WHAT GERMANY HAS NOT DONE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 135, 21 January 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

WHAT GERMANY HAS NOT DONE.

The dismal and gloomy pessimists, who, like the Fat Boy, are always trying to make our flesh creep with stories of Britain's mismanagement of this war, her unpreparedness. and lack of decis : ve victories, while lauding to the skies what they consider big achievements on the part of the Germans, might, with considerable profit, employ some of their time reading, marking, learning, and inwardly dgesting the pregnant remarks of Mr. Arnold Bennett. "I can imagine," says this eminent writer, in an article published in the 'Daily News,' "the wailing of some of our leading pessimists if they could be turned over to Germany and transformed into Germans. They would say (and they would advertise their remarks at great expense): We nave failed everywhere. We <-pent five thousand millions of marks on a fleet, and it is a complete failure. We had everything in our favour for the capture* or Paris and we failed to capture it. We tried under similar favourable condit : ons to get to Calais and we failed there. We tried to put the Russian armies out of action and we failed there. "We tried to destroy British maritime trade by submarines and we failed there. It is our submarines which are destroyed. We tried to divide the Allies and we failed there. We had a great advantage in trained men; we have lost it. We had a great advantage in munitions; we have lost it. We have a'so lost all our colonies except one. Our new Allies are tenthrate nations and notoriously villainous. We are borrowing vast sums of money without attempting even to pay the interest on it. We have not the pluck to tax ourselves. "Our food prices have risen by a higher percentage than any others in the world. Our social organisation is such that women have to stand outside butchers' shops all night in order to obtain a bit of meat, and often they have to stand several nights in succession before thev can reach a counter. . . . Whv is Britain throttling us? Because Britain has steadily organised herself whereas we are steadily being d ; sorganised. Let us Face the Facts!'