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Show PERFIDY V German sold er wntins tome ays We espec ally apprec ate the news umcernrajr the Enl sh Our bate for these perf d ous fellows is uni ersal and much greater than our feel ng aaanst the iren h E crybody wants a nance to ge at them and Ood ha e arcv on th f they Ret before our rifles from s they need expe t none TIere was a t me when ingland re d nd and perhaps deserved the t tie of Perfid oua Albion Treat es were uot always as zealously upheld by Eng land as they are now Some English statesmen took the v ew that treaties vcrc to- be observed only when Eng land derived the benefit AJ1 natrons have some blots upon their, escutcheon If we wish to de 1- noonce the English as perfidious vre iLeuf in? justification- in history but IL ft &w,ans who denounce England a jBsfadltaeVe into" ther war do not hate the KsSsfeEsh beeauae of any ancient sins Kjte,Uil? tb?I"tave in mind some pres BgKgpilt; that appears very black and Sfii; before their rage dimmed yjs on Neuange to say the casual on gimaljlei lb appreciate the Ger ESHjPie first Qnie in almost a cen Bluui English, have gon into war Qfl&llsjlii yth, exceptions so rare as HsSlSarcely worthy of note abso-rarliDanimous abso-rarliDanimous m the opinion that HExrar is righteous- Bot the Germans BEBffi&dldw from la ser to eommon KoEnEian5 from professor to peasant HffeKhurling ths epithet perfidious' OpSe El glish and by the English Hgjfgiftan the Scotch the 'Welsh -and Bra erica o s could understand the use HEfthi djoctive if it were applied to KEn'ia which was slow to punish the RjlnSajieins- of the Austrian granl duke K would be nnderstandable if applied F" to Bussia which mobilized while hold iH out hopes of peace to the Germans but there was nothing on the surface of the negotiations to place England in the wrong Her cause of war was com plete when Germany invaded Belgium after denouncing the guarantee of Bel gian neutrality as a mere scrap of paj er What is it then that the Ger man finds perfidious in Eng sh con duct at this timet They that the English were leal oua of Oeru any s prosper! y of her ommer e with other nat ons and of ber grow ng navy But the Germans nee equal! v jealous of England s prosperity pros-perity England s commerce and Eng land s na al ontrol of the sea They sav that the Engl sh were onlv wait ng a than c to destroy the German navy but for c&"8 the o f ers of the Ger man na v had toasted The Day ean ng the day when they should have au opportun ty to destro the Eng! sh nav Jf the Engl h were perf J ous in the r det una the Germans were cquallv perf 1 o s n ha bor ng the same des gns ltbongh the Germans ns st and will ont nue to ns st that England a mo t ves are base h story s apt to ludge almost ex lus elv by the oegot ations wh h took pla between the Engl sh am. Germao fore go ff tes w th refer e e o Belg um f he neutral ty of Eel uu had Veen (.uaraotee bv Lng land and 1 y toe k ngdom of Pruss a The German em re nber tel Pruss a s obi gat on ust di a f rm wb h takes er a I us ness nber ts the 1 ab 1 t es a ell as the ass s of that us ness t in i x f n a ng Bel n 49 that sh must rush Frau e k y so as to le ab e to str k at Huso a The German ban ellor a 1m t I t) at th s was a w ong tut he sa d lat t the wa t w ul 1 te repa reJ It as o ? n e o break he tr(at an I h b k t It was to Iran c s Dterest n 18 to break the t cat) n I she rl not break t Rather tbaD lae tb rl gbted fa tbv I pd h au rcodere 1 an a n ot 1 npo wh h 1 1 ba e ss the b Belg rr an 1 ont nue 1 to 1 gbt Ml thr tales of o r ra y wb h the m s arc ow r ula n were oot II u 1 af tie war br-gan and ually tr hat tbo accusation which represents Germany as seek og a cause of war as soon as at! bor n li turr prpart ons f forty threo years h I the r I max was not thoug t of n a o men e lhe u a o of a f ce pendent nat o t p e on be es he e ea n e o zen an 1 I e e a t on of nden s ea h nt oh o s of o a s f ou s peon e who ba o e no n e ex e o ght o e on es and f eelon deed va p 1 0 ondu ant e cu ho h e nans n ov h nk that b to s tv t em on 1 e heor hat hev we e gl t n lo the na o a ex s ence t 1 ef the Ge n an n ew ot he ta pon the r owu s anda d to ac c se ot yerf d a eople who are shed ng tl e blood an 1 expend ng the r wealth to defen the pi ghted fa th Perl aps the eal cplanat on of Ger man s lat el ot the Engl sh 1 es n the fact tl a 1 nglaud s entrance nto th war to eshadowed Cerman lefeat The C era ls felt erta n that w th the ass tan e ot us a thev o Id r oth 1 an an 1 F ss a b t when EDjJand en ere 1 the co est the e mans began to fear that no atte how courageous aud detern ncdlv they fought Engl ah wealth and Engl sh sol d ers and sea en would f nally turn the scale aga nst then |