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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1918, Page 2

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THE COMING BLOW

(Reuter’s Telegram.)

(Received Yesterday at 11.10. p.m.) LONDON, July 6.

At a Government dinner to the International Commercial Conference, Hon A. Bonar Law said, in reference- to the. coming blow, that it would not be less ! dangerous because of the time taken in preparations. The Allied High Command was confident as regards results. The fateful hour of the war had arrived, and if three months hence the enemy had gained no strategic objectives then their campaign will have failed, and he hoped it would he a decisive failure. Government had not lost" hope as regards Russia; Germany was already learning she was liot getting what she anticipated from Russia. As regards the economic question, the Allied Governments were practically agreed with the views of the Commercial Conference. The -Alliance would, after the war, continue to stand together in order to repair the ravages of the war. There was no immediate hope of peace, which was obtainable only through victory.

Americans reviewed

SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE

(Received Yesterday at 11.10. p.m.) LONDON, July 0.

Reuter’s icorrespondenfc with the American headquarters states Hon. Lloyd George, addressing the American troops after a review, said Germany can have peace to-morrow with United States, France, and Britain, if she will accept the conditions voiced bv President Wilson yesterday, but the Kaiser and his advisers have not given a sign of any intention to accept those conditions. Your presence is a source of great disapointment to the Kaiser, who never quite expected you. The Kaisc-r’s alvisers counselled badly when they said that American would never join in the war. His next illusion was .that owing to subninrinism there would be no ships. The Kaiser Was now beginning to realise that defeat, sure, certain and inevitable, was staring him in the face.

GETTING BLOODED, (Received This Day, at 12.1 ti. a.m.) LONDON, July 6. Mr Phillip Gibbs states that an American General addressed the Americans before tho battle of Hamel. He said you are going to get a taste of the roal thing. You are going in with "some of tho best soldiers, tho Australians, who always deliver the goods. They are not going to stop till every objective is reached. We expect you to do the same and we will he very disappointed if yon do not fulfill our hopes and .the belief we have in you. There were thousands of other American troops desperately eager to join and asked the Australians if they could not lend them a hand.