Mr Asquith’s Message.
(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, April 6. Mr AsCuith has also addressed n message to the American people in which he says: “There is not a man among us vr?io does not breathe more freely now that he knows that the whole of the Eng-lish-speaking people arc in the fight as comrades side by side in the most momentous struggle of history. “The people of -the United States have been forced, as the United Kingdom was forced, into a struggle which in neither case was our own, but they, as wo did, realised that the choice lay bekw'mi peace' with humiliation or war with honour, and that there was *o middle course possible. “Americans are now dedicating their lives and fortunes to the great purpose, conscious that they are obeying one of those supreme calls which come rarely in history, but when it does come it sounds in the oars of the whole community of free men with a note of imperious command.” LONDON, April Gth. Amsterdam reports that tho Germans have arrested Vanhee ,tho American vice Consul at Ghent was employed in relief work, and have sent him to Germany.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1917, Page 1
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