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:10 THE FATIIERLAND
The Fatherland
x FAIR PLAY FOR
‘Germany and Austria-Hungary
Edited by
GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK
FREDERICK F. SCHRADER
European Representative:
LOUXS VIERECK, Berlin, Suedwest Korso 8.
A weekly ,ublished and owned by The international Monthly, H23 Broad-
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‘for unsolicited contributions.
Copyright, 1914, by The International Monthly, inc. Entered at the
‘Post Office, New York, N. Y., as Second Class Matter.
When you have finished reading this number,
don't lay it aside, but pass it on to your Americ-
an friends who may be anxious to know the
other side of the great European conflict.
mas, LIES, LIES.
. F we are to believe the mendacity mills of St. Peters-
‘ burg and London, the German Army is bent on car-
rying out on a large scale the theory of a pessimist philo-
sopher, Eduard von Hartmann, who advocates universal
suicide. First General Emmich after "wasting" the lives
of 45,000 Germans before Liege, committed "suicide.”
"The fact that he conquered an almost impregnable
fortress with small loss of life after a few days siege
‘was never brought out in the dispatches of the All-lies.
Even to this day many American readers are under the
impression that the gallant general is dead. This belief,
needless to say, is not shared by the general. After
that we were told, that a troop of German soldiers shot
at themselves in Louvain and that the city was destroyed
‘-to cover up this blunder. As a matter of fact the city
did not meet its deserved fate, being only partially
‘demolished, as a punishment for the “snipers” who
-cowardly attacked and mutilated German soldiers.
‘We also heard that one hundred German Socialist lead-
ers were shot by the Kaiser and that one hundred Polish
leaders met a similar fate in Austria. We realize
‘some, including the Socialist leader Dr. Franke,
were shot, but at the front, and by the enemy. The last
piece of “news” made to order in St. Petersburg in-
forms us that one portion of the German navy at-
tacked another portion in the Baltic, and that several
ships were sunk in the ensuing engagement which lasted
several hours. How long will American readers permit
the newspapers to feed them such pap? The capture of
vltlaubeuge when reported by way of Sayville was denied
again and again in official reports from Paris and Lon-
don. It was not until the l9th of September that the
German dispatch was verified by London. The Sa)fVme
station is the only source of reliable information.
GREAT BRITAIN REIPRIMANDS PRESIDENT
WILSON. '
S IR LIONEL GARDEN, formerly Great Britain's
representative in Mexico, now on his way to his
new post in Brazil, severely reprimands President Wil-
son for his order withdrawing our troops from Vera
Cruz. The British diplomat does not hesitate to char-
acterize President Wilson's action as “a shame." The
’ interview is printed in the New York Sun and is
vouched for by one of that newspaper's ablest reporters
and two of his colleagues. The subsequent perfunc-
tory denial by Sir Lionel isn’t taken seriously by an)’
one acquainted with the editorial integrity of the New
York Sun, and this minister's past record for import-
inence toward the President of the United States. .
English warships have seized and destroyed the mail
of American citizens addressed to Germany without‘ re-
gard to neutrality, in flagrant violation of the conventions
of international law. This act of piracy is almost a
casus belli.
Evidently British statesmen look upon the United
States as a province of the British Empire‘
Else they would not dare to strain to the break-
ing point the neutrality proclaimed by President Wilson.
But they are making their reckoning without their host-
Possibly their information on American sentiment is
derived from such publications as Colli'er's Weekly 9’
the New York Times. They forget that they will have t0
take into account the American people. They may ha“
succeeded in wresting the Panama Canal from us by
legal trickery, but they will find us ready to defend tile
rights of our citizens today as in 1812. Already Publfc
opinion in this country is veering around. We begin
to see the ally of Japan, our arch enemy, in her true
light. We know that Great Britain is equally desirolli
of thwarting our plans for an efficient merchant mannt
as she is determined to destroy the commerce of Ger-
many. Great Britain may have the right to destroy Ger‘
man commerce because she is at war with the Germa“
Empire. But her iron fist is raised, though gloved with
. the silk of hypocrisy, to nip in the bud, even in times of
peace, our plan of acquiring by purchase a fleet of
American bottoms. . .
Who doubts that Great Britain if she succeeds 10
annihilating German commerce, will next turn her at‘
tention to the United States?
IRELAND’s ANSWER.
By PETER GOLDEN.
LING Ireland's rebel answer to all the winds that b10Wv
No treaty with vile traitors, no friendship with the f0‘-