IF BRITAIN FAILS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1415, 24 June 1915, Page 2

IF BRITAIN FAILS.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, at a recruiting meeting at Southport, drew a vivid picture of Britain’s fate, If she fails to achieve the victory, the world will be divided into two sections, one of human beings, aud the other of Germans, and whatever horrors were dealt out in Belgium aud Poland, Britain’s fate would be ten-fold worse. There are special reasons in the German mind why we should be morally and mentally shamed and dishonoured beyond any other people. If Germany is victorious every refinement of outrage within the compass of German imagination will be inflicted. The alternative to victory is robbery, the rape of our women, aud starvation as a prelude to slavery. The present conflict is a war to the death against the powers of darkness, with whom peace, except on our own terms, will be more horrible than any war. Germany has already suffered three million casualties, and can suffer another three millions for the dominion ol the world. “It seems to me,” said Mr Kipling, “that Germany must either win or bleed to death almost where her lines run to-day. Therefore, we and our allies must continue to pass our children through the fire until this moloch perish.”