en brick at about the eye-level of a standing man.” In conclusion, Mr Mackinder remarks “It is said that the German object in all this has been to frighten the peasantry of France into peace, lest similar things should be done in the districts not yet evacuated. If that be indeed so, they have not reckoned with the French Army. The indications are till of a set determination to take a terrible retribution, though I do not think it will be barbaric. Perhaps the felling of the fruit trees is felt by this aripy of peasants as the foulest stab of all. It is. difficult, indeed, but vitally important, to make the people of Britain realise the coldly scientific methods of the Hun. The war is for him an act of commerce. It begins to appear that after all the result of it may not be a capital investment for. himself, and therefore he destroys systematically the capita! of his future competitor.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1722, 7 June 1917, Page 4
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