ONE JUST ENEMY
i' ' HIS OPINION OF THE BRITISH. I;:;- 'The, French are.following withkeen i;: ; . interest; the . various manifestations of |;v Anglophobia in Germany, writes the ; "Daily Mail" special correspondent i from Paris: Tho other day 'great r ■ -prominence was given : to\ the dommcia-toons-of ■ Professor Werner: Sombart. . TJus'ias called'iorth: the'following interesting letter, from. M.. Henry Masi soul t-o the editor of tie "Temps":— . 1 '"Will y.ou allow -me to call the atten- | : tion of your readers.^who, with myself, [ , have just learned Herr, Werner Sombart's; opinion fo the , English . people to i the judgment of anbther German, foi.-. - mous ,in'the world.of letters? . I refer , to Gusta,v Frensson; whom the ' Germans themselves regard as their ereat- £», est .living novelist, arid whose' 'Joern \ Tfhl,*' for instance, las passed its 200 th ;.- edition. : '' : t "This is what Gustav Frenssen writes . in one of hia latest works, ■. ' Teter ! Moor,' page 14 (Peter Moor is e char- ! ■ aeter in the novel, a. naval lieutenant, [ who is speaking to some young recruits, | 'in sight of the English coast): . .'We seamen have of, ,the English a [i very different opinion from that held by >'■ our:landsmen: we meet.them in all the !■■ . • ports of the world and we know that • they are the most honourable of all -: men. : Behind those'high chalk cliffs yonder lives the foremost people of i I the earth, distinguished, prudent, united, arid rioh. But what of I to? We have at all times possessed i one 1 of their I qualities, one alone— : 'bravery. W« are slowly acquiring anf /others-wealth. Shall we oyer attain : ithe Test? .'That' is for us 'a question ' of life or death. . . j ,;■> M. Massoul. points ottb .that Gustav i ; FVonsron was not among the "inteli jJeotuals" who signed the recent maniifcsto. - r i r < . In the German depots 60,000 youths [; .jof; sixteen' are_ now being, trained, . * their officers bsing university and college who are still liable to called up to serve. 'The story told ' ..ty a young German prisoner, one of a j;;;convoy ( passing through' Saint-Omer : ' (Pas-de-Calais), to a 1 representative of Calais- journal, is significant. ; _ "Is this SaintOmer?" asked tho boy, in good French. ■ ,'-'Yes." - : "Far. inside French territory?", ' "In. the north." ■ , "Ah! It's a surprise for us. We ; were taken from the bonohes of the | University where we were students, ; some sixty of my comrades and myself. ! , |;We were given uniforms and a gun. :: ;i and wo set off. • My mqther does not f Vknow l hare gono. What must she ■■ bo thinking! I had not seen her for i . three weeks when I left. A week after. : receiving equipment we were put in the trenches. We did not know how j-to hold a rifle. One fine day,, as our j. 1 ■ officer : was telling us to fall in, we ; '. found .ourselves surrounded by French j;: ■; soldiers and ftaken' prisoners. And f'. ihefe we are, after being; told that we f : . were going to Franco to guard Paris i. and the big towns captured." j. ; . Tho boy, who gave his' age as 16J, I .said that he was Teadinc;■ law, and < hoped to finish his studies in ; Paris. I; -He added ingenuously: . f. ; ;"I .'should like to "let my parents f ■ know thot lam here. My father do«s f a lot of business with France. He j; CO«H come and fetch me, as he has f- ; influential friends, and get me released, : for I am under age for a soldier," I ; ['■' _ "Is enough uso being made of music | ■ in connection with recruiting?" asks a ! contemporary. Even in normal times r one has. only to observe, the faces and tho enthusiasm of the crowds marching L-oteside a' military band to realise what i. -the effect would be to-day. Even a \ march by Dr. Barnado's boys' band ?■ down Whitehall was followed by hun- | dreds of young men. many suitable for j- recruits. _ Thore must be many military f - bands still in this country, and we Bugj .gest that they should be employed like |- the Pied Piper of Hamelin, to lead their j ; - willing victims to the recruiting offico. r. The selection of the most effective tunes : is worth considering, but there are i. plenty. "Auld Lang Syne" and the ! "Marseillaise" ha;e both proved very ( effective. The "British Grenadiers" is i a bit staccato—but this may be bal- '• anced by the more solemn strains of f music such as "O God Our Help in 1 Ages Past," and in Wales, "Land of i Oiir Fathers" or "Men of Harlech."r London "Music." | At Hull Fruit Market thirteen pears ■■■' sold by auction for the Belgian Relief, [ Fund realised £214. One pear 6old for 1 ita jwkflt .val'ne being;.2s. J ■■■'■■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2353, 8 January 1915, Page 6
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775ONE JUST ENEMY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2353, 8 January 1915, Page 6
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