CURSES FROM KULTURLAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1915, Page 3

CURSES FROM KULTURLAND.

SAUSAGE MAKERS AT WORK, Bitterly vn.ncUve ugainst hr.ram for the part she lias played in helping to stay Germany’s career of lust, loot and murder, the German press feeds its readers on rare sausage-meat as the following extracts will indicate, they are from a few allegedly leading “newspapers”—if that is now the -piopen word by which to describe the really imaginative—if coarse —work of the poor fools who are either devoting their days to being bluffed or.to Indfgui their more innocent neighbour!..—

THE BRITISH SOLDIER’S APPEi TITE.

The appetite of the British soldier forms the subject of a grave indictment printed in the “Kolnische Zeitung.” Our forces, it seems, are eating the French out of house and home, and the French soldiers, unable to hud a worse term of abuse, stigmatise them Ss Germans!

The landing of the British troops, the journal declares, is nothing less than a disaster for the French. Everything that the departments of Seine Infcrieure and Pas do Calais produce is being ruthlessly devoured by the British allies.

Great cargoes of coffee, frozen meat, salt and rice are seized by the British commissariat under the nose of the French officers, and the B rench troops, whose months water at the tit-hits which John Bull, with his monstrmjs appetite and monumental greed, swallows with the ease of an elephant on the rampage. John Bull, as is his wont, is making capital out of the open-handedness of the French. He eats to repletion of the products of the French soil, and rubs his chest in smug contentment, not caring one iota about the hunger and misery which he is well aware is prevailing in all the 1* rench ports fiom Dunkirk to St. Male.

The French enthusiasm for the British, gs may be imagined, is now « thing of the past. The feeling, that is now inspired by these beefy gluttons, these bragging, voracious, swashbucklers, is one of constantly growing disgust and aversion. Indeed, on several occasions French soldiers have refused to travel in the same railway compartment with flic mercenaries from Albion because of their filthy habits and unclean condition.

Unable to hit upon a word in, their own language to express in sufficiently strong terms their contempt for the British Tommies, the French soldiers now call them “Germans.” This last is a piece of humour which must tickle Englishmen to death. BRITAIN THE BLOOD-SUCKER. A choice bit from the “Morgenpost” : We fail to see in what Britain’s boasted i naval supremacy consists. This overwhelmingly powerful fleet has hitherto not made any serious attempt against us, while Germany, on the other hand, already gave evidence of her naval power at the mouth of the Thames within a few days after the declaration of war.

Neither have the British distinguished themselves in any way against Austria at sea. The fact is that Britain entered .on the war solely and purely actuated by. motives of spoliation. She cares nothing for international obligations; Her one desire is to enrich herself at the price of the ruin of German commerce. Therefore it is to her interest to drag on the war as long as possible, leaving others to pay the bill in blood and treasure.

If we contemplate for a moment tlie figure which Albion presents before the nations of the world we shall readily understand how it was that Shakespeare drew with such brilliant mastery of the character of Shylock. Britain is the Shylock, the blood-usurer among the nations. INDIA WAITING ITS CHANCE. 1 The “Frankfurter Zeitung,,”. still unable to keep its fingers off the Indian troops, re-tolls once again the story of that astonishing “conspiracy” which was originally invented in Berlin,, and has since made the round of the whole German Press:— We have obtained information from the most reliable, sources that the bandy-legged Gurkhas, the long-limbed Sikhs, and the swarthy Bengals, now being paraded by the British in France, with, the object of encouraging the people of that country to further useless sacrifices, have entered into a mutual blood compact to encourage their fellow Indians to come out in their hundreds and thousands, ostensibly to fight by the side of tlie British, but secretly, so that when the favorable moment comes they may fall on their tyrannical rulers in a body and cut them up under the eyes of the enemy.

That task accomplished, as it certainly will he, the next step will be to pass over to the German camp and make common cause with us against the false-hearted Britons, whom the Indians despise almost as deeply as we do ourselves. Tlie moral effect of such an event will he overwhelming in India. It will strike the death-blow at British rule and open tlie eyes of the population both, to their own capacities to rule themselves and to the real source of their future material and moral support and well-being.