25 MARCH 1916, Page 2

One can •attach too much importance to these- psychological; photographs,

but we cannot help thinking that the impressions/ of the Swede have a considerable significance. Someday enlighten.: went must come to the Germans, and then the effect will be terrific. Imagine the national agony when the feeling runs like; liquid fire through Germany : " Then, after all, we are not con-1 aquerors, as we thought, but a conquered, or soon to be conquered, people 1" And to this disillusionment will be added the thought "How are we to answer our enemies when they speak to us oft what we did in Belgium, in Poland, and Serbia ? " One envisages here a tragedy of despair so poignant that its con-

templation is almost unbearable. Well did Ajax say :— 1 " If I must perish, I thy will obey ; But let me perish in the light of day."