THE GERMAN VIEW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 8 January 1915, Page 7

THE GERMAN VIEW.

PRESS CALUMNY. MORE ABOUT THE CURSED BRITISH The German papers afford entertaining reading just now. Hardly one of them fails to have its daily thrust nt the, country which checked its career of loot: (y HELL-GROWX LIES. The British, by their conduct, and by their whole way of looking at life, show their inferiority to us (says the Yossiehe Zeitung), In philosophy, in metaphysics, in all the higher reaches of tho intellect they are our pupils. Tlicy are ■very bad pupils, however,, for they have learned nothing from us. 'The, 'proof of this is to be found in the very fact that they are at war with us, for on their part it is a war of mean rivalry—no more; while on ours it is one for existence. We are fighting for life; they for booty. Our press is irreproachable; their?— a true reflex of their gross mentality—a tissue of hell-grown lies. Tho British have ever acted up to their philosophy, which j\s TTobbes so well 'pointed out, classes man among the beasts ,of prev, while ours places him but a degree lower than tho gods. For the rest, every nation has a riglit on its side in exact proportion to its power. Therefore, by our might shall we acquire our right, and that right once gained, Germany will lose no time in implanting in the world, to the possibi. exclusion of England's barren soil, t!:i' ■ oodly tree of German thought, German culture, German ideals, leaving John Bull to stand alone, deprived, of his colonies, isolated and despised of all, on the white cliffs of his pitiful little island.

LONDON* UNDER "THE TERROR." This is what the Xachriehten says:— As might have been expected from a power with such a record as Britain, she i; now on the point of deserting her bosom friend, so that she may look after herself at home. The French, so far as she cares, may be eaten up alive by Germany, so long as the shopkeepers iu England be left in peace to do their business.

After the wretched fiasco of 'Antwerp. Britishers have lost their taste for Continental adventure. There is at th's moment but one predominant note in the British press—the note of abject fear of invasion.

In the circumstances this is quite understandable, and the prevalence of this sentiment also explains the great falling off in the number of recruits They are beginning to feel, at las'"', across the C".-:v,in: 1, where the shoe really pinches. Conditions in London are such as to hold up to the ridicule of the world, the much-vaunted British power* The metropolis is nightly plunged into an Egyptian darkness, business places and pleasure resorts are open only lor an hour or two daily, the assembling of groups of two or three friends in the street is forbidden, inoffensive Germans are pursued by tho rabble and driven for succour and safety into the arms of the police. In short, London life is paralysed, because its citizens have at last realised that their rulers are utterly incapable of defending their Ironies against German invasion which is so threateningly near. Tn the face of such a state of terror, Kitchener's staring appeals for "mori men" strike one as quite pathetic^

OUR MONSTROUS APPETITE. The appetite of the British soldier forms the subject of a grave Indictment printed in the Kolnische Zeitung. Our forces, it seems, are eating the French out of house and home, and the French soldiers, unable to find a worse term of abuse, stigmatise them as Germans! ■■ The landing of the British troops, the ' journal declares, is nothing less than a disaster for the French. Everything that the department of Seine Inferieure and Pas de Calais produce is being ruthlessly devoured by the British Allies. Great cargoes of coffee, frozen meat, j salt and rice are seized by the British 1 commissariat under tiie nose of the French officers and the French troops, whose mouths water at the tit-bits, which ■Tolin Bull, with his monstrous J appetite, and monumental greed, swal- j lows with the case of an elephant 01 j the rampage John Bull, as is bis wont, is making, capital out of the open-handedness of 1 the French. He eats to repletion of the products of the French soil, and rubs bis chest in cmug contentment, not earing one iota about the hunger and misery which he is well aware is prevailing, in' all French ports from "Dunkirk to St. Malo. The French enthusiasm for the British, as may be imagi«ed, is now a thing of the past. The. feeling that is now inspired by these beefy gluttons, these bragging', voracious, swashbucklers is one of constantly growing disgust and aversion Tndeed, on several occasions, French soldiers have refused to travel in the same railway carriage with the mercenaries from Albion because of their filthy habits and unclean condition. _ Triable to hit upon a word in their own language to express in sufficiently strong terms their contempt for the British Tommies, the French soldiers now call them "Germans."'

BRITAIN ITTIE BLOOD-SUCKER. A choice bit from the Morgenpost:--We fail to see in what Britain's. boasted naval supremacy consists. This overwhelmingly powerful fleet has hitherto not made any serious attempt against us, while Germany, on the othqr hand, already gave evidence of her naval j .power at the mouth of the Thames, within a few days after the declaration : of war. Neither have the British distinguished themselves in any way against Austria at sea. The fact is that Britain entered on the war solely and purely actuated by motives of spoliation. She cares nothing for internal obligations. Iter one desire is to enrich herself at the price of the ruin of German commerce. Therefore, it is to her interest to drag on the war as long as possible, leaving others to pay the bill in blood and treasure. If we contemplate 1 for a moment the figure which Albion presents before the nations of the world we shall readily understand how it was that. Shakespeare drew with sur-h brilliant mastery the character of Shylock. Britain is the Shylock, the blood-usurer among the nations.

IXOTA WATTINTi HS OITANTE. | The Frankfurter Zcttnnir. sl-ill un- , able to keep its fingers off the Indian , troops, retells owe again the story of j that astonishing "conspiracy" whicli was originally invented in Berlin, and has since made tile round of the whole,Cer- j man press:—■ We have obtained the information from the most reliable sources that the bandy K'ffrd Gurkhas, the long-limbed Sikhs, and the swarthv Tieugalis, now being paraded by the British in Trance, with the object of encouraging the people of that country to further nseloss sacrifices, have entered into usual blood combat to encourage their fellow Indians to come out in their hundreds of