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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2911, 25 October 1916, Page 6

■ 1 Which is tho better name for the ; Germans—Huns or Boches? M. Louis ' Surest' declares that Hun. is no name for tho enemy, and he chides the French ■ ; jpapers for having followed the British r example in adopting tho word. The '^English. Hatter the Germans, he says, jin calling, them Huns. It ig a mistake lo search history for a comparison that 'docs not lit. A now form of barbarity I calls for a new name: let that name be ,'lioches. The word Hun recalls plain, | {Simple barbarians, mere brutes, 'i'hp jHuiis fell upon a civilised. Europe in f imuch the same way as the unconscious iorces of nature ravish the earth: wild :• '{beasts, avalanches, fire, floods, cloudi flbursts. They massacred they knew not why; they knew not what they did. '"Boche," on tho other hand, synchronises, with, nnchained ferocity mixed ■ (with hypocrisy and servile pride; brutes • full of craftiness, deceit, and doubledealing,• an overflow of murdering hordes preceded by the preparation of jthe insinuating spy, the cowardly traitor; wholesale extermination cloakled with pharisaical humanitarianism i and scientific savagery. The Huns wero Jiarbarians, but men at least, and fine : specimens at that; the Boches . are spectacled, cunning, low-down, common murderers.

■ "The weakest go to the wall." Be ptrong and healthy. Take Baxter's Lung [Preserver to resist coughs, colds, and ihroat troubles. Nothing else so good. Splendid tonic, too. Big battle only Is. 30d.—Advt.

The bluejacket's 'collar—tho threo tows of tape round which are to commemorate Nelson's victories, at Copenhagen, the Nile and Trafalgar—is a "survival from tho days when our seamen wore pigtails. Then it protected -ithe "jumper" from grease.