MISCELLANEOUS. INTERVIEW WITH THE CROWN PRINCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3570, 3 October 1916, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

INTERVIEW WITH THE CROWN PRINCE.

A JIYPROORITE'S LAMENT

" NO PROSPECTS OF PEACE

(Received October 3, 12.30 p.m.)

NEW YORK, October 2. A pica for the United States to work in the interests of peace is uttered by the German Crown Prince in an interview with W. Halt, at field headquarters. The interview is published in the New York " American."

Halt asked the Prince what war problem chiefly interested him, and he responded: " Looking after the welfare of my men." Then he immediately began to talk of peace, while a papier inache model of Verdun and its defences stared at him in the room where the . interview occurred. The Prince said: "Does your heart ache enough over this sad region of oartli ? What a pity it is—all this terrible extinction of human life and the mortgaging of energies and resources far into the future. It is not alone for German lives and wastod German energies we mourn. We are ,woll able—at least, comparatively—to bear it; but, all .the .world—inoludi Tip; - America, which lias invested in the Entente's chances of success —must aid in footing tho bill. That? of course, is one reason why the sympathies of .your capitalists are with our enemies. Isn't there a book which says: ' Where one's treasure is,, there the heart ;a also' ? It is a pity your treasure is not invested, during these hours oi world-agony, in sowing seed for preparation for the fruits of peace, so that your prosperity would rest in the great harvest which will follow the return to natural conditions, rather than the unhappy and uncertain fruitage of wa.r. I hope, you have not failed to bo- impressed with the "fact that every general, every officer, and every man would far rather soo all this labour-still, and education, intellectual resource, and physical prowess devoted to tasks of building up and lengthening life ■and subduing.- man's common enemies--disease arid material obstacles to. the progress of mankind, rather than devoted to the*destruction of other men. I should like to knew your Colonel Goethals, who has been fighting swampfever and sliding mountains. It's in that sort of enterpriso that the world should find what one of your American philosophers, William James, designated 'the moral equivalent ior war.-. " I confess I do riot sco any prospects of poaoe: T telVybu it is no .happi^s* t,o look fen-ward'to- spending, a, "third 'Christmas- hero. I h-avo/ a \vii<> :ind family, as you know." • '-„..