CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

, [We'wish it to,be distinctly under--stood that; in publishing correspond- '■ ©nee, we ao not thereby identify ourselves with\ the, opinions expressed by the writers,]' ; * v POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION. (To the Editor.) Sir, —From time to time we Brfcons have indulged in a good deal of laugh-' ing at some of the absurdities regarding the groat and bjoody war now. raging in Europe, which the German people are reported to have swallowed; Hut is it not just possible that the Germane may have laughed iuet as heartily and may still be laugning at some of the things which we have so re^ilv believed. If some (in fact a great deal) of the war news which we have, received *(and in many cases believed) during the last ten months is true, then it's a moral that either the days of miracles are not past, or that the German people .would have good cause to laugh at our credulity. Now if half, or part of the news which we are receiving, especially that favorable to ourselves, is not true, a regrettable state of affairs exists, because no good\ end is ever attained by telling or believing lies.- One thing which some of us believe is that the Germans can't fight, and that one Briton is -worth two or three of them at_ any time, This, to my way of thinking, is a fe'grettable fallacy, ac it may lead to disastrous results feus. -'I •.think it probable thßt the Germans are just as good.. (as; fight^rfV as any of those opposed to them; if they, . are no^sb much the;bettet for ;us:> lir any case, we show oufselves possessing small foresight... and a great deal of e?*o*ism in underestimating the power of Germany. Any unbiassed person who knows anything of the history of war, knows that the Germans can Whether the w^o 7e truth \ins been Tint before the British people is hard to s^v, but, nidging from the fact that employers and employees are everywhere haggling over a few shillings per week, it .cf en"** obvious +^"t nei+her party c^re whether thQ B^iti^ Empire sinks or swims. If the Empire "ifvs dowp as the result of the. comhine A selfishness and folly Capital and Labor, both p»artifts will, dis^^er to their everlasting, shame and lifelone sorrow, when too late, the fearful m'^-ake which they have made. The Germans are not divided: they are fighting a« one fha^ • and if they come o^t on top we will then pp*4: a I tostft of t^e torture tlirouf?b. which I Belgium. France, Poland fsnr] Se^via I are pa<ssinir. In conclusion, I tliink if, I .would bs well if all parities drowned all p^iiißn rJifFei-en"^ absurd notions of England's invincibility, until such time fl<!> the Empire is safe, the giving or taking p few pK^^Mp-ft mo^Si or Ips per week win h^ of Iftt'o benefit to either pnrt.v if, while fighting ever tfcese few shiiii^fvt, t^oy miiflpv +^o dominion of ithe "mfcilec! fist" of Germany.—l am, etc., ALBION.