WAR WAX WORKS

Evening Star, Issue 16086, 11 April 1916, Page 4

WAR WAX WORKS

Many journalists are supported to haven travelled recently in Germany, and bring, back more or less plausible impressionsi Ihe article in the ' Matin ' sounds, on the. wnole, more authenic than thr others. 1 Ihe writer visited in Berlin the Krieg- i sr.ussteilung, which seems to he a eort of I war World's Fair, with a few guns and ; rifles, waxworks in old or faked uniforms of various belligerents, and a complete seb oi trenches, dug-outs, and barbed wire, which Berliners visjt in their thousands, -the show also includes a cinema, in which' a few dejected and ragged French and rmghsh .soldiers constnntlv surrender to Germans But the most characteristic feature the correspondent reports is tho commentary upon the. cinema show, which ' is peculiarly German, and which runs: j Our mora! superiority over our enemies ' requires that we should in all simplicity: display portions of our bootv. We do not wish to awake in visitors linv feelings of hatred or revenge. No, indeod, all we wish is to make them better understand, tho seriousness of war. and arouse greater' gratitude for our brave soldiers. U pre-; •sent war naturally is the chief interest for ! people, but, when peace returns, we shall' have to think of our political and economic i life, rhen, thanks to this war. German I might and German capabilities will havd ' been revealed to the whole world. It is' thus already an imperious duty for us to toko in hand at once the slender threads which will be woven between other people and ourselves, and to develop this connection by the propaganda work which will be continued in peace time." Could even German pharisaism further go?