LIBERTY IN GERMANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 7

LIBERTY IN GERMANY.

AK ENGLISHMAN'S IMPRESSIONS "THE ALLIES MUST ENTER BERLIN." (BY TIIEOP.OEIJ I'.i' I l.|-:i; p.. \ | (Mr Theobald Butler, an English proff\ssoi' of modern 1 nguages, alio liuj livt.".l in Gormiuiy continuously since 1905, returned to England in July lust. At ihc outbreak of Wiir he 'conducted ~ coaching' establishment for military ollicers and Government officials in n I'mrcian univeisity town, spioiulising in the leaching of English and French. Peine, <_cieiderably over military ago lie v.-as not. inicrr.ed. For practically during th'j rn ii.', duration of the war. Mr Butler voided in Berlin, which be did not Icavi until July 6th). ' I hatoth? Eaglith !' That vras the greetHi~ 1 received from my firr.i pupil a I'riHnan Referendcr (embryo barrister), v/lirn I comenci ' work in Posen in |ht year lyOJs. The eentimem v.;.-, no revelation to me t ,vas beginning in', '-.eeond period of rt-.i • irnei' ,n Germany, the lii I ha vim? bcni - 1 ■. -i 11 nr ;■ ■..'■hool <>n Trie Rhine durire; tieill.' Kill lisli V.vir vociferous! v -ii; I'l .1 I.'. ill Cermai.:. a long ago us ll'iat. My i;< 1.-r.iiJ. r. a: Hi- years ahead of, n)i- in I'm -ia wtie iihoul |o show, was the vi i v pei>oniliealioii ol the cla.ss which hankered for war with Britain —"our la.sl and greatest reckoning,"' as Treitsehke pu| it—mill phniiii d for ii. in iii • plodding, llio-rougli-going, d"lile-raie manner ol which liii-iv va i preparedness has given the world Mich lerriHc proof. As lons- ng.i as 1905 war with England was talked about: in |'in-:i:i. Hi iiicenU of mathematical exactiiMile. Often I I '.'"id men say that !!)!(, was lie- vear which would bring tin- icali aii >n , i i:. :m:•!.■.' cherished liopi ' MID .M l.\ PREPAR VTIO' S. To my pei ..n.il knowledge the leader- of lhe German Army began then final pn paraiions for wai at lea i- a fovtnighl before August 1.-l. 1911. About the middle of ,inl\ m\ ii: ■-!'■.. f insisting fi i ihe m<'l pari of younger oflieers and Civil Servani.-, mysi.eriuii.-ly began dropping oil'. I "aplain . atiached t<i the military railway division, was suddenly needed somewhere, probably lor the mobilisation on I lieliclgian frontier : and Hcit von . a Goveinmcfii eonsl motor was as abruptly called away Berlin was evidently taking time well i.\ tiie forelock-. War with England came. My friends iiiid colleague;., hostly belonging to llie intellectual elas-os, grey-haired Ii 'rren Prolessorei! oi In the higher military ranks, majors and lieutenant-colonels, who in (I.imany at 1 "' always much older than men of iuiilai rank in tl. ■ British Army, gave hi in tin' in '■-' unbridled dennneiaiion "l England. "We -hall remain, personal .ej.-nil-.,'' many of them said io me, "but illl ~, vile, contemptible stab ii: the Lack by England—thai is otiirageoiis and low be;;,iiuaiis wire ihitiking of an eight, or iin weeks' war—when they hoped to thrash Era nee qui'kly and decisively, even r.i lite -.,.; of allowing a serious Bu.-sian invasion if Knsf. Prussia, and Ihen I ■ vvhci I about im! defeat l'ii"-i;'. The imervention of England punctured those roseate hopes, and (Jortlianv's long-accumulated hatred ol "peilidiou.. Albion*' now burs! forth with indescril tide fury. KXOL'GII EOOD FOR HE \!.TIi. M\ pi'.jfes.sioiial existenei at Posen obvi>u..l\ \. .-i di -lined before long to hi come

preeeluius, ..ml i wus HOI SO. lo leave everything behind si ml remove i. LSerlin ,'.'. tin. hul 1.1 .\'ii.'tisi. Tli" -i- I remain* (I until ■i forlniehl i.r 111r<-o weeks ago. Delail..l' lii'i: in litrliii. in war-time are no longer new l>. lil'ilWl I'l add- ilie\ UIIOW "'I about fond i ! i-.i. ■»-.- :inil other Mock subject.*. The l.enuaii-; are ncii Mnrving. 'J.'hey arc not veiling nearly ;- much tn "at. as (hey used'tn and would like, bill as they mostly nvcr-nie in peace, times, they me now on i more noiiiiiii living standard lliati ih;\\ •>••;• were before. Conditions iil'e linmifiakdjlv inconvenient anil iinjikas.-iru —im agino Germain not. being able to get pota- ,,„.. !—|.int, anylHiily in England who think.; ihal !!,t < ;.tim::ii- ate boiiiu ilefeal.ed by luiit i r I dv.elliim in a paradNe of idle ■lre:: in:;. Tl ..- Herman ihink lliey I ay,; won ilie nn i'.,i ,-oine iime vet bit' lie \ do not Ihilik !1,,.;e .an be |nLen I'rom ih-lil Ihal which ;(,,--,■ havi < nnquer -d and holil. Thf\ knnv Jin't. tin v Live ladled heavy losses Im man at i'i material but-, a- Ihe old ponei who ha ml led me lugga"r- in I'.'i Im Ill" a-thor da\ -.■■ id. "the Kf. Ai-l* will have lo ; ,j IV ." Tliaf v ■■ the voice of tlie German [leople 'J'he 1.. rmaii: in their va i majoiity ',,111 |"> -lie\e it, n Eiiglii hj ivill b • brougiil i. tie ii ' m'-i -. ami i-iiher hi tiva -:,.,. . . i ui hi i i imbiir i- i!f i ni.i 11 v ha n<l■oinoly lor i'i,- ~,!.,--a! iifiuu sin- \i:\> had to pa v fur "\ ieforv.'' ENGLISH I.IKS. English ami l''ieiic|| papers can Mil! be had it! Berlin. (The Km/li.di papers 1. :\e been stopped at the frontier since ilii.-- was wi-iti-.i). I i! icil id read (hem i vgularb at -,!-, 1...-, mi i iti .-■ t'ee hoti-e up lo lh-;» hour ../' my i ; , rit litre. I'.iii the {!. rnians, vilio are rear d in lit" implied belief iii.it whal i> ~!!,. iall\ |old them i- the oiily llune to 1,0 en diled, iliitik" thai "only In ■ " appear in ihe ■ nem\ i-i i . So i he\ have no fail 1, .ii vh.ii jhe\ i.;ni In English and French journal.-; abm.it Ihe mighty strength the Al lie.- will in .\-. bring to boar on the various fir.nl.--. I think il may be neecs avy foi us to fol low PiMiiinvL'.--. -example iii Paris in 1370. lie parked 40,000 Prussian in op, in ihe huh lie;. .i r ocular domonstraii ti t< i::- 1 unfoi ■ ana!,- popillrc n that :1a- la I of the COlli|iieim \'.,'e lirmb implanted on Prance' liaph-s neek. I ntil Allied Iroops have !n i n parked in la din. Hamburg. Munich, iJre.sdin. Stultgart, and othei German cen- ;;■<■-- -tangib'i evidence that Ce man mill iary power is lnoken—l fear ' will be ex-IrenK-iv diffieiiii foi n< io miib the German nation f' el and see Ihal. il is beaten.