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First, the history of mankind does not report that the Negroes enslaved
anybody and kept him enslaved through a bloody regime five hundred years
long as the Turks, the German allies, did with the Balkan Christians.
Second, I never have been told that the Japanese are more barbarous
people than the Magyars.
Third, I doubt very strongly that there is any madman in the world who
will even try to make a comparison between the noble soul of India and a
blood-thirsty subject of Ferdinand of Coburg.
And fourth, if Kaiser William with the Prussian junkers should govern
Europe through the superman's philosophy and Krupp's industry, let us
hurry to open the door of Europe as soon as possible for the Chinese and
Japanese, for Indians and Negroes, and even for all the cannibals, the
innocent doves, who need more time to eat up one fellow-man with their
teeth than a trained Prussian needs to slaughter ten thousand by help of
his "kultur."
If England is doing anything right she doubtless is doing right in
mobilising all the nations, yea, all the human beings upon this planet,
cultured or uncultured, civilised or uncivilised, of every colour of
skin, of every size, to protest in this or another way against a
military and inhuman civilisation which is worse than the most primitive
barbarism of man. All the races of the world who are fighting to-day
with England against Germany may not understand either each other's
language or customs, religion or traditions, but they all understand one
thing very well, _i.e._ that they must fight together against a nation
which despises all other nations and tries to conquer them, to govern
them, to suppress their language, their customs, their traditions and
their belief in their own worth and mission in this world.
ONLY SOME ANECDOTES.
A Serbian detachment from the VIIth regiment had been ordered one night
to cross the river Sava to make explorations about the positions and
vigilance of the enemy. The soldiers prepared themselves to fulfil their
task with silence and depression. The commander of the detachment
remarked that and said:
"Yes, our task is very dangerous, my friends; we may die to-night,
but remember that English lords on the battlefield to-night are in
danger of death too for the same cause as we."
On hearing that the soldiers became cheerful.
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An officer said to his private: "If I should be kille
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