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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 3 September 1915, Page 8

PRAISE FOR THE FRENCH. A German physician, Dr Dalins,who was for a time a prisoner in France and on being - released returned to Berlin, speaks highly of the French soldier in an article in "Ber Tag"." He said. "I was surprised at the warlike spirit that reigns in France and takes its source in the unanimous conviction that France is defending her civilisation and her hearths against an invasion of barbarians led by the Hohenzollerns. A young non-commission-ed oflicer, returning to the front after being ciu'e ( i of a first wound, said to me: 'We will be killed to the last man rather than submit.' The French, soldier has a manifest superiority over other soldiers. He cfels that he is a citizen of his country instead of a machine Mindly yielding to discipline. He •understands the duties which his rank of citizen imposes on jhim for the defence of his country- It is i' rom tnis conscious patriotism that the French from the first have drawn their power of resistance, and from it the people and the army draw their stubborn determination to win. This patriotism would have enabled them to support far greater trials than those they have undergone. A French politician said to me in this connection: 'Our sons give their young lives to win victory, and we, their falthersl, accept their sacrifice. For forty-four years we suffered in silence. Even then we did not want the war. But since Germany has let it loose, we will go through with it to the end, and the end will cn r v be when Germany is crushed."

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