TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND'S EFFORT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLII, Issue 12823, 15 April 1916, Page 3

TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND'S EFFORT.

Under the heading "How Qermev; Glasses May Bistort the Plainest Truth,;' there appears in the "Philadelphia Pnblio Ledger of January 23 a very striking letter from' Mr John CaSwalader, jun. It is -written in reply to a previous letter from Governor Pennypacker, supporting the German case and disparaging that of the Allies. Mr Cadwalader i 3 a man of great influence and one of the staunchest of President Wilson's political supporters. The very emphatic opinions which he expresses in the following letter have, therefore, a much higher value than it they were uttered by an unknown private citien of the American Republic, and we make no apology for reproducing the letter in extenso:

Governor Pennypacker's letter in the "Public Ledger" of Sunday, January 16, 1916, is hard to understand. Although coming from a patriotic American, it would appear from reading it that self-in-terest, backed up by la raison du plus fort, justifies everything that a nation may two more crack gun-layers, and wa_ bombarded that blooming old tower till the light failed, and never touched it once. It is like that sometimes. It was so with the tower at Ypres. Seems as if the bally thing's bewitched. Well, the lieutenant was disgusted, and the champion gunlayers were jumping wild, and chaps began to bet money on it, and one of our bombardiers began to make a book. He said he should offer sis to four on the tower. And there was a good deal of loose silver likely to change hands. Ea'o the book was never opened. No. Y''nc we woke up the next morning the c.V.osing tower was gone. "It was gone clean off the map. T;-s officer stared, and wiped hi 3 lenses ,-jA stared agafn, and the sergeant said a<3 hoped he'd be an angel and with angels stand if he could guess what had become of the little oM tcwer that had stood sp against shell Sre without a scratch ;m1 then had fallen without being hit. _ it was a mystery, and a mystery it till Sunday, which wa3 three days aiier the little old tower had disappeared. "And on Sunday there was a clatter of pom-pom fire, and a Taube flew over our position very high up, and down fell a long stick from the aeroplane, and tied to the stick was a letter. The sergeant picked up the letter, and as it had no address he opened it. And tbiis is what was written as near as I can remember: 'f.\ind!? to chack it. You have destroyed a. hiindred houses and spoiled our cafe and ! made many casualties, and it is a mm-\ ance, so we have pulled the blinking tower down. Gott strafe England*'