GERMAN PROFESSOR UNMASKS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3334, 6 February 1918, Page 52

GERMAN PROFESSOR UNMASKS.

A correspondent has forwarded to the Sydney Morning Herald an extract from a newspaper in which Professor Jacob Burckhardfc, who attended tho last Science Congress in Australia, foreshadows Australia's future under German rule. Professor Burckhardt received the warmest hospitality during his stay in this country, and the newspaper shows that it wias not until he returned to Geimany that he made the following astounding comments: —"When we come to Australia we do not anticipate any difficulty with the young generation. They have proved themselves to be the most arrant cowards. The young males are spineless jellyfish. The only people they bully are their aged parents, to whom they should be a blessing in-their old age, but are a curse. It would have been better for the world to-day had they been strangled at birth. They only speak the truth by accident, or only when a lie will not serve their purpose. They have no respect for the aged). The only time they go to church is when divine service is ended, and then for the purpose of waylaying the young maidens, who, for outward appearances ana respectability, attend the evening devotions. Their only ambition is to work in a dry goods store, an office, or emporium. They have not any desire to exercise their intellect. We will put them in gangs on the road and making fortifications, locking them in stockades at night. Only the German conquerors will be permitted l to the drama, sports, and other amusements. After a time wc will allow the womenfolk freedom, but they will not be permitted to speak even to their Australian boys—our slaves. They will soon forget them and embrace us, as witness the number of girls, to say nothing of married women, who are our avowed friends. All the same, they prove very uninteresting- companions, owing to lack of intellectuality, but will soon become at least docilp in our hands. They are not on a much higher plane than the black or brown savage, save their skin is white, when the paint and powder acjmit of a glimpse. We are inclined to forgive them because they admire our German youth, especially those with plenty of coin. We lcok forward with interest to our twentieth century Arabian Nighte in Austral land. The factory" girls and sewing girls are even worse. They are utterly impossible creatures. The domestic servants are a lazy, insolent, brainless lot, with only one thought—that is, to get away from toil and promenade tho streets in what they appear to consider smart frocks, often costing as much, if not more, than their mistress's costumes, leaning on tho arm of pimple-faced boys or old rakes. Our womenfolk will straighten them up. If they rebel we will put them on tho roado or in the fields."