BRITAIN’S BUND EYE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 11

BRITAIN’S BUND EYE

AN EXPOSURE OF GERMANY’S SECRET DESIGNS. (BY WILLIAM LE QUEUX.J. As one who was bold enough to warn Britain that Germany was plotting an intended war, and who for his pains was soundly trounceo in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister for daring to disturb the public mind, which our politicians had so cleverly lulled to sleep, I venture once again to put forward here a few glaring, indisputable facts, and to repeat a solemn warning. To-day the average man, who, after reflecting upon his daily newspaper, sees trouble ahead, finds our politicians worrying about cigarettes being purchased from automatic machines, and turning a blind eye upon the grave and imminent peril which is threatening our nation?. Why is this? It one asserts that Germany is bent upon a terrible and bitter r» venge, and is hourly plotting it, our politicians, the financial wire-pullers, with their cousins, the war-rich sharks, will jeer in derision. Bah! What can Germany do? they will ask. It is not what the Germans can do; it is what they are doing. None are so blind as those who do not desire to see, is a very old adage. Yet surely it was never more marked than at this moment. While our politicians wrangle before the bewildered electors, and the League of Nations chatter over unimportant factors in the international crisis, all Europe is laughing at Britain’s back seat, where the “sun never gets.” As one who spends half his days mostly on the Continent, I am able again to watch the clever game of Germany, and to gauge the poor opinon In which we are, alas! held by our Allies. PRO-GERMAN PROPAGANDA. There are tnree hard, impelling words that are even now deeply inscribed upon our war monuments —“Lest we forget!” Alas! we have already forgotten amid this wilful political juggling and the constant reassurances of our safety from any further attack by the Huns. German propaganda in Britain is again at work every hour, just as it was when we were assured in the House of Commons that there would be no war. Pro-German propaganda, Pro-German influence, Pro-German education, and Pro-German finance all flourish in our midst with just as great vigour as ever they did in 1914. The foolish ones, misled by the specious statements of our politicians, even though suffering in bereavement and in pocket by the late war, can never dream of the wonderfully ingenious system of German commercial espionage now spread in every walk of our commercial life. Berlin has no further use for either naval or military espionage. Our secrets are, in our supposed security all laid open to them. But in commerce there are thousands of secrets, our secrets of manufacture, the names and addresses of our foreign and even our home customers, our business methods, and our business friends and competitors—all helpful to the nation which intends, at all hazards, to crush us and rule the world. THE CLOAK OF SERVILITY. Germany to-day poses as our beaten foe, cringing, bankrupt, and flattened out. But surely any schoolboy reading the newspapers can see that her poverty-stricken and servile attitude is only a cloak to gain time In

order to complete those deep-laid' preparations for attack and conquest 1 which were commenced on the very day the Great War Lord scuttled i across to Holland. If Germany were honest, why should this cleverly-conceived network of commercial espionage be spread upon us? Why should financiers, many of whom are of HebrewTeutonic extraction, pull the strings of their puppets in Parliament? Why should the great poison gas factories be allowed to exist, instead of being dismantled and destroyed? Why should Germany be allowed to place huge orders for munitions of war in Denmark and Holland? Against whom are they to be used? Why, again, should the Huns, restricted by the Treaty of Peace to 400,000 tons of shipping, be allowed to increase It until to-day it is nearly three million tons? Shall wc ever know why our kidgloved diplomacy allows Germany to conceal such great quantities ol arms and ammunition? STARTLING DISCOVERIES. A friend who 13 one of the chief officials of the French Secret Service has just revealed to me certain amazing facts concerning Germany’s efforts and intentions. Certain secret agents of the French have been travelling for some months in Soviet Russia, unsuspected, in the guise of German workmen and have made a number of startling discoveries. At the remote little town of Balas hov, halfway between the River Don and the Volga, about five hundred mites west of Moscow, there is a secret experimental air laboratory set up completely by Germans, where some very remarkable experiments In allmetal aeroplanes, are being daily conducted by the most skilled German experts, flights being continuallymade over the broad plains unseen by anyone save a few ignorant mu jiks. It speaks volumes for French Secret Service work when one of Its agents has actually been working In the factory for two months, and has now brought back to Paris at least two complete designs of the latest and most formidable war ’plane invented for the purpose of dropping gas bombs. In addition, a giant aeroplane, with an effective flight of two thousand miles, has flown to the Urals and back with a large number of men on board and without alighting, as experiment for the construction of a most deadly craft capable of moving bodies of troops secretly and rapidly. This remarkable laboratory is closely guarded nigHt and day’ by Russian troops, no unauthorised person being allowed within a radius of two miles. The secret agent’s report is certainly most illuminating and alarming, for it shows conclusively that the Germans have discovered certain important secrets of aeroplane and helicopter construction of which neither the French nor ourselves have the slightest knowledge. SECRET EXPERIMENTS. Already we have been left far behind both in aeroplanes and in the manufacture and the use of the lethal gases, which must inevitably be used—thanks to their introduction by the Huns in the next war. A great experimental poison-gas laboratory has been discovered, established at a dreary and remote spot on the Dwina River near a little place called Krasnoborsk, about four hundred miles north-east of Petrograd. Here several well-known German scientists are daily at work. Not only have some most deadly lethal gases been invented, but also one which produces temporary insanity, while against another no gas

masks yet invented will protect the < victim. • Such are some of the truly' devil- ! ish methods which our dear friends, the Germans, intend to use in their ’ next secret and unexpected attaak. J But it is satisfactory to know that already two of the German experimenters have lost their own live* J in preparing their poisonous nix- < tures. False assurances of safety are si curse to our nation, and cleverly destined to destroy our patriotism. ; BLINDED BY POLITICAL ! JUGGLERY. In view of facts that I know, I-1 suggest that one day, without • warning, we may have a great fleet ’ of fast aeroplanes appearing over I Britain dropping bombs of the most deadly description. Many people f blinded by political jugglery may hesitate to accept such a view. Yet surely every man in his sane senses can see that Germany is sending her wealth abroad, especially South Am- • erica, in frantic haste, so as to ’ plead bankruptcy, and thus wriggle > out of the liabilities, while she is at the same time actively preparing for * another far more desperate attack upon us. In the near to-morrow the Gery, mans will have the wherewithal to > deliver from the air a staggering ‘ and decisive blow against us. But have we the means of bombing Berlin in retaliation wnth the same deadly and newly-discovered poison, gases as they would drop upon us? No! The German has his right thumb ever to his nose while Britain, thanks to the hush-hush policy of a certain sectlen of our politicians, turns its blind eye towards Berlin.— Sunday Post. s