"A BLOW FOR OUR KAISER."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 March 1918, Page 4

"A BLOW FOR OUR KAISER."

A REMARKABLE LETTER

«.■ ? £ ap? Tlm*s glves Prominence ta the following remarkable anonymous letter, which the Union C&stle Company received four days after the ' stranding of the Galway Castle at East London, on 12th OctobßrT • S^-^We thank you so much for providing us, with such a splendid « E ht, and one which gladdens our hearts at this time. Only unfortunately in thia gjft there + were no dam Britishers v, !? J ,*% thank.B *° &* God of our fatherland, is gom e bn daily in Ewrone We have willing hands and stronc Jwarts everywhere;ready to.strike a blow for our 'Kaiser.' it may be^only a blow at a'rope or a telegraph wire, it is for our 'Kaiser* and our beloved Fatherland, and you dam fools think because a born German is not there to do it, as he would haturSL^Wi^' that aU is we«^ *ools of Britishers, everyone helps us to wm. and we will make you boot cleaners to our noble nation, which has provided kings and queens to the nations of the W orld to that end, you aogs; and when our warships used to come to this port we all paid in our S DeTJ^ help m^Heo°d cau *> we saluted our noble flag, and our children were brought to be presented to our Kaiser as his children.. and to SDit on your variegated rag, which our soldiers and jailors are wipine o£F the earth and sea

Bah! We have had to stick your blatant arrpgancei but now 'pur day* will soon be here, and then, if it is de^ creeds by the AH ffighest that any of J°? X? mowed to remain cumbering this German earth as it is lo be yoS H UI y6^Slllall P«PPies indeed of tnei Jiaffir-fostenng curs that you now are. _Wheh :. is ours-from a.a^>stadi to Kairo; and from DurbWl to Benin, and when every bit of land from Berlin to Constantinople is in oui- ; grip, and you dam JJntishers.are cleamnje our boots (what ?Z* ni Q c J? 11)' then w© will praise tne bod of Germany, as you call our country in Europe, and our beloved ■Ka^fr' f ill &v&, his faithful countrymen the fat of the world and the fruits hereof,; end he will: rule the other people who are still allowed to live g? be^our seiyante with an iron hand Hochder. Kaiser I tou_will know who 1 am when our gallant soldiers and sailors march into this town."