The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1915. GERMAN SURPRISES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 8 September 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1915. GERMAN SURPRISES.

i 1 (With whic-h is incorporated The Tai- i hape Pont una W tt jmarm.. News.) -

Germany is going to win the war by surprises,. If not a complete victory of arms, then it will .-be made absolute by a rapid recovery of trad 3 and manufactures. ,-S-uch a recovery that will enable her to flood the world's iuark.ets with ~ cheap goods, ahd ■' by- that means establish a commercial supremacy while t|he Allies are still■ attending, to their baudages and plaster.; ' Qer : many has from. t|he outset sprung carprises. upon the world. The first blow was a surprise; but these surprises have followed one after the other, and we are still being threatened with all the deadly machinations that German kultur is capable of imagining. Though some past surprises have given the Allie s troubl e they have gone very little way towards ultimate German victory. The surprise capture of Paris failed; the Zeppelin invasion has fizzled out, the us 6 for the immense flotilla to land German troops in England is non est; the submarine blockade da a farce. Tjhe cunningly constructed gun placements in France, Belgium and other places are instanc is of mousy (infl effort thrown away, as they rendered next to no service; the mammoth seise gun is a surprise that has been a partial success, partial, its usefulness has been curtailed 'ey l';nnations devised by th e Allies. Other surprises include that emanation from the Prince of Hell, himself, t|fe cruel, diabolical, deadly) inhuman gas, but even its deadly working has now heoii limited to a mere bagatelle. To the gas categorjy belongs squirting fire} and, one or two other minor surprises, all -of .which are mainly a failure,' A fe>v days ago cables intimated that| (Germany was. testing another- surprise on Lake Constance. This is a huge hydroplane that is to rise.ah3 7C cv.r tjattleSihips, and fixe bombs: or aerial torpe-does-'-of Such size and with Pl®i cision that one ’Will be sufficient p entirely disable the biggest man of war afloat,'if-it. does, not actually sijnk it. No doubt JCllicoe is in fear and pembling awaiting this aerial monster. But, perhaps it may only bo an adaptation of the giant biplane which ignominiously made it<, debut the day before yesterday. being promptly shot down and [ destroyed the Allies. A second machine is said to be ready for testthis will, we are told, travel from Germany to London and back in five hours, ca.rrv a searchlight, twelve 20pound bombs, machine-guns and eight men. H c -re is a surprise with evident nrvto'Tdii'nvi if German kultur has eal- «* A-t on. ~. .w frm therefore the second wt« i . - .. c-bnlhaar end. In

fact tjh, e war, from its declaration, has furnished a string of diabolical surprises for destruction of human life, which clearly indicate the channels that the thought of the most capable scientific minds of Germany has been turned into for very many years of preparation prior to “Der Tag,” and on up to th e present day, and still we are threatened with surprises which, if anything, are to proye more destructive to our Empire than any surprise we have yet experienced. We have ( late'ljy had it cabled that Germany is already preparing, for the capture of the world’s markets- for her manufactures, and her great men ate good enough to warn,us that this will be accomplished despite anything the Allies ! can do,. German kultur is the secret.