"The sincerity which our adversary denies to the proposals of the four allied powers will not lie conceded by the world to these demands if the world holds before its eyes the fate of the Irish people, the destruction of the liberty and independence of the Boer republic, the subjugation of Northern Africa by England, France and Italy; the suppression of Russian alien nations, and also the violation of Greece, which is without precedent in history.

CONDITIONS OF WAR WITH ENGLAND

"Against the pretended violations of the laws of nations by the four allies (Teutonic), those powers are not entitled to complain, which from the beginning of the war trampled on justice and tore to pieces the nations upon which it is built. England already during the first weeks of the war repudiated the London Declaration, the contents of which had been recognized by its own delegates as a valid law of nations, and in the further course of the war violated in the most severe fashion also the Paris Declaration, so that, by her arbitrary measures for warfare, a condition of lawlessness has been created.

"The war of starvation against Germany and the pressure exerted by England's interests against neutrals are not less scandalously conflicting with the rules of the laws of nations as with the commands of humanity." 