ENGLISH CHIVALRY.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 January 1918, Page 6

ENGLISH CHIVALRY.

Talking to the Bristol Dockers’ Union recently, Mr H. A. L. Fisher, the Education Minister, told the following story: “A month before the war broke out there was a German student at Oxford who attended a picture palace. The picture palace was crowded with young Englishmen, members of the University. “Suddenly the Kaiser appeared on the film, but the young Englishman who was sitting behind the German made an insulting observation. Whereupon the young German turned round and boxed the Englishman’s ears. “Upon that the whole theatre burst out into applause. “The young Englishmen felt that the young German had been unfairly treated; that his Kaiser had been abused in rather an ungcntlemanly manner. “A German came to a friend of mine —his old tutor —afterwards and said, ‘You are a wonderful people.’ He told that story and said, ‘Such chivalry as that would have been'quite incomprehensible in my country.’ “Well, that is really our civilisation That little story gives you the whole of our civilisation.”