THE SOLDIERS' SONG.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 203, 1 October 1914, Page 8

THE SOLDIERS' SONG.

WHY DO THEY SING IT? .-. . • i KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE - .' QUARREL. V LONDON, September 29. '* "The Times," in a leader on sol- * diers' songs, says none can tell why "-Tt'tf a Long Way to Tipperary" suits the taste, unless because it is entirely irrelevant to the matter in hand. Sol-. - diers prefer a joke reminding theni of to a song telling them that they are heroes. "To our mind, a joke in the face of death is finer than an heroic attitude." ' Reports from Copenhagen state that a violent quarrel exists between the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, the former considering that the campaign in France, is a fiasco., The Kaiser is «aid to be inconsolabfe.