GOAL COMING NEARER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 27, 26 October 1918, Page 7

GOAL COMING NEARER

"WE HAVE GOT THE ENEMY BEATEN"

UNITY OF THE EMPIRE

ABUNDANTLY CONFIRMED BY THE WAR

;(Eec. October 25, 7.20 p.m.)

London, October 24. Speaking at the luncheon of the Australian and New Zealand Club, -General Monash, Commander , of the Australian Forces, recalled Lord Kitchener's words: "This is a'.'war'of attrition." Progress had been slow, but they were coming near tho .time, when the enemy would crumble. We had reached'the. crest of the hill, and the goal'was coming steadily nearer. "You may talk of the enemy taking'.up a'line, on the Meuse. Ws will • break : it.' Or you may talk of a line on the Ehine. iWe will break, that, too.' The enemy's moral ' has gone." The reason of our success lay less in''the calculation of .'numbers than in the realisation that.,we had got the enemy beaten. He claimed that the capture of Yillers. Bretonneux was the crisis of the war. It was a staggering-blow from w;hioh the enemy did not recover, and paved the: way'for his military collapse. - .-.•'•

Mr. A. J. Balfour (Foreign. Secretary), in the course of his speech, said that the four years-of war had supplied fully an abundant confirmation of. the unity'of the Empire. He did.sot believe that, a single German statesman ( ever' thought that if Britain were'involved in .war she would find Canada;-' Australia; New Zealand, South Africa, and India fighting by her side. To hini.it meant;, more than-so many hundred thousand gallant soldiers added to our fore?. . It meant ■that *he' Empire stood for liberty,,'.-, justice, and peace. "That is the greatest joy from the agonies! of a trial almost too heavy to be borne. It leaves behind it. the memory of Australia and New Zealand.fighting side by 6ide with;their brethren of .lie Motherland in the corii-nion-'cause,'leaving'us all with the certitude that their efforts will be crowned by a durable peace."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.- -. ■ < • ' \ GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES ME.' BALFOUR'S PRONOUNCEMENT WELCOMED. (Rcc. October 25, 7.20 p.m.) London, October 24. ' The "Daily Chronicle" welcomes Mr. A. ,T. Balfour's outspoken pronouncement with references to the German . colonies. "The Empire feeling is quite solid on;this'point," it says. "It was high tfme our attitude';, was laid down. We did not go into the war for the purpose of. colony-snatching, but we cannot return the submarine bases to the pirates." —Aus.'-N.Z. Cable Assn.