To the Editor of the "Nonta-Cuiwa Dairy News."
Sin,—Mr. Frederic Harrison, son of Mr. Austin Harrison, the editor of the "English Review," studied in France, Germany, pain and Switzerland, and was afterwards a Berlin correspondent of The Times," a representative of the "Morning Post" in Vienna, and the Berlin superintendent of Reuter's. Agency. In the "Kaiser's War" (Allen and Unwin 2. net) he writes as an expert who thus has intimate first-hand knowledge of Continental nations. His book is a powerful one, and contains some painful and startling reading.
In illustration, for instance, of the German fondness for physical force, he tells us that their army horses are not ridden in, but flogged in. He has himself seen them, when refractory, thrashed by dragoons with heavy thongs till the beasts, tied up as they were, shrieked with agony. Towards the end of the book Mr. Harrison has a passage, which we shall do well to lay to heart. He says that Germany's supposition was that as we did not prepare to oppose her, we did not intend to. From the fulness of our hearts we may thank our stars that the accident of Russian ce-operation
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