A WOMAN’S FURY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 175, 29 March 1915, Page 3

A WOMAN’S FURY.

. LIBS WHICH. LBAVS ONE. BREATHLESS. j The following, says-the London Daily. | Mail,, is £• -(rojiy of a loiter received by J. an .English gii l from u Oenntui giil friend in response to a letter which had I oalainod 510 allusion to the war. 'I he letter says; , ‘•Dear - . T have often wonderw 1 where vo.: ere.-Id he—wiiether h 1 boon overtaken by the declaration of war while still in Switzerland, so that it Was impossible for you 1 0 . got back .to England. I was very surprised to ■ neccive- your ; letter- to-day. From it 1 1 -see that the war. leaves your| eompUratively mlmovecL ■ It is very: different with us. From the ’very youngest girl .to the--oldest woman- wo are ibusy and anxious to do our utmost for r our country;;- We knit, sew, bake, ami pack off parcels for 'our soldiers’ ; with tears and blessings. ' "Playgrounds, the universities, and ' many of the schools are empty; - • for here' it is not as in England, where the scum of the nation is fighting' together with' heathen and savages who have been taken from their own country. Here everyone is gone to fight for. the. ‘‘protection of their land, from the volunteers of 17 to the oldest reservist. ‘-'We women at home care for the •wounded, amp not'the wounded .only, but for the helpless families and homeless 1 children whose breadwinners -are at. the front. Here in there are 13 hospitals ’..for the 'Germans and the: enemy.... • v • ,"I feel convinced that in French Switzerland, as in other neutral .States,, you are being fed on lies manufactured in England. In order to have an inkling of the real truth you need only to see the bitter hatred between the wounded French and Belgians and the English. I myself recently witnes- , sed a scene which proved it. A wounded Frenchman was put into a bed, in the hospital between two Englishmen. He implored to be shot sooner than to be forced to lie there. "The Belgians know, perfectly well that the English only went to -Antwerp to destroy the stores and manufactories of their Belgian competitors, to expose the city ’to bombardment, and, quitting it 12 hours previously, leave the Belgian troops to defend it alone, in order to save themselves! The manufacturers of Belgium are demanding 300 million damag-es for the harm done by the English! "AS IN PIOUS ENGLAND." "In spite of everything things are going on just as usual. The theatre is open, and we have very good .concerts and lectures and every week prayers in church for the war, wchre we clon’r. ns in pious England, pray fori the destruction of our. enemies.

"I have heard to-day from a friend who tells me an Englishwoman has written her that in the churches people pray that the Kaiser may l|e killed. English men and women have not been sent away from hero, but suspected Englishmen have been put under lock and key. The Englishwomen 'fire still hero,' worse luck! JJnfortunately, many a suspected one, - for example,* M. 0., whom I personally don’t trust.:j ~. "The ’s have turned their home iii the country into.a hospital and take part in the nursing. You will remember that I often told- you you were move German than English, arid what I have said in no wise refers ■( to you. and that half in joke I said, ii'Everything bad comes from England!’ 86 you need not think anything I have said is meant for you. But what I felt instinctively in my heart has now been proved true.

"Until now I never knew what hatred was, but now my heart is filled with burning hatred, with hatred for England, and this is the ease throughout Germany. We are inclined to pity the French and the Belgians: we look on the Russians as only half-developed men, but the English we hate,• and if the mllions of curses uttered daily against your country have no. effect, then there is no justice in earth or heaven! Woe to England! i "And now' Christmas is here. And you know what that season nutans to us Germans —all its charm! On the battlefield and at home hearts aije filled wdth longing for their dear cne£. The Christmas message of ‘Peace oniEarth’ is a mockery. May curses light on those who have destroyed peace! May God punish England! ’ ’ ■ ' "Yours,’ _______ •SESCSaBBSW