GERMAN STAGE THUNDER.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 June 1917, Page 6

GERMAN STAGE THUNDER.

Speaking in a loud tone of voice the Berlin "Neuste Nachrichten " rises up on its hind legs and declaims pompously as follows: . _ ...

"Off with the nightcaps we have worn so long- On the day when the peace terms shall b<fT3pread out on the fateful round table of diplomacy, Ave must bank our iron fist on it with all our might, and keep the fist there without allowing ourselves to be fooled by considerations of future international friendships.

"The war has awakened the German people, it has unfettered slumbering Powers, and it has shown the world and ourselves that if we wish to be wc may be the masters.

"Arc we, then, again to shuffle along timidly i est wc trcad Qn thfl toes of others? \ TO ,„.„ , , atc avc once more to take part in the imbecile comedy of friendly relations between the Powers? Do wc want any more prlneQly yisits ffom states who have treaptm™ 1 , "eacherously attacked us and who have + -. e Tri cd to murder us?

"Shall wc decorate our towns and shout 'Hurrah!' when foreigners step on that German soil that they tried to devastate Are we again to appoint the kings Avho have led the most brutal and shameful of all Avars against us and our women and children, fieldmarshals and generals in the Prussian army?

"Godforbid. Bather, when the time

for peace talk comes, our representatives at the green table must talk in tones so thunderous and overpowering that all the rest of them may be con 1 -' vinced that wo mean / to' stand on our dignity in future, and to be extremely cautious in welcoming in our midst any of the high-placed foreign gold-laccd royal and princely parasites."