WHY GERMANS HATE US.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1917, Page 6

WHY GERMANS HATE US.

FRENCH WRITER ON BRITAIN'S WAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Taris, Sept. 0. The well-known writer, J. H. Rosny, senior member of the Goncourt Academy, has a striking article in Le Pays to-day, in which lie shows the superiority of Great Britain's position in regard to the war compared with that of Germany, "In lfllo,'' says M. IRosny, "Britain's participation in our offensive was still of a minor rh;'.rae't.' , r. In lfilfi it became formidable on the Somme. In 1017 it is mowing down the Teuton legions unremittingly. Britain can say to the enemy. '\Vc have taken 110,000 German prisoners, you have only 55,f100 British.' She ran also say: Yon have not taken one yard of my Continental or Colonial territory. You meant to invade ICgypt, but our soldiers are now advancing towards Palestine. You threatened India, but we, are invading Mesopotamia. You have opened your month wide to swallow lit) the Belgian, French, and Portuguese colonies and a good part of our own, but the French, Belgians, Portuguese, and British occupy nearly all your African lands. You have been banished from Asia. Your carefully selected strategic islands are occupied by our soldiers and those of the Dominions. Spite of your submarines, our Fleet is blockading you and immobilising your Dreadnoughts. Vanquished on the battlefield, swept from the seas, driven out of the colonies, what have you taken in exchange? Your greatest exploits against England have been the cowardly murder of women and children with the aid of Zeppelins and avions, the drowning of crews and innocent passengers by your pirates. We. however, have wrested from you your share of the universe "That is what Britain can say to C.er.-. many, and that well-informed Germans know only too well, from that brute Reventlow down to the most insignificant Parliamentarians and journalist*. And this is not all. France. Italy, and Britain are to have their strength increased. A new champion, whose resources and energy are inexhaustible, has come forward. "The loss of her colonies has particularly embittered Germany's hatred against Britain. .Although she has hcen beaten by the French more than by any other Entente nation, she consoles herself with the thought that she still lwlds several French departments within her clutches. Nothing can console her for Britain's successes. She has nothing to compensate for either her pride or her material interests. It is consequently comprehensible that her fierce hatred has hesitated at no transgression, no act of cowardice, no crime. "The Germans will not occupy a single British islet. They will see the whole world cherish heroic and humanitarian France, when they themselves will be tinreviled horde, th? nation accursed on all the Continents and throughout all the archipelagoes. Their only hope of redemption is to destroy the dynasty."