UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17078, 29 January 1916, Page 13

UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR.

HUNS THREATEN AN AWFUL REVENGE. Never again after the war shall the students of foreign countries visit the technical schools and universities of Germany, says the "Tag":— " We were once so ready to share the products of German progress with foreign countries. We did it not only from our inherent friendliness and hospitality, but from practical considerations also. We believed that in this way we should open a path in the world for German thought when educated representatives of foreign countries saw what Germany could do and how far we had gone in all the spheres of knowlodge, technical skill, chemistry, agriculture, and social science. We cherished the hope that the foreigners who came hero would be grateful for our hospitality and the rich stores of knowledge which we so willingly gave them, and would return to their homes with increased respect, and sympathy for Germany. ■ • Wo know what sort of gratitude avo have to expect from foreign countries for our generous behaviour. Where were all the Russians, Japanese, English, and French, Americans, Rumanians, and Greeks who have enjoyed the hospitality of our high schools when German methods were libelled in a most horrible fashion in their countries? Why did they not in the name of truth and righteousness make a protest? Why did they not reply to tho cry of German barbarism by showing how nobly they were received in Germany and what rich treasures of Gorman culture they took away? . . . But we have the power to pay them back. Y\ r e can very well do without foreign knowledge, but the world cannot do without German knowledge. And so tho true answer to a hostile world outside would be to shut it out of German high schools and universities for a generation. And let us establish the same rule for the neutral countries which have shown their illwill to us so clearly."