A "DASTARDLY" PROPOSAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 138, 11 June 1917, Page 7

A "DASTARDLY" PROPOSAL.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Fed by the brave seamen who carry their live 3in their hands as they bring food over the seas; saved from the righteous wrath of their fellow countrymen by the laws of the land; protected from German brutality by the guard of our navy, the efforte of the heroic fighters in France, and by the sacrifices of the noble dead —such men as Ramsay Mac Donald, Snowden, etc., can safely talk. Snowden from the safe shelter made for him by others, says: "It is a dastardly proposal to tear thousands of square miles in Africa from Germany and to turn the Turks out of Europe." General Smuts, after his long and arduous campaign in Africa says: Tt is unthinkable that the natives of German Africa should be handed over to suffer the terrible revenge that Germany would take on them for showing sympathy to the British." Not only would the Germans take a terrible revenge on these natives, but afterwards they would make them ten times more the children of the Devil than they themselves are. When they had armed them and drilled them, woe betide the countries that had handed them over helpless to be "kultured." No one wants to annex Germany or any part of it, but let the natives of that country practice their diabolical doctrines on each other, and not on the civilised or backward races of the world.—l am, etc, N.Z. BORN.