"ARRANT COWARDS"
GERMAN SCIENTIST'S ESTIMATE
OF AUSTRALIANS.
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 16, 11 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. The Sydney Morning Herald has published an article from a German newspaper, written by Professor Burckhardt, who was present atlhe last Science Congress in Australia. The writer states that "when the Germans come to Australia they need not anticipate any difficulty with the young generation, who have proved themselves arrant cowards. They can be put to work in gangs making fortifications for the. German conquerors, and can be locked up in stockades, at night."
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 14, 16 January 1918, Page 7
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