WORSE THAN BARBARIANS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 12 September 1916, Page 4

WORSE THAN BARBARIANS.

Which is the better name Cor the Germans —Huns or Bodies? M. Louis Forest declares that Hun is no name.,-,; for the enemy and he chides French papers for having followed, British example in adopting the wafd., .. The English flatter the Germans he. - says, in calling them Huns;. It is. a. mistake to search history for a com* . parison that does not fit. A new form of barbarity calls for a new name: let., that name be Bodies. The word Hun. recalls plain, simple barbarians, mere; . brutes. The Huns fell upon a civilised Europe in much the same way as the unconscious forces of Nature ravish the earth; wild beasts, avalanches, fire, floods, cloudbursts. They massacred they knew not why; they knew not Avhat they did. "B'oche" on the other hand, synchronises with undiained ferocity mixed with hypocrisy and servile pride; brutes full of craftiness, deceit and double dealing; an •overflow of murdering hordes preceded by the- preparation of the insinuating spy, the cowardly traitor; wholesale cloaked with Pharisaical humanitarianism and scientific savagery. The Huns were barbarians, but men at least, and fine specimens at that; the Bodies are spectacled, cunning, low down, common murderers.