The Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917. WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN, Dr.

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The Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917. WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN, Dr.

Betbmann von The Vanishing Hollweg, Count Submarine. Reventlow of the sanguinary soul, and the rest of the crowd of the Frightful Mind, must by now be in a state of despair at the progressive failure of their submarine campaign. Their last devilment is failing them. We have seen a reduction taking place during the last few weeks, bat none of ns cared to sound the loud timbre! prematurely. The Hebrew Miriam did not advise that course until she was well out of that aquaeous cutting ’in the Red Sea, where the high gwater banks towered above her on'each side. But we are now entitled to indulge in a little exultation. The maximum number of ships sank in one week since the initiation of the latest submarine campaign was 55. The following week the toll taken dropped to 51, the next to 48, and the latest shows the tremendous reduction to 23. Following these figures we have the assertion of a member of the House of Commons that during the last fortnight the destruction of submarines was greater than during any two weeks of the war, and the significant announcement that shares in Dutch shipping were hardening in val ue. None of us know what the great silent service is doing out there on the tumbling waters, but it has evidently spread tragedy around for the Hnn. The sub marina menace is likely to come to the same inglorious end as Zeppelin’s great futile gas bags. IT will be impossible to keep exPresident RooseKoosevelt, The velt out of the Energetic. hurly-burly in Prance now that America has declared war against Germany. He has "determined to go to France at the head of a division whether the Congress approve of it or not, although if Congress objected the act would be practically one of rebellion. Bat there can be no doubt that he was fashioned by Heaven to play the part of a rebel against paltering delay, and cant. He is made of electricity and radium. Now he rages at the top of things. Bnt if he had been bom n lowly state he wonld have been th e champion prize-fighter of ;,fais country, if he took to fisticuffs or, if he were a very high church dignitary he would have been hurling Bulls and anathemas about until the world was wrapped in a blue haze But ha is a grand friend to have for the Empire, and we feel that iin determining to a lead ‘a small army to France he will be doing the right thing whatever the* opinion of the Congress |may be. One wonders what the world would be like if we were all the same energy as Mr Roosevelt, everyone of us—men, women and children —a fifty horse-power electric motor? Tne heavens would be lit up with flashes from our contacts and collisions in the prosecution of our work and our ambitions. Perhaps Providence was Wise in denying to 969,999 of us the tornado mental constitution with which it endows the millionth.

IT would be, perhaps, invidious to select any coun-

Anzac And —? try or colony’s troops as exhibiting any special degree of dash and valour in the great offensive on the British front. We hear so little of the work of individual units that we are apt to pay an undue amount of tribute to those of whom we hear most. We should imagine, however, that the war, in its whole wide srea and its record of splendid deeds has ottered nothing greater for our admiration than the achievements and tenacity of the Australians at Bullecourt. They were the first to break into the Hindenburg line. For days they were exposed to assaults that in the ordinary coarse of nature should have broken their hearts and their spirits. But they

seem to have retained their nerve and repulsed all attacks, in practical isolation, until the troops on both sides of them were able to line up and afford them some relief. There will be other glorious incidents of the same kind before the weary struggle is over in which others will distinguish themselves. And if so what reward have we for them,’what special their splendid deeds. For those who stormed the Peninsula we have ensured historical immortality by the invention of thßaappellation of Anzac. ” Bnt it is probable that on the Western and other fronts'there have been and will still be"daeds.quite as and worthy of special recognition as that at Gallipoli. How shall we immortalise them?