THE ANZAC HEROES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE ANZAC HEROES.

VIEWED THROUGH GERMAN

SPECTACLES

A VITRIOLIC OUTBURST.

It is not surprising to find that Germany, bereft of her colonic.:, should view with feelings of uncontrolliililc anger thi- support liritannia lias received from her Dominions overseas. Australia in particular lias lately been the subject of vitriolic outbursts of Hun word-frightfiilncss, of which the following extract trnni the " Vcusiscro Zeitung" it-; a typical example : "The indescribable joy with which the fall of the fortre.«-i' of I'jzcroum was welcomed in the Knglish pi ess nan ni tloitli t evaporated sufficiently for the B.'itmis tn see clearly that their cause in the Near Kar.t is in a very slinky condition. Bwaiii-e, of what elements do the force; they have available in Mesopotamia and ill the adjacent regir.tls consist? "(),' Australians and Canadians mainly, tli-.' very riffrafF of humanity, cios'<e'id;in!s of murderer-, and tliiev">, drunkc n hordes: who despise the very thought of ihi-<-pliiif and d ceiicy. This applies particularly to the Ai,>tnili:uis. the worthy posterity of nun who for tlie=r crimes were once deported from their own country to found a colony at the extreme ends of the earth. •'Tho.-e are the white allies of the Ida; k culture hearers who have set notoriously civi!i-cd Kngland against u« ; these constitute the unspeakable human refuse sixains) whom our heroic smici and brothers are doomed to fight. An-.l yet there are senlimentalists who would unie u< to In- dainty in the choice of our weapons when fae. iir; stieii bestial creaiure- as thiise."