THE TERRITORIALS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 112, 27 September 1912, Page 7

THE TERRITORIALS.

Tc the Editor. Sir, —I wish to av I am sorry for Mr. Sellar. lie is evidently wry dull of comprehend ,ii. and if f did not think that thai uric so. I would not bother about replying to his letter re the above, which is full of inconsistencies and absurdities. I will endeavor, as briefly as possil.de, to refer to some of them. My parents left the old land in the hope that they would find a better land with better prospects for themselves and their children, and they found it. I may say incidentally that had his parents not objected strongly my father would have remained in the army altogether, not as Mr. Sellar surmised. Re horse flesh consumed by the Germans: They tell me it is quite a delicacy in some parts of dermany, and if Mr. Sellar never has anything worse than horseflesh to eat he will not fare badly. T hope that Mr. Sellar remembers that the people of Paris were glad to eat worse things than horses. Dogs, cats, rats and mice were the sort of things the vanquished and defeated people of France had to exist on. One of the main reasons why France was defeated wa > because there were too many of Mr. Sellar's kind in France at the time; the conscript armies of Germany were too good for the disloyal and rebellious French, who were not "prepared"; and those of your kind, Mr. Sellar, had to eat dogs, cats, rats and mice, although they sat and watched their brothers' blood being shed to save them. -They also had the privilege of helping to pay that huge indemnity claimed by the conscript armies of Germany. I trust that there are not many such as you, Mr. Sellar. in the land of the free. Because if there are. the conscript armies of Germany will again be victorious, and in all probability will inflict the same hardships on the people of the land of the free as they did on the poor French, and then you will run a big risk of losing that fat job you are so hopefully looking forward to. Instead, you will bo in some besieged town, glad enough to subsist on anything tbat may come your \vay. That this is quite in the line of probability is evidenced by the sign of the times. There is more indication now of war with Germany than there was of war twelve months before the I war oi ls<o. There never has been a! great nation exist yet without military discipline, and even the great land of the free will not be so for long if she does not attend a little more to universal training of her vountr men.—l am, etc., MECK LEXBURG -SCHWERTX.