The Daily News. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1914. GERMANY'S HATRED OF BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 14 November 1914, Page 4

The Daily News. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1914. GERMANY'S HATRED OF BRITAIN.

I Excerpts from the daily German journals published in the current English exchanges show a feeling of intense and i hysterical hatred of Britain and all things British. The Hamburger Nachrieliten snarls in these, words:—This people to whom no breach of the law of nations is too criminal, to whom no lie is repugnant and shameless, has taught us Germans how to hate." This elegant journal continues: "Even as the French are daily expecting Paris to bo besieged, so the British are every moment in dread of a Zeppelin attack on London. They, and their naval officers, are in greater dread still, a3 well they need be, of the German submarines." The Kolnische Zeitung is especially violent in its opinion of the London newspapers. It accuses the Press and the Press Bureau of carrying on a campaign of lies and defamation against Germany. "Of all thoso lies," it says, "the most impudent is that about the alleged cruelties of our brave soldiers. All this is natural enough. The papers must at any cost find material to interest their readers, and as there are only British defeats and 'tactical retreats, to describe the poor fools are treated to abuse, of our glorious army." Jt was generally understood at the time (the en.-'l of September) that London was panic-stricken. The Vossische Zeitung declared that "the terror in London at the menace of German airships is such as cannot be imagined. If such is the situation now in the capital of perfidious England, how will it be, one may well ask, when the Kaiser will placo London under strict martial law?" Another journal, anxious to reassure its readers, paints an imaginative but peculiar picture of distress and ruin in England. "We know for a fact," observes' this sapient vehicle of popular opinion, "that in Leeds, where quantities of Danish produce have arrived, the warehousing conditions are chaotic. Butter melting for want of ice or refrigerating chambers is running along the floors and walls in sickly yellow streams. Mountains of oggs are rotting, poisoning tlic air around, and rats by the thousand are gnawing away at the bales of pork and ih'i-d balls. Meanwhile. British soldiers in • the field are living on dry bread and putrid tinned meat." The Magdeburg Zeitung talks of bread riots of a formidable character in the Midlands, and the looting of bakeries by swarms of people, "consisting mostly of cripples, aged persons, and children, nearly every ablebodied man in the locality having been pressed into the army, under the influenc of drugged liquor." After this, no wonder that Berlin is optimistic!