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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1917, Page 3

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MASSEY AND WARD ARRIVE.

AUCKLAND, This Day. Hon W. F. Massey and! Sir J. GWard were entertained at a civic function, followed by a luncheon at th e Town Hall to-day. The Mayor of Auckland presided. S‘r Janies Allen and. Hon. A. M. Myers were also present.

There was a good display of bunting iii honour of the ’Minister’s return.

OPINIONS OF SIR J. G. WARD.

AUCKLAND, June 25th. r In an interview Sir J. G, Ward said [ what is uppermost in the minds of th e ‘ people at Home, as in Now Zealand is the problem of winning tho war on such a basis as to ensure a victory that will _ onable Britain and her Allies to dominate sufficiently as to make peace terms ‘ of such a kind that there will bo no pos-/ sihilitv of a recurrence in a period of years, of another such war and that the ideas which have dominated "tho Kaiser and associates will never again bo worth while attempting on the part of any mad brained autocracy, who under a system of vicious militarism may attempt to dominate the' entire world, and by doing so, suppress the finer sklo of humanity. In the Old Country we have associated with British Ministers in helping to bung about the end I have suggested. The war is not over, but tbo calculations of the enemy have,' in my judgment, been completely upset. So far as their reliance on the starvation policy is concerned, their last trump was, and is the submarine policy, and their greatest activity in this ha* succeeded only in sinking three per cent of Britain’s mercantile marine. It was apparent’ before we left England that 1 failure awaits them in this horrible ' development of submarine warfare. ■ - Though tho losses have been great) the Germans are not going to starve England. Without this their possibilities of success disappear for ever; and 1 it is only a matter of time before the war ends in a victory for Great Britain and her Allies.