BRICKBATS FROM GERMANY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 4, 15 January 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

BRICKBATS FROM GERMANY.

KEEPING THING S AT A LIT ELY PACE. CAX DID OPINIONS. PRESS AT CULTURED BEST. The German Preas, while it may not well-informed or influenced by truth, ■is doing its cultured best to keep up ■the spirit of the people. Her© are some extracts: ■ PANIC-STRICKEN" LONDON. The "Hamburger Nachrichten " i-i •-default of better material with which -lo console its readers, fails back on <"ulogics of Germany's ''silent prepar.u .iioas" and the "mysterious activities -of her navy. . . "This unceasing, silent activity on 'Germany's part," the journal says, -"has already caused most grievous losses to the self-s'tyled mistress of the seas Our activities Lave done more than that even. Their effect has been "to create among our island enemies a panic that is laughable in its childtsli-

-tiess. ... , ~ "London, the greatest city on farth. no longer feels secure, despite the ■enormous fleet which is supposed to ijuard the cliff-bound coasts of Albion, and at night, for fear of German airships, she sits sadly cnwrapt in most lugubrious darkness, tremblingly awuutiw the coming of the aerial hosts. Mavbe, like Jerusalem of old. she hears voices in the sky crying. 'Woe unto ihee. London, mighty city of corrup--don, of deceit and hypocrisy; thy days tire numbered,' and that sadness of to-->iay is but tbe foreboding of the mourning to come." BOERS AND BRITONS. The " Frankfurter Zeffcung " makes -somewhat belated capital out of tie resignation of General Beyers, while completelv ignoring the sequel. " This 'dignified action of the Boer .soldier," the "Frankfurter" remarks, "represents the snowball of Boer lebellion which will wax greater and greater until thsi British usurpers of iJouth African rights are crushed under the avalanche of hatred which their insolent domination has earned for them. "With proverbial Dutch good nature and equanimity (the Boers have long -tolerated a treatment one oi which would have sufficed to set German hearts aflame with anger and m -dignation. The Dutchmen, however, though slow to avenge, do so the more • determinedly when onoe the measures of their wrongs is full to overflowing It needs no heaven-sent prophet to foretell the great -results which will <u>--cree from Beyers' small beginnings. 'The British Empire may be likened to a huge triangular-shaped bounder balanced on the edge or a mountain gorge. It needs but a vigorous kick, and it will he overbalanced and flung into the abyss which is yawning to receive it. And it would not. surprise uis if that kick were administered by the boot of ihe Boers." GERMANY'S " HOLY CAUSE." _ An imposing 3>y the " Ifeft^Sr^rFremdenblatt." "BjSfeSiSit is," says the journal. - \lfho has for agts used the pretext of the balance of power to hinder the forward march of 'Kultur,' and with it tile preordained progress of mankind. Germany has been called, and chosen to cry ''halt' to (the British power of darkness. " Europe's national life must bo reorganised, and that grandiose task involves the destruction of tihe progressstemming forces of the past, as represented in the first decree by Britain and all she stands for. . _ "It is a task which can l>e carried out only by that State that has reached the required level of development. There l is but one such State, and that is Germany. Henoe i't is the holy cause of human development, against which Britain, the hypocrite and Pharisee, has been the constant —indeed, the only -real —sinner, that calls with no uncertain voice for a newly-organised Europe. a Europe under German leadership.'" „ MARS AND SATURN NEXT.

The prodigious programme of worldconquest which Germany has laid down for her-elf is set forth at some length in the " Preussische Skizzen," an organ which is supposed to enjoy the especial patronage of tho Prussian junker. " Even as "Prussia has been the regenerating force for the whole of Germany." it observes, "so Germany will he the regenerator of tho future Empire of the West. And so that all men may know it, we proclaim that our nation has the right to the sea, not to the North Sea alone, hut to the Mediterranean aho, and to the Atlantic. "One after another wo shall absorb all the provinces adjacent, to Prussia and to Germany. We shall successfully annex Denmark. Holland, Belgium, Switzerland. Livonia, Trieste, and Venice, and finally Northern France from tho Somme to the Loire. "The British Isles will be allowed to remain intact, but the British Colonial Empire, including India, shall l>e so rearranged for the benefit of Germany, as Germany may deem fit. and of the Briti.di Fleet as such, no ship shall j>c allowed to remain in the hands of its present possessors. This program mi which we now fearlessly scifc forth j.' not the work of a madman. Tt is notUtopian, for tlie me«ns to create such .an Empire are to our hands to-day."