January lo, 1918 
LAND & WATER 
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alx)Ut the same time as Mr. Lloyd George's oration. What 
must the world think of uS; exclaims the leader-writer of the 
Hamburgischcr Correspondent, when it hears the suggestion 
made that we must place force behind conscience. " German 
strength has made our existence possible," and on German 
strength, therefoK-, the Germans must continue to rely. 
In Count Reventlow's paper, a gentleman of the name of 
Max Lohan puts the matter more forcibly — on Christmas 
Day of all days : 
" Away with the World Conscience ! Down with the spirit 
of Universal brotherliood ! We must be led by the conscious- 
ness of German strength, whose watchword is ' ' More Power '. 
More German Power !" May a curse hght on those who reject 
this watchword." 
The Pan- German Party 
What manner of men are these Pan-Germans ? A ghmpse 
into their mentaUty may be afforded by' two illustrations. 
Early in 1914 a Pan-German wrote literally : " We do not 
hesitate blasphemously to declare, ' But now abideth Faith, 
Hope, Hate, these three ; and tlie greatest of these is Hate.' " 
A Pan-German organ explained that to love your neighbour 
as yourself, means to love your German neighbour, and the 
doctrine also implies that if a stranger attacks or insults you, 
knock him down. A Protestant clergyman of Charlottenburg, 
Dr. Karl Auer, in a pamphlet he has just published, roundly 
attacks the Pan-Germans for their heathenism, upbraids them 
for worshipping W^otan, accuses them of replacing the name of 
the Saviour by Balder. The Party is composed of extreme 
reactionaries, of men like Tirpitz, who wants to smash England 
and e.xpects the German people to go on fighting until his 
wish is reaUsed ; like the notorious Berlin cleric. Dr. Phillips 
by name, who publicly thanked God for the war ; like the 
comical Herr von Oldenburg- Januschau, who the other day 
told a meeting- of East Prussian junkers that if an equal 
franchise were introduced in Prussia, Germany would ha\e 
lost the war. 
These people are making frantic efforts to retain their hold 
on the ignorant country yokels ; and their ramifications ex- 
tend to the army. Here is an official notice put up in the 
convalescent home of the Res^erve Battalion of the loth 
Bavarian Infantry Regiment, in Ingoldstadt : 
" Comrades ! Everything is at stake ! Information is of the 
utmost imjxjrtancc. To bo ignorant in these times, when the 
Whole Future is being determined, is doubly shameful. 
Away then with ignorance and indiflference ! 
"From to-day let all of you without exception read the follow- 
ing real German papers, which are obtainable free of charge 
in the orderly room : The Muiichen-Angsburger Abendzeiluni; 
and the Deutsche Togeszeilung. Read them and pass them 
on to a friend." 
Ingoldstadt, 6, lo, 17, HABr.NiCHT, Captain. 
It should bo stated that the two papers named are among 
the most violent in Germany. >Jothing short of German 
rtorld domination will content them. And these are recom- 
mended to the soldiers. The Pin-Germans, however, do not 
always meet with the success they expect. At a public 
meeting of the Patriotic Party — an offshoot of the Pan- 
German gang — which was held in Frankfurt about ten days 
ago. Count Botfmiar addres.sed the audience in the best Pan- 
(ierman style, preaching the destruction of England and war 
until all Germany's ambitions had been gratified. A group 
lA disabled soldiers who were present interrupted the speaker 
l>y telling him to go into the trenches instead of making Pan- 
German speeches, and one of them raised his armless sleeve 
and asked, " How many more men are to be crippled and 
killed in order that the Pan-German war aims may be realised?" 
The Count could only say, " You simpleton ! Be quiet ! 
You don't understand anything about it ! " Which shows 
that the Count is no great debater. But it also shows what 
the masses in Germany are feeling. 
Party of Freedom and Fatherland 
Their latest attempt to organise against the Pan-Germans 
is a new Society — " The People's League for Freedom and 
Fatherland." The league has three main planks in its 
platform — to strain every nerve until the enemy's desire to 
shatter Germany is frustrated ; to reorganise the inner political 
conditions of the country forthwith ; and to cultivate a clear 
popular foreign policy with a view to establishing j^erpetual 
peace, securing raw materials and placing the development 
"tall nations on the basis of morality and law. A large number 
of workmen's, officials' and clerks' organisations have put 
their names to the manifesto of the League, which is also 
supported by a number of liberal-minded professors who 
( ommand some respect in Germany, men like Brentano, 
Herkner, Oncken, Reinecke, and others. (It should be noted, 
however, that the Pan-Germans can also boast of a professorial 
following). The new League bands together all those who 
are dissatisfied with the trend of events in Germany, who 
feel that victories are empty tilings if men hate the victors, 
who begin to realise that a foreign policy which has vmited 
practically the whole world against Germany must be wrong 
somewhere. This sentiment was cleverly expressed in a 
half column letter, published in the Frankfurter Zeitung 
of December i6th, and signed " Anton Erkelenz " (probably 
a pseudonym). The writer, in excellent Nietzschesque, sets 
forth Germany's present discontents. He wants the Germans 
to become a world people. But a people with the soul of 
slaves cannot become a world-people. The Germans must 
therefore change their character. "Were not the internal 
pohtics of Germany before the war a humiliating reflection of 
our character ? And can foreign policy be sound when there 
is no basis at home ? Who was to blame ? Our pastors 
and masters, who lacked the sense of world politics because 
their outlook was limited by the village pump. We were 
exceedingly proud of our organising capacity. But organisa- 
tion means submission, and submission is in itself no evidence 
of strength of character." What is wanted is perfect democracy 
and the breaking away from ancient traditions. The writer 
ends, in imitation of Nietzsche, by apostrophising his fellows : 
" O my brothers in factories and offices, you peasants and 
merchants and manufacturers, you women^ all of you who 
will bear the responsibility of the new order of Society, I 
greet you. You have my confidence ! " 
• But all this is far off as yet ; at best it may be but the straw 
which shows which way the wind is blowing. In the meantime, 
the Germans have not yet changed their character, and arc 
still content to remain within the meshes of militarism. 
What did their paper say about the truce with Russia ? 
Approval was general — it was humane, it showed Germany's 
goodness of heart, her true desire for peace, but, of course— 
and here the cloven hoof appears — " our plenipotentiaries 
were filled with the sense of our military strength." Even 
the Frankfurter Zeitung could not deny itself the pleasure o£ 
dwelling on this fact. " The Germans and their Allies spoke 
as victors." 
Crown Prince and Count Luxburg 
Two interesting items of news must not be left unrecorded. 
The first refers to Count Luxburg, the second to the Crown 
Prince. As the aftennath of the Luxburg affair, .some fifty 
of the largest Hamburg exporters who are interested in South 
American marj<ets have lodged a complaint against the Count 
with the Imperial Chancellor, blaming him for having, by his 
conduct, spoiled their business in Argentina and Brazil, 
and demanding the Government to punish him ! 
The German Crown Prince appears to have developed 
artistic powers. Before the war he was famous for nothuig, 
except, perhaps, the invention of a new kind of button. During 
the war his military talents have shone forth. He is, as 
everybody knows, the Commander-in-Chief of a group of 
German armies, and, as the semi-official Norddeutsche Allgc- 
meine Zeitung states, he has used his scanty leisure Jiours in 
sketching. A simple soldier's head might attract his eye, 
and a black and white drawing of singular merit perpetuates 
the prospect. The Prince also has a weakness for the various 
types of coloured prisoners, whom he has likewise honoured 
by his artistic attentions. These drawings are now being 
exhibited behind the lines, and it is intended to make a few 
of them available for publication in the illustrated papers. 
Possibly these artistic gifts of the Crown Prince may be here- 
ditary — it will be remembered that his father, too, in his 
palmy days, painted pictures. It will, however, be interesting 
to await the judgment of competent critics when the Crown 
Prince's efforts are made available for the German people. 
The Vossische Zeitung has recently published an article on German 
East Africa by Erirh v. Salzmann, who begins by speaking of the 
naturallaw, which leads the inhabitants of thickly populated coun- 
tries to seek new countries o\'er the seas, and by claiming for the 
Germans the same right as any other nation to expand. German 
East Africa, he says, is essentially German, and can never be an 
object of exchange, in the sense of the Vienna Congress, anymore 
than there can be any question of a bargain over Alsace-Lorraine, 
which was German from remote times. General v. I-ettow- 
Vorbeck's fame has spread to the darkest corners of the dark 
continent, where men now know that no power or cunning of 
the cnemv can overthrow the German eagle, and, although it may 
have disappeared temporarily, the (Country is hallowed and will 
remain German in the eyes of the natives for all time. 
The whole dark continent believes in the German cause. Wliat 
the German colonial troops have done in East Africa is of incal- 
culable value. Wc at home must beware of failing to recognise 
and appreciate the moral effect. The ethical value will be con- 
nected in future with the actual possession of the land in which 
it has had this effect. This country must remain German or 
Germany will have no further importance in Africa. German 
East .Africa cannot be an object of exchange. 
It is a. moral duty to hold it, although it may have fallen tcm- 
porarilv into the hands of the eaemv. 
