CROWN PRINCE TALKS OF PEACE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2893, 4 October 1916, Page 5

CROWN PRINCE TALKS OF PEACE

I ■ ' r-. ' • ' ' j . A BURST OF REGRETS 1 | INTERVIEW BY CORRESPONDENT v _ ' . Australian-Sew Zealand Oablo Association/ New York, October. 2. A plea to the United States to work-' for peace was uttered- by -the German: Crown, Prince in an interview with; Mr. W. B. Halt, at field headquarters, and published \in the "New York American.'' Mr. Halt -asked the Piince what, problem of the war chief- ' ■ , ly interested-him, and he responded, 1 ; "Looking after the welfare of my, men." He then immediately..began.' •to talk of peace, while (Qjapier-machs , model of Verdun, and itsNiefencps star? .• Ed at him in the room whore;the.in j ..\ torview occurred.- ••■ ■ •• • . 'sCrocodile. Tears,. The Prince said, "Does your _hearfi • ache enough, over this sad region of \ .. the earth? What a pity it is--aD_ this terrible extinction of human life," - and the mortgaging of our energies and resources far into the future.; Ib'.! is not alone for German lives and' wasted German, energies, that we mourn. We are well able, at least comparatively, to bear it; but. all the world, including • America, whioh has' '• invested in, tl% Entente's chances of - * success, must aid in footing the 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 the treasure is, . < there the heart is alsb' ? It's a. pity, t... that your treasure is not invested dffi 1 - .... ■ t ing these hours of the world's agony; r 'v.:. in'sowing the seed of preparation fotf v.'', the fruits of peace, so that your.prosperity .would rest in tho great harvest . t which will follow the-return'to. na* ' tural conditions, rather than in .the mu. happy and unoertain fruitage of war. ■ > . Arts of Peace Preferred. "I hope, you have not failed to be impressed with tho".fact, that every; General, every officer, and every man, would "far rather seo< all this labour, j skill, education, intellectual resource, and physical prowess devoted to tho tasks of building up and lengthening life,'of subduing man's common enemies of disease, and the material ob* • stacles to i the progress of mankind, \ rather than devoted to the_ destruction; r of other men. I should like to know,. your Colouol Goethals, who has been- ■-~•.• . fighting the swamps and fever and ■ -.' sliding, mountains at Panama. It is ...... in .that , sort of enterprise the world. . .'i,': should find ".what one of your American.! ... '..i philosophers, William James, design % -.•■ nated 'the' moral equivalent for war. 5 ; "I confess I do iiot see any . of peace. I tell you it is no happiness ■: • to look forward to spending a third .... Christmas here. I have a wife and ~ family, as'you know." ' . ' - ;. ;.• ~; . ANXIOUS FOR AN EARLY PEACE _ HERB, BALLIN AND OTHER SHIPPING MAGNATES. New York, October 2. A message from Berlin, states taafi \ Herr Baffin ■ of, the / Hamburg-Amerika Line, _ and Ger- . many's world-famed. .Shipping King) writes to the German papers tEat he and other shipowners, are anxious for ~ n an'early peace. •In the letter, which' does not show, .<• any of the confidence' which marked v , ' the Gorman statements earlier in the v war, Herr.Ballin says: '"I always •> . thought the world was big enough for ... ourselves, England, _ ana the ■"•other' Powers. I still believe that this insane war might have been avoided had, the English statesmen acted wisely. The rumour that-I am suggesting yield- ...- ing and abstaining• from victory IK ;. - , without foundation. Even though we- .... may never get restitution _ for our'. losses, no, German shipowner is so mean , that he is not -willing to make further , ~ ... sacrifices for. the Fatherland." ' ...