3 APRIL 1909, Page 15

ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

[To Tim EDITOR OF TRIO “HPROPATOit."]

thank you for letting the secret out. You have proved conelusively that England intends to .invade Gerintiay.

'Dreadnoughts,' you say, are built "with one object, and one object alone,—to fight other battleships." "Nations do not spend millions upon battleships to have pretty toys." No. You have the villainous intention of invading Germany.—I am, Sir, &a., DISGUSTED WELSHMAN.

[We print this letter to show the amazing excesses in which a man may indulge when he succumbs to the temptation of thinking evil of his own country. It is a kind of intellectual dram-drinking. Sane and earnest criticism of national faults is another matter. It is most useful, and essentially patriotic, and should not be resented even when it is, in fact, unjustified. It is often inspired by a true love of country.—En. Spectator.]