LORD LIVERPOOL ON TACTICS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12539, 10 May 1915, Page 4

LORD LIVERPOOL ON TACTICS.

'WE WILL NOT PLAY THE SNAKE."

Per Press Association. Auckland, May !). Speaking at tho Orphans' Club gathering" last "night, the Governor. Lord Liverpool, referred to the tactics of the Germans in tlio present war. ''lf von were to take the -lathering as a whole here to-night," he said, "it would probablv snv. 'We arc dealing with Snakes'—(Hear, hear): but if an individual is taken would the answer be the same? Would not- lie. .say. 'lt is wrong. Thev can play the game ot snakes, but "by God" we will play the game we have always played, the straight came of our forefathers/ — (Loud applau.se.) The other suggestion is certain a." suggestion of the devil. We have had handed down to us a Treat heritable. Our forefathers did iiot plav the snake, and we children -who came after them will not play the snake."—(Cries of "Xo!") "Quite right too/' added his Excellency. The" Governor went on to speak ot the- twentv years he was a soldier. He hud met' Xew Zealanders in South •Vfrica. a war that was only a pmhead compared with the present groat Struggle, and he had been much impressed with them. Two battalions ot his own regiment were now m France and one in Persia., and manv of his old comrades had already been killed. It is bv the King's wish,'- added the Governor, "that I am here in New /,?»- land but if vou asked me personally ■where I would rather be : I would reply that I wish I were with my regiment- Mr Profession was that of a soldier for just on 20 years., and my heart goes out to those who soldiered with me."—(Applause.V