WAR MEMORIES REVIVED.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18519, 17 March 1930, Page 9

WAR MEMORIES REVIVED.

German Captain’s Articles. RESENTMENT IN ENGLAND. (United Press Association—By Klcctrlo Tel egraph—Copyright.) (Received March 16, 11 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. Captain Gustave Luppe, a handsome retired German naval captain in the early forties, and now associated with the German cinema industry, has succeeded in re-awakening war memories in a good many quarters by striking U-boat articles in the “Daily Express.”

Captain Luppe is undoubtedly a perfervid patriot, and he views the ocean exploits of Imperial Germany from an angle perhaps unwelcome to British opinion. He tells how a German submarine travelled to America in war time, and the commander dressed in his Imperial uniform, went ashore and left a card with the port authorities. When he returned he resumed his working sweater and reached Germany safely, after covering well over 7000 miles, without refuelling or reprovisioning. “That,” writes Captain Luppe, “was a great advertisemer' It was intended as such,” but the thing which has aroused the ire of legions of correspondents, is the viewpoint on the Lusitania.

Captain Luppe agrees that the sinking will remain for future centuries, an historic event. He tells of the reception given to the Commander of the U-20, Captain Schwieger, when he got back into Germany a few days afterwards. “Shame,” said Admiral Von Muller, Chief of the Naval Cabinet. “I have nothing but contempt for you.” Yet shortly afterwards official opinion changed, and he was decorated with the Order of Merit, and became a national hero.

Captain Luppe adds that he knows the heated feelings in England over the Lusitania, but there were heated feelings in Germany about the Allied acts.

“As a German Imperialist,” Captain Luppe says, “I see no reason why the Lusitania should not have been torpedoed. She was a British armed cruiser, carrying ammunition and naval men. In fact she was a warship. If innocents were sacrificed, we simply deplore the fact that they were allowed to be aboard.”