Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-04-01 | Page 25 | German Press Angry at American Stand

GERMAN PRESS ANGRY ST AMERICAN STAND Attitude of United States Resented by Editors in the Central Powers. BARON IS INDIGNANT Says Contest One Between Teutons and Economic Forces Overseas. BERLIN, March 31. The entire Ger-, man press reseuts the stand' taken bj the United States against the unrestricted unrestrict-ed submarine war with great bitternes? and the government no longer makes any effort to check the auti-American tirades of the newspapers and politicians. poli-ticians. Even the most violent attacks on the American government, which formerly would have promptly been suppressed, are now freely printed with the permission per-mission of the censor and the nation is led to consider the entrance of the great American republic into the war as an unavoidable development of the evergrowing ever-growing world contlkt. One of the most bitter attacks on the United States was made by the Prussian Prus-sian deputy, Baron von Malzahn, in a speech before a meeting of the Pomeranian Pom-eranian conservatives at Stralsund. The baron called the United States the "patron saint of England," and charged the government at Washington with conspiring for the destruction of Germany to save and strengthen British Brit-ish world dominion. Sharp Words for America. "The war is no longer a struggle between be-tween the European nations," the baron said. "It has become a battle between continental Europe and the British-American British-American economic trust. This forces us to use all of our weapons against England, without regard for her American Ameri-can protector. "(jreat Britain must be brought to ner Knees, ana we Know mat tnis can be done. Between now and the next harvest the allies will have to import 7,000,000 tons of wheat and 4,000,000 tons of fodder. If they cannot do this they will be lost. "The law of self-preservation compels com-pels us to make all possible use of this situation, and we muBt not let anything or anybody prevent us from striking vital plows against our enemies. We fear God, but we are not afraid of America. ' ' "War against armed merchant ships in itself would be of little benefit under un-der ordinary circumstances, but it is the only means to reduce the British tonnage," ton-nage," the baron continued. "Great Britain will have to capitulate as soon as her tonnage is no longer sufficient for the import of foodstuffs and war materials. Berates Teuton Enemies. "The provisioning of our enemies begins be-gins now, and it has already been made very difficult, because their foodstuffs have to be brought mostly from Australia Austra-lia and South America. For the United Unit-ed States the prevention of the submarine subma-rine war has become a question of prestige pres-tige and we have to expect that America Ameri-ca will enter the war tq save England. "There is not the slightest doubt that the United States desires our destruction de-struction as much as Great Britain does. But if America really declares war against us then we will say with Frederick Fred-erick the Great: 'We do not care how-many how-many enemies we have; we only want to know where they axe. ' Our submarines subma-rines will be able to end the war in six months, no matter what the United States may do."