THE SOLDIER.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1918, Page 8

THE SOLDIER.

HIS FIGHTING QUALITIES. Writes a Manaia soldier to the local Witness:— Opinions differ as to the lighting qualities of the German soldkr My experience of him is that in ovenvhefmi force and as a winner i'C is a masterful soldier- "'But in a losing fight he makes a poor show. H; is, moreover, not a clean fighter at any time. Flashed with success lie is a ruthless victor, utterly without mercy. As a loser he abases and prostrates himself abjectly. But lit is at the same, time ready to take a treacherous ehanco. That is my personal experience of him. And I have always held by the doctrine that the best German is a dead You can't make any mistake if you follow up that principle, and many men I have met have done so. I have heard soldiers during the last moments preceding an advance discuss this quest'or and there wo s always- a strong ir." u i'ty against tilting any unnect?sar: chances with the treacherous Hun. Old soldiers tell of black deeds of treachery in their the Hun and it would be surprising men refuse to profit by bloody experience and take no chancesI have seen some of those Prussian prisoners as they came in throw their helmets on the ground and spit contemptuously on them. They may have meant it. They may have hated the cruelties of war and despised the authors of war. But Whether this feeling was genuine or merely assured, mattered little to me. I never trust a GetmanAs tif the physique of the German soldier of to-day", I have, before leaving France, seen men of Prussian regiments 'brought in of splendid build and bearingAgain I have seen mere lads brought in. ; with their clothes a couple of sizes too I t>i<r for them —comical looking figures, | not unlike little sailor hoys you see ov i stage. Tliev looked nervous and depressed and evidently expected a swi and a\V&>t deatlv

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