THE SILENT WAR
(To tho Editor.) Sir,—How many British vessels manned by Germans or Scandinavians have been lost within the last ten years in New Zealand? 1 know of four snob losses. How many of the late fire 3 have been due to onemies in our midst? You can carry a phial of stuff in your vest-iwcket; talce out the cork, and place it suitably, and within a given number of hours or days a fire starts. Otis, a lawyer of New York, wrote a book oil "The German Peril in America." In it he 6tates that a German is always a German wherever ho was born, and no" matter what his environment or education. Most of us who know Germans know how true in the main that sweeping condemnation is. Native-born Germans in New Zealand firmly believe in a German victory and the glorious restoration of the German colonies, and it may be they are right, for wo are a nation of fools—and _ our Government are our representatives. Within the last month half a million pounds' worth of national wealth lias gone tip in smoke. Our naturalised and native-born enemies are doing well—l am, etc., MAORILANDER,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 47, 19 November 1917, Page 6
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197THE SILENT WAR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 47, 19 November 1917, Page 6
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