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NZ Truth, Issue 602, 30 December 1916, Page 2

'Murkan Visitor to Berlin: "What has become of your zoological garden ?" Hungry Hun: "Well, we thought meat was too valuable to leave it loafing around m cages to look at." — "Meggendorfer Blaetter." Here la an incident told to the "Dally Chronicle" by Mary Boyle O'Rielly, an Irish -American journalist who has seen much of tho war m Poland, which shows the spirit m which Russia is fighting. "Ono morning I met a womtui about 70 years, of ago, tramping through the country side, and, when epoken to she said that she luuJ como to see the soldiers. 'If you go much further you will hear tho German guns,' sho was told. 'Please God, I will,' she answered. 'It has cost me about- -in kopeks (about lid) to make th<» journey. I should be ashamed of myself if the armies of tho world come by my door and 1 put my ffu.'u In the cupboard. After tho war there will bo no Huns on the estates, whure they have been ove*v smth. This is a crusade. The Tzar has Baid it.'"