THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated " The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, Sept. 16, 1915 TIMELY WARNING

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 September 1915, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated " The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, Sept. 16, 1915 TIMELY WARNING

It has been 'asserted over and over again, and not without truth, that John Bull is slow to move, and now a most serious warning note is sounded by Mr Lloyd George that unless Britain bucks up and brings all her forces and resources to bear against Germany and Austria, then her cause for freedom and justice is lost. That Mr L,loyd George's warning well be taken seriously to heart goes without saying, and immediate wholehearted action must indeed be taken in order to stir up the blood of the British Lion, to his full.

As laymen, supposed to know nothing, and scattered all over the two hemispheres, how many millions since the war started have said Britain is slow, and at every reverse asked the pertinent questions, %< What the devil is England doing ? Where is Lord Kitchener ? And where are Britain's vaunted millions?" But let all this be as it may, the fact is patent to one and all that the progress made in the war is infernally slow, and the military heads of the nation and its National Cabinet must be fully aware of the disappointment. Still, nothing deters Mr Lloyd George from publishing the glaring fact that England has a big contract on and " must be up and at it" before it is too late.

We can safely take it that Mr Lloyd George knows what he is talking about, when he says iri his war speeches, " Through .Terror to Triumph,"—" Untoward incidents of the war have not weakened my faith in ultimate victory, but it is essential that the allies should put forth their whole strength before it is too late. Anything less must lead to defeat. The, allies have an, over whelming preponderance in raw .material, men, money, metals, and machinery, but these must be mobolised and utilised. It would be idle to pretend that in the first twelve months the task has been accomplished satisfactorily. Had the allies realised the full strength of their redoubtable foes, or realised their own strength and resources and promptly organised them, we today should have witnessed the triumphant spectacle of our guns pouring out a stream of shot and shell, deluging the German trenchs with fire, and scorching the German legions across their own frontier."

Again, he says —" The Central European powers still have an overwhelming superiority in all material and equipment. Germany's iron heel is now sunk deeper than ever into French and Belgian soil. Poland is entirely German, and Lithuania is rapidly following. Russian fortresses deemed impregnable are falling like sand-castles before the resistless tide of Teutonic invasion. When will that time be stemmed? As soon as the allies are supplied with abundance of war material. That is why I am recalling these unpleasant facts, because I wish to stir my countrymen to put forth their strength and amend the situation. To dwell on such events is the most disagreeable task that can fall to the lot of a public man, but a public man who either shirks these facts or does not do his best to force others to face them until they are redressed is guilty of high treason to the State. There has been a great awakening in the allied countries and prodigious efforts are being made to equip the armies in the field. Nothing but our best and utmost can pull us through. Does every man who can help, whether by fighting or providing material, understand clearly that ruin awaits remissness ?" We trust that Mr Lloyd George's wholesome truths will get home.