MORE HATE.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 January 1918, Page 5

MORE HATE.

'A plea is being made in several German papers for the universal revival of Lissauer’s “Hymn of Hate,” several stanzas of which are- reprinted (says,.the Daily Express) for the comfort of . those who , have forgeotten or grown ashamed of it. The Deutscjie Zeitung puts, in this . way; — n Now that the : Kaiser in. his magnificent address to the.troops in Flanders has called the child by its right name, now' that he has pointed his finger direct at England, branding her as our people’s arch-enemy w'ho is capable of any imaginable .deed of . bfackguardism, may there once more burst forth that “Hymn of Hate” that was born of the war, and which expresses our national sentiment as none other can.

. The German- Michael is a stupid fellow. to allow himself fo.i be turned against, this holy outpouring of rightby the sophistries of those who. whisper: that it is not in good tgste, -thgt it is.an unliterary production, irrpconcile.able with »the '■ German spirit. We look on the hymn ’as the expression of the sound consciousness of the Germans, of their inimeasuralbe moral superiority to the islanders. Let then, the potent, words roll on again throughout the German land, let them reverberate’ among the German hills and valleys until their spirit Jias penetrated into every German soul to steel it into.holding out against such an antogonist, even though hunger and thirst be our daily guerdon.