"ACCURSED ENGLISH."

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 220, 4 June 1915, Page 4

"ACCURSED ENGLISH."

An article written by Colonel Ivaden and published at Lille, is worth noting. Here is a sample:— ''You German people at home, feed this lire of hate! You mothers, engrave this in the heart of the babe at your breast! You thousands of teachers to whom millions of German children look up with eyes and hearts, teach hate, unquenchable hate. You homes of German learning, pile up the fuel on this fire! . . . You fathers, proclaim it aloud over the billowing fields, that the toiling peasant may hear you, that the birds of the forest may fly away with the message. . . "Hate, hate the accursed English, Hate!" This sort of stuff makes most Britishers laugh. But it, will leave its mark on the history of the two peoples. "Folks never understand the folks they hate," as Lowell told us. It seems hopeless to get understanding from people who are fed on hatred appeals such as that quoted above.