ENEMY-WOMAN'S FURY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 24, 26 March 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

ENEMY-WOMAN'S FURY.

LIES WHICH LEAVE OXI

BREATHLESS

The following, says the London ''Daily Mail," is a copy of a letter received by an English girl from a German girl friend in response to a letter which had contained no allusion to the war. The letter says :

'• Dear , I have often wondered uhere you could be—whether you had been overtaken by the declaration of war while still in Switzerland, so that it was impossible for you to get back to England. I was very surprised to receive your letter to-day. From it 1 see that the war leaves you comparatively unmoved. It is very different with' us. From the youngest schoolgirl to the oldest woman we are busy and anxious to do the utmost for our country. We knit, sew, bake, and pack off parcels for 'our soldiers' with tears and blessings. " Playgrounds, the universities, and many of the schools are empty; for here it is not as in England, where the scum of the nation is fighting together with heathen and savages who have been taken from their own country. Here everyone is gone to fight for the protection of their land, from the volunteers of seventeen to the oldest reservist.

"We women nt home care for the wounded, and not the wounded only, but for the helpless families and homeless children whose breadwinners are at the front. Here in there are thirteen hospitals for the Germans and the enemy. "I feel convinced that in French Switzerland, as in other neutral States, you are being fed on lies manufactured in England. In order to have an inkling of the real truth you need only to sec the hitter hatred between the wounded French and Belgians and the English. I myself recently witnessed a scene which proved it. A wounded Frenchman was to be put into a bed in the hospital between two Englishmen. He implored to be shot sooner than to be forced to lie there. "The Belgians know perfectly well that the English only wont to Antwerp to destroy the stores and manufactories of their Belgian competitors, to expose the city to a bombardment, and, quitting it twelve hours previousty, leave the Belgian troops to defend it alone, in order to save themselves! The manufacturers of Belgium are demanding 300 million damages for the harm done by the English!

" AS IN PIOUS ENGLAND." "In spite of everything things are going on just as usual. The theatre is open, and we have very good concerts and lectures and every week prayers in church for the war, where we don't, as in pious England, pray for the destruction of our enemies. "I have heard to-day from a friend who tells me an Englishwoman has written her that in the churches people pray that the Kaiser may he killed. English men and women have not been sent away from here, but suspected Englishmen have been put under lock and key. The Englishwomen are still here, worse luck! Unfortunately many a suspected one, for example, M. C., whom I personally don't trust. "The 's have turned their homo in the country into a hospital and take part in the nursing. You will remember that I often told you you were more German than English, and what I have said in no wise refers to you, and that half in ioke I said, 'Everything bad comes from England!' So you need not think anything I have said is meant for you. But what I felt instinctively in my heart has now been nroved true.

" Until now I never knew what hatred was, but now my heart is filled with burning hatred, with hatred for England, and this is the case throughout Germany. We are inclined to pity the French and the Belgians: wo look on the Russians as only half-developed men, but the English we hate, and if the millions of curses Tittered daily against your country have no effect, tiien there is no justice in earth or heaven ! Woe to England ! '■ And now Christmas is here. And you know what that season means to ii-; Germans-all its charm! On the battlefield and at home hearts are liiled with lunging for their dear ones. Tlu> Christinas message of 'Peace on Karth' i< a mockery. May curses light on those who have destroyed peace! May God punish England !" •' Yours .''