MORE HATE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 245, 26 January 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

MORE HATE.

STRAFING OF BRITAIN. -LOUD, lU;MI'.WI>£II TIIE ENGLISH." Hatred of England has onec more become the uuiver-al cult in (jermuiiyThis time it is officially inspired. It appealed in the Chancellor's speech, and it is to bo found in every organ ol opinion from one end ol the country to the otiier, and in every party. 'lno vindictiveiicvs and passion of the cult can only be conveyed by example, and the following leading article, taken from a provincial paper, the (jronauer Nachrichten, which isays the Daily Chronicle), we quote in full, has not been chosen lor its exaggerated bitterness, but may be taken a- fairly typical: "So longer is the question asked among our people: Which of the many adversaries that it aud agaiu.-t us in the field is the enemy? Even the mentally and spiritually blind know or feel that the enemy is to be sought solely and particularly across the Channel, where our alleged cousins of yore sit and tirelessly plan how best, to bring us to destruction. That is the 'Business' to which for two years they have been devoted to the exclusion of all else; and the longer tliey exert themsclvs in order to come near the fulfilment of their recklessly pursued aims, the bloodier are the -acrifiees they must make to support their Allies, the more ruthlessly do they proceed with their which tills their whole mind and thought, the more determined do they show themsdves not to give up to .the very last. "SO THREATEN THE BRITONS!" "You Germans, do you refuse to give way though the whole vo»ld. -o far -is it is of any military cr.u:ir, is gathered against your Do you still fondly imagine that you can live according to your own will and not according t<> ours? Then, indeed, must you be annihilated. and the more stubbornly you try to avert the unalterable fate wo would prepare lor you the heavier will be the consequences for you, for your ]>eop!e and State, for Kaiser and Empire So speak, so threaten the Britons, still full of pride, from across the Channel—for months and years pj.-t without ceasing, so that we have almo-t failed to take their words seriou-lv.

"But we have at this yuoment every reason for bearing in miid the frightful seriousne-is of this wi.-h lor our annihilation entertained day in, day cut. and every hour of the day. The Imp continuance of the war brings with it the danger that we Mial! fall ~hort in the energy of readiness for battle, and that domestic or other troubles may get hold of us aud ol>sciue or put into the background the one great peril that threatens us all. It i~ altogether too easy to calm ont-elf with the reflection that what the unheard of quantity of out enemies could not accomplish iu two long year- of war. will never be accomplished by them: that the real decision as to the existence or non-existence of the German nation has already been settled, and that it n-t- only with the skill of diplomacy to expedite the end of the horrible bloodshed.

"Ah, 110! things are t\ 110 means s<,: they might, perhaps be -o regarded if we contemplate them only f 10111 our own |>oi!it of view. Isut we must not fall again into the mi-take tiiat brought us enough painful -troke- before the war. of contenting ourselve> with pronoum.ing ji'.dgnieii'..s 011 men and ihings from our own viewpoint. It i- at least of' equal importance how other nations, and at pro-ent how our k, -.s value the results of the war up :o now, and what conclusions and hope-, tiicy think they can extract from the present military situation (.11 both -ide-. We man contemptuously reject -licit hopes, as the most fooli>h .-waggering: nevertheless, we mii-t reckon with them, -inco they do in fact oxi-t and hold together the powerful confederation that has been ect u]> for our overthrow. "That Hiigland. aV>ve all. has net yet -aid her la-t word i- most plainly -liown 1 very day that- ]:'--e-. To-day her brutal strength forces Dutch busi-lie.-s nun t'> Wild to h< r uiil; to-moi-row .-lie bend- Xolw.lv ;o iier yoke. She demand- a -tateineiit trom >wi-s firms that tiir ten year-- alter the conclusion of p< ace they w ill have 110 connection v. itii (ierman trader.-, and in America -lie extend- her .-y.-tem of black lists week by week, without paying any att ntion to the indignation of pul lii opinion <.»• to ( oiigrc-- or to the Cabinet. Koiimania -he ha- forced to j< in the Quadruple Fntente an<l lords it in Greece a-' if -he were in a eonquo'd laud of Kaffirs. The King .-till hoi''-: out, a true knight without fear of reproach. but the Government, lawfully -et lip by him. i- treated by the 1 niente Anilas-adors a- a mere ; I.<_r becau-e it will have nothing to do with tiie rebel Yenizelo-'. And the F.ngli-h nation stand- determined behind it- Ceverninciit ; nay, would like to urge it on (0 -till mole inipcriou.- mea-urc-. Inthinkable to til'" Uriton i- the tlioueit that thev can be brought low. and thev will shrink from nothing to tiring <:<- t.. .111 knee-. ■ T. "d. remember the Athenian-' ueii v.i- the mnemonic that the lei--iae Kieg ~)■ old ordi-'id hi- .-lave to -,iy 1 1 him t very morning. 'Lord, lemem: r the t'.:i\rli-h " i- what we 11111-t now -ay t,> ot;i-rive- dav bv day. hour bv hour, t-i a- to k"ep cent inu iii-ly alive the fall wrath of mi'' being and the inextingui hable will for vietoiv over all our enemies."