THE FOOLISHNESS OF RETICENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 May 1918, Page 4

THE FOOLISHNESS OF RETICENCE.

The following remarks by a New Zealand contemporary voice the feelings of most New Zealand residents: News is never so bad, but that it might be worse; and the political leaders of the British at Home and abroud —in England as in New Zealand—have hitherto failed to recognise this. They are no more psychologists than the German leaders —in that they fail to realise that the best thing to make the British get together for the.good of the nation is to tell them the worst. Instead of doing so, even after more than three years of the struggle, they keep on telling us that old, old fable —“we maintain our line” Yet daily our forces are being pushed back. The fiction is needless. If only we are slaughtering Fritz —and out of Germany comes verification of that most important factor —what matters the loss of ground?