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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 312, 11 June 1915, Page 2

We uiuy make light of the German menace und condemn the Kaiser's people for their outrageous cruelties and fiendish actions ill l>attle, but it is to be feared that there are many Britishers who do not show the same high hciisc of patriotism that the German soldier and artisan is exhibiting to-day. One of the most striking statements that have yet appeared in print was published in an English newspaper the other day. It was in the form of an interview with a German artisan, who expressed his surprise at the industrial troubles that had oeeured a*id were even then oeeuring in Great Britain. Asked how his countrymen were faring under war conditions, lie said that they were only receiving half the wages paid them before the war, but they did not complain of that, because it was a great deal more than tlio soldiers in the fighting line were receiving; and, with everything at stake, the Germans, as one man, were prepared to stand by their country to the last and to endure the inevitable privations which the war must bring about. The men in Germany were working longer hours than ever, but they felt, in a very real sense, that (lie success of the war depended upon their individual efforts. < "We do not quarrel over the wages wo j ai"? to receive," he said, "we woil; lor Ui ; l'atherland." !