we who have first violated the
neutrality of Belgium. Belgium, as we feared and as we now, informed by
the actual facts, see still more clearly, was for a long time in
alliance with France and--with you. France's airmen were flying over
Belgium before we marched in; negotiations with France had already taken
place, and in Maubeuge there was found an arsenal full of English
munitions which had been stationed there before the declaration of war.
This arsenal--you know where Maubeuge is situated!--points to agreements
which Great Britain had made with France, and to which Belgium was also
party. These agreements are before the whole world today, for the chain
of evidence is complete and the treacherous plot of Great Britain is
revealed. She has encouraged and pledged the Belgians against us, and
therefore it is she who must answer for all the misery which has been
visited upon that poor country. Had it been our responsibility, not a
single hair of a Belgian's head should have been harmed. If, then, the
Belgian wrongs like those of Servia are only the flimsiest pretexts for
Great Britain's declaration of war against us, there remains,
unfortunately, no other reason for this declaration of war save the
intention of your statesmen either to destroy us or so to weaken us that
Great Britain will rule supreme on the seas and in all distant parts of
the world. This intention you personally deny and thus far I must take
your word for it. But do you deny it also for your Government? That you
cannot do, for the facts have been brought to light; when Great Britain
determined to join the coalition of Russia with France, which is ruled
by Russia, when it put aside all the differences that stood between her
and Russia, when it set upon us not only the hordes of Russia but the
scrupulous Japanese, "the yellow peril," and called upon all Europe,
when it also sunk in the ocean its duties to European culture--for all
of that there is but one explanation: England believes that the hour for
our destruction has struck. Why does she wish to destroy us? Because she
will not endure our power, our zeal, our perfection of growth! There is
no other explanation!

*Lifting Humanity.*

We and Great Britain in alliance with America were able in peaceful
co-operation to lift humanity to a higher plane, and to lead the world
in peace, allowing to each his rights. We Germans, now know no, and have
never known any, higher ideal than this. In order to rea