LACK OF JUDGMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 September 1918, Page 2

LACK OF JUDGMENT.

Again and again the German High Command has made fatal mistakes Jn under-estimating the possibilities of their opponents. A notable case a* the beginning of the war was the sneering, jeering manner in -which the Germans referred to Britain's firs* hunded thousand sent into France. It was not long before the enemy had reason to change his tone abour French's "contemptible little army." It grew and grew, and alway? and ever keeping the Kaiser back froirParis and Calais. But the Junkerslr rover gain wisdom from their experience—except to do evil more evilly. When it was announced that there were 700,000 Americans in France and 2,000,000 in training, the German papers waxed sarcastic, denied that U.S.A. could turn out so many men In a short time, and, anyway, as General von Ardenne jeered, amidst Germanic aplause, "it is not a matter of quantity, but of quality." And once more the Germans proved poor judges of the Anglo-Saxon capacity for quality. As King George put it, Sammy has ; ->t pep into the western punch—and it is Fritz who knows it to-day.