WOULD KEEP ALIVE GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2143, 28 December 1920, Page 8

WOULD KEEP ALIVE GERMAN ATROCITIES.

A new method of telling future generations the truth regarding German frightfulness during the Great War has been called to the attention of French educational officials, who are understood to be favouring its adoption. The idea is said to have originated in Cracow, where M. Klemens Baskowski has published a book entitled "Germania,'' ■which he hopes to have adopted as a textbook in the high schools and colleges of the Allied countries. The voltoe deals entirely with German atrdci.ties, but is written entirely in Latin, the author having followed closely the Style of the Soman classics. "It would be a great thing for world Civilisation if the students in future generations would gay as great attention to 'Germania' as they do to their ♦Horace' or 'Virgil,' " a prominent French official remarked at a recent gathering of French teachers. "The only regret possible is that there are ■ome things perpertrated by 'Germania' "which cannot be faithfully described—--even in Latin."