HOW WE KEEP THE GERMAN FIT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 110, 19 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOW WE KEEP THE GERMAN FIT.

1 have been having an instructive little chat with a neutral who was in Berlin recently and advances the quaint idea that our mistake in this war was our naval blockade, says a writer in the "Daily Sketch." "You know how Hie cat, and ;i good ot their stuff comes from the States. Now if vou'd let. 'em go on buying stuff they'd hare had to pay for it in good hard gold, and they'd have been everlaotingly hrokc long aye. There's JUfc other thing." he went on, wanning tc> his subject. "if there'd been any mean!!, . of getting any delicacies {(©Ul outside the Governweat could. w?-ver have enforced a food ration, Now every, time a Buelio uiisscb , b ituinty from tin; menu he seta to, v»t>rk to strafe England, and that helps to keep the Government stiff. And then lo<a whnb thfl cutting down of ration*, has don* for the German as a ma.Hi. He ean'b eat more than's good »or him now; fle'i fitter than he ever waft in- histor*.

Thwso who bring sumshiue into tlifr lives of othera cannot keep it frorci themselves.—J. M\ flame*.