RANDOM SHOTS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 14

RANDOM SHOTS

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Some write a neighbour's name to uik, - * Some write—vain thought—for ?... if Some write to please the country <t And raise a din; For mc. an aim I never fash, I write tor inn. ', .:»u; j.\ .M It does one good to hear the low I whine; but they will,'of course, I to whine a good deal more loudly *ij sincerely before they can hope to hwi - [| the privilege of an "honourable pern* | or a peace of any kind. What a chtaat % from the time when all their talk vv ■ of German superiority over decadal France and contemptible £nglu4\ ; Now the word has gone forth to pay | tribute to the splendid tenacity of m French troops and to the uncostjotr- fi able spirit.of the British; and eomjbf ] with this is a confession of the f»et ithat, apart from those who have j cajoled or coerced into joining tan* j 'with the Huns, nobody in the wid| world would like to see the AQjn I beaten. "All the world hates us/ , . i» now the piteous cry, followed by,-tkt^ : ; lament that England can only ht defeated by "a coalition .of all the eta* nations" —the nations that hate Germany! Herr Ballin, the great ehippoj magnate, formerly one of the most rabid fire-eaters, is now praying for a> " end to "this insane war"; while Col; Gaedke, a German military writo, admits that "Germany's wall of detenu has tottered more than once." The* are signs that the German insanity b waning; but there must be moTe bloodletting and a longer period of low dat before the exhausted maniacs cam. tc set at liberty. . .. l; : r ' || 4***£444 i* . •" Most important of all. the Genua* ' muet be made to realise the enormity -,'4 of their crimes against the- lawg":ofi"t j humanity, and to agree that due pnnjsh-' . ; ment anil restitution must follow. Tlwf ;;| : must not only see that' all the wtiM i hates them; they must also learn tt j hate themselves, or, tetter still, to -hate ['■: those who counselled and coraminded ' : ■" ''M such frightful deeds as the sinking; cf r - :|| the Lusitania, the murders of Nun* fifj Cavell and Captain , Fryatt, the start*- f= tion and ill-treatment of prisoners-of j war, including not only the withholding • of medical aid, but also the deliberate j inoculation of helpless prisoners wttk I deadly diseases. Who are reeponsiMa A | for these deeds? Whosoever they.an, they may weH be trembling in tttir i shoes. A few weeks ago Mr Asqnita declared that His Majesty's (rovenunaU I were "determined to bring to joctice f the'criminals, whoever they may be,.aai whatever their station." And he. sjcßb ficantly added: "In such cases - as- jW the man who authorises the system under: which/.-such, crimes-are. committed;': the•: most of{ all* 1' The - utterance was ■ translated - i»to plainer terms by Major-Genaral ; fir Alfred E. Turner, who, in a newspaper articles, stated: ' --a,--: - : A nation of "TtTinihlons cannot Hterslljr te exterminated; "but the Kaiser, Prime ■Rupprecht of Bavaria, BaUio; wio, with their master, planned the'ertaw of the I-usltania. and thoee- who, witii U» approval oj the Kaiser, ordered tt» hatchery of Smse' Cavell and of *CSBtata : Fryatt, MUST BE HANGED. r '' wM This is what may tie called "a big "order": ■ and it seems to smack of vindictiyeness; but no one " who recalle the many 'featbarous atrocities committed by t|e 6«t--mane—the Jjundreds of tliquaaiids ol cmlians cruelly slaughtered by thes> and their partners in crime—can >djriih|'' ■ | that such a.vengeance would be no mors; than bare justice. - - ********** The latest wfcine of the Hun ie to h\*\ found in the alleged "JntervieV- ;: ''ntt the German Grown Prince, which h»s been published in a pro-German newt- jj paper in New York. Internal evide«* contradiete the idea that "Little WifcV is in any w»y responsible ;fbr the eentt- \ ments uttered in the interview;, but tta ( whole thing, though the very aesiie.fll. hypocrisy, is moet instructive. Ti» Kaiser wanted to enliet the 9 yinpstW» of the 'world; he could not well iswe • personal appeal, nor could h> allow hp. , : Ministers to father one; so a documeel was prepared, to be given out .fa." • harum - ecarurn, irresponsible CSrpw*\ B Prince, with, a view chiefly to tnflqoieiaji I the United States Government to jjrter- | veae with peace proposals. There. js;# a cunning aippeal to American cupidity if there k palpable flatteiy of an AjneiioM j philosopher and of a great ' adminiatrator; and there is an to work on American emotionalum. Bα* it is all too transparent. "Vaiiuy is!tl» snare spread in eight of Jthebird,"-*** ; the American Bird of Freedom had » #W or two previously given a plam iwiie* 1 tion that it was iwide awake, f- refer t» Preeident Wilson's public wtanati*! that he did not desire any hyphens tf* German support. So the poof 0»*w» Prince's bit of clumsy acting is all «. vain. His master-stroke, surely, wae hi* final sentence, in which he tt» world that ie is a husband and fetksb The cynical "world does not need to M reminded of this model hueband'i tee# escapades with a barmaid and .dthei* ■which nearly led to his wife dHgti< him and returning to her parenij, ********** Turn iwe to a lighter terribly herd names of many t>f the scenes of conflict. We all used to emit* when we heard of the "Tommies" givi»C such names as "Plug Street" and "Armenteerye" to places they occupied; baY really, the average reader, if he tries te name some of the towns or mountains mentioned in current news, must nisks quite as ludicrous mistakes. PeraoaftUft I am fain to aomit that I rather loa| for a return of those times when M names of battlefields were allowed to ** ptAlished. The new order of things H tkmewtx, one ol the signs of victory, an* ;• I cheerfuny submit to it. What, hot tb« .war at Uurt is well began; Weve got the Bodies on the run—»"■'• : _. Wβ hnntle them and bounce thei*. „ The Turks and Bulgars, too, are tronnewl unr victories are "most pronounced"; .-~r s?'i w hen we try to name the «cenea ■'■'- ~ Of flghte in which we " gave them hstos, - We realjy can't pronounce them.-. ..->.\~ Eancourt I'Abbaye and Bonchavesaeßt On Picartly or Flanders plsln, ' ■. = _ ■"» Places where we trounced ft*** At Karasakolzir—ah I And Karazakoibala, in Balkan lands, we beat the to*} ■" But what I'd really like to know, . Is how our boys pronounced them! 2& «*** mc back the good old dej* ■ Wl,en thorough were the Censor's wsys, :f, AI_JJT 11 * fl * hts » wh en he'd announce tot* Always occurred " Boujewhere in Prance." with Zlotaiipa to be named: v But all our victories were timed, A Ana so we vtiU nronoonc* tMesJ