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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4011, 18 August 1915, Page 2

The next measure' to be adopted should take the form oi a_ heavy penalty on all school authorities failing to comply with the. order. Tins is the only way to deal with those unworthy Germans, of whom there are far too many, who will not. realise that our Eatneriand stands at the turning-point oi two roads, one leading to victory and ulorv. the other to enslavement under a foreign yoke.

THE CRINGING .SYCOPHANTS. Unpatriotic German tradesmen, who, in their sordid efforts to earn a living in war time label their goods with seductive English phrases, continue to cau-.3 anguish to the “Kullur” Press. "Die Wain-heir" says: ft appears to us that nothing short' of the imprisonment of the guilty parties will put a stop to the disgracefully unpatriotic attitude of _so many of our 'tradesmen in employing foreign designations for their goods, when the German language is rich enough to furnish us with all we need in the way of expressive advert ising. Our eyes are still oiieiided by seeing the words, “latest novelty, "the height of fashion," etc., flaunted before us from the show windows _ leading firms, and this at a time when we are at war with England! If such mean-spirited sentiments are to rule with us. the sooner we resign ourselves to British domination the hotter. Enyli.sh pharisaism and English presumption in its most blatant forms vould_ be preferable to a regime poisoned with the breath oi cringing sycophants. A NOTH E R •“I MM INEXT' 11E VOLT.

Though we are now in the ninth month of the war, there is still no diminution in the inventive powers oI the Hamburg newspapers.. . The “Fremdenblatt,” which originated that terrible revolt in India, of which no other. newspaper ever heard, has now arranged a “terrific upheaval m can be more certain than that if only the Turks can contrive to approach with striking distance or Cairo, there will be such a tern lie upheaval in Egypt as will deliver that unhappy land from tile* Liitish in culms. , . Our grounds for making tms f-yite-ment are! furnished by the well authentieated reports wo have received concerning the serious rioting that has occurred in the Egypt capital. As is their wont, the English soldiers under the influence of tin* drink with which they are so unstiiitingb- supplied under' the very noses of their commanding officers,' had insulted some native female water-carriers'. Other Egyptian interfered, with, the result, that an affray ensued, in the course ot which more than 20 persons were seriously wounded. . . The affray, as may he supposed, has created an extraordinary effervescence among the native population, and accentuated.* t-ont old the ha tied ol 'o English tyrants. It is very evident., indeed, that, in Egypt, the British dictators are living on a smouldei mg volcano which threatens at any moment to burst forth into Ihune and lurv.