HAVE WE WON THE WAR?
THEN THINK. Sir,—Have we yet won the war? The answer is "No." Are we certain of winning the war? The answer again is "No." What, then, is the most essential element for the winning of the war? An overwhelming supply of men ana munitions. These answers are uncontrovertible. Is thero any sense in the parrot* cries now disturbing the community, among which cries we hear "No increase of front," "Keduce reinforcements/' "Get our men back for a holiday," ''Keep our men for the farms." The teachers of the parrots have not realised that we are at war—do not know what war is—and are content for the moment to gain domestic notoriety and the apolause of their kin, forsetting" or not knowing that a failure of men at a critical moment may mean the occupation of this Dominion by Huns, the shooting or starving of the aged, the enslavement of males for work under Prussian taskmasters, and the imprisonment of females in the lust-houses of German soldiery. Think of it, you short-sightea puppets, and trv and understand that if there la one thing that will lose the war it is the "valour of ignorance."—l am, etc., 8.8.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 8
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201HAVE WE WON THE WAR? Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 8
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