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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145085, 9 September 1916, Page 2

The British ideal is that a man should ho a good winner aud a good loser, and it is considered that our devotion to sport tends to produce this frame of mind. The attitude wo admire is somewhat akin to that of tho old Stoics, who aimed at not being too dated by prosperity or too cast down by adversity. The Gorman ideal is of a totally different nature. It is that of the strong man who makes himself feared bv all aud docs not hesitate, to trample down the weak who happen to come in his path. As winners tho Germans are insolent ami overweening, while when losing they are apt to whine and complain that they aro illu.sod. The Gorman seems quite incapable of looking at anything except from Ids own point of view, and what is perfectly lawful for a German is regarded as absolutely disgraceful when done by anyone else. At the beginning of the war tile. Germans had a very large supply of heavy howitzers, field pieces, aud machine-guns, and were particularly happy when they could batter tho trendies of the enemy into shapeless heaps before attacking them. Tho Allies made no complaint, hut took their gruel am! set to work to make munitions for themselves. They watched with inherent the methods adopted by the Germans for battering their way across Roland aud tried rather expensive experiments for themselves at Xeuve Chapcllo ami boos and in Champagne. AH this time they were holding the Germans in check, while factories were built and millions of operatives trained and sot to work to make munitions. Vow they have the guns, belter ones than Knipo can produce, and have devised methods of using them which are an improvement on those adopted by Germany. Tho German I’ress promptly declares Ilia I for the Allies lo use artillery with effect is not warlare but butchery, aud hints that the shells used lane been purchased from America by a brutal outlay of gold. (Such abuse is likely to dicer our men, as it- shows that tho German is trepaning to see tho possibility of defeat, and is whining like a whipped cur In consequence. AVo have at length begun to mnko the Gorman nation doubt, its boasted invincibility, and tho lesson must be driven homo with relentless energy.