THE GERMAN WAR LOAN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14697, 31 August 1915, Page 6

THE GERMAN WAR LOAN.

MISLEADING ADVERTISEMENTS*" AMSTERDAM/ August 301 Advertisements in the German news-, papers urge the peoplel to sell thenforeign stocks, especially American, to support the war loan, which is an,excel-' 2 ' lent investment, as victory, is now ' more certain than ever, GERMAN PRESS CAMPAIGN CRITICISED BY DUTCH PRESS. ROTTERDAM, August 30. The German -propagandist .■ campaign in Holland lias had results similar, to -these; of Herr Dernhurg in America: The newspapers regard it as a mean action to steal and publish secret documents from the archives of Brussels. The general opinion is that they have proved the. absolute correctness of Belgium diplomacy. DUTCH NEUTRALITY. MB CHURCHILL’S VIEWS. NO FEAR FROM ALLIES. An'"lnterview with Mr Winston Churchill recently appeared in the Dutch newspaper Nienwe Eotterdamsche Couraut. The writer, after describing Mr Churchill’s personality, says;—-“I was struck several times, how. with a single gesture or a, couple of imaginative words-woven into his’ unstudied conversation, he called up a groat rhetorical picture. Such:'as when he spoke in broken sentences of ‘the wild beast in its cage.’’ ‘The Haines',approaching' from all sides nearer and nearer,’ ‘Savage .’attacks left and fight,’ < : r when he raised his ha,nd and pointed to the ‘Chastised criminal as, a fearful example.’ “I was no less struck by the undeniable sincerity and emotion with which he spoke of the terrible sacrifices that Eng-' land has already-made for the .principle of the right of the small nations to exist. ;-Mr Churchill did not conceal from mo his opinion, that geographically and ptrategetically, the territorial arrangement .of the mouth of the Scheldt appeared to ■him unnatural. Without a .doubt it h-d done harm to the cause of the Allies."' “If-Antwerp. had been able to’obtain transports along the Scheldt, it need not, have fallen, and the Belgian Army would have been able to maintain its position ;cn the Netho line instead of on the Ysm'line., I said it was not everybody ip the Netherlands that was of this opinion, and ;Mr Churchill did not contradict me when I pointed out that the disadvantages' of jour command over the Scheldt did not hit exclusively at one party, seeing that at the moment it held Antwerp closed for the Germans. ' “‘But"however this may- be,’ he said, -‘don’t understand me wrongly. I don't mean any reproach. If the Netherlands had allowed this violation of. its neutrality, it would have been attacked > and .perhaps occupied for a great part by the German Army. This would have been a sacrifice that nobody ■ has' any right fa ask or to expect of the '-Nctheulands.. Nnbodv -has any right to reproach the Netherlands for its neutrality. As a-n independent State, it lias to consider its own interests, and it has the fullest right to act in accordance with - Them, . . “ ‘Have we not given The proof that we recognise that right?'''-At a most critical moment wo Im-vC carefully respected it. . . .a-.,t00 , ‘‘‘l need not explain <to a Dutchman that Belgium in the-.hands of t-hc Germans would moan an ()p,d, -of -, the -independence of the Netherlands. A free Netherlands cannot- exist with a Gorman Antwerp. ,But .these-•arc.-,affairs on which your statesmen and your own, people .must decide. In. the meantime .there aro possibilities of real danger. Germany may be forced to attack Holland, Germany is getting into the position of a , wiki beast ,iu its page, that ,-sees The flames coming nearer and nearer,, and makes desperate dashes left apM right. Fortunately, yon have a. good and brave army, and then your wonderful water-line. “.‘ln any case you will Understand that we who have put ourselves, forward n;i the champion of the oppressed small, na-, "lions can do nothin" to touch the undeniable rights of another small nation. And you understand also that after this war, when we have brought it to a victorious endr—and that, we shall certainly do —the position of the small States will lie stronger than ever before,. The criminal that has thrown .himself upon little Belgium will stand after Iris chastisement, as a fearful example. What you now say,. that some people in Holland fear, namely, .that in the Peace Congress when the Allies lay down the 'terms, there may be,, some talk of a proposition to the Netherlands to give ,up Zeeland and Flanders in exchange for a piece of Gorman territory in East Friesland or something of that sort—peace is -still such -a long way off—these affairs have been scarcely, if at all, spoken of. But, once more, it would be against. the very, essence of our cause to treat: badly a.country such as the Netherlands, or now or later, under any circumstances,--.to, coerce it. whether by force or threats, in any way whatever.’”