A GREAT SPEECH.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1918, Page 2

A GREAT SPEECH.

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TEUTON MUST BE THRASHED NEW YORK, Abiy 19tli. President Wilson addressing the Red Cross demonstration said:—“We must win the war* and win it greatly. No limit need be placed on the men sent to / France. All would be sent that ships I could be found to carry. The United 1 States was unable to trust the Teutons |as they found them to be insincere. They intended, therefore, not only to stand by France, hut also Russia. Nothing for a hundred years had so united the nations as the present causeA ATE RICA AS DETERMINATION. CHALLENGE TO GERMANY. [AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] Received, th.s day at 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, May 20. President Wilson, speaking at a Red Cross demonstration, said we are unite be diverted from our given purpose of winning the war, by any insincere“approaehes upon the subject of peace. I can say with a clear conscience that I have tested those intimations, and found them insincere, and now r recognise them for what they are, an opportunity to have a free hand particularly in the East to carry out the purpose of conquest- and exploitation. Every proposal with regard to accommodation in the West involves a reservation in regard to the tusk. Therefore, \vc intend to stand by Russia, as well as France. If Germany thinks we are going to sacrifice anybody for our own sake, I tell them now that they are mistaken, for the glory of this war, so far as we are concerned, is that perhaps for the first time in history, it is an unselfish war. If they wish peace, let them come forward, through accredited representatives, and lay.their terms on the table. AVe have laid ours, and they know what t-liev are.

Mr Wilson eulogised the work of the great Bed Cross organisation, which was recognised ,by an international agreement and treaty. One of the deepest stains on the reputation of the German Army was that it had not respected the 'Bed Cross. That goes to the root of the matter. They have not respected the instrumentality of mercy and succour, which they participated in getting up, as an expression of humanity.