THE CLAWS OF THE BRITISH LION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 79, 2 December 1914, Page 3

THE CLAWS OF THE BRITISH LION.

— M. PICHON DENOUNCES THE ORDER OF THE KAISER. TITLE OF HONOUR. LITTLE ARMY THAT FORESHADOWS THE LAST DAYS OF THE EMPIRE. Writing in the Petit Journal, M Stephen Piehon, the ex-Foreign Miu ister of France, says:—-

“ The words of the German Emperor’s order of the. day to his troops that their first objective should be to exterminate those treacherous English and to walk ever General French’s contemptible little army, is the finest homage which the Emperor could pay Great Britain and her troops, as it proves both the anger p cb: by the instigator of the war towards our admirable ally, and his chagrin at being unable to overcome her.

“ It is one more title of honour for the British Government and the British people. What William calls Britain’s treachery is that great Empire’s fidelity to her pledged work, to her oath to guarantee Belgian neutrality,

to European independence and liberty, and to those principles of ' iviiisatiou which are the honour of modern peoples. “What he describes as bVencb’s 1 contemptible little army ’ are several hundred thousand men whose valour and fearlessness are the admiration of the world, and who are placed unde ll the command of one of the most illustrious military chiefs of cur times.

“ In whose name does the German Emperor attempt —without success, however —to insult these heroic upholders of a justice to which they are sacrificing their lives? “ In the name of an army of housebreakers, hangmen, executioners, and ‘ firebugs ’ dishonoured for all time by their crimes in the name of the Imperial Princes who found nothing more worthy of their race to do than loot chateaux, as the Crown Prince did at Bayo, in the name of generals who raised pillage to a law of war like those who cleared om the hotels of Compiegne. “If these people had known how to carry cut the orders of their supreme chief, and had been able to destroy the enemy, .as it was their duty to do, well and good, but they exterminated nothing at all, and the Emperor has achieved nothing by his ragings and his anger. His insults have no effect, and he is like Bismark, ‘with the end cf his life haunted by the nightmare of the coalitions which make him forsee the last days of' his Empire.

“ He is specially furious with Great Britain, because he feels in his shoulders the claAvs of the British lion. He vainly seeks to bite Groat Britain. She holds him, and will not let him go.”