GERMAN HATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 240, 19 March 1915, Page 3

GERMAN HATE.

"LIAUS AND DEGENERATES." EI'JTin.TS IIUIM.HI) AT THE FRENCH. The Hamburger Nachrichten has published tbe following letter, written by a German otlicer, as to tbe treatment which should be meted out to the otlicers of the French Army. Commenting' 1 oil the barbarity of the sentiments expressed in it. a French paper says: "It "'ill certainly provoke indignation, but as it is a sample of others, it will' throw ail interesting light on the attitude of the Germans towards tbe French." The letter is as follows: '■The French wounded are not worthy of any personal sympathy whatever, because they would not be able to appreciate it. We show human feeling towards them, and, in exchange, they use iluni-dnm bullets, and set traps for is. Tll the name of everything, let lis prevent our womenfolk or our Red Cross otlicers from coming in contact with them. ''The fact that a Frenchman is taken prisoner b\- 11s mu-t 110: oe the ireasim for his guard to learn French. German;* must insist 011 speaking German to their French captives who will in the end be forced to learn our language. We may be just to them, but not kind. They make a pretence of possessing great culture, in reality, they are liars and degenerates.

'■We must never forget the French are not like our soldiers: they are, however, knaves, and avoid lighting in the open: instead laying ambuscades for us. We are forced to make war 011 a people whose moral standard is far inferior to our own. and whom we cannot trust, The French are a. low race: they are capable of everything.'' Extracts from German non-commission-ed officers' letters are published in T.e Temps. One says: "Germany must win, and will win: in fact, site has already begun her victory. The more numerous our enemies appear to be, the more vigorously our troops fight. "For us and for all Germans there is only one thing in the whole world which is sacred, and that is our country. "We will press our enemies to the very last diteh. France must eeas,- to be a. great Rower, she has forfeited the right to such a position.'' ( 'oiniiietil ing on these letters, Le Temps says, "This is the cry of the nia-s: 'it ieI'eets the true feeling of the German soldier. It, has been .-aid Oeit this wails ~,n atlair of officers; but the phrase lias been aeeepted (no easily. i( is not the whole truth. And it is to |,e honed that in future we shall u«l think of the German soldier as a poor machine compelled to do as ordered. The German soldier does not dream of pcu-e. but thinks of nothing but exterminating the French." Fe Petit Girond'. another Fpaie'' paper, relates an incident to prove how inhuman is the feelimr t Ip'onehnut the whole German nation against U„. Kroieh. A Trench snb-lieut enant in searehiier a v. undi d German ioieel e I<■-i ■> i - whi ■(, the latter had reeeived from his wife. 1(, contained the word-. "I hop,, that von will spare neither women nor children." In a truly drama* ie spirit the letter v.'a-. returned by (he Frem-h oilVer (i! (lie Oontlall wife with tee fo!'owi;;_leont "Madame, e have fonud this letter in yon;- liu-haud's pocket: he j s wounded, but is roceuiug evi-rv possible attention."