NOT HATE, BUT FRENZY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17428, 15 March 1917, Page 6

NOT HATE, BUT FRENZY.

“It: is no longer hate against the English that is shown in Germany; it ig fury, it is frenzy,** writes M, Gustave Ilerve in “La Victoire,” of" Paris. “The Germans have, reached thel point of believing that it waa England 4 —this England which, by all the evidence, was not ready to make wwv-a which had secretly arranged the whole drama.. In its hands the other Allies were nothing niore than the puppets of . wbioh England pulled the strings. \ Italy Is not more than its miserable' hireling. The proclamations which their aeroplanes have dropped upon v .our trenches affirm (these fooleries., One of them tells us—horror J—>that .-with ) war finished the English willl refuse' to leave the bo3. of . France, and,’that at the loast they will seize Calais in order to have i a foot upon the Conti- 1 , nent.” ‘ ....

“ One easily understands the rage of Germany against England; thei Germans know well that it is England that has broken the arch. Wei French have reason to be proud that we were . able to bring the invasion to a stand! at the Marne. The Russians have also' tho right to attribute to themselves' a largo part in the victory, when they ! cast nip the balancesheet ©Hr thai(‘ sacrifices in men. Each of the ©thefl Allies will have its pari in the glory of the overthrow of the beast which menaced! Europe. “ But should we have arrived at , the present point without England? Imagine England neutral, picture to yourself tho German fleet mistreas of ;■ the seas in August, 1914! Should vs have had Italy with uaP And .without, the mastery of the seas, without tin formidable addition of the English fao* toriea and English ooal, wEat would have become, of the Allies? German hegemony over Europe would" hav* been established. " . ; . ‘ “It is the glory of England in these v later centuries to have been ' always opposed to that one of the Continental - Powers which at any particular time , aimed at the domination of _ . . . When with the casting back had, the impartiality of history, when pa*v ! sionfl have died! down, we envisage the role of England In the, past, art) we not obliged to recognise that always she has acted as a balance and as a:' bom defender of the liberty and the independence of the European nations? ' ' '. wvv (v : . “It Is not a glory given to all the world to have merited the hate of all.', the Governments and of all the peopies which, in the course of the cen-j . tunes',' at their hour of madness, have, , tried to impose their domination byt arms upon Europe, ’' “Sure of not having depiwd the’ great wars which periodically havej made Eui’ope bloody, England is oocus*! tomed/to permit—without 'flinohißffj; without wincing, without . troubling herself—the adversary whom .she hold! | by the throat, to exhaust against her* self his powerless rage. Nothhjg stops j her, neither temporary reversely nor i the length of the effort she must make-4 , The Germans have the thought, at ’ certain times, that one or another of j the Allies may relinquish its grip, but there |is one enemy-in regard t<j whom they know tliat they cannot reckon* upon a moment of feebleness, and that. \ is England!” ‘ * , t