THE COLOR LINE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 31 October 1914, Page 4

THE COLOR LINE.

The ravings of Count Bernstorff and Herr Deni burg against the intervention by the Japanese are thus replied to by the New York World: “In an article printed in the Independent Count Bernstorff expresses himself as ‘unconditionally’ opposed to the use of Asiatic and African troops in the European war. This is a curious prejudice on tlie part of a diplomatic representative of a Government that is seeking to bring Turkey into the conflict and trying to persuade the Turk to instigate a holy war in Egypt and India, it is natural enough that Great Britain should bring up her Ini dian troops .who, by the way, are as completely identified with the Aryan race as tiie Prussians, but, no matter what their race may be, they are part of Great Britain’s regular military power. If Germany wore at war with the United States her troops would have had to meet our negro cavalry, than whom there are no better soldiers in uniform. The German denunciation i of the Indian troops is as futile as the German denunciation of the Japanese as ‘yellow bellies.’ It is too late to draw the color line in the war.”