PURIFICATION OF GERMANY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16141, 20 February 1918, Page 2

PURIFICATION OF GERMANY.

« LONDON, January 31. Speaking at a dinner in honour of Sir Rossjyn Wemvss, First Sea Lord, 31 r G. H. Roberts, Minister for Labour, said ho would not be a party to disruption of tho British Empire. TJ;e assurances of the British Crown would be ratified iu due course. To soy that German rule was at all comparable to British rule was equivalent to saying that the sun was the moon. All the evidence was to the contrary, and if the native populations everywhere in the world could be consulted thev would revolt from German domination and decide to come under British law. Some people said that we should liolp the enemy nations to recover after the war. He was sufficiently old-fashioned to believe that sin ought to be punished and wrong expiated! The Central Empires alone were responsible for the horrible catastrophe, and ought not to be allowed to emerge from the terrible struggle without paying the full penalty. If he had l.'is way the Central Empires should to the wilderness for generations for purification before being re-admitted to the community of civilised nations.