OUR MAORI WARRIORS
RESPONDING to the least, “Our Soldier Boys and Their Parents,” at (he dinner and social of Native school teachers in Auckland, Sir Janies Carroll (stales (he Star) gave one of his characferislically line speeches. As (hey met that evening', he said, and thought of the hoys at. the front, and of the feelings of parents, wo all realised that the grim and ironhand of war was upon us, hut it was a noble thing to he able to say frankly that all had and were volunteering and subscribing the essentials required of us in this great world struggle and not less amongst the contributors was our Maori race. The Maoris had come down from a long line of ancestry noted for their chivalry, bravely, and skill in the arts of warfare. They had made great sacrifices in war, and. knew what they had to face when they went out to battle. It was interesting also to know that in a modern war the armies engaged had recourse,to first principles. Trench fighting was known years ago among the savages and the Maoris, while the strategy and policies were also traceable to the old primitive ideas of warfare; but even in savagery the Maori at jus worst never resorted to the savagery of to-day practised by the Prussian. That because the Maori had a code of true honour and ancestral principles to uphold, and when he met a foemau worthy of his steel he recognised it. The only code of the Hun was that of murder in his aggressiveness, and his principles were marked by absolute murder, execution of the unprotected, absolute terrorism, and hideous inhuman butchery. Over and over again in (his war our brave boys had taken prisoners, and might have been tempted to wreak their vengeance, but they had never forgotten their lesson of honour, the spirit of chivalry with which they bad always been imbued, and tfce in-
culeation of principles born m them, and which had made them ie m ‘ and the noble warriors they were proving themselves on the nng i field of Rattle. 1
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1775, 12 January 1918, Page 2
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352OUR MAORI WARRIORS Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1775, 12 January 1918, Page 2
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