THE RAIDER.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 June 1917, Page 2

THE RAIDER.

CHIVALRY ON THE SEA . A curious instance of the perverted mentality of the Hun is afforded by the Leipzig Nachrichten's view of the activities of the "new Moowe": — "Just imagine! Our incomparable Lieutenant Badcwitz now carries the scalps of eight torpedoed enemies on his girdle, and at the same time the new Mocwc is still bravely at work, and it is amid the cleanest chivalry, while gazing the enemy boldly and manfully in the face, that our fleet achieves such glorious results! By way of contrast, let us glance at the cowardly attacks of England with the meanest of secret weapons on our 17< boats. Like a wretched beggar hypocritically hiding his crimes, the greatest naval Power of the world shelters itself behind the flag of the smallest sea Power in Europe to lur e a U-boat to its destruction, and to fall en it like a jackal or, hyena on an unsuspecting deer. When will the day arrive, when, in respect of such repeated examples of England's unspeakable djepravity, we cast overboard -every shred of that German decency and fair ness which we have too long exercised towards a foe in whose eye such virtues have no meaning, a foe who understands only one argument—that, of the most ruthless hammering? In Heaven's name let us hammer it into a shapeless mass of pulp, and, above all, let 4 us lose no more time about it."

It is the spirit that regards as the •'cleanest chivalry" the torpedoing of 1 elpleSs and unharmed merchantmen that is wrecking the. German Empire and bringing the mad Hohenzollonis to the dust.