THE TURN OF THE TIDE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 255, 11 December 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE TURN OF THE TIDE.

ARROGANT GERMANY IS ALREADY A COUNTRY 0* INWARD WEEPING.

KAISER'S ORDER : "DON'T WEAR MOURNING."

Germany has begun to feel very strongly the turn of the tide. That is the keynote of observation made by a Dutchman who visited Germany last month. The great arrogant Empire is already a country of outward mourning and inward weeping. Tears are rarely seen in the streets, because in the Kaiser's kingdom people have been taught that tears are a symbol of weakness. But indoors they How a.s ireeiy as tho blood which is causing them elsewhere. Every woman is alreauy a widow or a sunless moUier or a uiirse. Black is the fashionable colour everywhere. It reigns supreme, except at hours or on days appointed for spurious joy by the kaiser. Then llags flutter everywhere to celebrate obscure victories, and lor a few hysterical hours the signs of death are obliterated. But when night comes the scene is again sombre and sad. Tho Rhine barges have all been turned into hospital snips. Mo6t of tho wounded are never seen or heard of by the people. They are silently taken to the not across it, and there, in the cool vessels which used to run to Kotterdam, struggle with death. Each day there rushes into Berlin another frightened horde of Ease. Prussians. The agony that for weeks past nas been Belgium's has now begun to bo Prussia's. Ah! the savage Russians, the barbarians! This is what Berlin says, although of all the fugitives who have arrived none has any evidence to offer that the much-maligned Cossacks have committed one-millionth of the Uhlan atrocities performed in Belgium. But Germany —a. poor sportsman like all bullies—is

NOT PREPARED TO TAKE TUB MEDICINE

it is so freely adminstermg elsewhere. In Berlin there is the terror of death at the advance of the Russians. Like a cowardly boy in the dark, tlio Government keeps up its spmts by whistling of victories, while converse y it conceals all new of defeats. V>h the writer left tne news had just been received that Mauberge was captured, together with 40,000 French soldiers and 400 guns. Everywhere flags fluttered, and the "Wacht am Rhein was sung raucously and hysterically. Thtio was some doubt in the minds of sane people as to whether a stray 0 had been added to the figures (in .accordance with a popular custom of Wolff a), but nobody inquired too closeh into the thing. It was enough that something had come to make the pMl'lo forget t Russians c,nd tho wounded on the Rhine Then came, too, the pubh sh ed \, an "English fleet sunk. Hie fact the ships were trawlers did not matter thev were undeniably ships, En 0 ships. SO more flags fluttered, more special editions were issued, and moio " Wacht am Rhein" was sung. Tho d*> was observed as a national holiday, fMI of ~ hU h had occurred many days before was studiously concealed. 1 inaHy, ain un important note appeared in the Geiman papers, saying.

From Holland it i s reported that Lemberg has I wen abandoned by the . Austrians for strategical reasons. | But side bv si do appeared other para- • graphs which indicate much more trnl. • the 1 1 desperate plight of ! GERMANY. The Press has now or a .-.iu a «l a camnalure ot tCwunds intucted on the Germans by the . frt #»nt tho throats ot o ST&'Wr"; British were«»*?? dJjgjS'mw I SKV taib-.No* Ureyhavobeoouto J "•gSIS" ih'wS' «» *• «* ! blow Gomany's J£" n X I barbarity of tt J* *"S. of < t'i, I own foul and go}' l ! c ™* r M±\ 0 label' j a common trait of tne cowar y 1 £S l 3^«»if^S , «sSS what others must do- J ut ud lhe i know their own coninner o regolute sciences, andth rfl Jq aS has betn , ] Russians and Bi iioi fof t h o B amo dono in Wg um - , r id themselves reason that they cannot noi Whal of the " Engl ls h reac England's posithey would have don them that , g'StSp.-"" 1J i UK! spoken of in Berlin as a 1 w"th which to the un _ j the mere a ry or magnified ; 'jssia"»««*» active and open mendacity. ,; In their dum-duiv tarv ant V ntR f ? ,- C [, o ned <Hs- | inß. for .Iw »■n O ,MU .i«y "J coverios ot dunwu' {actol . v , a nd tho paper packets ot tl most generally accomp- hinerv f. :r makobliging manner % »^ e i/ maC hinery nig them. l*io 1 ,u , ■ „ contrad'.cfor Government factory mark" tion of tho Go Public production lie goes »nno«oed. 1 »■»« 1 i h o of t ho barbarous bull. ife , German I less, «"• j t tbo dumaway, vouch tor the Ul^ ronch a ud th s connection it may bo English• In tm Fr(<nt . h Anil>assactf^SßSftriS ihSndbulloU for these Pros d.s-^ plays. , intriguing Tho i illegitimate help desperately */ n /l„ n ger quite in Holland. 11 > whor opon. enonne* «"'ir or allies of tho ' . n 0 u nI1( l m r Of C Stir. Con)ho other a b.oPhnj e t , aro I'nent. \U\ ><< r m ™ N>^ TnT" Th 'v Ve'en'lv made desperate orlands IHO p , • c ,0.000 a yacht fe which tho boats wot

wanted being that of mine-laying in tho Channel. •

And all the while we are hearing persistent stories of .soldiers without rifles and without food, and we know on som*>thing more than heresav that tho lrnctional casualty lists published in Berlin are appalling even in their reduced size. The authorities in Berlin have ordered the people not to wear so much mourning! It is nn outward and visible nign of the death brought upon the land by tiie Kaiser; and, like a murdered when ho sees the black cap of the judge before him, the royal, bragging blasphemer and Ins Potsdam bullies shut their eyes and grow slack 111 the loins. So thev whistle once again, whistle fir white to kecep the'r courage up; and the |Wor deluded fools who have followed Kaiser Wilhelm to eternal ruin, tears, sorrow, and death are ordered to put on gay colours aud celebrate the death of their sons and fathers and brothers. It is truly a royal jest!