DOWN, BUT NOT OUT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3107, 28 December 1921, Page 6

DOWN, BUT NOT OUT.

(1 MR MANY’S CONDITION TO-DAY, “THE NEXT TIME WILL WIN.” Mr Tom Marshall, partner with Mr Marks, M.H.R.. has just returned to Sydney from a tour of the old world, during which he visited Italy, Belgium, .France, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark', England and Scotland. For a start he had some diflicnliy in gelling permission to go through Germany. '‘Why should yon he permitted to go into Germany," he was asked by the German agent in London, “when yon Australians place so many restrictions upon Germans m your own country?” Mr Marshall suggested that Germany was in need of money, and he bad some to -pend, and finally he was given permis-sion--but only for 13 days. The feeling of resentment was more marked in Germany it self. One day, m a shop, Mr Marshalls parly was met by a shopwalker, who assisted them in making (heir purchases, incidentally carrying on tin* conversajion in .English. Addressing him in iheir native lan miage. two German ladies waxed greatly indignant. “How dare yon speak English,’ liny demanded. The man told Ihem that he was working on a commission on sales, •lid i( was bis bread and butler. The ladies flounced oil’ with the parting shot; “Yon ought to be thoroughly’ well ashamed of yourself. We will report yon to the management.’ No less a person Ilian Prince Heinrich also got into iml water because of speaking English. He was with several companions in a street in Berlin, they were all laughing. and Poking loudly in English, when a veb ran Prussian ollicer slopped the Prince, and with an amazing wealth of contempt- in Ins stentorian tones,_ said: “You. a. 1 lohen/olleru, and speaking Ihe (iirsed English!” In the old,days, ol course, dial ollicer would have snllered for his temerity, hut ihe Prince scuttled away, thoroughly ihaslised by the rebuke. ALLIES DID NOT WIN. Mr Marshall had many conversations with German officers, and their point ot view is .significant as disclosing an imconqucrcd

I 111 It. _ _ ... I “The Allies did not win tlnv war, s;nu j a yumi if Prussian ollicer. “Internal trouble downed Germany. We were ilireatened with a revolution. 'I In; next lime there will he no revolution, and Germany will win,” j Mr Mar.-hall returns to Australia non j v hired that Germany is already preparing for- the next clash. ‘‘They are spreading," ho said, “that j deadly poison, the Karl Marx doctrine, | amongst (ho workers of all other countries) while they are speeding up themselves. J We have already seen what Bolshevism lias done for Russia, Bolshevism will never got a. hold in Germany to any extent. History shows that a beaten nation when it turns to industry to rehabilitate itself it self will eventually triumph over its vie tors .‘if they ait hack to enjoy the fruits of their win. Germany is steadily going on with this one objective before it all the,, lime. “Personally,” added Mr Marshall, “I be- . Sieve the next, war will be in I lie same old place. I do not subscribe to the view that it will be in Mesopotamia. “1 would like,” be continued, “to see Australia resume trade, relations with Germany, hnl i would not allow another tier • mail to enler this country. We want mar- i Ice.ls for our raw materials, and they need i them.” Mr Marshall states that it is generally 1 believed in Germany that the ITolienzollern i family will again reign, and that. Iho next i Kaiser will lie the ex-Crown Prince’s eldest son. The (Town Prince, he was informed, c is keeping fit by swinging a hammer in a a blacksmith's forge. Recent photos, too, disclose that, the ex-Kaiser is not the hag- s gard physical wreck lie was reported to he, g, and that, on the contrary, he looks very a well indeed. h