"THE GERMAN SCUM"

Evening Star, Issue 15907, 13 September 1915, Page 7

"THE GERMAN SCUM"

Writing to his 'parents at- Dunfermline, Lieutenajit Donald Farmer, who earned the T.O. in the South African War, and who is, with the Liverpool Scottish in Handera, describes a (recent action in iwhioh his regiment took part.- He says : •"The German scum that was against bur boys had not the pluck to fight. They were a miserable crew—cowed, and not & bit like our troops, who are all so fit and eager. It was purely a local affair, and the objective ,\vas easily trained—much more so than was 'anticipated. If it was not fpf their artillery, which is, awful we could go through, anything. The troops are anxiously waiting for a general adYance crdar along the line. Everyone feels confident that wa could keep them on. the run, but we must have men and "guns and ftramunition galore. We are un against a honde of semi-savagei?, who will "stop at nothjng to achieve their ends. It is to behoped the belated course now adopted bv the Government will prove successful. anS rtjiat every living soul at Home will do Ibis and hsx utmost to produce every necessary article of munitions with the" least jjossibJe daky. As to ctrikes, every one of the strikers should be shot. The Boldiera out here would think nothing of doing it in cold blood. It is quite disSjearUfflinjT to read of the petty squabbles ifor a- halfpenny or a penny more par\ ■wnen Tommy is doing more than Iris bit for a, shilling pet diem."