Eyewitness" ends his letter published on Thursday by quoting from
a special article which appeared on May 18th in a German paper called the Lille War News. The article in question, after declaring that if the enemy invaded Germany "they would not leave one stone upon another of our fathers' houses or our churches," goes on :— " If your strong arms did not hold back the English (God damn them) and the French (God annihilate them), do you think they would spare your homes and your loved ones' What would these pirates from the Isles do to you if they were to set foot on German soil?"
This outburst, as "Eyewitness" notes, is rather remarkable, insomuch as it is an exhortation to defend the soil of the Fatherland, not to drive back the Allies and capture Calais or Paris—operations about which we have, up till now, heard so much.
