rites:

To honor our immortal heroes of Tsing-tau, and for the eternal
shame and reproach of the scoundrel nations, Japan and
England, I propose the following: Let the entire German press
scorn in the next fourteen days to permit the words
"Englishmen" or "Japanese" to appear in its columns and before
the eyes of our people and of the entire civilized world; but
instead, and invariably, let the word "Moerder" (murderers) be
used for "Englishmen" and the word "Raubmoerder" (highway
assassins) for "Japanese." For no other name will there be
hereafter among us for these greatest scoundrels of history.
Thereby care will be taken both for the present throughout the
world as far as the German language is heard and the results
of the German spirit are known, and also for future
historians, that the proper point of view shall be given
throughout eternity for the condemnation of these murderous
gangs accursed of God.

How different is the attitude of the Germans toward the French!

From a trench on the Aisne the following was written to the Heidelberger
Zeitung:

Four hundred meters from where we lie, likewise intrenched,
lie these wretched Englishmen, toward whom our people feel a
holy fury, while they regard the battle with the Frenchmen, on
the other hand, rather as a member of a university student
corps regards an honorable duel. I, too, am entirely of that
view.

The well-known psychologist, Prof. W. Hellpach of Karlsruhe, writes to
the Berliner Tageblatt from the field:

The German soldier, too, does not hate the French people.
Indeed, no one hates it. That is one of the most amazing
phenomena of this war--our inner relation to France. Daily and
hourly we hear words of disgust concerning the Russians, see
gestures of hatred against the Britons--but toward France
there is expressed amid all purely warlike antagonism a sort
of sympathy resembling almost a smiling love for a naughty
child which one feels obliged to punish because it has been
guilty of stupid but very serious misbehavior.

We must force France to its knees--perhaps more completely
than any of our other foes--but every one seems to hope that
after this, after this last lesson, France will come to her
senses and conclude a real peace with her German neighbor.
Even among the