"A MOST UNFAIR ARGUMENT"

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 16 July 1919, Page 4

"A MOST UNFAIR ARGUMENT"

A Hun observer, writing in the Lokal Anzeigcr, says that after what he has seen on the Rhino, he has more faith in the Yank than in the British Tommy. "The American soldier, taken alt in all," he says, "is what you might call a gentleman with a gun in his hand ; his manners are, on the whole, praiseworthy in their leniency, though he is apt at rimes to come down on you even for the smallest breach of the rules, with unexpected severity. When for instance the captain of a Rhine steamer berths too late or in the wrong place, he catches if hot. 'They don't let him off with a fine, but put him in prison. On the other hand the American authorities deal with the German newspapers with a light hand.

"Not so the British, who now rule from Coblence to Cologne. These Knglish are in every way much sterner and harsher than the Americans, especially in fhe way they handle the censorship." But the Belgians are, it seems, worst of all. They are, according- to this writer, evidently an unforgiving race and when Germans reproach them with this or that act of hardness, actually have the effrontery to retort: "Oh, we learnt that from you while you were in Belgium." "This is a most unfair argument," says Ihe Lokal Anzeigcr.