MORE GERMAN LIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 17 February 1915, Page 5

MORE GERMAN LIES.

(By Allon Bolt, in the London Chronf icle). • , : After a ten days' course of. roSding, | and nothing but German newspapers, I am almost ready.'to swear that blaok is white, that the British Empire is a Republic, and that the Kaiser is the greatest pacifist the world has ever known. But one can only gasp for breath on being told that' the gallant j German fleet is waiting for the British i i warships to come out and fiht! limit of topsy-turydom has been reached in two letters; circulated around Swiss newspaper offices bv a branch of .the "Dissemination of Truth Among Neutrals Union." The first was published in the Dradncr Neueste Nachrichtcn,' as having been sent by a German bluejacket to a friend. Tflolhe , jacket. The following is a n extract:-~ The English, cowardly people, dare not show themselves. But we will < show them what German bluejackets can do! I will lead home to you ono of these English.' Another German bluejackets also intends to bring home an Englishman, but he prudently expresses the intention of muzzling him first.' In a letter to his mother, reprinted from the Berliner Local Anzieger, he says:— ~ j We are here on'board, happy and I contented, but we have no patience to wait for the British to come out of the Thames and measure their strength against ours. Their thick skulls will be broken by our excellent cannons, When our cannons begin to roar. ... it will not be as on land, "Jeder Stosa ein Francois" (each shot a Frenchman), but each ■ cannon'ball hundreds of English and French. We are only waiting for the moment when our dear Kaiser will Bay to us: "Things are going well on land: Now then, bluejackets, fall On the enemy!" Then look out for yourselves, • English and French; each shot will tell. Our vessel did not win the* Kaiser's shooting prize for nothing. We want to teach them what it means to joke with a German sailor. If you are good and don't worry too much.l will muzzle an Englishman and lead him to you from, London.' Several statements in the following letter from the Frankfurter Zeitung do credit to the writer's imagination, if to nothing else. Describing the state of the French prisoners taken at Lagardc, he says:— I pitied these unfortunate Frenchmen, some of whom were youths of 16 and 17. I gave them chocolate and dressing for their wounds, and I brought them water. Never ih the wkhole of my life have I'received as many kisses on my hands and feet! "We don't want war," they were calling out all the time, varied by "LongLive Germany!" When the standard of a battalion comiiig from the rear. - appeared, they cried, all together, "Oh! the German flag! Long Live Germany, long live the German flag."' Another choice letter published by the Rcgcnsb Anzeiger as having been "sent by a German soldier to his wife at Ratiabonne, says:— We have taken 10,000 Frenchmen, and a large quantity of supplies. I have taken a pair of stockings from a French soldier's haversack, as mine were dirty and torn.' Mr dear M., I pray to God when I have time. Pray also for me. Up till now I have hail a guardia n angel. I do not need any linen, as we can take all we want from the knapsacks of the dead. Tha French prisoners look dispusting, and are as dirty as Polish Jews. Let us hope we will soon be in Paris. The B'ronch would do well to cease fighting at once. There has been a great outcry in Germany against exaggerations of the atrocities in Belgium. Possibly it was in support of thiß movement that the "Dissemination of Truth Among Neutrals Union" circulated 4;he following reproduction in the Krcutzeitung, of a description se't by a German fjom Liege:— Fifteen mor e Belgians were shot. It was a terrible spectacle, and I shall never forget it as long as I live. In the background the burning houses, in front the corpses of the people who had been shot. This may be called .", barbarous method of action, but it is t'w °nly one that enables us to master the populace. Similar affairs have taken place in other parts of the town.