A GERMAN'S LETTER.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13744, 6 April 1915, Page 8

A GERMAN'S LETTER.

A remarkable letter (says the London "Express") has been rocoi/ed by an English professional man irons a German now in Hamburg \vbi» H'-«i for somo years in England nun --.vax on terms of close friendship v.-\U.i this particular Englishman The letter came by way of 'Italy, it Kays: — "There was no reason for GiwU: Britain's interference. Yor.v htatc-smeu professed lip friendshiy> to <ak. Cp k> the last moment Si- 'JWvnirv! C:-:-y iod us to believe that vive:-J\ JJiiUiwi would remain neutral. Then, when v n /-ere embroiled with both Russia and Trance, 'you sid^l with or.r cneiaios. "Never in the history of t«e wovld has a nation made war for a meaner cause, and the hatred that wo h:ive for | Great Britain is The hn.tm.l that a natior. of idealists naturally ft:rl; for . unsci upulous, pettifogging hucksters. The crime deserves ;m j»d<-'V' l nU'> puji-: ishmynt. Germany is fij/htiug i'or l\er life, and it is idle to eup:>os-> that she will fight in kid gloves. She is more than justified infusing ull the means devised- by the nigenuit-y of her sons to compass the niin of her foes. Your denunciation of our 'barbarities' leaves us entirely unaffected. We rejoice at the killing of ©very single- Englishman and at the loss of every British ship.We remain cold if a few women and children, are killed by our air attacks on your cities. This is a war to the

knife, nation against nation, and it can only end in the destruction of tho race that lias for centuries been the pirate of the woi'ld. "li you and I •woiv. to meet, friends as we were onco, I would not raise my little finger to save your .life, and, indeed, "I. would do my,utmost to cause you to lose it, because, as. I have said, you are an Englishman. "To your gracious wife and children, who1 had no" part in. making this war, I serid my respects. They are not responsible, though they may suffer. But so, too, do we suffer. If you could see what your war on our innocents has done, how our poor arc being slowly .stanod to death by your food war, your heart would harden. So, then, too, if your wife and children suffer, do not turn to us for sympathy. You are responsible. You are a man wlio could have li Tied up his voice toi protest. You did not. Therefore, all the pent-up hatred which we have for your dastard country is also for you. "May you all perish in misery. "C. yon S."