For  commercial  advantages  and  for  plunder
Germany  did  not  hesitate  by  fraud  and  crime
to  plunge  the  World  into  the  most  terrible  of  all
wars  at  the  complete  and  final  sacrifice  of  her
German  honour.  She  does  not  hesitate  to  sacrifice
all  in  order  to  satisfy  the  personal  ambition  of  her
Hohenzollerns  and  secure  commercial  advantages
and  plunder  for  the  Fatherland.
History  will  record  the  total  absence  of  all
principles  of  honour  and  the  absolute  indifference
which  Germans  have  for  Germany's  good  name.
Germany  has  not  even  now  declared  her  War
aims  ;  she  has  so  far  wriggled  out  of  replying
to  the  question  and  stubbornly  refuses  to  an-
nounce them,  as  we  have  declared  ours.  Why  ?
Because  her  aims  are  elastic  and  she  intends  to
loot  what  and  where  she  is  able.  Her  "  sharp
sword  "  is  to  hack  its  way  through  the  rights  of
others,  and  her  "  trade  offensive "  and  her
""  trade  policy  "  are  to  follow  in  the  wake.
Official  action  has  been  taken  here  which  must
hit  Germany  very  hard  after  the  War.  She  will
no  longer  get  her  raw  materials  which  she  has
hitherto  had  from  Great  Britain  and  her  Domin-
ions, and  Germany's  dyes,  etc.,  are  no  longer
to  come  here.  But  the  unofficial  action  of  the
peoples  themselves  will  tell  quite  as  severely  on
•Germany's  pocket,  in  the  recesses  of  which  her
honour  dwells.  Germany's  greatest  punishment,
after  the  War,  will  be  that  her  "  trade  offensive,"
•except  with  her  friends  the  Turks  and  Bulgarians,
and  perhaps  her  friends  the  Bolshevists —

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"  GOTT    MIT    UNS  "  ;    OR,    GERMANY'S    WAR    AIMS.
