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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1915, Page 4

In the course of a scrmor. at Christ* church the Bev, J J. North reproached the English for their lack of « poet (says the Lyttelton Times). The Lusitania ought to have ealled forth sometiding- thrilling which would have displaced "Tippcrary," but it did noj. The murder of Nurse Cavell created an opportunity for song makers that might, if taken, change the face of the war. The death of John Brown, the American Puritan, would have hoen forgotten long ago and would have been sneered into oblivion by weary legalists but for the genius who threw into eternal verse the tragedy concerning the man of Harper'* Ferry. The chorus "John Brown's body lies mouldering, in the grave'' created armies, and went far towards wiping slavery from the State. A similar song based on the murder of Nurse Cavell would be worth five Dreadnoughts today. No better material to set a nation aflre ever existed. Like John Brown, Miss Cavell broke the law. She broke a pesty little law in the name of Higher Law. So did John Brown. The fact that Miss dwell had ministered to the Germans heightened the tragedy. The Germans shot her for helping patriots in an outraged land to do ilieir duty. The prose of it made the tamest l.hod boil. In poetry it would set the .iwld in such a flame as would roaßt the Germans from the land they harry. The Daily News is on sale at Stratford at 6 a.m., Eltham 0.15 a.m , Normanby (1.40 a.m., Hawera 7 a.m., Patea B.IS a.m., Manaia 7.30 a.m., Kapuni 8 a.m. Kaponga 7 a.m., Awatuna 7.20 »,m.,' M*< tagu 6.45 a.m.