FROM OTHER SOURCES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1918, Page 2

FROM OTHER SOURCES.

fAUSTIt iLIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] SPEECH BY ASQUITH. LONDON, October 17. Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, speaking at the National Liberal Club said

that though the war was not yet ended the enemy’s resistance was broken and we might confidently say our purposes will be attained. Wo had beeen delivered from many evils by which 1 world had been beset. The B'ritish Navy’s ceaseless vigilance had drained, drop by drop, the enemy’s reservoir of power. The enemy’s peace overtu were sincere in the sense that th.-; came from a people who had given iq the game. Mr Wilson’s reply was exactly what was required. Wo must not imperil our ascendancy on sen or lam or give breathing time to an enemy who could not be trusted to act honourable or humanely. We never intended to humiliate or destroy the German people. Our main objective was to destroy Prussian militarism. We mustbe sure that the new German Government was not the old Government dressed in a Democratic garb j WAR NOT OVER. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. I The American Secretary of State, Hon. Mr. Lansing, has issued the following statement: Germany is bending but she is far from broken. The war is not vet over. Every man for the guns and for industry still minis.” [