THE GERMAN WAY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 211, 22 September 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE GERMAN WAY.

SELLING STOLEN GOOD.?. "' Loot 'or war loans" is the latest example of German Kultur. Notices have ap|>eared in Scandinavian jxapers stating that certain wealthy and, if course, honourable German families ar? willing, in the interests of the war loans. to dispose of very valuab'a French euros, furniture, and d'art. bo German patriotism is to 'w stimulated at the expense cf Genua*: honesty, for these French treasures are not German family heirlooms, but stolen property looted from the thateaiiE of Belgium and Northern France. When German officers forced themselves upon unwilling and helpless hesis, they repaid hospitality by despoiling the houses that slielter.nl them, and th.eir relatives—receivers of stolen property—now propose to make a clearance sal. in aid of the funds of thj Fatherland. Tiie Germans wage war meanly. They propose to make of neutral countries pawnshops for their pledged honour. To the weapons of the soldier they have added the implements of the burgiar. With hands stained with the blood of Belgium, German officers are offering to sell stolen goods to neutral countries. Art treasures that have been been handed down through generation * of B.Mg an and French families hav? been sent to Germany as "spoils of war." " Germans cannot be gentlemen," said a German cynic of his own people. After the notices in the Scandinavian papers, one is tempted to ask, "Con Germans be honest?" Certainly. the German holders of stolen property do not understand the Scandinavian people, who will recent the insult as thev will refuse the loot.