WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1915, Page 6

WAR NOTES.

THE CALL OF IIOXOR. J lie theme of my recitation Tn the Dardanelles now takes place, W licrr? tlie buttle still continues For the supremacy of race. We have read in our daily papers How .New Zealand never thought Hint her sons would hnvc such valor To fight the way they fought. Hut still, it's only natural ' ( I hey should thirst for the focniaii'a fro re; For (heir fathers fought for the Motherland In the bygone days of yore. Yes, they fought shoulder to shoulder, Winning glory and fame. Our boys are every hit as hrave— It's the stock from whence they came. They are now in the field of battle 'to line their pocket or purse, Hut to wipe out. the fiendish Germans And brave the Himnish curse. As Hermans' threats and curses Will soon have them reduced, Because their curses, like the crows, Always come home to roost. 'And the sooner they roost the better, And see the fall of their land, We'll strike from the ankles of our kin Those chains and iron bands. You have read how the -poor Belgians suffered Tn their country all alons, When the iron ring of Tyrannv eating into their bone. Well. our hoys have gone to help them And they needed 110 better call To wrest from the tyrants and hvno- | criies The rights for one and all. You'll hear the bar-room skiters say "Why, it's a lot of rot, To send a bunch of kids out there: Good gracious!']] they only get shot!" Well, what if they do?—it's their country's call With (lie battle's din and weather. It's for Old England. King and Crown -And to keep the Empire together. So cheers for all our contingents And may Cod send them safely hack, With plorv and laurels 011 their brow, And above them the Union .Tack! —Madame Tiernard. .Stratford. nXAKCTAT, SURPRISES. London, May "20. There is a good deal of secret whispering in financial circles anent the money strength in Germany. A year ago we were told that the German exchequer was hopelessly inadequate to deal with current expenditure. Since the outbreak of war the enormous wealth of the country has surprised own the Germans themselves. The new Minister of Finance. Carl ITelferrich. savs in a book recently published that the German revenue is now about forty-three milliards of marks a year, of which ten milliards, or £500,000,000 is actually saved. Ths cost of the war up till February last has been about ten milliards, which is equal to only one year's savings of the Gorman Tronic. An addil ioieil proof of the financial vitality of f'.c i' ''ion is the fact that the second war loan realised an'proxinnV" nine milliard cirks. or twice the amount of t' ,n "" '■ . "'his i- of the "••"at suiTiri--" - of the "'r. The other Mirnris" !« • fi'wnchl of Frai"-" ha-: failed somehow f- ""i ' ' '''ess notices ill y,>n-nrd I" 1 o" '-»1- -ci'.bar's. Fin•>,vi:il ' ' believe that V, M : ' • ' itions, and e, , 1 ige oversea tri'le anil indu"'"'" 1 i"was liv- : "ir on her last, ~"H- Tt, will be a re. lief to some pee-'e ' now that, Germany mav liave so-'e "-"Id left on Set' tling T)av. despite the nwlul rumor that thc'AHied amies will find ordv a cowed population and some, uneatable sausage when they march into Berlin.