GERMANY'S OPINION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9052, 24 July 1917, Page 7

GERMANY'S OPINION.

"THE BRUTAL BRITISH."

1 The following comments ..are taken from "Five Hundred and One Gems .German Thought," edited?-by William Archer, and published by T. Fisher Umvin, London:—

"The climate, the want of wine, and lack of beautiful scenery have all been obstacles in the way of English Kultur."—H. yon Treitschke.

"England's strength resides in arrogant self-esteem, Germany's greatness in the modest appreciation of everything foreign. English is selfseeking to the point of insanity. Germany is just, even to self-deprecia-tion."—Th. Fontane.

" The war has laid bare the British soul, and a cold shudder goes through the Germanic Kultur-world."—Ger-manus.

" No people 'has done so much harm to civilisation as the English."—O. A. H. Schmitz.

"England has nothing but the instincts of a beast of prey. This alone can explain her foreign and domestic policy of the past-decades. Her one object has been to! increase her outward possessions and to let her people starve."—X. L. A. Schmidt.

"We cannot expect our enemies to try to do us justice—though we can, after all, sympathetically, understand almost all of them, with the sole exception of the English, in whom the transparently base abstractness of the calculating business spirit lies beneath the level of humanity, and is so positively immoral as to be entirely outside the scope of sympathy."—G. Misch.

"England is a Moloch that will devour everything, a vampire that will suck tribute from all the veins of the earth, a monster snake encircling the whole Equator."—Pastor Tolzien. "Another vice has been developed to its' highest pitch in this war—to wit, lying. England in particular has established a "record in this department, even as against the Father of Lies, the Devil."—F. Delitzsch. "Envy is utterly foreign to German nature. But one exception we must now admit. We old fellows .

look with envy at the young, who are risking' their fresh life and strength for the Fatherland. 01' this envy, at any rate, we must acquit England; its best youth remains quietly at home, and wins victories in the football field, leaving it to salaried hirelings to shed their blood."—Prof. G. Roetlie.

"The cunning and unsernpulousness of the pirate does, indeed, survive in the English sailor; he lies in ambush for neutral merchant ships, lays mines in the fairway of neutral neighbour States, and commits deeds of violence of the most manifold kinds; but the resolution of the pirate, the daring intrepidity in attack, he no longer possesses."—GermanuH. ■' .

" The untruthfulness and unscrupulous brutality with" which the English Cabinet carries on the war place it far below the level of Muscovite morality."—Germamiß.