"FIGHT ON!" .

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 16 February 1918, Page 7

"FIGHT ON!" .

• , MR. LUKE'S BATTLE CRY. Mr. J. P. Luke'dipped'iritb the.sjan- - guhiary pages of-history at his meeting at Wadestown. last evening. He related how Bismarck, a blood-thirsty man, after three great wars, was of the . opinion that Germany's passion for world pgwer was an ideal that could not be carried out. Then the.present Kaiser, after he hud "dropped' the pilot," conceived the idea of -subduing Britain, and exercising a domination pver the whole world, and they knew that if the Germans had been successful in reaching Paris they would have - ' crossed the. Channel and. invaded England. -Had wo any grounds for eupf, posing , that the. perman soldiery and the German autocracy would have treated tho people of England any kinder than they did the people of' Belgium and France. What they had done to the civil population of thoso countries, would have been repeated in the United Kingdom had they got across--1 Channel:' He ,f had'no fqr-tboso 'who -believed that we would . "better, v off, if England-.had * never iritorvene'd.'-'.'lt called for a great /sacrifice, but ho belic.ved that the-cir-cumstances had imposed upon them-a sacred duty and trust,' and the. only honourable course was to fight on until they attained victory. (Applause.) "I honestly believe," said Mr. Luke, "that the critical stage of the war is ap- . preaching, and .if wis have the grit to stand shoulder to" shoulder, it will not he long beforo'a cessation of hostilities is brought about." (Applause.)