NOT A GOOD LOSER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1650, 14 December 1916, Page 4

NOT A GOOD LOSER.

“We are quite prepared to sec Germany collapse with start ling rapidity once destiny has unmistakably declared against her,” says the Glasgow Herald. “We have hud no experience of how nations organised for war to the last man will behave under tin 1 stress of nnavertihie (Ideal and the economic .-'traits induced by isolation. Inti it is conceivable that the distracted proletariat may react not to the ‘moral’ suasion of its rulers and philosophers, hut may yield to the damonrings of its wants and its yearning for peace. The German has never been what is eolloquilly called a ‘good loser.’ The evidence that Germany is bracing itself for a catastrophe is not far to seek. One can lind it in the wilful distortion of news from the various fronts. The general staff admit nothing that by any possibility can he concealed, and still attempt to manufacture victories out of events which have no veal hearing on the military situation. One discerns it in the fra iitie denunciation to which even the. most prominent of German newspapers descend when it is a question of British ‘perlidy.’ ”