ALONG ROAD TO BERLIN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 6

ALONG ROAD TO BERLIN

Sergeant Clay, a .Todmorden member of the' Scots Guards, in a letter home, says:— . ■■ ..:'.' "We are not fighting men, but fiends,' but we shall rid' , tlie world for ever of the power of this hellish, sneering despot. There will be battles in Germany that will make Mons, Marne, etc;, appear insignificant. Germany, as you are aware, is very strongly' fortified; and you can bet they will contest the ground inch by inch, and the road to Berlin is a long one. Victory will certainly crown the efforts of the Allies; but it will be, no\easy thing. England needs all the men she can possibly get. It,is the, duty of every able-bodied man to bo over here. It will bo a .far better world when a few of these beasts are wiped out of it. The more the merrier, and the sweeter tho air."

Our Greytown correspondent reports that Mr. T. Sullivan, in the employ of Messrs. Hutton'and Syvester, met with an accident while going out on a survey yesterday morning. When, nearin<j Stoney Creek the brake overturned, and the wheel passed over his- neck, A. car was sent, and'the man is now in the Grey town Hospital. . The policy speech delivered by Sir Joseph Ward might very well bo termed ''the paste-pot and, scissors policy," because practically the whole of it' was taken from the Reform Party's legislation and utterances, and occasional,cuttings' from the Red Feds' platform.— Mr. D. Jones, Reform candidate for Kaiapoi. For seven years he had vainly endeavoured to get a young woman—' an orphan—into the telephone esehange, the reason being that? he did not possess sufficient influence with the Minister under the previous Administration. Exception was supposed to be made in the case of orphans, but when ho became Postmaster-General, lie found that some applicants had'been waitiua; seven, eight, or nine years, and there seemed no likelihood of them getting appointments. He had decided that those longest on the list should liavo priority, making an exception in respect to a certain number of appointments for orphans. (Applause.}— Hon. R, H. Rhodes on the necessity for the Public Service Act.