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“:R’gpi,ll)llC.' Once more ;England bases
her. principles’ upon wrong:
‘ in thi; ease upon the unmoral aspects of the debtor's law. But this,
I nary commerce the rights of seizure at sea, the privilege of capturing
,0 jprizes and booty. The purpose, the end,‘ is ‘the same-the ruthless
‘ , annihilation of the opponent. And annihilation at any priccl And
, ,- fyet England does not see that she is merly digging her own grave.
' ‘Business as usual,’ exclaimed the English papers and this variety of
patriotism finds expression in England's every utterance."
“England's brutal action at home," continues Dr. Mueller, “found
at direct parallel in her Crown Colonies."
The policy of Great Britain, indeed, stood in violent contrast to
that of Japan in her interpretation of modern international law,
especially in the attitude of Japan after the capture of Kiao-chau.
‘Immediatelyafter the declaration of war by England, all male
German and Austro-Hungarian subjects in the Crown Colonies were
led away into concentration camps.
In November came the incredible news, at first from Hong-
kong, and later from the other Crown Colonies, that all Germans
had been interned there in Chinese prisons. Their businesses had
been placed in the hands of receivers and were to be sold at once.
chiefly to English competitors of their lirms.
1 German men and women, including missionaries in the German
‘:c0lonies',in West Africa were arrested and exposed to the ridicule
of thenegroes. The men were taken to concentration camps, and
. the women and children were given over to the care of blacks and
' transported like cattle upon freight steamers to England-
An announcement by the English Colonial Secretary in the
(African Mail of April 2, 1915, runs as follows:
‘ As announced in the Xress of February 17th. the business
H houses of German and ustrian firms have been closed upon
command of the government in Nigeria, the Gold Coast and
Sierra Leone, and officials appointed to supervise the liquidation-
The date to which those who have claims against the firms ma
-make them good has been postponed until the 30th of Apri .
The firms in liquidation are the following: (See the advertise-
ment in the New York Times.)
V ,‘ 3.-Germany’s Power of Retaliation
‘,v Germany needhave no fear of the future and she is justified in
‘ regarding all these ruthless trade and financial war-measures as
‘crass stupidityyand short-sightedness which are bound to inflict
fatal wounds upon English industry and English trade.
‘ ‘The, seizure of steamships belonging to private citizens of the
I nations with which she is at war bfEngland in English. POFIUKVGW ‘
V, and other ports, the confiscation of securities in branches of German
" banking institutions in London and other English cities, the seizure
"and attempted sale of private properties in the Crown Colonies,
A U merely show English desperation and a blind national hatred that
, ‘J " strikes at impersonal things which cannot hit back.
’‘ ‘But all these actions will hit back. Germany has not once issued
a protest against these confiscations of private property, which are
'.'in violation of all international law and the usages of civilized
=riations. Why?
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gs Because Germany has it in her power to strike back tcn-fold.
‘,Germany can seize, and undoubtedly already has seized, all English,
, French and Italian vessels in German, Austrian, Belgian, Turkish
. ports and the great Russian ports that are" in her possession to-day,
For every dollar’s worth of private property seized by England
inher Crown Colonies, Germany has the power to seize all private
‘property of her enemies in Belgium, in Northern France, in Russian
Poland, Courland, Servia, andiespecially in Turkey.
i,‘%‘- A reference to the Russian Year-Book of 1914 will show a great
list of English financial institutions and industrial concerns located
‘ ‘ in those parts of Russian territory conquered by the Germans. This
glist is wisely eliminated by the English in the Year-Book for 1915.
There are companies, such as the Anglo-Russian Cotton Factories,
capitalized at more than $5,000,000 which has about lost all to the ’
Germans. The Anglo-Russian Trust, Limited, has invested hun-
dreds of millions of English funds in Russian railways, docks,
‘harbors, water, drainage and light enterprises and in municipal
‘ loans‘ of districts in Russia now permanently in the hands of the
‘Germans. This company has underwritten $2,245,800 in 5% bonds
of.the city of Vilna, which is now a German possession. Nearlyall
"the great Polish cities in German hands are heavy debtors to Eng-
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. too, ‘will be found bound to have disastrous consequences for this
9 nation of tradesmen. It is really nothing less than applying to ordi-. ,
, Colonies fared? V
land,'I<‘raiice and Belgium,‘ and in them are located vaStLindustrial'
i gmcrpflscs owned by subjects of those nations. M b.
It is clearly seen that Germanyhas the whip-hand 'ovcr.her arch-
enemy, England, in this sort of business, and the realization of this’
makes the leaders of the British Government rage and strike. out
like madmen, to their owncventual undoing.
. 4.-England's Punishment - V: V
And England and her Crown Colonies are already feelingthe
punishment for their acts in violation of civilized la s. ,
Noel, Murray & Co., Ltd., one of the leading British housics in 0
Asia, report in their circular of August 17th, that their trade be-
tween Manchestcr and China is dead. They draw a dismal-picture
of the British cotton merchant, saying that the Japanese have ali-
sorbcd all British trade. . ' ‘R. s
The London Statirt of September 16th, the editor of which is Sir
George Palsh, lately financial adviser of the British Government,
predicts that Britain will suspend specie payments ll the W3!’ lasts
a year longer. The Statirt says: j , ‘
If the great cncral stalis of all the Ententc Allies can rea-
sonably assure tie British Government that the war Wlll not last .
much more than, say, six or eight months the Government
clearly ought not to exhaust its ingenuity before suspending
specie payments. On the other llillldhlf there are reasonable
grounds for thinking that the war will last throughout iicgct
year, and possibly longer, it seems safe to predict that specie
payments cannot be maintained to the end. '7
THIS MEANS ENGLISH BANKRUPTCY AND "THE RE-A‘
PUDIATION BY ENGLAND, FRANCE, RUSSIA AND ‘ITALY ,
OF ALL BONDS OF THOSE GOVERNMENTS SOLD‘IN"1'llE
UNITED STATES. .r ,.
Such are conditions in the home country. How have the Crown
We need only take Canada as an example-Canada, which interned
all her‘ German, Austrian and Hungarian farmers. This killed
all immigration, which is the life-blood. of the Dominion. More
than a year ago the western newspapers published long stories of
the thousands of American farmers, who had taken farms in Canada
a few years before, and were then streaming back across the border.
Most of these American farmers were of German descent or syru-
pathy. They, returned to this country for fearvof being drafted into
the British army What has been the result of this exodus and the
internment of a large portion of Canada's agricultural population
in concentration camps?
This table shows the latest returns to the Canadian ‘census I
authorities in regard to this year’: crops of wheat and other cereals,’
as published in Washington: ‘ V
Canada’s Crops Cut in Half ,
1915
1916
bushels bushels -
Final figures of wheat crop. . . . . . . . . . . ..‘ 168,811,000 376,303,600 ’
Final hgurcs of rye crop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,990,800 2,394,100
Final figures of barley crop. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,408,000’ 53,33l.300
Final figures of oat yield . . . . . . . .. . . f. . . 341,602,000 520,103,000 ,
Hundreds of tliousa ds of Canada's young men were forced to
enlist and fight for England. Most of them have been killed, taken
prisoners or have returned maimed, crippled andblind, to become
a burden upon the Dominion.
lierdcd in detention camps and will later leave the country. Immi-
gration has stopped. Western Canada is stricken as with a palsy,
Agriculture has withered. Land values have shrunk. Vancouver. i
which was to be Canada's great port on the Pacific, has lost half .
its inhabitants. ‘ ,
The Dominion's main source of income, her cereal crops, are C119
in half. And Canada is still spending more than a million dollars
3- <13)‘ on the war. Her pension list is enormous. She has borrowcd
million: in this country. Control of her great Canadian Pacific Rail-
WRY ls mortgaged to Wall Street, as collateral for the late $250,000,-
000 British loan. V .
Such is the well-deserved punishment that is befalling the British
Empire-the ruthless Hun, who has respected neither the mcn 3'"! ,
Women nationals of her enemies nor their private property,,and has
yiolated all traditions of warfare and international law.,since the
inception of the Great War. . L '-
A half million of American farmers, ‘ ‘
returned to this country. Thousands of agricultural workers are: -