" A MOST UNFAIR ARGUMENT."

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 153, 28 June 1919, Page 17

" A MOST UNFAIR ARGUMENT."

I m A Hun observer, writing in the "Lokal Anzeiger," says that after what he has | seen on the Rhine, he has more faith in the Yank than in the British Tommy. ," The American sodlier, taken all in : all," he says, "is what you might call a gentleman with a gun in his hand; his manners are, on the whole, praiseworthy in their leniency, though he is apt at times to come down on you, even for the smallest breach of the rules, with unexpected severity. When, for instance, the captain of a Rhine steamer berths too late or in the wrong place, he catches it hot. They don't let him , off with a fine, but put him in prison. On the other hand, tho American autho- | rities deal with the German newspapers ! with a light hand. " Xot so the British, who now rule I from Coblenee to Cologne. These English are in every way much sterner and j harsher than the Americans, especially ,in the way they handle 'the censorship." j But the Belgians are, it seems, worst iof all. They are, according to this i writer, evidently an unforgiving race, ■ and when (Jcrmans reproach them with this or that act of hardness, actually have the effrontery to retort: " Oh, we learnt that from you while you were in Belgium." " This is a most unfair argu- , ment,'' says the " Lokal-Anzeiger."