July 20: At last the day! To have lived to see it! We are ready. Let
him come who may. The world race is destined to be German.
August 11: And now for the English, used to fighting farmers. To-night
William the Greater has given us beautiful advice. You think each
day of your Emperor. Do not forget God. His Majesty should remember
that in thinking of him we think of God, for is he not the Almighty’s
instrument in this glorious fight for right?
August 20: The conceited English have ranged themselves up against us
at absurd odds, our airmen say.
August 25: An English shell burst on a Red Cross wagon to-day. Full
of English. Ha! ha! serve the swine right. Still, they fight well. I
salute the officer who kept on swearing at Germany and her Emperor in
his agony. And then to ask calmly for a bath. These English! We have
hardly time to bury our own dead, so they are being weighted in the
river: _Pte. Crow, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders_.