FEROCIOUS HATRED

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1915, Page 3

FEROCIOUS HATRED

AN AMAZING STORY.

GERMANS' FIERCE! LUST TO

CRUSH BRITAIN

From the lips of a distinguished neutral business man who has just returned to London after a, ifionth's survey of the' economic and populai* situation in. Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Belgium (writes Frederick W. Wile in the Daily Mail) I have received a graphic account of the enemy countries from within—Belgium, barring Flanders, is the enemy's country. With a directness which leaves no doubt of the chief impression made on his mind, my informant flashed back the words, ''Ferocious hatred of England!" when I askvd him to summarise his observations. "And how do the Germans intend to beat their passionate fury into concrete deeds?'] I asked. "By capturing Calais, iiivading England, and to king London," he retorted. Then ; he told me the following amazing story. j

• '(jrormany's fierce lust to crush the 'treacherous British' is something to bo experienced: it cannot be adequately describpd in dispassionate type or repeated conversivtion. They certainly do not veab'^p the terrific price they are paying in blood and life in their attempt to traverse the road to Calais. All they know is that any price demanded of thorn will be not only uncomplainingly, bnt enthusiastically p.ad. "Their confidence in their ability to g°t to Calais is s-jblinie and blind. They have been n.ssured by the Government and the Army that Germany will get to Cnlai?. .-met, that strategic output in tV p;.-.i'!p;iifni/for the conquest of England once secured, the defeat of hated Albion will follow as surely as night +lif day. ''Calais, for th,?. moment, is the great popular nhjorsi r o o f the war in«t r^ EnglmnT v".p.nins-tli« 'o'npf nnd n^!v F(tf; of whinli the ordinr-.ry (Jer-iii-.ii Uunkfi it wqr'ch w&Je t'. ~,u i

He does not speak of Paris or of Warsaw or of Petrograd, or of the Russians or the French. He discusses die perfide Englander, Calais, invasion, and London. He doesn't know just pi'eeisely how England is to be conquered. He is only absolutely sure that lit is going to be. '"Klie capture of Calais, Englishmen "will be comforted to hear, will not denote the immediate invasion of this j country. It may be 'some weeks' I | was told, or 'even a month or more,' before Germany will really move against England, Meantime Calais is to be converged into an impregnable naval and military base, particularly ] for submarines and Zeppelins. I "It will also be 'developed' from an, j engineering standpoint, with elaborate ] pontoon and raft equipment", all part { and parcel of the impending decisive ! blow v. gainst England. That blow, {. the Germans are told, is to be of a I character which will not only annii hilate England, but stagger the \ world. It is to be rained upon you simultaneously from the air, from the ; w:itor, ;ind below the surface of the

■ sea. ■ . | ; "'Your powers of, defence are scoffed : at. The Germans say that the- Ton<>;- ---| lish are a. race of go] fera, cricketers, ' footballers, and lazy week-ender*---, who i I will" he on .their'-knees suing for ;m ' ' ignominious peace the moment, the, ■Germans effect a landing on 'those, i shores. it will not be' necessary for' them to attack London. They'' -rill. take London, of course, ar.d they will : hold it. till the capital of the Erupiro i has paid a dizzy cash price for its ; liberation. T}\e English, indeed,, are ' to pay back in sold all the war has ■ cost Germany. 'We are' not worry- \ ins about the expense of tho- cam- j paigh,' you will .j.fiu- the Germans | say, 'We'll get it back from the Eng- I lish with interest ' " I "When one ventures to suggest, as I did, that-Englishmen and Englishwomen, especially civilians, might be depended upon to fight the im-;vler j tooth and ii'-jil T realised for tho uiv/ | ...a ;uv :■.■■•'.. •»' i-i r'tfl'UmilV JiilLc. i

They have heard, of Mr H. G. Wells's proposal for the eventuality irienitioned, and it has,enraged them. They told me (that:'they would turn--'the fair island of England into a riiiix ; which would make Louvain a garderii spot by comparison. : ■ .' "They say this Avith the most'brutal i callousness. It wa.s said to nic at Louvain by Gerarnii officex«. with whom I ua.s surveying a vista of devastation such "as my eyes had seen only once before—San Francisco after the earthquake and fire. They declare they will shoot down Englishwomen and children as mercilessly as they were 'compelled' to kill Belgian women and children if your, people dare to 'violate the laws of war', and invoke civilian aid in. resisting uniformed troops.".