In recent issues of the "Westminister Gazette" there has been correspondence on the subject of the word "Hun''' to the German. The corresondent interestingly observes: "The cornman use of the word, by the way, is a pleasing instance, of retribution, it seems clear that it originated in the Kaiser's* famous address to Ms troops, before the Chinese expedition Sn 1900, when he exhorted them to make themselves a name as terrible as that of Attila." He caustically adds: **lts application to the Germans always seems to me rather unfair to the real Huns, who made no pretence of being civilised."
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Taihape Daily Times, 21 March 1918, Page 6
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193Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Taihape Daily Times, 21 March 1918, Page 6
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