CONQUEST OF ENGLISH.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3784, 10 May 1919, Page 1

CONQUEST OF ENGLISH.

THE GERMANS STILL AT IT t( Ono thing surprised mo when I got to England (says Sergeant W. J. Byrne, of Paeroa, who spent 22 months in captivity). That was the number of Germans who had never been interned. There were 14,000, I was told, in London alone. They seemed mostly hairdressers and tailors, good places to gather news. A barber's "is a very fruitful source of information in all lands. At one place I saw four alleged Swiss, but they were either Austrians or Germans. I heard one of them asking an officer questions, which should not j have been answered, and I suppose they did the same during the war. In one day I went to tlirce shops in London and was attended by a German every time. At one place I enquired the price of an article in German, and was promptly answered in that language. In one shop two men were conversing in German when I entered. I was offered a 'Woothenbahn' razor marked Sheffield, and when I said I preferred a 'Kropp,' the man whispered: 'I can supply you one.' Tin's after four years nf wari Wo must get rid of Germans <uit of our Empire, naturalised or iimuituralised, also pro-Germans, unless wo want to face this terrible struggle again in the years thab are ahead. 'When I was in Germany the men were learning English, and they made no secret that the reason was to conquer England by peaceful penetration after the war. the British Empire has been awakened, and I hope it will keep awake to Hun wiles."