropists sit up and hold tight. The author is Mr 11. H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, Baltimore. . "Is it conceivable." he asks., "that, we should permit the £6,000,000 or more of bonds which Germans have gleefully taken because they expected that sue. cess would make their redemption certain, and give them enormous financial profit by looting the world, to be made good by Germany; while Belgium and France and Serbia and Italy and England have had' to bear the tremendous loss in lives and in money for keeping these burglars, these looters, these murderers, these destroyers of womanhood and childhood, from overrunning the world? "It would be unspeakable folly for the Allies to permit these German bonds to be made good for the German holders of them—at least until Germany has paid the last farthing of the cost of the war to our European Allies and to * America. "Moreover, the criminal should be made pay to the family of every soldier killed in defence of civilisation a financial remuneration and also to eveiy man invalided in the struggle of civilisation against barbarism. "To all of this should be added an indemnity sufficient to restore all prodestroyed by Germany, and to repay every dollar spent by America and its Allies in this great struggle." Two other "sayings"—one by an American Senator and the other by an American padre—appeared in yesterday's Morning Post. Here is the Senator: "We must deal with Germany as a judge does with a criminal at the bar of justice. He does not debate with him the length of the sentence or the amount of the fine, but he imposes what law and justice demand." An 1 here is -the padre, writing from his post with the Fifth TJ.S.A Field Artillery : "There is not one of us who does not want to see the Boche's land devastated from on 0 end to the other, with Berlin a blackened ruin, with the Boche exterminated, militarists and all, before wo come home. To talk of terms until the Boche is exterminated is to league with Satan for a corner in hell." All of which is plain common sense, and shows which way the. American wind is blowing.