"WE HAVE BEEN DECEIVED."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13701, 3 June 1915, Page 4

"WE HAVE BEEN DECEIVED."

BERLIN NEWSPAPER'S COMMENTS

The Paris Matin reproduces/ the following article from the Berlin Tag, a conservative newspaper, according lo the Eclaireur de >iice of March 29. "We have been deceived m all our calculations. "We expected that the whole of India would revolt at the first sound of the guns m Europe, but, lo! thousands and tens of thousands are now lighting with the English against us. ; . ' : ' ' 1 "We expected' that the' British Em pirei would 'Crumble to pieces, but tlie British colonies have "united, 'as* they have never done before, with the mother country. •' '• > f '"We expected ay victorious revolt m British South Africa, and we see there, lOimr a fiasco. . 'We expected disturbances m Ireland, and Ireland sends against us some of her best contingents. ."We thought the peace party all powerful m England, but it has disap- . peared amid the general enthusiasm that the war against Germany has aroused. j"We reckoned that England was degenerate and incapable of being a serious factor m the war, and she sHows herself to be our most dangerous enemy. • •'• ,■: ■ •:...' ■" ; • . - . ; "It; was the same' thirig with France and Russia. We thought that Franco was corrupt and that she had lost the sense of 'national solidarity, but' we* now learn that the French are formidable adversaries. ; ;"We thought that Russia could do nothing ; W "believed that "her people were too . profoundly ' discontented to fight m favor of the Russian Govern-' 'ment; w« counted on: its rapid collapse as a. great -military power, Dut Russia has mobilised her millions- of men very rapidly and very well, "Her people are full of enthusiasm, and her force is crushingr. : ; • < '•-'. "Those who have -led us into allthe3e faults,' all these calculations, all those mistakes, about our neighbors and their affairs, "have assumed a heavy burden of ; responsibility." -■- • .