GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1916, Page 5

GERMANY.

AMUSING VIEWS. BY A STAFF OFFICEI!. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, April 16. The Times has received a recent letter from a German stafT officer to a neutral diplomatist, which is obviously intended for neutral consumption. It declares that the English are as inefficient as the French art ellieient. The latter's aircraft guns are marvellous and outclass the German guns. They have cost the Germans 95 per cent, of their losses, while the British have cost them o per cent. The latter are thoroughly deficient, and the English pilots only excel in contempt for risk and indifference to danger, Tho French, in technique, skilled engine design, and aeroplane construction are ahead of all the combatants. A perusal of the English newspapers is vastly entertaining. They are all absorbed in politics, and are apparently unable to grasp the fact that if the Germans have not yet won the war they are unable now to lose. England may still take pride in being mistress of the waves, but she is a mistress past her prime, Her fleets keep neutrals from German harbors and prevent German merchantmen from leaving, but the latter's submarines sweep the seas, whose bedg are strewn with the wreckage of English ships. Zeppelins sail unmolested over the Midlands and Scotland. The Germans smile when recalling Lord Curzon's prophecy that the pennons of the Bengal Lancers would flutter in tho breeze in Berlin when Indians marched down the Unter den Linden in the wake o>' the conquering Allied forces. TO EAT LESS. MASTICATION DRILL IN SCHOOLS. Amsterdam, April 16. Good mastication drill is the latest German weapon against England's starvation, according to the Koelnisclie Volks Zeitung. This journal started a discussion of how to induce people to eat less, and exhorts its readers to take heed. It publishes a schoolmaster's letter, showing how he drilled his pupils to eat unbuttered black bread so slowly that their hunger was satisfied with a quarter of the usual amount, and they preferred it without butter. AUSTRIAN PREMIER IN BERLIN. The Berliner Tageblatt says that political circles in Vienna attach great importance to Baron Burian's visit to Berlin in connection with Herr von Beth-mann-Hollweg's speech.