BLACKNESS OF THE GERMAN SOUL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 266, 13 April 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

BLACKNESS OF THE GERMAN SOUL.

Mr Wythe Williams, the Paris respondent of the! New York Tn was the first civilian to survey wholes of the 300 square mles of conquered territory. He cable "We looked into .the utter black of the German soul. The past ati tie.s have been but trifling comps with this orgy of hatred and fright ness. The wilful destruction in describable. We were impressed v the enormous strength ot the evi ated positions. The main concrete seemed imprenable. There was p tic-ally ten miles from barrier to I r:er of barbed wire of solid format I am convinced that the inhabits lived in bondage worse than ga slaves. American food was receii I*nt much of it was taken by the ( mans thmselves. Did men and men, children, and cripples were near tho charred rri.ia.n of houses, young women and girls herded i tho retreating army for a form of very one does no. dare to contempl A woman told me her husband been siiot. her two so:.s sent to be age, and three daughters forcibly ■ ritd off. This is a typical exponent

BLOWIX(« BY -PIECE." At a retrain rural church the or was Mown l>y an o!d man. who had 1) ojigagul tlierr.it some forty years more. Olio Sunday the usual organist ' mdispos d, and his deputy, from neiirl.'-ouring village, essayed • Hallelujah Chorus "at the close of scrvxc. ' Ifo played fully, thereby quiring more wind than usual. Ab three-part-. through the wind gave < Hurrying mind to the hack of the gan. lie found the old blower putt 011 Ips coat. The organist expcstulal but ihe ancient only grinned. •• Look 'ere, mister," he said, "1 I in a-blown' that horgan more y< than ye've bin playin', an', Ix>r li in,-, think 1 do.in't know taw nu i nfi's it, tikes to ccok the Hal'.ylujf Bin shoving some o' y'r own in, a-thiiikin'. so ye'd better shove yer < v. n.f in. too. I'm a-go '