ENEMY-WOMAN'S FURY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 82, 7 April 1915, Page 6

ENEMY-WOMAN'S FURY.

LIES WHICH LEAVE QN*E „? BREATHLESS. The following is a copy of a letter . received by an English girl from a Ger-' man girl friend in response to ft letter, - ■which had contained no allusion to thegl war. The letter says:— v• I •'Dear , I have often wondered , ■where you could be—waether you had'been overtaken 'by the declaration of i war while still in Switzerland, so that - it was impossible for yon to get back .; to England. I was very surprised, to'■'receive your letter to-day. From it 1 ccc that the war leaves you comparetively unmoved. It is very different' •with us. From the youngest schoolgirl to the okiest woman ■Wβ are busy and • anxious to do the utmost for our eoun- ' try. We knit, sew. bake, and pack off ; I parcels for 'our eoldiers' with tears and blessings.

"Playgrounds, the universities, and. many of the schools are empty; for here . it is not as in England, where the ecum . of the nation is fighting , together with .t heathen and savages who have been;'. taken from their own country. Here everyone is gone to fight for the pro- \;~ teetwn of their land, from the volun- I teers of seventeen to the oldest reser-.

"We women at home care for the wounded, and not the wounded only, ra but for the helpless families and home- ' less children whose breadwinners are . at the front. Here in there are. .'■ thirteen hospitals for the Germane and " the enemy.

"I feel convinced that in French Swit-."* zerland, as in otheif neutral States, you' are fed on li-es manufactured in Englandl In order to have an inkling of the real ' i truth you need only to see the bitter■-■----hatred between the wounded French and ' Belgians and the English. I myself re- | cently witnessed a scene which proved it. > A wounded Frenchman was to be put into a bed in the hospital between two/ •Englishmen. He implored to be shot sooner than be forced to lie there.

" The Belgians know perfectly well that S the Enj;"i ; !,i'. OJlly fc-*i 'o Activcro in, destroy tue stores and. nuurafacturies of g their Belgian competitors, to expose the i city to a bombardment, and quitting it twelve hours previously, leave the Bel* \ gian troops to defend it alone, in order 1 to save themselves! The manufacturers'--of Belgium are demanding 300 million^. damages for the harm done \>y the Eng> : lish! "AS IX PIOUS ESGLA2SD." ..v|| "In spite of everything things arei.j going on just as usual. The theatre i 3 I open, and we have very good concerts ~ and lectures, and every week prayers in: ' church for the war, where we don't, as in pious England, pray ioi the destruc- . tion of our enemies. a

"I have heard to-day from a friend; vrho tells mc an Englishwoman Ijas writ-" ten her that in the churches people pray/ that the KaUer may be killed. English I men and women have not been sent" away from here, but suspected English-, i men have been .put under lock and key. ; The Englishwomen are etill here, worse/* luck! Unfortunately many ej suspected/ one. for example, M. G., whom t person- , ally don't trust. "The 's have turned their home in ■ the country into a hospital and take ;, part in the nursing. You will remember 1 that I often told you you were mores German than English, and what I havens said in no wise refers to you, and that' half in joke I said, 'everything comes from England!' So you need not"; think anything I have said'is meant for-i you: 'But what I felt inrtinctively in : my heart has now been .prered true.

"Until now I never knew -what hatred J was, but now niy heart it filled with | burning hatred for England, and this is I the case throughout (Jermany. We are '_ inclined to pity the French and the Bel-f gians; we look oh the Russians as only C half-developed men, but the English we hate, and if the millions' of cursee uttered daily against your country have no effect, then there is no justice inearth or Heaven! Woe to England! May curses light on those who have.':■-, destroyed peace! May God punish Eng-'V land!"