FRANCE AND BRITAIN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLII, Issue 12821, 17 April 1916, Page 3

FRANCE AND BRITAIN.

AX ENEMY COMPARISION. GERMAN BOAST FOR NEUTRAL EDIFICATION. London, April 15. I The Times received ;■ recent letter from ji German staff officer to a neutral diplomatist and obviously intended | for neutral consumption, in which.the | writer declares that the English are as inefficient as the French are efficient. The Litters' aircraft guns, the writer says, are marvellous, and outclass the' German. "They cost us 95 per cent, of our losses, while the British cost us 5 per cent. The latter arc thoroughly deficient. The English pilots oiify excel in contempt of risk and indifference to danger. The French excel in technique, in their skilled engine design, and aeroplane construction, in which they arc ahead of all the other combatants. A perusal of English newspapers is vastly entertaining. They arc all absorbed with politics, and apparently are unable to grasp that if we have not yet won the war we are unable now to lose. England may still take pride as mistress of the waves, but she is a mistress past her prime. Her fleets keep the neutrals off our harbors, and prevent our merchantmen leaving, but <iur submarines sweep the sea, and its bed is strewn with the wreckage of English ships. Our Zeppelins sail unmolested in the Midlands and Scotland. Wo smile when recalling Lord Ciiraon's prophecy that the pennons of the Bengal Lancers would flutter in the breeze in Berlin when the Indians marched through the Unter den Linden in the wake of the conquering Allied forces." GERMAN' GENERALS KILLED. London, April 15. A report comes from Koine that a j near relation of the Kaiser has been I wounded and three generals killed at j Verdun.