BERNHARDI ON ENGLAND.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13737, 27 March 1915, Page 5

BERNHARDI ON ENGLAND.

DEFENCE OF GERMAN POLICY

London, March 24

"The Times" publishes an article written by General yon Tiernhardi for the "New York Sun."

Discussing England's entry into t'aa war on the pretest of the violation of Belgium by Germany, he says: "England simply considered. Belgium a vassal State serving as a bulwark for England's position on the Channel. Nominally neutral, Belgium was submitting to the Allies' plan to march into Belgium to oppose the German right wing with French masses, Belgians, and 15,000 English. Belgium united herself to our worst enemies, undoubtedly under pressure from England, who is in every way responsible for the world war. She has kept Ireland in bondI age for centuries, she supported France in 'purifying' free Morocco, she enslaved India and Egypt, and seeks in conjunction with Russia, to subjugate weak Persia. "Yet this. State claims that a German victory would mean the subjugation, of the world. Every discerning, unprejudiced person will recognise th© hypocritical mask behind which she hidesj regardless of policy, power, or interest. '

"Exactly the opposite is the case. M German victory would mean the libera-

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tion of the world from the English yoke. The commercial rights of the world are being controlled by her blockade, and British cannon and English navalism hang like a sword of Dainoclea suspended above all peoples possessing a coast or trans-oceanic colonies susceptible of attack. "England is now* ruthlessly ridiculing international law, violating public opinion, and spreading false information through a "cable monopoly. 'America is not free from this violation. The entire telegraphic communication with Europe is subject to the British censor; all the ißeuter despatches arc coloured in keeping with British policy. Germany is compelled jto fight not only for her own freedom, but to struggle for the liberty of the old world from the English yoke.

"In the event of an Entente victory, England's chains would fetter all free movement in Europe, the state of her rulership of the sea would become more oppressive, and her monopoly of trade would bo used to a sharper extent to concentrate the world's treasures upon the British money market. France and Russia would then realise that they had fought England's battles, not their own."