BYPATHS OF BLOOD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2482, 8 June 1915, Page 5

BYPATHS OF BLOOD

TO A LASTING PEACE ELOQUENT ORATION BY MR; CHURCHILL WHAT GALLIPOLI MEANS TO THE ALLIES London, June 5. . In the course of a speecli delivered at Dundee (part of which was telegraphed in a late message on Sunday evening and published yesterday), Mr. Winston Churchill (formerly First Lord of the Admiralty) said that Sir lan Hamilton's army and Admiral do Robeck's fleet were separated by only a few miles from a victory such as the war had not yet seen. When speaking of victory, he was not referring to those victories which crowd the daily placards of the newspapers ; he was speaking of victory* in the sense of a formidable fact shaping the destinies of nations and. shortening the duration of the war. , "Beyond those few miles of ridge and scrub on which our French comrades and our gallant Australian and New Zealand fellow-subjects are fighting lie the destruction of the enemies' fleet and army, the fall of a ivorld-famous capital, and_ the probable accession of powerful allies. The struggle will be lieavy, the risks enormous, the losses cruel, but victory will make amends. "Never,''_ he added ; "was there a great subsidiary operation in which more complete harmony, and greater strategic, political, aaid economic advantages wore combined, or which stood in a truer relation to the' main decision, which was in the central theatre. Shortest .Paths to Peace. "Through the Narrows and across the ridges of Gallipoli lie some of the shortest paths to triumph and peace. are confronted by a foo who is without* the slightest scruple, who would extirpate us—man, woman, and child—by any method open to him. To fall is to be enslaved or destroyed; not to .win decisively is to have all the misery over again, after an uneasy truce, and to fight under less favourable circumstances, perhaps alone. After what has happened there cannot be peace until the German military system has been shattered, torn, and trampled so that it will be unable to resist, the will and decision of the conquering Powers." Loyalty of the Dominions. Mr. Churchill concluded: "Above all, let us be of good cheer. The loyajty of our Dominions and colonies vindicates our civilisation; our enemies' hate proves the effectiveness of our warfare. If we are anxious or depressed, we should watch Australia and New Zealand in this last and finest crusade for the smiting down of the combined barbarisms of Prussia and Turkey; we should see General Botha holding South Africa for the King, or Canada defending to the death tbe. last few miles of shattered Belgium. Then across the smoke and carnage of the imfflbnse battlefield wo may 100k t forward to a vision of a united British Empire on the calm background of a liberated Europe."