WHO ARE THE HUNS?

212 The Triple Entente's Vendetta of Lies.
of 20 years, and kept her a prisoner in a castle in the neighborhood
of Nuremberg. The army of Luxemburg consists of
200 volunteers; the mighty German army deprived this body
of its leader, despite its complete insignificance. The Commandant,
Major van Dyck, and the officers, io in all, were shot
and the soldiers transported as prisoners to Germany."
This nonsense was even denied officially by the Germans.
And yet another leading Italian journal repeated this impossible
rubbish! It was the same system by means of which
the Italian people were hounded into the war. The English
press, to be sure, used methods that were still more unspeakable. x
I wish to emphasize this fact : I am in no sense an Anglophobe.
On the contrary—quite apart from many intimate
personal relationships—I was, up to the 4th of August, a most
unqualified admirer of English colonial work and English
political systems. It is still painful for me to think to-day
that the people of Shakespeare and Byron could sink so abysmally
low as now to warrant only the hatred and contempt
of all Germans. The English incendiary gutter press is chiefly
responsible for this, and it is upon its head and those of the
few well-known leading demagogues that the blood-guilt for
this horrible war must fall.
Where hatred such as this is sown, a dragon's brood of
inhuman barbarisms is sure to arise. The state of mind in
England to-day is no whit better than that of France in its
extreme fanatic excitation. This is shown by such verses as
the following which appeared in the "Daily Graphic" of London
on August 20th. This is a paper which is one of the favorite
sheets of Christian England. The doggerel jingle reads:
"Down with the Germans, down with them all!
O Army and Navy, be sure of their fall !
Spare not one of them, those deceitful spies,
Cut out their tongues, pull out their eyes!
Down, down with them all!"
The consequences of such vicious agitation are merely an
increased hate on the other side, and the firm resolve not to
rest until the enemy is crushed to earth. Thus, in maniacal
1 Sven Hedin, for instance, says: "The English press is one systematic
Lie," and establishes this annihilating judgment beyond all refutation.