What shall it be?
They, too, have but one enemy;
Whose work is this?
Belgium has but one word to hiss--
_GERMANY!_
Take you the pick of your fighting men
Trained in all warlike arts, and then
Make of them all a human wedge
To break and shatter your sacred pledge;
You may fling your treaty lightly by,
But that "scrap of paper" will never die!
It will go down to posterity,
It will survive in eternity.
Truly you hate with a lasting hate;
Think you you will escape that hate?
"Hate by water and hate by land;
Hate of the head and hate of the hand."
Black and bitter and bad as sin,
Take you care lest it hem you in,
Lest the hate you boast of be yours alone,
And curses, like chickens, find roost at home
_IN GERMANY!_
England Caused the War
By T. von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor.
_Following is the full text of the speech delivered by the
German Chancellor at the session of the Reichstag in Berlin on
Dec. 2, 1914:_
The Emperor, who is absent with the army, has charged me to transmit his
best wishes and cordial greetings to the German Reichstag, with whom he
is known to be united till death in the stress of danger and in the
common concern for the weal of the Fatherland.
Our first thought goes out to the Kaiser and the army and navy--our
soldiers who are fighting for the honor and greatness of the empire.
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