FROM GERMANY TO HAWERA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 66, 13 November 1914, Page 7

FROM GERMANY TO HAWERA.

As an instance of what can be done in disparagement of things tainted with Gorman, the following from tho Waimate W itness is amusing if it is nothing else:— “A letter has been published in Hawera within tho last day or two from a Germanised English-womau, who, it would seem, is married to a Gorman baron, and barons in the Fatherland are as thick as fleas in a Maori dog, as poor as Lazarus, as (•’leap and about as impotent as the IClaser’s “damns,” and as full of the kind of mangey pride that exhales or exudes mephitic odours, as Lucifer before he was knocked off bis uncertain perch. These you never adequately know or understand unless, like tho present writer, you have deou in Germany and have had personal observation of this multitudinous breed of extemporised aristocrats. “Quite naturally the baroness, with tho sesquipedalian name, describes England as one of the authors and instigators of the war, imputes to her tho design to destroy the German nation, and speaks of tho “graciousness and gentleness of German culture”—the culture of a nation of brigands and beasts, a nation that in the short space of throe months has covered itself with infamy and stand before the world as guilty of all the blackest and foulest crimes against humanity, virtue, honor and civilisation. “No doubt sassiety in the Hawerian hamlet will be duly awed and impressed by the family confidence disclosed in the letter that “Fritz has been aide-de-camp to the Crown Prince and that Armgrad and the children are at Gras Bohla”—all of which, though hardly relevant as an indication of “German points of view,” lias an aristocratic flavor and should give the Hawera representative of the German house of Von Bultizinglowen an assured place in local fashionable circles. Apart from this, the letter is an hypocritical bleat, a Pecksniffian snuffle, a malodorous lie, and whether .assistance should be given in disseminating such libels is a question on which there can hardly bo two opinions.”