GERMAN CLERKS FOR ENGLAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11438, 1 December 1915, Page 7

GERMAN CLERKS FOR ENGLAND.

It all depends on how England behaves herself, the Hamburg Fremdenblatt assures us, whether Germany will or will not, after the war, permit Britain to benefit by the services of the hosts of German clerks who were making so good a living out of this country before the war:—

The temporary employment of German assisants by English business firms has in the past been productive of good, inasmuch as their sojourn undoubtedly widened the outlook of these young men, and enabled them on their return home to apply the knowledge so obtained to the benefit of German commerce.

The question, however, whether after the war our relations with England will permit us again to assume our former attitude as regards the English commercial world to tho extent of German volunteers to work and learn in London business houses, is one we _ cannot answer; it will depend entirely on England’s behaviour. For tho moment wo can only express tho opinion that so long as the campaign against everything German may last over yonder, so long should it be beneath every German young man to loud his services to an English firm. To tho reproof that has been directed against ns from certain quarters that our anti-British articles are too hitter in tone, we will reply that so long as England continues to aim at our destruction, the damnable duty rests on us to defend ourselves, and to do all that mav benefit ourselves and injure the enemy, bo it with the sword or with the pen.