POTSDAM LIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1915, Page 7

POTSDAM LIES.

AUSTRALIANS SENT HOME. f "HALF-SAVAGE COLONIALS." London, May 7. With the Kaiser's wireless bureau U an unfailing supplement to the some- 3 what clumsier fictions of hiß press, then is never any lack of English news from German sources. The laßt batch of German newspaper to .reach London • contains quite a surprising number.of i happenings of which those who «ive in , their midst have heard nothing. A Brit- ■; ish general, "highly distinguished,' com- • mitted suicide as a protest against the > war. In the course of a mutiny against tlie "gross brutality of an officer ill command of a training camp," six sol-, j dicrs were shot, "one fatally." An Eng* lish doctor "bearing a famous name, was found to be a spy, and shot in tna Tower, and Dunkirk has fallen before . German naval guns. But the fairy j that must be awarded the "biscuit W one published by the Berliner Tageblatt. One London paper refers to it M » "shameful libel on Australians," but X fancy it will cause your readers much more amusement than offence. Here it

js■ , .. "The lion's cubs are getting out of hand. They are showing their teeth * and growling ominously, 60 ominously, indeed, that the mother lion, Old Eng i land, is in deadly fear lest they should. bo inclined to try the strength of their ; fangs on her own carcase. The 23,0W ; Australians who wero hurried ■ cally from the Antipodes to the aid of the Motherland have been as hurriedly and as frantically shipped from Egypt back to Australia. The demoralisation among these half-savage colonial? Has reached such a degree that there was o. gravo danger that the whole of the troops might bo affected by it. "Thus this chapter in the story of British colonial loyalty is closed tor evermore."