The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1915. GERMAN HATE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 241, 2 July 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1915. GERMAN HATE.

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Even a German clergyman, in Germany, too, has found occasion to vigorously protest against the absurd and wicked extremes to which German hate against England has been cultivated throughout the whole nation. The very loaves of bread and cakes mad e by the State and sold to the populace are branded "God punish England," and it is against this daily bread', coming in answer to daily prayer, bearing the curse against England that the specific case of protest, cabled yesterday, is made. There is no want of corroborative testimony of this great passion of hate being developed to quite an unnatural extreme; something, that because we can only partially conceive, we smile at or treat with levity; we do not regard it very seriously. But there are those who have had occasion to view it from bitterest experience, and they are those who have been so unfortunate as to fall into German hands as prisoners. British officers have been treated worse than common dogs. Distance may cause us here to be less impressed, but the arrogant cowardice, brutality and utter unconcern for health and life among our people in German hands has provided j one of the bitterest aspects of the war. An American citizen recently returned to England after being in Germany from the commencement of the war, writes to the Manchester "Guardian"an astonishing thing in its indiscriminate That hatred he tells us "is the most astonishing hting in its indiscriminate fury of all the phenomena which has struck me in tihe last six months in Germany. It is universal, implacable, of the foaming-of-the-mouth order. I have never seen anything like it. If yen people in England look upon it as confined, to a small section in the Fatherland, you will be woefully deceived. .L-issauer's .'jE-rymn.of Hate' is truly representative of the people as a whole . . .In all my travels I haveonly heard about three men disown or discourage it." | fTft? ft y>'e get the spirit which exnres-

ses itself ia the treatment of English prisoners, a collective madness which I is new to the 'world in modern times, and winch, has no piaraljlel in; the sentiments -of any of the other belligerents. What does it. moan? T|he "American. Citizen" has no doubt. It ; is, in his expression, "th e twin spirit j of fear," which gathers up all the un- | expressed and unacknowledged doubts in the public mind as to the issue

ot file war. The German people looked i?cT swift and crushing victory. They j have at least the ser.se to see that j something has gone wrens, and they lhave reached the stage when they must 3 have a scapegoat* For the present j their discipline keeps them from blam. > ing their Empencr, their Generals, or

their politicians. They deem it inipo so bile that these infallible people can have miscalculated the forces against them or have brought their troubles upon themselves by mistakes in war or blunders in diplomacy. It

must be someone els e who, for sheer malice and wickedness has stepped in to thwart Hie legitimate ambitions and designs of the rulers of Germany. Who else can that be but Britain, which has had the presumption to intervene when t.h e German General Staff had ruled her out? "They see the great and complete European triumph on which they had so confidently counted snatched cut of their bands by your interference," says the American observer, "you whom they had regarded as decadent and contemptible and whose rlav was passed—and so they hate you wl*(h a passion so terrible that if they could but secure your undoing they "•oulrl fall on the necks of France and tomorrow and even make tend. Mortal concessions to them."