"GREAT EXPECTATIONS."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 6

"GREAT EXPECTATIONS."

NOT REALISED

The greatest climb-down of all those done when events made it necessary for the, German press to revise its opinions is that which is performed, not ungracefully, by Der Tag: We thought that the Hindus would revolt as soon as the war broke out. Nothing happened. The proclamation of the holy war has been without effect, and nobody talks about it any longer. We believed that tho Russian officers would be handier with vodka than with the bayonet. Another mistake.

Finally, we thought . that political d-.sputes, and, above all, the anti-mili-tarist agitation, would throw France into panic. It has not been so. The French Army is united. What does all this show? That Germany must not count on the weaknesses of others. She must deoend on her own strength alone, or she" is lost.