Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENINGS. GISBORNE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1917. AMERICA'S ENTHUSIASM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14440, 29 October 1917, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENINGS. GISBORNE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1917. AMERICA'S ENTHUSIASM.

Five '-billion.. .'dollars 1 ' is a powerful lot of money, and! 'by subscribing this amount to-' the • Liberty Loan the ■• pfeople of the United States .have made a wonderful 'display Of ' patriotic e'iit|iusiasm,testifying to the •vvhole-heartfediiess with whioh they '.are entering into their share of tlio war. An^i'iean pi^va which hive i'eceiitly co'nie. to Ji^iicl thakfe- most refreshing/ reading.'' 'They show how splendidly. theVwar spirit is growing and that; Uncle ; Sani iis, , detentimedYto* get into tho fray with, the full, measure ol bis strength. It is ;onl^ywitiiii the last few months ; that -.'the people "of ' the Unitedly' States vliave realised the real char^ctei* .:, of '.;'the . Hun,y and now ,they know liim .-. for the scoundrel that he is they .are out; to ..give him a .most unmerciful •• drubbing, -They li&ye ■ b£eii biought-ihto.thisvf ramo-Of iriind largely by tho , discloHtiire 'Gei'jnaiV" diplomatic duplicity. Whilst professing friend^ ship for the United, State's and privileges under hpr neutrality, ■ tlio tGer-/ man Ambassador, -Gaunt Rertfstorff,made his ..embassy a centre of intrigue, and war operations.. ■■ He was continually pjanning , to. 'coihmit outrages -m, America;' and received '-'Uwge sums f i*^m t J^liii|or the .expriess purpose of, coyi^pfciiig .'.Cjongi*ess. His' schemes we£e dirqcjlyi' agftfiist the peace and* oroero^ ahd the ■ lives arid , property *of her citizens;. In ; fact", remarks oiie • American Ay'riter, Germany invaded' tlfo United States, ag, sjhey ,didy Belgium V. Jii, oVd^i* to get, at her enemies. .Tlie: different was that, , as Belgium, was ,ar? small country, Gorm'aiiy. .could -.do * .there —openly .what she did secretly : in-; thef. United 'States. The astonishing '..thing is r that 1 this- War-: f &l*& "went Oh >tdl' WpleV^liaiV .twpYyeara .with almost , complete .uAp.unf.ty. "•. Further' enlightenment, has oom^-to the United States as the result of ..the unsealing of .his niouth by the late African Ambassador to . Berlin, ( Jaitte's. Watson Gerardl Mr Gerard". f ih a^ties pfbril--limit articles published simultaneously m America and Britain, has let a flood of light upon the origin of the war. "Germany started out m the fall of 1914 to conquer the world. If- it had not been for Great. Britain she would have had) the world by the Ihroat," said

the. _ ex -Ambassador m a recent speech. "If Germany should win tlie war, oi* possibly gain a draw, the policy of onr great President Monroe, 1 am afraid, would totter from its .security. Germany has longed for a place iv the sun, and an overseas empire m South America, as a goal of her ambition.. -In October, 1915, the -Kaiser stood m., front of me, his noso not three inohes from mine, and told me 'After tlie War I shall stand no nonsense from Ameuica.'.. I wonder it* the Kaiser has thought about the statement since. But Prussian development of South America has been ttie dream of the pan-Germans and the "tvar party for years. . 'Admiral von j Tiipitz told me that Germany must hold the Belgian sea coast so that she might bring Britain" to her knees. In 'aij. interview' m which the admiral's personality was but thinly veiled, he stated . that' after accepting the surrender of the- British fleet, collections would) -be made • from that 'cowardly nation' (the United States) to pay the expenses of . the >war. That; was how the Germans jin ..high places thought of America ' even before she declared wai*. They thought the country had sunk so low as to take blows "m the face without 'a murmur." After clqse observation, for. several, years Mr Gerald has formed his Ostimate of the ,, Germans arid this, ie what* he. tells his countrymen.:, ..'' Rather than submit to a Prussian- conqueror iri this, country, our men, like those of old, would put their wives and children upon a funeral pyre and die fighting; but we shall not need to make any such .sacrifice, for America is going to be a united nation. We. are goiijg to win this war and down the Prussian autocracy* arid send, the stay-spangled banner floating up Unter den Lirideri m Berlin. But remember we are fighting ;;, the most , treacherous nation in 'the world. « It is hard indeed," added Mr Oerard' s .#to realise the yastriess of the war m which we. are-;'in-volved. Coming from Berlin T found it hard to believe there was any place m the *^orld4ree ;^; from cruelty find treachery. Do you know that if you were iio take the bodies of those fallen m battle alone and put them, m line, head touching heel, those bodies would rea'ptt from New York'to San Francisco; another line would <rfeacih back fjbo New York', 'and back again half way across the country to Denver. I. wish I could take the man "who is responsible and drive him along such a calvary of bodies scourging and lashing him at every s^tep. You all guess the name of 'that .man. : The ; prisoners of wai" 'in the various .countries number between four million and five million. * Wlien I -speak of the number, killed, that does not count the whole nations wiped from the face of the earth. The Tui-ks have massacred millions, with the. approval <of-- their allies, the Germans. A great portion of: Serbia and Montenegro is gone. Only, •after the war is over' will we know the horrors , and miseries suffered, .by ,-* the people of Poland 1 . For a year and) a half before I left Germany a man m Poland who . could find a dog to. eat was considered . fortunate above ..his fellows. Suppose you, a man of family, go home to-night and find yoiir wife -and "two daughters have disappeared, and no one coyld tell where they have. -gone except tliat a- "file of German troops' came and carried theni away! That's, what happenedl yto Northern France., which has a civilian population of about 2,000,000.'" Another man who has greatly influenced American vopiriion is Mr Lahe, the Secretary ot "the'' Interior who has made r -- a strong indictment of the Germany that/ "seeks to master vthe, world with high fexplrisi yes and" 1 low intrigue^' Mr * Lane m a< recent speech declared that America was ' making "full Steam ahead- iri tile Var"- and' would continue fighting until tlie world has no cause to fear Kaiseiifcm. Mr Lane spoke at * the opeiiin'g' session of, the war conference of the : Ohairiber pf . Commerce of the. United States. .''We iare determined on ivavy That is settl'ecl>'' he said. ''Tlie Americair people have determined) to resist thei" bggressaon of a • Germany i :that broke, herj rvybrd with us, ha; Germany ■ that nought jM,. start revolution inside, owy. own;*; borders,,. a Germany that sought • to, bring enemies upon us from the outside while wo wete at peace with her, a Germiiny .that, m violation ,of her own word, sank the ships thai we sent, to feed the starving Belgians ; • a Geririany whose national policy was to teach, each nation to distrust every 'other nation, whose military policy was to spread' terror, whose, naval; policy was to prey upon neutrals." He declared Germany is "an organised ambition that is hostile f to , the world's peace" .»aiid that is the' enemy- of the world. "If there is: a- better Germany inside of her arid she' will show it, she can again be; restored) to the family of nations. But we have determined that we will fight the Germany that is revealed, the spying, intriguing, terrorising Germany." ; America's; action m confiscating the property of Germans stored up. m the Ufnited, States is -perhaps the greatest economic blow that Germany has yet received. German interests during the last ,three ; years have purchased | immense . . quantities . .of ..Cotton, .copper, oil, and other products, whicli have been hjeld'hi readiness for ,ths day the war terminates when, : these. . commodities would 'be serit forward into . (Germany to enable the Huns to immediately, build up their, great riianufacturing industries arid recomriie'nce comiriercial ojperations. With the sequestration of all this raw matpria} German Jiopes.of post-war trade reconstruction;, will ; vajiisih. y TJje'yalue Of the articles seized goes to swell tfie Liberty- Loan arid will,- -materially help the finance, of the Allies. .< America is rendering valuable assistance by backing up the British blockade and refusing to supply foodstuffs to countries, such as Holland which aro suspected „ o^Jiot, „I'playirig tlie game." The American army is rapidly _^l[i»g;in huml»i^ and f General Pershing has several divisions m France quite fit and ready toytake their place m the fine whenever tlieir services are required* American factories are working at high ■• pressure manuf acturiiig munitions and aeroplanes, aviators are being trained' m large numbers, and by the spring it is expected to have large squadrons of aircraft available to play a very important pfcrfc. m ■ the subj ligation of the enemy. • Altogether America is working hard, and with inimpqse enthusiasm, for a complete arid lasting victory.