IMPUDENCE AND HYPOCRISY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 64, 15 July 1915, Page 4

IMPUDENCE AND HYPOCRISY.

Referring to Germany's impudent reply to America's latest Note, the Auckland Star says:- It is no difficult task, as our rentiers will recognise, to tear to pieces the Ilium- nnd evasive pretexts of which the Herman Note is

chieflv composed. There is. lunveycr. one more feature of this document I that is worth special comment—its callous and cold-blooded hypocrisy Ths Note states thai the. lioi'iinui (hm-ru-

nionl is entirely in sympathy with the American desire that "the principles of humanity should be observed in the present war" ; and, further, that "the enemy's civil population should be spared as much as possible." It is one of the permanent characterisics of men whoise enormous arrogance and solf-coniklence have unbalanced their minds, that they are quite incapable Df realising the way in which their words and actions appeal to others; and we may find in the horrible mejjalouuuua which has infected the whole

Herman nation in recent years some, explanation of their iuablity to understand the contempt and loathing which the revolting mmi atrocious conduct of their soldiers and rulers has

evoked, ami the disgust with which their hypocritical protestations of humanity are now received by the whole'civilised" world The Germans, whose hands are reeking with the innocent blood oi the many thousands of helpless and inoffensive men and women and children tortured and outraged, and foully done to deatlt in Lelgium and France—the Germans who have preached the whole gospel of ''('rightfulness'' in the plainest language to their people and their armies, 1 and compelled their soldiers to carry it into effect under the pitiless en-, forcement of a tyrannous military dis-' cipline—the Germans who. from first to last, have been responsible For this ghastly conflict, with all its attendant horrors, now pose us exponents of the principles of humanity in the conduct of warfare! !