There is genuine humour in the indignant reference of the "Ostaxiatischer Lloyd" to the "hordes of murderers and robbers'" who have dared to enter northern Prussia and occupy the important town of Memel on the shores of the Baltic. Why these particular Russian troops should be designated as murderers and robbers, and invariably referred to as hordes rather than troops it is a little difficult to understand, unless it may be the painful surprise which the occupa tion of Memel has occasioned, and the more painful embarrassment of the German Government to explain to its people how the Russians, Jong supposed to have been "'annihilated""* (another—_ favourite "Ostasiatischer" word) are actually on German soil again, Not long ago German writers were complaining about the impossibility of stand. ing up against the deadly French "seventy-five" and wondered that the highly civilized French could use so deadly a weapon. Yet the same writers find nothing unnatural in the destruction of undefended towns, the shooting of hostages, murder of merchant sailors and, use of Belgian ci as a shield for a German firing line, depends on the point of view.
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