ENGLAND’S BRUTE-LIKE STUPIDITY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144670, 3 May 1915, Page 7

ENGLAND’S BRUTE-LIKE STUPIDITY.

GERMAN OPINION OF "TU’PBRAKV.” In the course of its efforts to penetrate the chinks in the enemy's armour, that sedate journal the Tngltche Rimdscimu makes a terrific onslaught on •■Tipperary,' and arrives at the conclusion that t'ne adoption of this •'battle son ir “ is a sure and certain sign of British decadence. When the heroes of the litis went to the bottom with their ship, they intoned the hymn of the flag. “Proudly waves the Black - white - red." When the Ariadne, the Alaniz,; and the Kola were sunk off Heligoland, tho doomed Germans sang "Deutschland über Alios.” When the Cressy was stink by tho U 9. and when an English regiment went to its death at Diximule, tho Britons in+oned their favourite battle - song, “It’s a long, long way to Tipperary,” a taproom ditty without moaning or expression, utterly devoid of patriotic sentiment or warlike -fervour. This melody has now spread throughout the rank and file of the British Army; it resounds even from the lips of the swarthy Indians. Can one imagine anything more calculated than this'to denote the wide gulf that separates the English from the German spirit. , „ , .. ~ "By their songs ye shall know them. So devoid are tho English of even the merest elements of true patriotism that to inspire themselves with a little aititidal courage in a hopeless cause they have to fall hack on so mean, so poor a thing as “Tipperary.” The thoughtless fiinpaney with which England engineered this war is admirably expressed in this music-hall tune, as is also the crude, brute-like stupidity and dumb callousness with-which they go into battle, without a thought as to the.utter hopelessness of their cause and the certain victory of Germany.