GERMANY'S PEACE THREATS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2954, 18 December 1916, Page 8

GERMANY'S PEACE THREATS

Sir, —At tho present niombnt it is just as well to have tho information before us which will enable us to understand the point of view of Germany, if only for tho sake of ascertaining the. strength of the next dose of nicdicine proper to that patient's condition. For that reason I venture to submit to your approval for publication tho following extract from Lord Uosebery's book on Napoleon. If there was over oho human being who understood exactly what he was saying in estimating the fighting values of men and of rations that human being was_ Napoleon. Therefore the estimate of iVapoleon of •the relative fighting values of English, French, _ Russians, Germans, and Italians is for us to-day not only full of interest, but full of hope:_

"The English character is superior to ours. Conceive Romilly, oue of the leaders of a great party, committing suicide at fifty becaiiso he Lad lost his wife. They are in everything more practical than wo are ; they emigrate, they marry, they kill themselves, with less indecision than we display in going to tho opera. They are also braver than we are. I think one can say that in courage they are to is what we are to the Russians, what the Russians are to the Germans, what the Germans are to the Italians." This was after Napoleon had tested by the severest test possible to man the qualities of. all these nations. Your leader of to-day prompts this letter. —I am, etc., ' W. December-15, 1910.