ONE IN FOUR.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1919, Page 7

ONE IN FOUR.

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"In 4 round way. perfidy; 1 fevery fourth name in the ranks is German, We had no better soldiers. They are too confident of their own Americanism to have any eensiti renew or self-conscious-ness, One man, (?hoso name is very like the word 'boch,' told me laughingly that his comrades had made it into that; but he look it good-humoiu-cdly "While on this generaJ subject, I should like to cay that the people ana meets in Europe wonder at the American solidarity With 10 per cent of our people of Teutonic origin, Europeans expected internal trouble. They lost sight oi tie absolute and complete AmericaniKtiioa of tL.« elements coming to us from Euro])®. While there had bei>n some few treivoro, and such cases stiTid oifi conspicuously and attract general attention, the people here think that the thorough AmeranU'iu oi practically the whole (jiu'iran-Anieritan body if> one of the wonderful thingd of , the war."