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Taihape Daily Times, 29 October 1918, Page 6

WHAT BISMARCK FEARED. For all the boastings of Hindenburg, the German people, if we accept their newspapers as representing them, do not bear adversity with the firm endurance of the French and British. Their nature has not altered. Bismarck knew his countrymen if anyone did. The last person to whom he spoke before setting out for the opening of the war with Austria was the Belgian Minister at Berlin. “Au Bevoir!” said the latter. “Au Revoir! if all goes well,” replied Bismarck; tl otherwise I shall get myself ridden -down in the last charge of cavalry.’’ He could face death, but not a defeated German people. Curiously enough, the words were brought back to his mind during the bloodiest battle of the campaign, it was at Koniggratz, where the fighting ■was long and terrible. At last the ’Austrians broke and retreated, and when they werp in full flight his features took on a broad smile, “You anay well smile now,” said Moltke grimly; “but if things had gone wrong with us, and we had suffered a reverse, the market women of Berlin would have beaten you about the ears with their brooms. Market brooms might be plied in Berlin to-day if m in. tary discipline were not so terrible an instrument. WADE’S WORM FlGS.—Wonderful Worm Worriers. Price 1/6