Germans In Shame Turn On The Krupps.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 21, 1913:
No Defense of Selfish Manufacturers of War Scares — France Astounded.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, April 20.— Every political topic in Germany is for the moment overshadowed by "the Krupp revelations."
    The Vorwärts publishes to-day the text of instruction sent by the Deutsche Munitions-und-Waffenfabrik to its Paris agent, instructing him to "leave no stone unturned" to persuade some popular French newspaper to publish a statement that France intended to double her orders for machine guns, the object being to persuade the German Government to give machine gun orders to the Deutsche Munitions-und-Waffenfabrik. Not even the strongly Conservative press are able to conceal the fact that the scandal is one of the gravest ever revealed to the Reichstag. The Kreuz-Zeitung openly abandons the attempt to defend the Krupps. The Vossiche-Zeitung publishes this plain statement from a Reichstag member, Herr Heyn: "We have every reason to grieve, and be ashamed that such things are possible in Germany."
    Under the title, "Sheer Lust of Gold," The Morgenpost publishes one of the angriest articles ever seen outside the Socialist press. It says:
    "Behind all this fabricated war talk stands either a class of reaction or, more sickening still, a sheer lust of gold."
    It explains how army and navy societies sprang up to preach war with the unconcealed financial assistance of the armor plate firms, how files of pensioned officials steadily perambulated through the country preaching war, how the armor firms subsidized German newspapers to conduct crazy campaigns of hatred against France and England, and how these same firms sold weapons to the German Government at higher prices than to the nations their press were paid to abuse. It winds up:
    "The armaments' factories pay 30 per cent. dividends, but the German taxpayer is treacherously sold."
     The Lokal-Anzeiger devotes half its review of the week to criticism of the Prussian War Minister, and intimates that his resignation would be acceptable.

Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Monday, April. 21.— Dr. Liebknecht's revelations concerning the Krupps' connection with the manufacture war sentiment in Germany and France has produced a profound sensation in Paris, but comment is rare.
    With regard to the assertion that an article on the new mitralleusses for the French Army had been printed in a French journal in order to foment agitation in Germany for an increase of German armaments, The Figaro denies that any such suggestion was ever made to it. Dr. Liebknecht mentioned that journal. It challenges the German Socialist to give the date of issue and the precise article wherein he thought he discovered any allusion of the kind.