Not every one in Germany is obsessed with a conviction of the efficacy of “frightfulness.” This is plain from the fact that the _Frankfurter Zeitung_ published articles from its neutral correspondent in England which point out that each phase of frightfulness had precisely the opposite effect of that which was intended. The bombardments of coast towns, the use of asphyxiating gases, the sinking of the Lusitania all led, he remarks, to increased recruiting and intensified war feeling. Each act of frightfulness has of course been represented to the German public in a very different light from that in which it has been presented to us,[49] and it is therefore the more striking that so influential a newspaper should publish such an opinion. When the Lusitania was sunk, both the _Berliner Tageblatt_ and the _Vorwärts_ maintained an absolute silence, and these are the two most influential organs in Berlin. THE BROTHERHOOD OF ENEMIES. The soldier’s attitude is often that of Captain Ball, the boy who did such wonders in the air fight:— I attacked two Albatross scouts and crashed them, killing the pilots. In the end I was brought down, but am quite O.K. Oh, it was a good fight, and the Huns were fine sports. One tried to ram me after he was hit, and only missed by inches. Am indeed looked after by God, but oh! I do get tired of always living to kill and am really beginning to feel like a murderer. Shall be so pleased when I have finished. Quoted in the _Daily News_, May 7, 1918. Captain Ball has finished the killing in the only way boys can finish the killing now, for he is dead. The last words, _Requiescat in pace_, have a new poignancy in days when children are growing up who have never known peace.