TAKING A LESSON FROM BRITAIN

Taihape Daily Times, 11 October 1918, Page 6

TAKING A LESSON FROM BRITAIN

What Count Reventlow describes as "defeatism" —melancholia about the western front and food distress —has become so epidemic that the "Cologne Gazette" is reduced to advising the Huns to take .-.a lesson in patriotism and self-control from hated B'ritain! incidentally the semi-official organ admits that German hopes of a collapse of British solidarity have been grievously disappointed. The Foreign Office organ says:— "In respect of national unity in rain or shine, in disaster or good fortune dn failure or triumph, there is no more instructive, example for Germans than our arch-foe England. We have grossly miscalculated on this score. First we pinned our hopes on the British working classes. Then on the Old Liberals Then on personages like Lord Lansdowne and Lord Courtney, and recently even on the once so reviled Viscount Grey. From each of these in turn we expected a cleavage in British sentiment and a spirit of conciliation as soon as we stretched forth our hand. But it has been » case of self deception. Let us no "longer delude ourselves. The front of the Western Powers against us for more than a year has been more uhitea than internally as well as externally. Russia's withdrawal from the war has facilitated this process."