A GERMAN RADICAL ON AUSTRALIANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 September 1918, Page 5

A GERMAN RADICAL ON AUSTRALIANS.

Maximilian Harden, editor of Zukunfi, a Radical, and one of the leading German publicists, wrote an article on Australia when the Australians voted against compulsory military service. Addressing a recruiting meeting near Sydney last week, Mr G. W. Fuller (Home Secretary) read a portion of that article, as follows: "We lhave the greatest contempt possible for any human to possess for the Australian, doing as little work as hfc can, spending his substance in sport, in gambling (which is his religion), and i|i drinking. Who can claim to be honest laugh at the quixotic bravery of the Australian, whoso enthusiasm carried him. away to face our God-led army. . . We will break the hearts of the unionists for, all time We are gratified at the success of our agents in Australia, and the power of German gold. Those Germans, who, like Judas, have turned against the Fatherland in its hour of trial will be suitably dealt with. Those who have stood firm and are now interned will be placed over their captors and in high administrative positions. . . . The Australians are the most ignorant people in the wide world. They cannot speak or write correctly the British language. . . . Our propaganda in the land of the Southern Cross has been most successful. . . We will scatter them over the face of the earth, whilst wo will retain in Australia their women to be mothers of a-aewGerman race'ln the Great Pacified "Any young Australian with' the old British blood in his veins must- answer that in the only possible-way—-ing," remarked Mr Fuller.