The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915. MAKING CRIMINALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 46, 25 February 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915. MAKING CRIMINALS.

One wonders more and more as one learns the truth' of how Germany lias for years been steeping her people in .militarism and even educating tender children to a desire for war's horrors. So far hack as 1912, according to the vouched-for .statements of an English governess, who writes in the "Fortnightly Review" of what she found out while living in the household of a German Prince, the most extraordinary pains were being taken to prepare for "The Day." On her first introduction to her young charges, two small boys and a little girl of eight, she found them engaged with shrinks of excitement, over a new game under the supervision of a young lieutenant. A large model of London had been built on the floor of the skittle alley, showing churcbes, theatres, shops, and houses, parks with trees, imitation grass, and sheets of imitation water. Each of the children, under the direction of the young officer in uniform, manipulated a miniature airship over the tbreatened city. The toy Zeppelins were propelled through the air by mechanism, hut wero guided in any direction, and slowed down or stopped by a long string attached to each. By pulling a second string a number of Avhite pills—miniature bombs filled with flour—were made to fall from the airship Before the prescene of the visitor was noticed, the; lieutenant -corrected tbc faulty practice of the eldest boy, and succeeded himself in dropping a miniature bomb from his airship upon the model of, Westminster Abbey Many other iui-j portant public buildings were all recog-j nisably represented in the model. The lieutenant described all'the points of the game to the governess, and explained that it was a game for small children invented by Count Zeppelin himself . The balloons of the airships woio filled with ordinary coal gas, and the whole apparatus was made as nearly as possible to scale . By way of change, so that these young Prussians might have plenty of practice in bomb-dropping, the gentle Zeppelin had also built for them similar models of the capitals of France and Russia! This snake will take a lot of scotching.