CURRENT TOPICS OF THE DAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 8 January 1915, Page 2

CURRENT TOPICS OF THE DAY

(FROM VARIOUS SOTJRCEB} ni%

The Month of August ~ r Dr. Franklyn Macfarland, of *._. Philadelphia, writing to Mr W. Knowles, of Wellington, says : — ||| "We are all feeling this horrible II war. The more pity is that it 1| was caused by an insane __im- • W burger cheese.- You know, yre M have a saying in this countryj^^ that all Germans are.....crazy :;'duN^/»| ing the month of August, and it " 7:fi is during that month we look for ,''3g suicides and murders among our German citizens. I am simply '^p argu ing thas the Kaiser ii* insane"' #* and he* .with- his "sons and.' • Ministers, should be incinerated or shot, and leave the people" at large free to live and enjoy living " *" * # The Puzzling Foreign Names To the man in the street the pronunciation of the names of some of the present war scenes is not so much atmatter of moment as the fact that the allies are more than holding their own, but still it draws their attention. As he unfolds his morning paper in the train, Jones, who knows not how to "parle francais " from ' > .A^dam, is advised by his kis-a-vis thac VVTiypres^^^B^wcnOr^pg,^ of indecisive carnage. OthW. -^^ occupants of the car mildly assent to the fact that "Epray" or "Wepray" is something of the sort; but they are cultured cusses and have had a bowing acquaint" ance with Ollendorf and the "Grammaire dcs Grammaire"* in ' their salad days. Plain, men passengers confine themselves to "Wipers" and the scanty cabled facts. But when the scene of battle changes to German soil then will come the tongue-twist-ers. For instance, someone has C raked up the title of a German V document about the Gernan navy -A It is called "Übereicht der Erge- O buisse dcs Heereserganzungsges" jR chafts/' With this as a small f specimen to start oh, whemthe I man in the train has got it pkt^ J" the fact that there was a German ~~~% rout at "Kaiserhohenzollerns- £ sorryistartedithochderblomineng- W landerburg" will be a mere > nothing.—Table Talk.