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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 206, 9 October 1916, Page 2

SUPPLY OF BRITISH OFFICERS. The most remarkable feature of the losses on the British front in the Somme operations has been the very high percentage of casualties to officers For every seven men- one superior officer apears in the list It is a splendid tribute to the great gallantry of our young leaders,, who lead and do not drive. Despite these losses, there is no shortage of officers- Thanks to the foresight of Lord Kitchener, special officers’ cadet units were established some time ago for the special purposeof training N.C.O.’s and privates who have seen service to become officers. Sandhurst and Woolwich arc also training as many officers in a few months as formerly passed through the colleges in as many years. GERMAN DOCTOR’S RAVINGS. Yorwarts takes the Munchener Mcdizinischo Wochcnschrift severely to task for having published an article by D W. Fuchs, who says that peace woulc be a catastrophe: “That the whole nation must demand as one man eternal war ” Yorwarts quotes from a pamphlet written by this doctor: Educate to Irate! Educate to reverence for Hale! Educate to. love of hate! Organise Hate! Away with the - false fear of brutality and fanaticism! Marinetti's words have a political significance —“More blows, loss kisses! ’ We must not hesitate blasphemously to announce —and now abideth faith, hope, and Hate! ’ As Yorwarts comments' —Dr. Fuchs is chief physician to the Asylum for the Insane in Emmcndingen. P'ty his poor patientsTOMMY ’ ’8 LOVE FOE HIS HORSE. While out with his battery a soldier, so v - a sergeant to the Central News, ’md tears streaming down his face as Eie result of the German use of lachrymatory shells. Then he saw that Ins horse was similarly affected. Pulling down his mask to save himself, he cut up his smoke helmet to protect his horse and was thereupon taken before the colonel to answer for destroying Government property. When asked for an explanation of his action the man replied that he loved his horse. The sergeant, asked by the colonel if thought the man really had such an •ff-'ction for the animal, replied that he could quite believe the man’s story, as lie once saw him crying for half an hour besidethc horse which he had been riding, and which had been killed. The man was let off with a caution.

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