THE UPS AND DOWNS OF WAR
LORD LIVERPOOL TAKES PESSIMISTS TO TASK. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wanganui, December 14. "Something was recently said to the effect that we are very near disaster," said Lord Liverpool at the annual prize-giving at the Wanganui Collegiate School to-night, in referring to the war. "If that statement was correctly reported," His Excellency added, "all I can say is that the Government of Now Zealand know nothing about it. Our worst enemy is the class of gentleman who seems to delight in being as pessimistic as he possibly can. There are many people who can play cricket irom the pavilion and imagine they could captain the side better, and if we want to win this war we must implicitly trust somebody. If not, we would soon be in thu condition that Russia is iu to-day. People should not take a pessimistio view, hecauso we are bound to have ups and downs, just as we had in the Peninsula War, when Sir John Moore retreated to Corunna, and in the Boer War, when we suffered a reverse at Coleiiso."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 10
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