Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 6, 8 February 1923, Page 26

Answers to Correspondents

W. J. R. (Auckland).The article you mention must have appeared a considerable time ago. If you would give us the date, even approximately, we would look it up. As far as we remember the information it contained was got from an Australian Catholic paper. Reader. Certainly we hold and always held that Germany was not the cause of the war. We cannot see how any man in his senses could think so to-day. Russia, Sir Edward Grey, and in varying degrees, British officials and French brass hats were as much if not more to blame than the Kaiser, who did what he could do to stop the war. Grey was probably the greatest culprit after Russia,

E. M.—The less said about Ireland now the better. The subject is one for. prayer rather than for argument. The nation is bleeding to death and the population lives in terror of the roving bands. Property is destroyed day after day and the demoralisation of boys and girls is appalling. Humanly speaking there is not a ray of hope left. Ireland seems doomed to be murdered by her owns sons and daughters. To remember that the inspiration comes from people who can hardly be described as Irish is all the worse. Observer. We do not know if the cheap watches you mention are guaranteed for a year. If they are the guarantee ought to be a warrant to stop at all hours of the day and night. Presumably they are used by all guards on Massey’s railways. A watch that costs something is cheapest in the end. Of course if

you want to buy one for presentation purposes it is a horse of a different color. We know one man who

buys a gross and gives them for charity bazaar prizes. A safe testimonial would be: “I bought one of your Goze-XJ-Pleez watches ten years ago and have never used another since.” Like the bagpipes (Irish pipes of course) there is one good thing about them: they don’t smell.