A Voice From Germany.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 January 1918, Page 1

A Voice From Germany.

This striking extract from a serial story which is at this time appearing in the "Ncue Zuercher Zeitung," a German-Swiss Liberal i newspaper that has a large circulation throughout Germany, is published by the "Labour Leader." One of the characters in the story is a Socialist who has lost his only son, a.young man of brilliant promise, in the war. He is addressing a tumultuous crowd: —

"He stopped for a pause, threw high his arms, his eyes grew large, and said, 'Ten million: corpses: ten million men have ended. The flowing blood of these murdered ten million men, ten million gallcns steaming human blood, could substitute for a whole day the gigantic water masses of the Niagara.

" 'All the rolling stock of the Prussian railways would not suflicc to transport the heads only, all at once, of these ten million murdered men.

" 'Civilisation! Make a chain of these ten million murdered murderers, placing them head to head and foot to foot, and you will have an uninterrupted line measuring 10,000 miles, a grave 10,000 miles long, encompassing all Germany, winding itself through fields and woods passing many a village and town, corpses here and there, corpses everywhere, along valleys, too, and rivers, and seashore, 10,000 miles —not yards— a gigantic grave all round Germany. " 'Head to head, foot to foot, 10,000 miles of corpses! Civilisation!' "