OUTSPOKEN PADRE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14189, 25 April 1919, Page 6

OUTSPOKEN PADRE.

“HOW I HATE THE GERMANS!"

The last mail from Homo brought a letter from a New Zealand padre now in Germany, who expresses his feelings towards Germans in general in no uncertain terms. The writer, who is not unknown in Dunedin, states the Otago “Daily Times," very probably had no thought of publication, but his comments are of all the more interest on that account. * ‘ I am still in Germany, ’ ’ he says, “just on the Rhine by the city of Cologne. Demobilisation of New Zealand troops is taking place fast, and soon, thank God, we shall be out of this damned, rotten, filthy, immoral, de% graded, debauched, earthly, sensual, devilish place. It is playing havoc with out boys, who have not strength enough to stand np to the iniquity of it ail. Oh, how X hate the Germans and their damned hypocritical friendliness. They hate us like poison, yet they crawl and lick our blessed boots. To hj with the whole damned crew! Their men are bullies, and their women, are mostly sensualists. I used to feel very sorry for the wives and children when I saw a dead Hun on the field of battle. Now I am sorrier for the wives andchildren of the Huns who were not killed on the field of battle. I wish Foch had got his way, and had killed off a few more of them. That’s how good I feel towards the Germans. Personally, I have had very good billets, and everyone to mo has been personally kind and good, and sincerely so, but still they hate England with a bitter .and intense hatred. Repentant Germany? Don't you believe it! If it paid her to strike to-morrow she -would do it, and I believe. that even now, while she is whining, she is preparing for a greater and a more deafdly war. So long as I have life in my body I shall never trust the Gormans. ’ ’