HARDEN INDTCTS GERMAN RULERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 7

HARDEN INDTCTS GERMAN RULERS.

LONDON, July 16. A sharp indictment of the rulers of Germany by Maxmilian Harden is contained in a current issue of Die Zukiinft. The holders of high offices, he is quoted as saying, when it seems, useful to themselves, profess to favor a new world order of democracy and national peace, but they really are only carrying on the tradition of the power of the sword. . "No high personage in the German Empire," hei says, "wishes to set up a League of Nations, adhesion to which has been declared by the States of North and South America, and representatives of England, France, Canada, Australia and India. Tlio continuance of endeavors to conceal this fact has become unnecessary since Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest. "Wo know what the enemy wants and we know that wo have a government which, calling itself Pan-German or whatever else it likes, only expects peace through the might of tho army and feeia certain of obtaining it in a short time. "Wo may be certain that no words of theirs will ever eain belief anywhere." Fraukly admitting the truth of the contention that America desires no territory, that her intervention means no material gain for her and even is bound to be extremely costly to her, Uerr Harden seeks to impress upon his readers the truth that America entered the war from idealistic motives. To these motives, ho says, many Germans aro blind and, accordingly, most Germans decry them. Hardem recognises the reality of danger to America from a victorious Germany, and says America's decision was bound to fall where it did fall whether the President's name was Hughes, Taft, Roosevelt, or Wilson.