UNLIMITED FRIGHT FULNESS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15128, 24 January 1917, Page 5

UNLIMITED FRIGHT FULNESS.

DEMANDED BY GERMAN PEOPLE (Australian and N.Z. "able Association.) LONDON, January 22. The German public bodies have responded to the Kaiser’s appeal, madbrnpu the 13th inst., with perfervfd protestations of loyalty. They are demanding unlimited frightfulness against Britain. The Kaiser has replied that Germany will continue to wage a defensive war. She. is filled with determination and holy anger because her peace efforts were repulsed. The German princes will "stand strongly together, with God’s help, for protection against the furious attacks of their blinded enemies. [The Kaiser, in a proclamation to the German people on January 17th, ■aid:—“ Our enemies have dropped the mask. After refusing, wun scorn and hypocritical professions of love and humanity, our hones: peace offer, they now, in replying to tne United States, admit at last that their objective is conquest. The baseness of this is enhanced by their calumnies. They aim at the crushing of Germany and the enslavement of Europe and the seas under the ume that Greece, with gnashing teeth, is now enduring.” He ad^ed: —“Our glorious victories and the iron will with which the Germans have borne the hardship and distress of this unscrupulous economic war are a guarantee that our beloved Fatherland, fearing nothing, and burning with indignation and holy wrath, will redouble every German’s strength, and God will give us victory over our enemy's rage and destruction.”] FRANCE S TRIAL. A TYPICAL TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, January 18. Private George A. Caro, in a letter to his sister, Alma Road, St. Kilda, tells how a great tragedy came into the life of a peaceful French villager as a result of German shellfire. "The villarge here,” he writes from the front, "is full of refugees, who have y been forced to leave their homes further np. Ton have no idea what trials these , French people have gone, and are going, through. Here is an example. “I met a man a few nights ago who (old me that he and his wife and one child had lived in a village further up the line on this front. They owned a cafe there, and did a big trade with the soldiers- One day a shell came and demolished bis shop. His wife was killed. He and his daughter moved down further. Then one day, when he was away, a German flying machine dropped bombs and set hia place on fire. Bis daughter was burnt to death. So he was forced to move further down again. He has been here two months, and said, with a shrug, that possibly ‘le bJta Diett’ would ham next. He was, of course, too old to flight. It is tragic, isn’t it? "And (hw is only one instance of the horrible time®, these people are going through, and wiflr a cheerfulness—or rather, doggedness —that is positively omasing. I could tell you other stories, too. The papers are not wrong when they say that the French are wonderful.