GERMANY AND THE ANZACS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16665, 9 October 1917, Page 4

GERMANY AND THE ANZACS.

By various tricks and devices the s German military rulers are striving to allay the anxiety which has been created among the. German people by' the accumulation of defeats in Flanders, Each crushing blow at the German army has been softened j . by specious assurances that villages which are as yet beyond the British j pitas still remain in German occupa* tion. Such phrases, do not explain why every German movement is a backward one, nor Why/for every prisoner the Germans capture the British take nearly four. The plight to which the German army has been reduced, and the.. demoralisation which spreads through the nation, are shown by the latest attempt to raise new hope in Germany. The High Command now promises that Sir Douglas Haig will • adopt gentler, methods in the! future. The reason for this expected j' softening of the British attack is explained to be a movement in,. Britain supporting "a protest from 'i Australia and New Zealand against, the heavy losses of the Anzacs." To 'the people of New Zealand this will seem a ridiculously clumsy invention. A statement published | yesterday showed that of the troops j J engaged in the three great attacks , of July and September 16 per, cent. { ' were New Zealanders, Australians,! J and Canadians, and that their j: casualties were only 8 per cent, of the total, while divisions from th<s United Kingdom formed 84 per cent.! j of the forces engaged and suffered 92 per cent, ,of the lossek Germany!; never understood the British Dominions, The German knows,] nothing of the liberty we enjoy nor ' ] of our determination to remain for • all time free from German doming tion. In the United States, on the other hand, our hopes and aspirations are thoroughly appreciated, as is evident from the article on the future of the German Pacific colonies quoted to-day from the; New York Tribune. It rests with the people of the Dominions, no less than with their Expeditionary, Forces, to show the Germans also that no condition is attached to theloyalty of the British Dominions, that they bear the sacrifices of tho war with uncomplaining fortitude, and that they will in no way slacken their efforts till victory is won. ,