THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1667, 27 January 1917, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Solemn self-satisfaction and colossal arrogance are the essentially German characteristics which have caused the war. —Alec. M. Thompson.

It is the business of us middleaged men who are not allowed to fight, and the women of London, to purge the heart of the Empire before the boys come back. —Dishop of London.

The night is far spent —it has (been a long and black night—but the dawn breaks and the sun of victory will soon shine in all its glory.— Grand Duke Michael of Russia.

I regard as our greatest success in this war the drowning of Lord Kitchener, the sole British general and organiser who could lay any claim to the title of genius.—Dr Carl Peters.

It is all very well for the Chancellor to talk proudly about Germany continuing the tight to the bitter end. but we have had enough of bitterness. — Berliner Ncticstc Nachrichten.

It would be a very simple and .satisfactory way of financing trade if all our great business firms were fo combine to establish their own banks upon a basis of mutual benefit. —Arthur Kitson.

It does not seem to have been widely noticed that God frequently appears to put the clock back. Great civilisations are brought to an end, and men are compelled to start all over again.—Rev. Dr. \V. E. Orchard.

After the war, under the present system the wealthy classes will have secured through the war debt a lieu on all the future production of the country which prosterity will find absolutely intolerable. F. W. iPetlierick Lawrence.

Our fellows, bless 'em! go off to light, down these hell-ridden roads in Picardy, with the glee and enthusiasm of boys who have just been let out of school. You don’t see a dirty or an unshaven man ajnong them. —dohn N. Raphael.

ft is- foolish to suppose that the Kaiser’s submarines, of which over 100 have during the past twenty months shared the fate of the victims of their torpedoes, are capable of dealing a serious blow to the Jiaval power of Great Britain. — Stephen Piehon.