THE GERMAN TEN COMMANDMENTS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 30 March 1916, Page 2

THE GERMAN TEN COMMANDMENTS.

A GUIDE FOR THE BRITISH

PAY BACK IN OWN COIN

Thousands of copies of these commandments have&een circulated in Germany during the last three years :—

1. In all expenses keep in mind the interests of your own .compatriots.

2, Never forget that when you buy a foreign article your own country is the poorer

3- Your money should profit no one but Germans. > ' / 4 Never profane— G<tijf£n factories by using MrSIS machinery. • -*?

5. Never allow foreign eatables to be served at your table 6 Write on German paper with a German pen, and use German blotting paper

7. German flour, German fruit and German beer can alone give your body true German energy Bif If£° U *? -not like German malt coffee, drink coffee from German colonies.

9. Use only German clothes di^^out^K pr^e? and be Wy convincedwhaV ever others say, that German products are. the only ones

.Some very curious stories are in circulation in Wellington as to wealthy farmers promising their sons motor should they refrain from enliTt £ of fathers threatening to cut o | t hSr sons with the proverbial shilling s h<W they place patriotic duty before the consideration of farm and family interest