We don’t mind how hard the Germans press us, for we can always give
them as good as they give us, with something to spare as a reminder to
Kaiser Bill that he’s backed the wrong horse this time. I expect he
knows it by now, however, and I wouldn’t be in his place for worlds. It
must be awful to feel that you have made mugs of so many poor chaps who
are being sent to their deaths for no good reason that any sane person
can see: _Private J. Thomson_.