DERIDING THE BRITISH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2749, 18 April 1916, Page 5

DERIDING THE BRITISH

FOR NEUTRAL CONSUMPTION GERMAN STAFF OFFICER'S ; LETTER. By Telegraph—Press Afsooktlon-Ooprrlstlit "'Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) Londori) April 15. "The Times" has received' a recent 'letter written by a German staff officer to a neutral diplomatist) and obviously intended for. neutral' consumption. The writer deolares that the English iaro as;'inefficient as the French are efficient. The French aircraft guns are ! Marvellous, and outclass those of the ;Germans. "They oost.us," he says, '"95 per cent, of our losses;'the British ■' cost us 5 per cent. The V latter are thoroughly :deficierit. The English'pilots only , excel in their contempt for risk -and indifference to danger. The French technique is\ skilled. Their engine-de-sign and aeroplane construction is ahead ■■of that-of all. the' other 1 combatants. ■The perusal of English newspapers is ' vastly entertaining.. - They are all at', -sorbed in politics and apparently unable to grasp the fact that if we have not yet won the war we are unable now to lose. England may still take pride in. being mistress of the waves, but she' is a mistress past her prime. Her ■ fleets keep neutrals, off our harbours -and prevent our merchantmen leaving, but our submarines sweep the seas, the 'bed of which is strewn with-the wreck-! age of English ships. Our Zeppelins sail. unmolested over the Midlands and Scotland. We smile when we recall .Lord Curzon's prophecy that the pennons of the Bengal Lancers would flutter in the breeze, at Berlin when the Indians inarched along the Unter den Linden in the wake of the conquering- ' Allied Forces."