GERMAN METHODS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 220, 2 October 1940, Page 8

GERMAN METHODS

HIGHEST ORGANISED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD SEVEN YEARS SPENT ARMING "We are faccd bj r an enemy who has behind him the largest, the most industrious,, the best disciplined and llie'most highly organised people the world," says the Mancliestei Guardian, "for seven years he has been building up his nnnsed sfrengtjh, exciting our derision by his avowed preference for guns over butter. He used a diplomacy in which audacity and trcachery are served by a system or espionage and intrigue such .as the world lias never known. In all countries, j enr and far, he has his agents who affect every kind of disguise. No detail of Fife is tdo small or trilling for their attention. Propaganda, suggestion and intimidation have been developed by.assiduous care to such finished arts that our easy, nonchalant methods look like a nursery gamo of hide and seek. Never in the history of the world has so much time, energy, intelligence and will been concentrated on one object—fliat of establishing the power of a system by ruthless force and universal' intrigue. That is the Leviathan with which we are struggling."

Hot Houses for Experiments. At the last meeting of the Ruakura Farm Advisory Committee, Mr W. L. Ranstead suggested that more progress might perhaps be made -\vitli the investigations in connection with "facial eczema" if experiments, were conducted in hot houses so as to enable the experimental sheep to b'e kept under the same artificial conditions as the pastures. In the experiments at present the pasture was being, irrigated to produce an artificial flush, he pointed out, but the sheep were living under conditions that, did not actually correspond with those producing a flush of grass.