BE OF GOOD CHEER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1440, 26 August 1915, Page 2

BE OF GOOD CHEER.

Our sun is just rising above the horizon, writes A. G. Hales in “John Bull.” The real end is afar off, but the day is brightening; face duty with a smile, and try and think of our soldier-leader as a Hon crouching, chin on paws, in the desert, watching with unwinking eyes, ready to spring when the moment and the Opportunity combine. You will not wait long ; we are going to drive the Kaiser and his host across the Rhine with those raw British lads who a year ago had never handled a rifle or touched a bayonet. They said we had no genius in our blood ; we were only a nation of shopkeepers ; they came to the slaughter like a wolf pack, and like a wolf pack they will go back —some of them. What will they have seen—what they will have done—is a story soon to be told. I wish my pen were free to write it. But the secret must be kept. Despite all the delays and accidents ol the past few months, it will yet be found that Mr Bottomley was not far wrong when he predicted that before the summer was gone the Kaiser would be suing for peace.