MAORI V. HUN.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 January 1918, Page 5

MAORI V. HUN.

'Addressing the Native School Teachers’ Conference at Auckland, Sir J. Carroll said: It was interesting to know that in a modern war the armies engaged had recourse to first principles. Trench fighting was known years ago among the savages and the Maoris, while the strategy and policies were also traceable to the old primitive ideas of warfare; but the Maori warriors at their very worst never resorted to the savagery practised to-day by the Prus- ‘ sian. That was because the Maori had a code of true honour and ancestral principles to uphold, and when he met a foeman worthy of his steel he recognised it. The only code of the Hun was murder in his aggressiveness, and his principles wore marked by absolute murder, execution of the unprotected, absolute terrorism, and hideous inhuman butchery. Over and over again in this war our brave boys had taken prisoners, and might have been tempted to wreak their vengeance, but they had not forgotten their lessons of honour, the spirit of chivalry with which they had always been imbued, and the inoculation of principles born in them, and which had made them the noble warriors and men they were proving themselves to bo on the field of battle